“The Mystic's Dream” by Loreena McKennitt

"The Mystic's Dream" comes from The Mask and Mirror, Loreena McKennitt's fifth album, released on March 15, 1994. Like most of her records it grew out of her travels, this time through Spain and Morocco, and out of her fascination with 15th-century Spain, where Judaism, Islam and Christianity rubbed up against each other.

She wrote it, produced it and sings it, and the cast she gathered reads like a caravan crossing borders: Abraham Tawfik on nai and oud, Brian Hughes on oud and electric guitar, Ravi Naimpally on tabla, George Koller on bass and tambura, Patrick Hutchinson on uilleann pipes, Anne Bourne on cello and backing vocals, Rick Lazar on percussion, and the Victoria Scholars as a choir. McKennitt adds keyboards and drums herself, and Jeff Wolpert mixed it.

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