Loreena McKennitt - The Mask And Mirror
This album has "Spanish, Celtic and Moroccan influences, with musical
settings of poems by St. John of the Cross, W.B. Yeats and Shakespeare,
through traditional folk song like The Bonny Swans,
and the eclectic, richly-textured originals ..."
Loreena writes in the CD booklet:
I looked back and forth through the window of 15th century Spain, through
the hues of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, and was drawn into a
fascinating world: history, religion, cross-cultural fertilization ...
From the more familiar turf of the west coast of Ireland, through the
troubadours of France, crossing over the Pyrenees and then to the west
through Galicia, down through Andalusia and past Gibraltar to Morocco ...
The Crusades, the pilgrimage to Santiago, Cathars, the Knights Templar,
the Sufis from Egypt, One Thousand and One Nights in Arabia, the Celtic
sacred imagery of trees, the Gnostic Gospels ... who was God? and what is
religion, what spirituality? What was revealed and what was concealed ...
and what was the mask and what the mirror?
Contents
- THE MYSTIC'S DREAM
Music and Lyrics by Loreena McKennitt
- THE BONNY SWANS
Music by Loreena McKennitt
Lyrics traditional,
arr. by Loreena McKennitt
- THE DARK NIGHT OF THE SOUL
Music by Loreena McKennitt
Lyrics by St. John of the Cross,
arr. by Loreena McKennitt
- MARRAKESH NIGHT MARKET
Music and Lyrics by Loreena McKennitt
- FULL CIRCLE
Music and Lyrics by Loreena McKennitt
- SANTIAGO
Music traditional,
arr. by Loreena McKennitt
-
CÉ HÉ MISE LE ULAINGT? / THE TWO TREES
Music by Loreena McKennitt
Lyrics by William Butler Yeats,
arr. by Loreena McKennitt
- PROSPERO'S SPEECH
Music by Loreena McKennitt
Lyrics by William Shakespeare,
arr. by Loreena McKennitt