In From The Cold

In from the cold, the heart is warmed by singing and making music, giving colour to the wide open (snowy) landscape.

Listen ... Listen with your heart.
Remember all we are and all that's
come before your ... and hear the Roar


Loreena McKennitt, is undoubtedly the most well known of the female artists i present today, born in heartland Canada with irish/scottish heritage, Loreena adopted the Celtic harp as her main instrument and Ireland as her spiritual home. She's a musician looking for connections between music, culture and the spirit, her journeys have taken her from Canada to Ireland, Morocco to Siberia. Her music is rooted in Celtic traditions but much of her best work incorporates elements from Medieval England, Spain and North Africa.

Loreena McKennitt started out as a street musician, released albums on her own Quinlan Road label and then became world renowned after the release of "The Visit" . On offer here ,The book of secrets was released 9 years ago highly acclaimed and commercially succesfull, tragedy struck a year later when her fiancee , his brother and a friend died in a boating accident. She more or less retreated , released a live benefit album in 99 . Fans had to wait a long time but the good news is, next month she will release a new album An Ancient Muse




 Loreena McKennitt - The Book of Secrets * (84mb-304mb)

01 - Prologue
02 - The Mummers' Dance
03 - Skellig
04 - Marco Polo
05 - The Highwayman
06 - La Serenissima
07 - Night Ride Across The Caucasus
08 - Dante's Prayer


21st of november Loreena McKennitt releases her 7th album Än Ancient Muse, here's a musical ecard

Loreena @ Home
Loreena @ Wiki
Loreena @ Amazon

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Mari Boine

Sápmi, which reaches down the north-west coast of Norway, across the top of Sweden and, its southern edge veering north of the Arctic Circle, stretches eastward into northern Finland and the Kola peninsula of north-west Russia, is the homeground of the Sámi race. Estimates vary, but there are much less than 100,000 people - perhaps 75,000 or fewer - who might reasonably be described in terms of heredity, lifestyle or language as Sámi. They have never been a nation, and speak several mutually non-comprehensible languages of the Finno-Ugrian linguistic group, the most prevalent of them being North Sámi, the one spoken by Mari Boine.

Mari Boine's sound is powerful expressive organic-sounding world music, musically both primal and sophisticated at the same time. One buzz-word when Sámi music is mentioned is shamanism; the word originates with the Tungus people of Siberia, and what is generally accepted as shamanism is found in many parts of the world, but it does seem to be a word that observers utter whenever a Sámi bangs a drum. It follows that Mari's music is best experienced live, where she can express her presence in the music best.



 Mari Boine - Idjagiedas * (in the hand of the night-333mb)

01 - Vuoi Vuoi Mu
02 - Idjagiedas
03 - Suoivva
04 - Gos Bat Munno Cinat Leat
05 - Mu Ustit, Engeliid Sogalas
06 - Davvi Bávttiin
07 - Lottás
08 - Diamántta Spáillit
09 - Geasuha
10 - Áfruvvá
11 - Uldda Nieida
12 - Big Medicine

Boine's my space
Mari Boine @ Wiki
Boine @ Amazon

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Gjallarhorn

In Norse mythology, the Giallarhorn or Gjallarhorn ("ringing horn") is the horn with which the gatekeeper god, Heimdallr, announces Ragnarök. In 1997 Gjallarhorns first cd Ranarop was released, remastered in 2002. The group was selected "Folk music group of the year 1997" and the CD was "Folk music CD of the year 1997" in Finland.

The songs deal with mystical events, witches and gods and the woes of the sea, old minuets, ballads and waltzes of Sweden and Swedish speaking Finland are given new life in the hands of this band. Instead of synthesizers, they rely heavily on the droning rasp of the didgeridoo, which lends both a modern feel and an ancient tone to most of the songs. Jenny Wilhelms voice is splendid, beautiful, but with a slightly sharp befitting edge..



 Gjallarhorn - Ranarop *(call of the sea witch) (remastered -400 mb)

01 - Intro
02 - Konungen och trollkvinnan , The king and the enchantress
03 - Herr Olof , Master Olof
04 - I fjol sa , Last year
05 - Solbön-Askan , Prayer for sun-Thunder
06 - O-vals , Non-Waltz
07 - I riden sa... , Ye ride so carefully
08 - Sjöjungfrun och konungadottern , The mermaid and the princess
09 - Folkesongen , Folk song
10 - Elviras vals-Oravaismenuett , Elvira's waltz-Oravais minuet
11 - Eldgjald , Gjaldersong
12 - Ramunder
13 - Kulning , Calling
14 - Reindeer Dreaming (music from the film by Antti Haase)

Gjallarhorn @ home
Gjallarhorn @ Wiki
Glalarhorn @ Amazon

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Requested, some cool gentlemen,

What to tell about Japan, check links at the bottom, this remaster has certainly succeeds in bringing their music back to life.



 Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids * (339mb-remastered)

01 - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
02 - Swing
03 - Burning Bridges
04 - My New Career
05 - Methods of Dance
06 - Ain't That Peculiar
07 - Nightporter
08 - Taking Islands in Africa
09 - The Experience Of Swimming
10 - The Width of a Room
11 - Taking Islands in Africa (Steve Nye mix)

Nightporter Fansite
Japan @ Wiki
Japan @ Amazon


* All downloads are in * ogg-7 (224k) or ^ ogg-9(320k), artwork is included , if in need get the nifty ogg encoder/decoder here !