Loreena McKennitt – The Visit (cd)

Een celtic-geinspireerd album van de Canadese zangeres Loreena McKennitt uit 1991. Het is haar vierde studio-album. Ze won ermee gouden en zilveren awards in Canada en De VS. World beat en celtic pop verenigd, eclectisch. De cd is uitgebracht onder het label van Quinlan Road (catnr 9031-75151-2). Booklet (18 blz met de songteksten bijgesloten.
Prima staat.

Loreena MeKennitt:
I have long considered the creative impulse to be a visit - a thing of grace, not commanded or owned so much as awaited, prepared for. A thing, also, of mystery. "Who is this, and what is here?" wonder Arthur's knights at the sight of the Lady of Shalott. This recording explores some of that mystery.
It looks as well into the earlier eastern influences of the Celts, the likelihood that they started from as far away as India before being driven to the western margins of Europe in the British Isles. With their musical influences came rituals around birth and death which treated the land as holy and haunted; this life itself as a visit. Afterwards, one's soul might move to another plane, or another from - perhaps a tree. The Celts knew then, as we are re-learning now, a deep respect for all the life around them. This recording aspires to be nothing so much as a reflection into the weave of these things.

Tracklist

1 All Souls Night 5:04
2 Bonny Portmore 3:57
3 Between The Shadows 4:03
4 The Lady Of Shalott 11:05
5 Greensleeves 4:15
6 Tango To Evora 4:03
7 Courtyard Lullaby 4:50
8 The Old Ways 5:50
9 Cymbeline 4:48