Magic and Music: Selesnya (Green-White)

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Hippie nature lovers...I mean, the Selesnya, are all about nature, like the Gruul are. But where the Gruul like it hot, the Selesnyites are about the calmer side of nature. My comment on red improvising while white writes its songs on sheet music applies most directly to the Gruul-Selesnya divide; while Selesnya contemplates life and nature, Gruul wonders what contemplation is.

Of the guilds, the Selesnya compilation is one of the easiest to understand: calm, primarily acoustic music, preferably with female vocals. Green has enough passion to rear its head once and again (the Selesnya did bring us Autochthon Wurm, after all), but it's tempered by the order of white at all times.

Here come the hippies:

BT - Firewater
Bassic - Sunbound
BT - Tripping the Light Fantastic
Chicane - Low Sun
Blu Mar Ten - Home Videos
Susumu Yokota - For the Other Self Who Is Far Away That I Can Not Reach
Dead Can Dance - Cantara
Genesis - Horizons
Steve Hackett - Hands of the Priestess, Part 1
Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke - Forest Veil
Deep Forest - Sweet Lullaby
Delerium - Nature's Kingdom
Cardamar - Nic'nik
Delerium - Aria