RELEASED 01/05/26
Self-produced and boasting an exotic palette of instrumentation from cello and uillean pipes to dumbeg, tabla and oud, Loreena McKennitt’s fifth album was released in 1994 and has since sold several million copies worldwide. Spanning Spanish, Celtic and Moroccan influences, it follows paths of inspiration from Ireland to Santiago de Compostella to the Middle East.
Accompanying musical settings of poems by St. John Of The Cross and Shakespeare are eclectic, richly-textured originals including the seductively dramatic “The Mystic’s Dream” and “Marrakesh Night Market”.
Remastered for vinyl by Jeff Wolpert in 2015, a 180g black vinyl edition was released in 2016 in a limited edition of 10,000 copies.
This 2026 edition is pressed on 140g gold vinyl and packaged in the original artwork with a four page booklet containing Loreena's sleeve notes and recording credits.
