Loreena Mckennitt-An Ancient Muse

Loreena McKennitt 的音乐绝大部分为其自己创作，题材大多涉及爱尔兰文化及生活 。所以 ，如果你是 Celtic音乐的爱好者 ， Loreena McKennitt 是个不错的开始。 目前， Loreena McKennitt 拥有自己的唱片公司，名为 Quinlan Road （Quinlan Road 是其小时候家门口的那条路）。

优秀的文学主义作者和演唱者，常年游历海外，经历了旅游航海中失去亲人的痛楚，开始改变自己的音乐风格，更加重了凯尔特元素和民族音乐的质朴，把自己的文学内涵融入音乐中，体现出来的音乐优雅而丰富内涵，让人难以忘怀。在1985年前后，偶然在Shakespearean 剧院试音的时候，得到启发，开始了自己的音乐和演唱结合的崭新音乐历程！

This autumn, Verve /Quinlan Road will release Loreena McKennitt’s label debut, An Ancient Muse. As with her earlier albums, McKennitt takes her inspiration from the Celtic peoples, fusing the melodic sensibility of Scottish and Irish balladry with musical traditions from Greece, Turkey, Spain, and even Scandinavia. The recording is McKennitts first new studio album since 1997s multi-platinum The Book of Secrets. Produced by Loreena McKennitt, An Ancient Muse continues McKennitts exploration of Celtic themes on a journey that sweeps across eras and musical genres, from the British Isles to ancient Greece and Byzantine- and Ottoman-era Turkey. As McKennitt herself describes it, “This record is a little like equipping yourself with a Eurail card. It’s like saying, I dont know where I’m going to on this trip. I’m just going to get on board the train, and allow each encounter to lead to the next.” The nine tracks on An Ancient Muse take the listener on a timeless journey: a return home in “The Gates Of Istanbul;” the wonder of nomadic wandering in “Caravanserai;” star-crossed love and the Crusades in “The English Ladye and the Knight” based on a poem by Sir Walter Scott; and loss and longing in “Penelope’s Song,” which takes as its subject Odysseus’ wife, waiting and worrying while he was off having the adventures immortalized in Homers The Odyssey. Despite the wide array of instrumentation (including oud, lyra, Swedish keyed fiddle and viols da gamba), all the performances derive from similar inspiration: the sense of landscape McKennitt brings to all of her worka visual set of images,organically connecting the piece to musician and instrument. bl-xo@%