Name: The Book of Secrets
Brand: Quinlan Road
SKU: 139742191
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The Book of Secrets

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Album: The Book of Secrets
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Prologue	More Info...
2)	The Mummers' Dance	More Info...
3)	Skellig	More Info...
4)	Marco Polo	More Info...
5)	The Highwayman	More Info...
6)	La Serenissima	More Info...
7)	Night Ride Across the Caucasas	More Info...
8)	Dante's Prayer	More Info...

Album: The Book of Secrets
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Prologue	More Info...
2)	The Mummers' Dance	More Info...
3)	Skellig	More Info...
4)	Marco Polo	More Info...
5)	The Highwayman	More Info...
6)	La Serenissima	More Info...
7)	Night Ride Across the Caucasas	More Info...
8)	Dante's Prayer	More Info...

Performer Notes

Personnel: Loreena McKennitt (vocals, harp, kanoun, accordion, piano, keyboards); Brian Hughes (vocals, acoustic, electric & classical guitars, bouzouki, oud, guitar synthesizer); Donald Quan (vocals, viola, keyboards, tabla, timba, esraj); Stuart Bruce (vocals); Aidan Brennan (acoustic guitar, mandola); Martin Jenkins (mandocello); David Rhodes (electric guitar); Martin Brown (acoustic guitar, mandolin, mandola); Robin Jeffrey (Victorian guitar); Hugh Marsh, Osama (violin); Joana Levine (viola de gamba); Caroline Lavelle, Anne Bourne (cello); Nick Hayley (rebec, lira da Braccio, serangi); Jonathan Reese, Iain King, Andy Brown, Chris Van Kampen (strings); Bob White (tin whistle, shawm); Danny Thompson (acoustic bass); Steve Pigott (keyboards); Nigel Eaton (hurdy gurdy); Manu Katche (drums); Paul Clarvis (snare drum); Steafan Hannigan (bodhran); Rick Lazar, Hossam Ramzy (percussion).

Professional Reviews

Entertainment Weekly (11/14/97, p.93) - "...wanders even further into the musical woods on her seventh album, singing about 'riding o'er the land' and the 'fountain of forgiveness' to misty, Celtic-renaissance-fair pop. For all her New Age pretensions, though, McKennitt knows a hook when she hears it..."

- Rating: B