An Ancient Muse

An Ancient Muse
An Ancient Muse
Studio album by Loreena McKennitt
Released 2006 (Canada)
Genre Folk, World music
Length 54:19
Label Quinlan Road
Loreena McKennitt chronology
Live in Paris and Toronto
(1999)		 An Ancient Muse
(2006)		 Nights from the Alhambra
(2007)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
About.com 4.5/5 stars[1]
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars[2]

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

Contents

Overview

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.[3] This was also its peak position on the chart.[4]

Track listing

  1. "Incantation" – 2:35
  2. "The Gates of Istanbul" – 6:59
  3. "Caravanserai" – 7:36
  4. "The English Ladye and the Knight"[5] – 6:49
  5. "Kecharitomene"[6] – 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

Also:

Personnel

Chart performance

Chart (2006) Peak
position
Germany Albums Chart 15[7]
Spain Albums Chart 26[8]
Belgium Albums Chart 46[9]
France Albums Chart 41[10]
Swiss Albums Chart 45[11]
Austria Albums Chart 59[12]
Dutch Albums Chart 11[13]
Danish Albums Chart 25[14]
Canadian Albums Chart 9[15]
US Billboard 200 83[15]

References

  1. ^ About.com review
  2. ^ Allmusic review
  3. ^ Katie Hasty, "Jay-Z Reclaims His 'Kingdom' With No. 1 Debut", Billboard.com, November 29, 2006.
  4. ^ Artist chart history for Loreena McKennitt (albums), Billboard.com.
  5. ^ based on Sir Walter Scott's It was an English Ladye Bright ballad from The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
  6. ^ κεχαριτωμένη, Gabriel's greeting to Mary in Luke 1:28, translated gratia plena "full of grace"
  7. ^ "Musicline.de - Chartverfolgung - McKennitt,Loreena - An ancient muse". www.musicline.de. http://www.musicline.de/de/chartverfolgung_summary/title/McKennitt%2CLoreena/An+ancient+muse/longplay. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
  8. ^ "spanishcharts.com - Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse". spanishcharts.com. http://spanishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Loreena+McKennitt&titel=An+Ancient+Muse&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
  9. ^ "ultratop.be - Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse". www.ultratop.be. http://www.ultratop.be/en/showitem.asp?interpret=Loreena+McKennitt&titel=An+Ancient+Muse&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
  10. ^ "lescharts.com - Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse". lescharts.com. http://lescharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Loreena+McKennitt&titel=An+Ancient+Muse&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
  11. ^ "Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse - hitparade.ch". hitparade.ch. http://hitparade.ch/showitem.asp?interpret=Loreena+McKennitt&titel=An+Ancient+Muse&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
  12. ^ "Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse - austriancharts.at". austriancharts.at. http://austriancharts.at/showitem.asp?interpret=Loreena+McKennitt&titel=An+Ancient+Muse&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
  13. ^ "dutchcharts.nl - Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse". dutchcharts.nl. http://dutchcharts.nl/showitem.asp?interpret=Loreena+McKennitt&titel=An+Ancient+Muse&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
  14. ^ "danishcharts.com - Loreena McKennitt - An Ancient Muse". danishcharts.com. http://danishcharts.com/showitem.asp?interpret=Loreena+McKennitt&titel=An+Ancient+Muse&cat=a. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 
  15. ^ a b "An Ancient Muse - Loreena McKennitt". www.billboard.com. http://www.billboard.com/#/album/loreena-mckennitt/an-ancient-muse/811965. Retrieved 2010-05-15. 

External links

v · Loreena McKennitt
Studio albums
Elemental (1985)  • To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987)  • Parallel Dreams (1989)  • The Visit (1991)  • The Mask and Mirror (1994)  • The Book of Secrets (1997)  • An Ancient Muse (2006)  • A Midwinter Night's Dream (2008)  • The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2010)
Live albums
Live in San Francisco at the Palace of Fine Arts (1995)  • Live in Paris and Toronto (1999)  • Nights from the Alhambra (2007)  • A Mediterranean Odyssey (2009)
EPs
A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season (1995)
Videos
No Journey's End (1995)  • Nights from the Alhambra (2007)  • A Moveable Musical Feast (2008)
Compilations
A Mummers' Dance Through Ireland (2009)
Box sets
The Journey Begins (2008)
Singles
"The Lady of Shalott"  • "All Souls Night"  • "Courtyard Lullaby"  • "Greensleeves"  • "The Bonny Swans"  • "Santiago"  • "The Dark Night of the Soul"  • "The Mystic's Dreams"  • "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen"  • "The Mummers' Dance"  • "Marco Polo"  • "Caravanserai"  • "Penelope's Song"  • "The Seven Rejoices of Mary"  • "Noël Nouvelet!"  • "Dante's Prayer"
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