CD: LLEWELYN - Moonlore

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Total running time: 52:56 minutes

The Tracks:
1 Hunters Moon ( 5:44)
2 The Laughing Lightning (4:25)
3 The Chill Wind (7:05)
4 The Mother (5:25) Media Player | Real Player
5 Across the Loch (6:08)
6 Sky Fire (6:08)
7 Echoes of Ancient Stone (8:00)
8 The Maiden (3:42)
9 The Crone (6:13) Media Player | Real Player

They say: Following on from the spellbinding album 'Celtic Legend' Llewellyn takes us on a musical adventure tale into history and reconstructs one of the legendary druidistic games that always took place under cover of darkness upon the full moon adjoining Samhain.

It takes the listener away into a wonderful romantic world of Celtic imagery and landscapes.

Moonlore combines keyboards with Uilleann pipes, Whistles, Guitars, Piano, Flutes, Skin drums and atmospheric effects.

This is a celebration of the feminine and the Triple Goddess, and includes specially composed 'working' Moonlore tracks: The Maiden, The Mother, and The Crone. Accompanying inlay notes on the Moon's energies by Carolynn Clare Townsend.

We say: Gentle throughout with an evocative Celtic, medieval, druid-like sound, caused by the instruments used (listed above) and through the atmosphere created. It took me a while to get into this album but I think that was really because I was doing other things while trying to review it, such as writing. I must have played it maybe five or more times without really getting into it, and it wasn't until I actually stopped everything that I was doing and just sat and listened that I could appreciate its merits. There is a lot of work gone into this album I would say. I believe no album really can be fully appreciated when doing other things. It's like when I used to kid myself I could do my homework while having music (Iron Maiden or Pink Floyd probably) playing!

I will say it has an 'epic' (ie. larger-than-life) quality to it, a certain grandness. The tracks are all varied which makes you feel you have gotten value for your money and makes this a new age album with the presentation of something more main stream. Got into it (eventually!).