File Type: FLAC Compression 6
Cd recorder: Plextor PX-716SA
Cd Ripper: Exact Audio Copy V0.99 prebeta 4
EAC Log: Yes
EAC Cue Sheet: Yes
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Torrent Hash: 6DBFDF98B994DFA8FD84D85ADD28BB4A33AB8C6F
File Size: 3.58 GB
Label: Quinlan Road, Warner Bros, Verve Forecast / Universal




Albums, Years & Catalog # in this Torrent:


Elemental 1985 (remastered 2005)
To Drive the Cold Winter Away 1987 (remastered 2005)
Parallel Dreams 1989 QRCD103R (remastered 2005)
The Visit 1991
The Mask and Mirror 1994 (remastered 2004)
The Book of Secrets 1997
An Ancient Muse 2006
A Midwinter Nights Dream 2008 QRCD112




Live Albums: 


Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts 1994 (Promotional Copy) *
Live in Paris and Toronto *
Nights from the Alhambra *



* Not my rip. Thanks to Demonoid members ibticktock and pakitito for their kind Live uploads! 


These are all my rips except for the Live albums. I forgot to write down the catalog # for the ones that I ripped from my brother. Instead of using a Plextor 716 SA for these rips I used my laptop which has a Teac DV-W28E.






Please help seed these FLACs! 




From Wiki:



Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist and pianist most famous for writing, recording and performing world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, warbling soprano vocals.


McKennitt was born in Morden, Manitoba of Irish and Scottish descent to parents Jack and Irene McKennitt (a livestock dealer and a nurse). She moved to Stratford, Ontario in 1981, where she lives.

When Loreena was young she wanted to become a veterinarian but she found that music chose her rather than she it.[3] Developing a passion for Celtic music, she learned to play the Celtic harp and began busking at various places, one well known place being St. Lawrence Market in Toronto in order to earn money needed for publishing her first album.

Her first album, Elemental, was released in 1985, followed by To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987), Parallel Dreams (1989), The Visit (1991), The Mask and Mirror (1994), A Winter Garden (1995), The Book of Secrets (1997), An Ancient Muse (2006) and A Midwinter Night’s Dream (2008). All of her work is released under her own label, Quinlan Road.

In 1993, her music became known to a wider audience when she toured Europe supporting Mike Oldfield. In 1995, her version of the traditional Irish song "Bonny Portmore" was prominently featured in the film Highlander 3, causing a large increase of album sales among fans of the films. McKennitt's single "The Mummers' Dance" was a widespread success, receiving considerable airplay in North American markets during the spring of 1997, and was used as the theme song for the short-lived TV series, Legacy.

Her music appeared in the movies The Santa Clause, Soldier, Jade, Holy Man, The Mists of Avalon, Tinkerbell, and in the television series Roar and Due South.

In 1998, McKennitt's fiancé, Ronald Rees; his brother Richard; and their close friend Gregory Cook, drowned during a boating incident on Georgian Bay. She was deeply affected by the event and subsequently founded the Cook-Rees Memorial Fund for Water Search and Safety in the same year.

At the time of the incident, she was working on an album of two live performances called Live in Paris and Toronto. The proceeds from the sales of that album were donated to the newly created fund, totaling some three million dollars. [5] After the release of the live album, McKennitt decided to substantially reduce the number of public performances and did not release any new recordings until the studio album An Ancient Muse in 2006.

McKennitt's music has generally been classified as World / Celtic music even though it contains aspects and characteristics of music from around the globe and is sometimes classified as Folk music in record stores.

Before McKennitt composes any music, she engages in considerable research on a specific subject which then forms the general concept of the album. Before creating Elemental and Parallel Dreams, she traveled to Ireland for inspiration from the country's history, folklore, geography and culture. The album The Mask and Mirror was preceded by research in Spain where she engaged in studying Galicia, a Celtic section of Spain, along with its abundant Arabic roots. The result was an album including elements of Celtic and Arabic music. According to the notes of her latest album, An Ancient Muse was inspired primarily by travels among and reading about the various cultures along the Silk Road.

McKennitt is compared to Enya, but McKennitt's music is more grounded in traditional and classical invocations, using literary works as sources of lyrics and springboards for interpretation such as "The Lady of Shalott" by Lord Tennyson, "Prospero's Speech" (the final soliloquy in William Shakespeare's The Tempest), "Snow" by Archibald Lampman, "Dark Night of the Soul" by St. John of the Cross, William Blake's "Lullaby", Yeats' "The Stolen Child", and "The Highwayman" by Alfred Noyes.

In 2005, McKennitt was involved in an acrimonious court case in England when her former friend and employee, Niema Ash, published a book which contained intimate details of their friendship. McKennitt argued that much of the book contained confidential personal information, which Ash had no right to publish. The English courts found that there had indeed been a breach of confidence and a misuse of McKennitt's private information, and the case is likely to set important precedents in English law on the privacy of celebrities.[6] The House of Lords affirmed the lower court's decisions in 2007.


In September 2006, McKennitt performed live at the Alhambra. The performance premiered on PBS and in August 2007 was released on a three-disc DVD/CD set entitled Nights from the Alhambra.

In 2008, McKennitt composed the song entitled To The Fairies They Draw Near as the theme song for Disney's direct to video animated film Tinker Bell. The film makers were so impressed with her, that they asked her to do the narration for the film.[8]

In the Spring of that same year, she returned to Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios to record A Midwinter Night’s Dream, an extended version of A Winter Garden (1995). The album was released on October 28.[9]

Since the release of An Ancient Muse Loreena has toured consistently, with a European and North American tour in the Spring of 2007, an extensive cross Canada and United States tour in the fall of 2007, a summer tour of Europe in 2008 and a Mediterranean tour in the summer of 2009, with stops in Greece (concerts were postponed, but finally held in late June)[10], Turkey, Cyprus, Lebanon, Hungary and Italy.







Elemental 1985 (remastered 2005)


Elemental is the first album recorded by Loreena McKennitt and vehicle with which she launched the Quinlan Road label. It was released in 1985. The album was recorded one week in July, 1985. The studio was in a barn in southern Ontario and situated in a field of sunflowers.


Tracks: 


1.	"Blacksmith" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt)– 3:20
2.	"She Moved Through the Fair" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt)– 4:05
3.	"Stolen Child" (William Butler Yeats/Loreena McKennitt) – 5:05
4.	"The Lark in the Clear Air" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 2:06
5.	"Carrighfergus" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 3:24
6.	"Kellswater" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 5:19
7.	"Banks of Claudy" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 5:37
8.	"Come by the Hills" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 3:05
9.	"Lullaby" (William Blake/Loreena McKennit) - 4:26






To Drive the Cold Winter Away 1987 (remastered 2005)



To Drive the Cold Winter Away is Loreena McKennitt's second album, released in 1987. It pays homage to her childhood memories of music for the winter season, the most vivid of which “came from songs and carols recorded in churches or great halls, rich with their own unique ambience and tradition.”[1]

To capture that remembered ambiance, McKennit kept the arrangements sparse, celebrating the beauty of simplicity. She also chose to leave the found sounds of life in the performances, which were recorded on location in churches and great halls:[2]

•	The Church of Our Lady in Guelph, Ontario, Canada
•	Glenstal Abbey, A Benedictine Monastery near Limerick, Ireland
•	Annaghmakerrig (The Tyrone Guthrie Centre) in County Monaghan, Ireland


Tracks: 


1.	"In Praise of Christmas" (Traditional) – 6:06
2.	"The Seasons" (Traditional) – 4:55
3.	"The King" (Traditional) – 2:04
4.	"Banquet Hall" (Loreena McKennit) – 3:53
5.	"Snow" (Loreena McKennit/Archibald Lampman) – 5:35
6.	"Balulalow" (Traditional) – 3:09
7.	"Let Us the Infant Greet" (Traditional) – 3:46
8.	"The Wexford Carol" (Traditional) – 6:07
9.	"The Stockford Carol" (Loreena McKennit) – 3:02
10.	"Let All That Are to Mirth Inclined" (Traditional) – 6:52







Parallel Dreams 1989 (remastered 2005)



Parallel Dreams, released in 1989, is Loreena McKennitt's third album.



Tracks: 


1.	"Samain Night" – 4:27
2.	"Moon Cradle" (Loreena McKennitt/Padraic Collum)– 4:29
3.	"Huron 'Beltane' Fire Dance" – 4:20
4.	"Annachie Gordon" (Traditional, arranged by Loreena McKennitt) – 8:22
5.	"Standing Stones" (Traditional lyrics/Music by Loreena McKennitt)– 6:56
6.	"Dickens' Dublin (The Palace)" – 4:40
7.	"Breaking the Silence" – 6:23
8.	"Ancient Pines" – 3:35






The Visit 1991


The Visit is the fourth studio album by Loreena McKennitt and was released in 1991.


Tracks: 


1.	"All Souls Night" – 5:09
2.	"Bonny Portmore" (Traditional, arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennit) – 4:21
3.	"Between the Shadows" – 3:42
4.	"The Lady of Shalott" (Lyrics by Alfred Lord Tennyson adapted by Loreena McKennitt, music by Loreena McKennit) – 11:34
5.	"Greensleeves" (Traditional music arranged by Loreena McKennitt) – 4:26
6.	"Tango to Evora" – 4:10
7.	"Courtyard Lullaby" – 4:57
8.	"The Old Ways" – 5:44
9.	"Cymbeline" (Music by Loreena McKennitt, Lyric by William Shakespeare) – 5:07







The Mask and Mirror 1994 (remastered 2004)


The Mask and Mirror is an album by Loreena McKennitt released in 1994.


Like most of Loreena McKennitt's albums, The Mask and Mirror is heavily influenced by her travels. Her experiences in Spain and Morocco specifically, serve as the inspiration for this album.

"I looked back and forth through the window of 15th century Spain, through the hues of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, and was drawn into a fascinating world: history, religion, cross-cultural fertilization... For some medieval minds the mirror "was the door through which the soul frees itself by passing"... for others the pursuit of personal refinement was likened to "polishing the mirror of the soul." From the more familiar turf of the west coast of Ireland, through the troubadours of France, crossing over the Pyrenees and then to the west through Galicia, down through Andalusia and past Gibraltar to Morocco... The Crusades, the pilgrimage to Santiago, Cathars, the Knights Templar, the Sufis from Egypt, One Thousand and One Nights in Arabia, the Celtic imagery of trees, the Gnostic Gospels... who was God? and what is religion, what spirituality? What was revealed and what was concealed... and what was the mask and what the mirror?" -- Loreena McKennitt, Introduction to The Mask and Mirror


Tracks: 


1.	"The Mystic's Dream" – 7:40
2.	"The Bonny Swans" – 7:18
3.	"The Dark Night of the Soul" – 6:44
4.	"Marrakesh Night Market" – 6:30
5.	"Full Circle" – 5:57
6.	"Santiago" – 5:58
7.	"Cé Hé Mise le Ulaingt?/The Two Trees" – 9:06
8.	"Prospero's Speech" – 3:23




The Book of Secrets 1997



The Book of Secrets is an album by Loreena McKennitt released in 1997. It reached #17 on the Billboard 200.[1] Its single "The Mummers' Dance," remixed by DNA, was released during the winter of 1997–98, and peaked at #18 on the Billboard Hot 100, and #17 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.[2] The album is certified double platinum in the US.


Tracks: 


1.	"Prologue" – 4:22
2.	"The Mummers' Dance"[1] – 6:07
3.	"Skellig" – 6:07
4.	"Marco Polo" – 5:15
5.	"The Highwayman" (Lyrics by Alfred Noyes, abridged by Loreena McKennit) – 10:19
6.	"La Serenissima" – 5:09
7.	"Night Ride across the Caucasus" – 8:30
8.	"Dante's Prayer" – 7:11







An Ancient Muse  2006


An Ancient Muse is the seventh full-length studio album of the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt. It was released on November 20, 2006 internationally, and November 21, 2006 in the United States and Canada. It was her first studio album after a 9-year gap. It has now sold more than 500,000 copies worldwide


Work on An Ancient Muse started in 2005. According to reports on McKennitt's Quinlan Road website, most of the inspiration for the tracks of the album came from the music of Greece, Turkey, the Middle East and the Far East. Most of the tracks, with the exception of three revealed at the mid-September concerts in the Alhambra of Granada in Spain, were completely unknown until the release.

An Ancient Muse debuted on the U.S. Billboard 200 at number 83, with about 19,000 copies sold in its first week.[1] This was also its peak position on the chart

Tracks: 


1.	"Incantation" – 2:35
2.	"The Gates of Istanbul" – 6:59
3.	"Caravanserai" – 7:36
4.	"The English Ladye and the Knight"[3] – 6:49
5.	"Kecharitomene"[4] – 6:34
6.	"Penelope's Song" – 4:21
7.	"Sacred Shabbat" – 3:59
8.	"Beneath a Phrygian Sky" – 9:32
9.	"Never-ending Road (Amhrán Duit)" – 5:54







A Midwinter Night’s Dream  2008


A Midwinter Night's Dream is an album by the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist Loreena McKennitt, released on October 28, 2008

The album is an extended version of A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season (1995). 8 new tracks (recorded at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios during spring 2008) were added to the original 5 songs of the 1995 album.
A Midwinter Night’s Dream takes the place of A Winter Garden, which has been deleted from the Quinlan Road catalogue.

Tracks: 

1.	"The Holly & The Ivy" - 4:49 - (Lyric: traditional - Music: Loreena McKennitt)
2.	"Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle" - 3:06 - (Music: traditional)
3.	"The Seven Rejoices of Mary" - 4:34 - (Music & Lyric: traditional)
4.	"Noël Nouvelet!" - 5:11 - (Music & Lyric: traditional)
5.	"Good King Wenceslas" - 3:16 - (Music & Lyric: John Mason Neale)
6.	"Coventry Carol" - 2:18 - (Lyric: traditional - Music arranged & adapted by Loreena McKennitt)
7.	"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" (Abdelli version) - 7:19 - (Lyric: traditional - Music arranged and adapted by Loreena McKennitt)
8.	"Snow" - 5:05 - (Lyric: Archibald Lampman - Music: Loreena McKennitt)
9.	"Breton Carol" - 3:30 - (Music: traditional)
10.	"Seeds of Love" - 4:54 - (Lyric: traditional - Music: Loreena McKennitt)
11.	"Gloucestershire Wassail" - 2:39 - (Music & Lyric: traditional)
12.	"Emmanuel" - 4:55 - (Music & Lyric: traditional)
13.	"In the Bleak Midwinter" - 2:43 - (Music: Gustav Holst) 






LIVE ALBUMS 






Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts  1994  Promotional Copy


Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts is an EP of the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt. It was recorded live in San Francisco during a concert at the Palace of Fine Arts, on the 19th of May 1994 and released 1 year later.


Loreena McKennitt
Live in San Francisco at The Palace of Fine Arts
PRO-CD-7255 Warner Bros.


Promo-only CD that was sold exclusively through Loreena's website (www.quinlanroad.com). There are two versions of this disc, both for sale only through her website. There was a first version with full artwork but only 6 tracks, and then there's this one that was made only for radio stations and other promotional stuff. This is a more complete version of the same concert with 10 tracks. I think that these extra tracks appeared scattered as b-sides in some of her cd-singles, and at some point I thought of making a compilation of all of them myself, until I learned about this promo cd and wrote to Ms McKennitt for my copy.


I've included both the artwork of the shorter version (it's so beautiful that I'm sure you'll love to have it) and then the artwork (only back cover) that came with the promo.


Tracks: 

1. The mystic's dream
2. Santiago
3. She moved through the Fair
4. Between the shadows
5. The stolen child
6. The dark night of the soul
7. Marrakesh night market
8. The lady of Shalott
9. The bonny swans
10. Prospero's speech





Live in Paris and Toronto 1999



Live in Paris and Toronto is a two CD live album by Loreena McKennitt, released in 1999.


Tracks: 


Disc one
1.	"Prologue" – 4:59
2.	"The Mummers' Dance" - 4:01
3.	"Skellig" - 5:24
4.	"Marco Polo" - 4:52
5.	"The Highwayman" - 9:29
6.	"La Serenissima" - 5:54
7.	"Night Ride Across the Caucasus" - 6:22
8.	"Dante's Prayer" 5:24

Disc two

1.	"The Mystic's Dream" - 6:29
2.	"Santiago" - 6:19
3.	"Bonny Portmore" - 3:50
4.	"Between the Shadows" - 4:30
5.	"The Lady of Shalott" - 9:19
6.	"The Bonny Swans" - 7:05
7.	"The Old Ways" - 5:36
8.	"All Souls Night" - 4:46
9.	"Cymbeline" - 6:27







Nights from the Alhambra 2007


Nights from the Alhambra is a live album and DVD from the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt and is her first live concert DVD.[1] It was recorded in September 2006, live on location at the Palace of Charles V, in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, and released commercially in September 2007.


Tracks: 


Disk 1:

•	"The Mystic's Dream"
•	"She Moved Through the Fair"
•	"Stolen Child"
•	"The Mummer's Dance"
•	"Penelope's Song"
•	"Marco Polo"
•	"The Bonny Swans"
•	"Dante's Prayer"
•	"Caravanserai"

Disk 2:

•	"Bonny Portmore"
•	"Santiago"
•	"Raglan Road"
•	"All Souls Night"
•	"The Lady of Shalott"
•	"The Old Ways"
•	"Never-Ending Road (Amhrán Duit)"
•	"Huron `Beltane` Fire Dance"
•	"Cymbeline"




Enjoy :)