Loreena McKennitt drew her inspiration for this album from 15th century Spain, where the cultures of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam coexisted uneasily, tied together by a common tradition of religious mysticism. McKennitt reflects the multi-culturalism in arrangements that mix the half-tone intervals and familiar instruments of the Aryan north with the quarter-tone intervals and the dumbeg, oud, and tamboura of the Semitic south. The results of these slow-moving tempos are often intoxicating as they conjure shadowy, mesmerizing atmospheres.

52 minutes.