The Mirror Pool
by Lisa Gerrard
- Type: Album
- Released: 21 August 1995
- Label: 4AD
- Country: Australia
- Length: 1:08:13
- Community rating: 3.83/5 from 4 ratings
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Stepping momentarily away from her iconic work with Dead Can Dance, the Australian vocalist recorded a sweeping, intensely majestic solo debut backed by the Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra. Her completely unique, idioglossic vocal phrasing glides over lush, highly atmospheric orchestrations heavily infused with Persian and global traditional instrumentation. The profoundly ethereal, deeply spiritual recording served as an early indicator of her impending, highly successful career in major film scoring.
Genres
Descriptors: folklore, atmospheric, medieval, orchestral, vocal, nonlexical-vocables, string arrangements, ambient, spirituality
Tracklist
- Violina: The Last Embrace (5:44)
- La Bas: Song Of The Drowned (7:42)
- Persian Love Song: The Silver Gun (2:33)
- Sanvean: I Am Your Shadow (3:49)
- The Rite (3:22)
- Ajhon (3:10)
- Glorafin (4:51)
- Majhnavea's Music Box (1:34)
- Largo (2:52)
- Werd (1:39)
- Laurelei (5:59)
- Celon (6:07)
- Venteles (2:38)
- Swans (5:47)
- Nilleshna (6:30)
- Gloradin (3:56)
Credits
- Dimitry Kyryakou - bouzouki, backing vocals, arranged by
- The Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra - strings
- Traditional - composed by
- Andrew Claxton - composed by
- Pieter Bourke - backing vocals, drum [camel], tabla, backing vocals, percussion [derabukkas (large and small)], handclaps
- Georg Friedrich H盲ndel - composed by