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Pulling from conventions both ancient and new, The Visit shows why Loreena McKennitt is one of Canada's most bewitching performers. She celebrates old Celtic musical traditions with a glossy, modern sheen on songs like the haunting "All Souls Night" and shadowy "Cymbeline," with her delicate soprano tracked multiple times as it echoes the bending strings of a violin section. Elsewhere, on instrumentals like "Between the Shadows," she lets her delicate harp and shimmering keyboards take center stage.

September 27, 1991 9 Songs, 49 minutes ℗ 1991 Quinlan Road Limited

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CELEBRATING 30 YEARS

30th ANNIVERSARY 1991-2021 • 5 DISC EDITION  

Celebrating 30 years since loreena’s award winning album propelled her onto the international stage. a deluxe limited-edition, hardback book format containing four cds and one audio blu-ray disc , a 32-page illustrated booklet, and hours of previously unreleased content, including the first-ever surround sound mixes of loreena’s music. read more a bonus hand-autographed 5” x 7” postcard is included exclusively for customers purchasing directly from the artist store. not available to customers of other retailers, including amazon..

Disc One contains the original recording, remastered in 2004

Hand-autographed 5"x7" postcard

exclusively for direct from artist customer s

NOT AVAILABLE THROUGH RETAILERS

Disc Four features a binaural headphone mix as well as a soundboard recording of previously unreleased 2016 trio performances. READ MORE

​ Disc Three   a 1991 interview with journalist Tim Wilson and a previously unreleased 2020 round-table discussion with Loreena and colleagues.

​ Disc Two includes two archival performances: from The CBC and NPR's World Cafe in 1992

​ Disc Five consists of a Blu-ray audio with three different formats: Dolby Atmos, 5.1 surround sound  and a hi-res stereo versionn. READ MORE

THE VISIT - ALSO AVAILABLE on 180 GRAM VINYL Available as a numbered, 180-gram audiophile-quality vinyl record which also includes a free digital download coupon.

The Visit: The Definitive Edition

"Unboxing"

Loreena delivers a Gemini award-winning performance of Lady of Shalott at the 1992 Juno Awards.

Bonny Portmore from Highlander 3

In Her Own Words

Loreena takes the listener on a track-by-track journey through the story of the songs of The Visit in anticipation of the five disc, 30th Anniversary set The Visit: The Definitive Edition. Avaiilable on Spotify, Apple Music and other services here . 

A Revisit with Echoes

and John Diliberto

Loreena talks with Echoes host John Diliberto, telling epic tales of “The Lady of Shalott” and “All Souls Night.” The album took the burgeoning Celtic craze of the 80s and launched it into a global fusion behind her eastern inflected arrangements, soaring soprano voice and ancient tales from Celtic realms. Loreena and John catch up and look back on a signature work on Echoes. READ MORE

A Revisit with

The Eclectic Light Show Loreena celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of her seminal album The Visit in an exclusive interview with The Eclectic Light Show with Mandy Morton, in which she discusses her musical inspirations, her concerns over multi media platforms, the technical revolution involved in creating the new four disc definitive edition of the album, and her plans for future tours. LISTEN via MIXCLOUD

WE LOOK BACK

We're looking back with fond memories to the time of The Visit , beginning with a feature article and interview with Loreena's long-time band member Brian Hughes who worked on the album with Loreena. Check back as we share our stories and memories.

Guitarist Brian Hughes ‘unclassifiable’

Accomplished musician/producer has worked with Loreena for 34 years

A love of music and the evolution of technology

Award-winning sound engineer reflects on a fulfilling career

A sophisticated and enhanced listening experience

In addition to celebrating 30 years, The Visit: The Definitive Edition marks Loreena’s first-ever surround sound mixes , bringing listeners a whole new, sophisticated and enhanced experience .

The anniversary package includes a Blu-ray audio disc with the original recording rendered in Dolby Atmos® , 5.1 surround sound and a hi-res stereo version .

For customers without a Blu-ray player and sound system, a binaural headphone mix of the original recording can be found on disc four and enjoyed through a standard CD player. These binaural mixes offer listeners a similar experience to surround sound, using stereo headphones.

Dolby has developed this new immersive format, Atmos, that provides the listener with a musical experience comparable to three-dimensional sound experienced in modern cinemas. 

The 5.1 mix is presented in the older, five-speaker plus subwoofer surround sound format with which most home cinema and surround sound aficionados will be more familiar.

The hi-res stereo mix is an uncompressed audio format that allows listeners to enjoy the original stereo mix in a resolution that comes closest to the original stereo studio masters.

The surround mixes were created by the three-time Juno winning engineer Jeff Wolpert at his Dolby Atmos® Studio Desert Fish in Toronto, Canada. Jeff also engineered the original recording of The Visit in 1991.

Multi-award winning engineer, mixer, producer, editor, and educator Jeff Wolpert , Desert Fish Studios , Toronto, Canada

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The Mask and Mirror Live 2024 • Live Recording (1994)

The Road Back Home 2024 • Field Recording

Under a Winter’s Moon 2022 • Live Seasonal Recording

Live At The Royal Albert Hall 2019 • Live Recording

Lost Souls 2018 • Studio Album

The Journey So Far – The Best Of 2014 • Compilation / Live

Troubadours On The Rhine 2011 • Live Recording

The Wind That Shakes The Barley 2010 • Studio Album

A Mediterranean Odyssey 2009 • Live Recording

A Midwinter Night’s Dream 2008 • Seasonal Recording

An Ancient Muse 2006 • Studio Album

Live in Paris And Toronto 1999 • Live Recording

The Book Of Secrets 1997 • Studio Album

The Mask And Mirror 1994 • Studio Album

The Visit 1991 • Studio Album

Parallel Dreams 1989 • Studio Album

To Drive The Cold Winter Away 1987 • Seasonal Recording

Elemental 1985 • Studio Album

No Journey’s End DVD

Nights From The Alhambra Live Recording / DVD

A Moveable Musical Feast DVD

In Her Own Words: The Visit

Digital service subscribers can also collect a 9-track set of audio sleeve notes traversing the story of The Visit . Narrated by Loreena herself, these short, spoken word pieces illuminate some of the background to this recording on its 30th anniversary. The first three audio sleeve notes are available right now on Spotify and other streaming services. lnk.to/TVDEIHOW

More In Her Own Words instalments, plus additional singles from the highlights set will be available throughout the fall.

These audio sleeve notes are exclusive to streaming services and are not part of the limited edition boxed set.

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Loreena McKennitt

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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. McKennitt went on a long hiatus after the tragic death of her fiancé in 1998, but returned to the studio in 2006 with the acclaimed The Book of Secrets, followed by a string of EPs and concert and studio albums, with highlights arriving via 2010's trad-Celtic LP The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2018's inward-looking Lost Souls, and 2023's vibrant The Road Back Home.

The daughter of a nurse mother and a livestock-trading father, McKennitt studied classical piano and voice and learned to dance in the highland style as a youngster. Her love of traditional music was strengthened in the folk clubs of Winnipeg, which she frequented during the brief period she studied veterinary science at the University of Manitoba. Relocating to Stratford, Ontario, she continued to sharpen her skills as a composer and performer. In 1981, she auditioned for a role in the city's Stratford Festival of Canada. Although she did not get the role, she remained inspired. After reading Diane Sward Rapaport's book How to Make and Sell Your Own Recording, she formed her own label, Quinlan Road.

After releasing two albums, a nine-song cassette, Elemental, in 1985 and a collection of Christmas tunes, To Drive the Cold Winter Away, in 1987, she had her first breakthrough with her 1989 album Parallel Dreams. With the help of a network of small independent distributors, the album sold more than 40,000 copies within four months. Its success was surpassed by McKennitt's fourth album, The Visit. Distributed by Warner Canada, the album sold over 600,000 copies (six-times platinum) in Canada and received a Juno Award, as did her next recording, The Mask and Mirror, in 1994.

While her albums have featured soothing, ultra-melodic arrangements, McKennitt's lyrics have reflected her interests in the poetry of W.B. Yeats, William Blake, and Alfred Lord Tennyson. Her music has been heard on the soundtracks of numerous plays and films. In 1989, she was commissioned by the National Film Board of Canada to compose the music for a film series, Woman and Spirituality. Her subsequent commissions have included such films as Jade, Highlander III, and Disney's The Santa Clause, and TV shows including Northern Exposure, Due South, and EZ Streets.

In 1998, McKennitt scored her biggest hit with "The Mummers' Dance." Aided by a pop crossover remix, the single helped propel her sixth LP, The Book of Secrets, to number three in Canada and into the Billboard Top 20, making it her highest-charting release to date. Sadly, her world crumbled that July when her fiancé, Ronald Rees, died while on a sailing trip with his brother and a family friend in Georgian Bay. Everything stopped immediately in order for McKennitt to grieve, while rumors of her retirement also circulated. At the time of her fiancé's death, McKennitt was mixing a new album, Live in Paris and Toronto, at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios. Recorded in Salle Pleyel in Paris and Massey Hall in Toronto during spring 1998, and the album was released in 1999. All profits from the album have gone to the Cook-Rees Memorial Fund, which McKennitt set up to finance water safety initiatives and education across Canada. It would be almost a decade before McKennitt would return to her own material.

In the new millennium, McKennitt allowed herself some healing time. She didn't disappear from music altogether, however, and worked with a number of local and national charities. Her Spanish version of "Dante's Prayer" was featured in the Canadian/Venezuelan feature film A House with a View of the Sea in 2001. In 2002, she headlined a concert in Winnipeg for Queen Elizabeth, and in 2003 she received the Order of Canada. Two years later, McKennitt began work on her seventh studio album, Ancient Muse, which was released in 2006 and peaked in the Canadian Top Ten. Nights from the Alhambra, a live CD/DVD, arrived in 2007, followed by Midwinter Night's Dream, a collection of holiday music that included 1995's Winter Garden EP in its entirety, along with eight new recordings. A Mediterranean Odyssey was released in 2009; the two-disc set included Olive and the Cedar, an 11-song compilation of some of her best-loved Mediterranean pieces, along with From Istanbul to Athens, which was recorded live on her 2009 Mediterranean tour.

In 2010, McKennit issued The Wind That Shakes the Barley, an album that found her revisiting the traditional Celtic style of her earlier work. Two years later, she followed up that studio effort with the live and unplugged concert album Troubadours on the Rhine: A Trio Performance. Surveying her three-decade recording career, 2013's two-disc The Journey So Far: The Best of Loreena McKennitt drew a dozen key songs from her eight studio albums and her single releases, collecting them on the first disc, with a second bonus disc that featured live performances recorded in Mainz, Germany during McKennitt's 2012 A Midsummer's Night tour. Her tenth album, and first full-length collection of original material since 2006's Ancient Muse, 2018's Lost Souls delivered a richly detailed and alluringly cinematic set of worldbeat-infused, modern folk pieces that hearkened back to her early works. Recorded live in Stratford, Ontario in December 2021, 2022's double-concert LP, Under a Winter’s Moon, saw McKennitt deliver a set of seasonal songs interspersed with readings by Canadian actors Tom Jackson and Cedric Smith, and Ojibwa artist and flautist Jeffrey Red George. 2023's The Road Back Home saw McKennitt returning to her roots with a set of traditional Celtic songs reflecting the congeniality and warmth of her early days on the folk circuit. ~ Craig Harris & Neil Z. Yeung

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