Drive the Cold Winter Away [Import]

drive the cold winter away [import]

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UK reissue of the Irish folk-rock act's 1976 release. Some may call this a Christmas album, with tracks entitled.'Mary Bore A Son To God' and 'That Night In Bethleham'. 2000 release standard jewel case.

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Drive the Cold Winter Away [Import]

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Great Unconventional Holiday Music
Lovely music for the season, recorded in resonant halls

To Drive the Cold Winter Away
Loreena McKennitt
Manufacturer: Quinlan Road Import
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002VE1WA
Release Date: 2006-07-11

Tracks:

In Praise of Christmas
Seasons
King
Banquet Hall
Snow
Balulalow
Let Us the Infant Greet
Wexford Carol
Stockford Carol
Let All That Are to Mirth Inclined

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BONUS DVD (PAL)

Customer Reviews:

Great Unconventional Holiday Music.......2007-01-02

Wow! Loreena McKennitt has such a beautiful voice paired with the harp that makes this a must have holiday album for those fully stocked on run of the mill Christmas music. Includes some traditional British carols not so familiar in the US and some winter-themed songs she wrote that are quite mesmerizing.

You do have to get past the fact that these aren't songs that Americans necessarily associate with Christmas to actually enjoy it as a "Christmas album," but it's worth buying if not just to pull out for a few weeks every year and enjoy the sheer beauty of the music.

Lovely music for the season, recorded in resonant halls.......2006-10-01

More gentle, clear-voiced beauty from vocalist/arranger/multi-instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt--this time a collection of rarely heard seasonal songs from England, Ireland and Scotland with a few original compositions thrown in for good measure. As with her prior album, "Elemental," McKennitt's arrangements here are filled with a spare but striking magic--in this case, reminiscent of the quiet stillness of a snowfall as it blankets the world in soft, crystaline white. The music was recorded in Annaghmakerrig, Ireland; Glenstal Abbey, England; and the Church of our Lady, Guelph (in Canada). In the album's liner notes, McKennitt writes, "as a child, my most vivid impression of music for the winter season came from songs and carols recorded in churches or great halls, rich with their own unique ambience and tradtition. In that spirit I have ventured into several similar locations that I have come to cherish in my travels ... The arrangements are sparse but somehow I felt that reflected the dynamics of the fall and winter seasons, and that their can be much beauty in such simplicity." I can't say it any better. Some of the songs are performed by McKennitt alone as harp-embellished vocals. Others feature understated harmonies and accompaniments by guest artists Shannon Purvis-Smith (viols) and Cedric Smith (vocals). If track #5, "Snow," sounds familiar, that might be because it also appears on one of McKennitt's later albums, "A Winter Garden." Loreena McKennitt's next album is "Parallel Dreams." Compare her work with that of rich-voiced singer Susan McKeown in "Lowlands" and the haunting a cappella ballads of Niamh Parsons in such albums as "Loosely Connected."

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