THIS IS THE 1991 GERMAN ORIGINAL PRESSING on WEA Records. IN SHRINK SINGLE COVER + INNER SLEEVE. The cover is in VG+ condition: normal wear and without any major deterioration BUT light discolouration/wear on corners (where missing shrink), left spine is fully readable; INNER SLEEVE in VG+ condition, mild creases on edges; please for details see photos (with and without flashlight). Vinyl is in VG+ condition [some clicks, to clean, barely played] and plays wonderfully and without lessening in sound quality.

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LOREENA McKENNITT

Singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Loreena McKennitt is one of Canada's most beloved national artists, a folk chanteuse, and a new age troubadour who made her breakthrough in the mid-'80s with her literate and oft-experimental focus on Celtic-tinged traditional and original material, coupled with her haunting harp playing. As her career progressed, McKennitt began incorporating Spanish, Galician, and Arabic themes into her repertoire, culminating in a trio of career-defining albums -- The Visit, The Mask and Mirror, and The Book of Secrets -- that made her an international star.

tracklisting

Side A: ALL SOULS NIGHT - BONNY PORTMORE - BETWEEN THE SHADOWS - THE LADY OF SHALOTT

Side B: GREENSLEEVES - TANGO TO EVORA - COURTYARD LULLABY

THE OLD WAYS - CYMBELINE

Barcode: (scanned) 090317515113   (text) 0 9031-75151-1

Label Code: LC 4281

Other (Price Code, rear): France: WE 391

Other (Price Code, rear): Ⓤ

LABEL: WEA – WHITE LABEL  w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: 9031-75151-1

Catalog on labels: 9031-75151-1

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped [L/u Etched]): WMME Alsdorf 903 175151-1-A  L/u[maybe, not clearly legible]

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped [L/u Etched]): WMME Alsdorf 903 175151-1-B L/u[maybe, not clearly legible]

On labels: 3-line rim text "Tous Droits......Interdits" 

"Alle Urheber..........Made in Germany........Ⓦ A Warner Communications Company"

"All Rights...........Of This Record Prohibited"

GEMA/BIEM (boxed)     All songs SOCAN

Producer........      Co-producer........

℗ + © 1991 Quinlan Road

grading

RECORD VG+ but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

Loreena McKennitt's fourth release, and first for a major label, is a quietly majestic tapestry of worldbeat and Celtic pop that effortlessly weaves together traditional and contemporary songs into lush showcases for her fluid voice and harp. The multi-talented Canadian utilizes all of her strengths here, resulting in her most rewarding batch of tunes to date. With larger production values and more ambitious arrangements than the sparse Elemental and Parallel Dreams, her flair for the dramatic and the theatrical runs rampant throughout. Whether she's toasting the souls of the departed with Pagan glee on the delicious "All Souls Night," or reinterpreting King Henry VIII's "Greensleeves" through Tom Waits, it's never without both feet in the water. Often when artists attempt to blend modern instruments (keyboards, guitars, etc.) into the traditional folk idiom, the results are instantly dated and horribly overwrought. McKennitt, however, never allows the two to compete, and it's a testament to her belief in the songs themselves that they don't devolve into garish new age drivel. Her adaptation of Alfred Lord Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott," which utilizes an opening melody lifted -- probably unknowingly -- from the bagpipe solo at the end of AC/DC's "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)," is The Visit's most powerful moment. Clocking in at 11 minutes, the poet's lovelorn tale of Camelot's most famous peasant maiden is rendered brief by McKennitt's breathless delivery and atmospheric and austere presentation. The Visit is Loreena McKennitt at her most comfortable, creative, and soulful...(AllMusic)