Self-produced and boasting an exotic palette of instrumentation, 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 Compostela to the Middle East. 

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• 180 Gram Vinyl
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The Mask and Mirror contains songs that lift the veil to reveal the soul of McKennitt's work in eight dream-like, Celtic inspired tracks. The opening track, "The Mystic's Dream" (featured on the TNT movie The Mists of Avalon), is a haunting tune that features McKennitt at her most heavenly peak as a vocalist, evoking the spirits of the instruments and Gregorian chant-like background vocals that accompany her on the track.

Self-produced and boasting an exotic palette of instrumentation from cello and uillean pipes to dumbeg, tabla and oud, Loreena McKennett'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 a seductively dramatic "The Mystic's Dream" and "Marrakesh Night Market." In its journeys, it examines, says Loreena, the questions that echo down the centuries: "Who was God? What is religion, what spirituality? What was revealed and what was concealed...and what was the mask and what the mirror?"

"Press play and enter the world of Loreena McKennitt, where walls dissolve into thick, billowing mists as the ground beneath your feet turns to compacted earth and the sky above opens up to reveal a black cloak dotted with shimmering stars draped beneath silk-like clouds. Were McKennitt's composing and songwriting abilities lacking of any luster (as they most certainly are not), her voice would still possess the strength to hold her fifth album, The Mask and Mirror, up on its own. But the combination of this talented woman's vocal prowess and songwriting ability makes her all the more similar to her work - ethereal and almost unbelievable in its level of quality." - Kerry L. Smith, All Music

Track Listing:

Side A
1. The Mystic's Dream
2. The Bonny Swans
3. Dark Night Of The Soul
4. Marrakesh Night Market

Side B
5. Full Circle
6. Santiago
7. Ce He Mise le Ulaingt? / The Two Trees
8. Prospero's Speech

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