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Track Listings
| 1 | All Souls Night |
| 2 | Bonny Portmore |
| 3 | Between The Shadows |
| 4 | The Lady Of Shalott |
| 5 | Greensleeves |
| 6 | Tango To Evora |
| 7 | Courtyard Lullaby |
| 8 | Old Ways |
| 9 | Cymbeline |
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Mixing a variety of styles with a Celtic base, this was McKennitt's breakthrough album and remains one of her most musically interesting. "All Souls Night" begins the album, with dance-like rhythms and McKennitt's wonderful voice singing about the Celtic New Year. Other features include a musical setting of Tennyson's "Lady of Shalott", which, while not as sophisticated as Noyes' "The Highwayman" on The Book of Secrets, is an enchanting listen. There's also an interesting rendition of "Greensleeves" and the Spanish-flavored "Tango to Evora", as well as the haunting "Courtyard Lullaby" and the wistful "The Old Ways". A setting of words from Shakespeare's Cymbeline closes the album, which focuses thematically on life, death, and the borders between them. --Genevieve Williams
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- Product Dimensions : 5.5 x 4.94 x 0.45 inches; 0.71 Ounces
- Manufacturer : Quinlan Road
- Original Release Date : 1992
- Date First Available : February 6, 2007
- Label : Quinlan Road
- ASIN : B000002LT2
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #67,039 in CDs & Vinyl (See Top 100 in CDs & Vinyl)
- #105 in Celtic New Age (CDs & Vinyl)
- #393 in North American Music
- #504 in Jazz Fusion (CDs & Vinyl)
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At first listen, and a less mature age, I was not sure if I liked or disliked her darker (? not sure if that's quite the right word) songs...I wanted gentle beauty, and instinctively wanted to shut out darker things... but I couldn't help but recognize there was a type of beauty, and exquisite craftmanship, in them too. It is the same way I disliked Steinbeck's writings the first time they were thrust upon me at an immature age. It is funny how beautiful masterpieces can seem ugly to someone who does not have enough understanding of it to appreciate it's beauty. Though many of this artist's pieces may not be the first I seek out when I just want to feel lightheartedly happy, they seem to each be gems that when I am ready for them take me to a different place and, enrich my soul.
All Souls Night is a quick song about the ancient Celtic holiday Samhain. The pagans believed that on October 31st, the last day of summer, the spirits of the dead wandered the landscape looking for bodies to inhabit. The living lit bonfires, sang songs, and dressed in scary costumes to frighten away the dead. If you let your mind wander, this song can almost transport you to ancient Ireland. Historians know so little for certain about ancient pagan beliefs, McKennitt's well-studied songs and lyrics help bring this lost culture back to life.
The Lady of Shalott is the masterpiece of this album. Adapted from the poem by Alfred Tennyson, McKennitt sets it to music and brings the poem to life. Over 11 minutes long, McKennitt deleted hardly a word of the original poem, yet the music and intonation rivet the listener's attention. The poem is about a spirit or elfish woman drawn to the ancient mythical city of Camelot by the beauty of the castle and Sir Lancelot. Even the way McKennitt pronounces the word Camelot in the song conveys the sacred nature of this most important legend in English mythology. The poem and the song will touch your heart. For me, as I watch modern England quickly losing it's historic culture, this song serves as a reminder of the England that once was.
McKennitt adapts another long poem from English Literature in her later album The Book of Secrets. McKennit faithfully puts the word of Alfred Noyes' The Highwayman into a heart-wrenching song. Again, over 10 minutes long, this is a formula McKennitt does very well.
If I had to choose just one album by Loreena McKennitt, it would be The Book of Secrets. But it would be a cruel choice to have to make. I look forward to someday owning all of her works and anxiously await her next recording.
Her voice is hard to describe, other than to say it has a haunting, ethereal quality that is the perfect vehicle for her wide-ranging compositions and arrangements. It is hard to classify her work, because it does encompass quite arrange of different genres. It is safe to say that she draws from an amazingly rich store of different kinds of traditional music, and seems to breathe her won unifying force in delivering them in a manner that is at once both traditional and innovative. Thus, from the opening strains of "All Soul's Night" through the mystical treatment of "Greensleeves" to the ending sounds of "Cymbaline", the work seems to thread itself together seamlessly, even though the sources for the individual songs is often quite different. The only way to properly appreciate her wondrous abilities is to experience them. Otherwise, I feel like the guy trying to convince his lady friend to take her first roller-coaster ride. You have to exp-lode down from the top of the edifice to understand the rush. So it is with our lady Loreena. Buy it and get ready for the rush!
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"All Souls Night" - 5:09
"Bonny Portmore" (Traditional) - 4:21
"Between the Shadows" - 3:42
"The Lady of Shalott" ( poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson, precised by & music by Loreena McKennit) - 11:34
"Greensleeves" (Traditional attrib. Henry VIII) - 4:26
"Tango to Evora" - 4:10
"Courtyard Lullaby" - 4:57
"The Old Ways" - 5:44
"Cymbeline" (words William Shakespeare) - 5:07
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