Loreena McKennitt - Parallel Dreams

Track List: Parallel Dreams

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1. Samain NightDownload & Buy
2. Moon CradleDownload & Buy
3. Huron 'Beltane' Fire DanceDownload & Buy
4. Annachie GordonDownload & Buy
5. Standing StonesDownload & Buy
6. Dickens' Dublin (The Palace)Download & Buy
7. Breaking The SilenceDownload & Buy
8. Ancient Pines

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Album Details: Parallel Dreams

Release Date:

01/01/1989

Label:

Quinlan Road Import

UPC:

774213410320

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1. Review of Parallel Dreams

   , January 10, 2001
   Reviewer: shanegrayanderson - See all shanegrayanderson's reviews

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   This is Loreena McKennitt's third album. Previous releases (Elemental, To Drive the Cold Winter Away) are heavily comprised of Traditional material as well as adaptations of poetry by W.B. Yeats and William Blake.
   
   In this album, Loreena debuts original material in the tracks Samain Night, Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance, Dicken's Dublin (The Palace), Breaking the Silence, and Ancient Pines.
   
   Loreena's harpistry and keyboards, and her use of seperate tracks to harmonize with herself on Samain Night are wonderful and haunting, and presage things to come without in any way abandoning the body of traditional material she has already recorded. Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance has no lyrics, and the liner states that is a recollection of the dreams of the American Indians and of the Celts. Again, much of this piece is quite traditionally Celtic in its sound and arrangement, with Loreeena's interpretation and arrangment adding much. Dicken's Dublin (The Palace) is quite moving, and contains a reading taken from Dickens. The music and lyrics are original, and to some extent, I wish Loreena would re-record/re-release this without the added device of the reading, as the song is wonderful particularly when the context is understood, and does not require the reading to be appreciated. This is, however, a continuation of Loreena's 'reading list' which thus far includes Yeats and Blake, as well as the device of including readings in her works. Breaking the Silence is a tribute to Amnesty International. Ancient Pines is instrumental, and according to the liner notes, is 'the earth's yearning for release from the oppression of the human hand', a sympathy that can be perhaps detected in later works such as 'Bonny Portmore' and other works.
   
   The poem 'Moon Cradle' in the track by the same name was written by Padraic Colum 1881 ...

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2. Wonderful

   , January 18, 2000
   Reviewer: Naomi O - See all Naomi O's reviews

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   Loreena McKennitt offers up some traditional Celtic pieces with her own personal take. A friend gave me tapes of Parallel Dreams and Elemental when he figured I listened to too much "Jungle Music"(Def Leppard, Dokken etc.) and I was hooked. A CD to listen to with candles lit.

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The daughter of a nurse mother and a livestock trader father, songstress Loreena McKennitt studied classical piano and vocal training and learned to dance in the Highland style as a youngster. Her love of traditional music was strengthened in the fol...Full Loreena McKennitt Biography

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