Marco Polo

by Loreena McKennitt

Marco Polo cover art
  • Type: Single
  • Released: 1998-01-01
  • Label: Quinlan Road
  • Country: Canada
  • Length: 16:36
  • Community rating: 3.45/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

A single from Loreena McKennitt's album 'The Book of Secrets'. 'Marco Polo' is an instrumental-leaning journey through Sufi and Arabic folk colouring, pastoral and hypnotic in mood.

Genres

Descriptors: fairy-tale, folklore, medieval, acoustic, storytelling

Tracklist

  1. Marco Polo (Edit) (4:01)
  2. Marco Polo (Album Version) (5:15)
  3. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Abdelli Version) (7:20)

Credits

  • Brian Gascoigne - arranged by [additional strings]
  • Doug Riley - arranged by [additional strings]
  • Martin Jenkins - mandocello
  • Brian Hughes - acoustic guitar, bouzouki, oud, synthesizer [guitar], voice [drone]
  • Donald Quan - keyboards [additional], tabla, voice [drone]
  • Robert A. White - shawm

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