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Track List
01) The Mystic's Dream
02) The Bonny Swans
03) The Dark Night of the Soul
04) Marrakesh Night Market
05) Full Circle
06) Santiago
07) Cé Hé Mise Le Ulaingt? / The Two Trees
08) Prospero's Speech
Cd 2
01) The Mystic's Dream
02) Santiago
03) She Moved Through the Fair
04) Between the Shadows
05) The Lady of Shalott
06) The Bonny Swans
01) The Mystic's Dream
02) The Bonny Swans
03) The Dark Night of the Soul
04) Marrakesh Night Market
05) Full Circle
06) Santiago
07) Cé Hé Mise Le Ulaingt? / The Two Trees
08) Prospero's Speech
Cd 2
01) The Mystic's Dream
02) Santiago
03) She Moved Through the Fair
04) Between the Shadows
05) The Lady of Shalott
06) The Bonny Swans
7:40
7:18
6:44
6:30
5:57
5:58
9:06
3:22
7:20
5:21
5:30
4:11
8:45
7:02
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First Released
1994
Folk
Yearning
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The Mask and Mirror is an album by Loreena McKennitt. Released in 1994, the album has been certified Gold in the United States.
Like most of Loreena McKennitt's albums, The Mask and Mirror is heavily influenced by her travels. Her experiences in Spain and Morocco, specifically, serve as the inspiration for this album.
As her introduction to the album, McKennitt wrote: "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....For some medieval minds the mirror was the door through which the soul frees itself by passing.... for others the pursuit of personal refinement was likened to polishing the mirror of the soul. 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 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?"
Accompanying all the selections, as the liner remarks, are some of the entries in a traveler's log that McKennitt kept all throughout her journey.
The album's cover uses a collage made from the medieval The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries.
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The Mask and Mirror is an album by Loreena McKennitt. Released in 1994, the album has been certified Gold in the United States.
Like most of Loreena McKennitt's albums, The Mask and Mirror is heavily influenced by her travels. Her experiences in Spain and Morocco, specifically, serve as the inspiration for this album.
As her introduction to the album, McKennitt wrote: "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....For some medieval minds the mirror was the door through which the soul frees itself by passing.... for others the pursuit of personal refinement was likened to polishing the mirror of the soul. 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 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?"
Accompanying all the selections, as the liner remarks, are some of the entries in a traveler's log that McKennitt kept all throughout her journey.
The album's cover uses a collage made from the medieval The Hunt of the Unicorn tapestries.
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