Loreena McKennit - Book Of Secrets

If you aren't familar with Loreena's The Mummer's Dance that appears on this disc, you either slept through 1997 or you never turned on a music video channel. Somehow Mtv Networks let that song slip into it's rotation allowing an unsuspecting audience to discover Celtic music.

God bless them for doing something right.

Each song on this disc is guaranteed to soothe and relax you. Gentle guitars and violins captivate you and take you to another world, where the fairies dance and who knows what else.

Loreena's style can't be compared to the other first ladies of Celtic music. In this album particularly you can almost picture yourself in a gypsy caravan traveling through Europe.

The songs are by no means short either. The Highwayman clocks in at 10 minutes and 20 seconds, but the song is so captivating that you don't even notice. Even the instrumentals are captivating enough to hold the listeners attention. Marco Polo is one such track.

Loreena McKennit is not Enya or Moya Brennan of Clannad. She's definitely a genre unto her own. It makes me wonder though, why it's taken her almost 10 years to record a follow up to this beautiful work.