The message is on the cover in twelve languages: with this album she returns to her Celtic roots. It says something about Loreena McKennitt's status. From the nineties onwards, together with dancer Michael Flatley, she managed to interest a new audience worldwide in the ancient culture of Ireland. McKennitt did not show himself to be a traditionalist. Over the past ten years, the Canadian singer of
… Scots-Irish descent has enriched her music with influences from Southern Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Until now, because on this album, her ninth, Celtic instruments such as the bodhrán, uillean pipes (the Irish bagpipe) and accordion again predominate. What remained is McKennitt's harp playing and her icy soprano voice. Especially during the instrumental songs she manages to evoke a fairytale world full of bouncing leprechauns and swooning fairies. With Loreena McKennitt, Ireland turns into a mythical island, which preserves her best stories for the singer with the high voice. (PdK)more