Loreena McKennitt -- Parallel dreams

Loreena McKennitt - Parallel dreams

Loreena McKennitt - Parallel Dreams

This "record is one of the most successful independent releases ever in McKennitt's native Canada. Her first to feature original compositions ... with its fusion of Celtic and North American native rythms."

Loreena writes in the CD booklet:

Beyond the transportation into fantasy, dreams served as a vehicle through which we have integrated our conscious and subconscious, the real and the surreal, the powerful and the intangible.
The dreams found in this recording span a wide range from the contemporary to the historical as in the Romeo and Juliet story of Jeannie and her lover in Annachie Gordon; the singular as in the little Dublin street girl who dreams of having a home; to the plural in those who dream of freedom as reflected in Breaking the silence; or the earth's yearning for release from the oppression of the human hand in Ancient pines. In the Huron Beltane fire dance I have tried to recall the reverence for dreams of the North American first peoples and the early Celts. If there is a recurrent thread which runs through these dreans it is one of yearning toward love, liberty and integration. Of all the variations of dreams we may have, these surely are or parallel dreams.

SAMAIN NIGHT
Music and Lyrics by Loreena McKennitt
MOON CRADLE
Music by Loreena McKennitt
Lyrics by Padraic Colum, arr. by Loreena McKennitt
HURON 'BELTANE' FIRE DANCE
Music by Loreena McKennitt
ANNACHIE GORDON
Traditional, arr. by Loreena McKennitt
STANDING STONES
Music by Loreena McKennitt Lyrics traditional, arr. by Loreena McKennitt
DICKENS' DUBLIN (THE PALACE)
Music and lyrics by Loreena McKennitt
BREAKING THE SILENCE
Music and lyrics by Loreena McKennitt
ANCIENT PINES
Music by Loreena McKennitt