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 - Good, but not great!Not as impressed with this CD as all her others. It's still good, but not ear grabbing!! Rating:  - Ahh... I'd Forgotten...I'd been looking and hoping for a new Loreena McKennitt CD for years. I'd given up hope. Stopped looking... Then -- there in The Lyric (the Baltimore opera house) -- Loreena McKennitt on tour! First I bought the tickets. Then I bought AN ANCIENT MUSE. Having moved on from my "new age" phase of some years back my head's been in different musical spaces: serious/wondrous jazz, guitar virtuosos, classical music... So when MUSE arrived... I was in the wrong "gear"... But with a concert fast approaching I had to find the set list, compile my own iTunes version of the concert, "get ready." And what a world Loreena McKennitt weaves! Ahh... I'd forgotten... MUSE has been on repeat all afternoon as I worked and thought about what to say. (Ahh... I'd forgotten...) Once you're in the right musical head space -- world music not jazz, poems set to music not motif development upon development, etc. -- Loreena McKennitt stirs the heart like few others. For me it's her voice, the courage to set long poems to music, the richness of the instrumental sounds... and did I mention her voice? Having devoured her earlier CDs -- I've got them all! -- I feel confident when I say AN ANCIENT MUSE is right up there with the best of them! Enjoy... and feast your ears! Dr. Kirtland C Peterson Rating: - MAGICAL!Loreena McKennitt has managed to put out another great CD. This is a must for any Loreena's fans. Her music is still magical and her story telling is still fascinating! Rating: - Mystical and magicalA truly wonderful album. Mysterious and magical. one of my favorites. Another favorite of mine is Dreams & Visions by Mary-Kathryn. Devotional and spiritual, a beautiful inspired voice and various world influences make this new album a gem! Rating: - Mystical, Mellow, Mature, Magical, Mesmerizing.... McKennittThe return of Loreena McKennitt after nine long years was truly much anticipated by her friends and admirers. Those people who have come to love her music and cherish her songs over all these years expected her new album with great enthusiasm and a feeling that characterizes one who awaits a long missing friend of the heart. And how justified and happy they were to find out that their hopes and wishes had come true with no less than this spectacular masterpiece. For that is what "An Ancient Muse" actually is. Loreena comes forward once again to astonish us, enchant us, make us participants of the magical journey of the psyche to realms untethered to mundane reasoning. She comes like the fairy of stories old, yet through a modern perspective, and invites us to a ceremony of mysticism and passion, Love, celebration and even sacrifice. She lifts the veils of mysteries hitherto hidden, mysteries she found out in her search in the spiritual, the emotional, the historical and above all the musical world and she calls us, one more time, to share the secrets.. Listening to "An Ancient Muse" fills one with a sense of optimism - that same sense of purpose - a sense of mysticism and freshness, a feeling of being lost in the swirl of sounds and emotions and yet again of rising above them to become witness of eternal truths and unspoken realities. To anyone familiar with Loreena's music this album will bring the joys of her previous works along with the beauty of her music's evolution through the years. To the one who has not yet listened to Loreena's music, but is willing to give it a try, this album will surely be a revelation.
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