Not sure if this should be in this forum. Does anyone know of similiar music to that of Loreena Mckennitt? Or perhaps, Lisa Gerrard when she did the soundtrack for "Gladiator"? I've browsed through a lot of "new age" and "celtic" genres, but nothing seems to give me that ethereal feeling - you know the one - where get a shiver down your spine and you are moved.
I don't have that feeling with most of her stuff, but maybe you dig Dead Can Dance. They're pretty different most of the time, but do have celtic/arabian folk songs, sometimes in a similar way and does makes me shiver! Well, I'm sure you know Enya. She resembles Loreena McKennitt most I suppose.
Yeah, like Dead Can Dance. Enya is not exactly the same, but pleasant nonetheless. Thanks your reply.
I like Loreena McKennitt too,specially the songs All Souls Night, The Mummer's Dance and The Mystics Dream,they make me feel like i was dancing in front of a fire,next to a forest,with sun rising in a distant time,i love it. I have some songs here that make me feel this kind of thing,and all my friends had the same impression of me when they listened this songs.
ilean ivers emigrant soul? maybe, or kevin sourby's stuff. there's a lot of celtic rooted alternative innovation out there. tons of it. i couldn't begin to name it all, even if i was worth a dam at remembering names, which i'm not. oh wait, i think i see what you're getting at. yah, but i can't remember the names of the other artists who have done it. the kind of neopagan impowerment shivers down your spine sort of thing? "... standing on the bridge that crosses, the river that flows out to the see, the wind is filled with a thousand voices, that pass by the bridge and me ..." and there was that thing that she, or somebody did with something by rumi, hmmm, not much help for you, but yah, i love that kind of stuff, if were talking about the same sort of thing. oh there was one thing that clanad did too, that was for a theme to some kind of documentry about the 'picts'. i had that alblum on cassette, i think it was called magical ring or fairie ring or something like that. i think a lot of occult people kind of hide a lot of that kind of stuff away for themselves. there's quite a bit of it in 'filk', the music of folk who haven't been born in our mundane world but only in the hearts and minds of their author/story tellers and their fans and listners. promethius who used to be firebird i think, and grew out of off centaur used to carry a bunch of that, including songbooks and sheet music to perform, as well as recordings. in a nonceltic, more anime related sort of vien, but with that same sort of spiritness connectedness, lisa ray furukawa does some amazing things. i think that's her name. i can never seem to get things spelled right. then there's the odd stray thing i've stumbled upon here and there, like owl song, no-fi mix, by gemini wolf. got to be one of my favorites of all time. along with those things more like what you spicificly mentioned like "dance dance wherever you may be, for i am the lord of the dance said he, and i'll live in you and you'll live in me and i'll lead you all in the dance said he" and "the dance weaves under the fire thorn", neither of which i have any leads on recordings of. "we are the little folk we, too little to kill or to hate, but leave us alone or you'll see, ..." that one is i think in the nesfa himnal or some other filk collection like that. =^^= .../\...
My ex-girlfriend used to listen to Loreena and Lisa Gerrard, she was a big fan of both artists. It's kind of mystic music to flow with, that ethereal feeling you are speaking of..
