Elemental (Loreena McKennitt album)

Infobox Album


Name = Elemental
Artist = Loreena McKennitt
Type = Album
Released = 1985 (Canada)
Recorded =
Genre = Folk
Length = 36:27
Label = Quinlan Road
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:gbfrxzu5ldke link]
Last album =
This album = "Elemental"
(1985)
Next album = "To Drive the Cold Winter Away"
(1987)

"Elemental" is the first album recorded by Loreena McKennitt and vehicle with which she launched the Quinlan Road label. It was released in 1985. The album was recorded one week in July, 1985. The studio was in a barn in southern Ontario and situated in a field of sunflowers. [Citation
last = Quinlan Road Ltd.
first =
author-link = Quinlan Road
last2 =
first2 =
author2-link =
title = Elemental Liner Notes
date =
year = 1985, 2006
url = http://www.quinlanroad.com/pdf/QRCD101R-Elemental-Web.pdf
accessdate = 09/27/2008 ]

Track listing

# "Blacksmith" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt)– 3:20
# "She Moved Through the Fair" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt)– 4:05
# "Stolen Child" (William Butler Yeats/Loreena McKennitt) – 5:05
# "The Lark in the Clear Air" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 2:06
# "Carrighfergus" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 3:24
# "Kellswater" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 5:19
# "Banks of Claudy" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 5:37
# "Come by the Hills" (Traditional/Loreena McKennitt) – 3:05
# "Lullaby" (William Blake/Loreena McKennit) - 4:26

ong information

* "Stolen Child" is based on the William Butler Yeats poem "The Stolen Child".
* "Lullaby" uses the words of a poem by William Blake. It was written for the 1983 Stratford Festival of Canada production of Blake by Elliot Hayes and performed by Douglas Campbell.

Notes

External links

* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~josvg/cits/lm/lorecd1a.html Lyrics] en icon