Songs from Albion

Description

Songs from Albion – Music from Stephen Lawhead’s “The Paradise War”, Book One of the “Song of Albion” – is an album by the American singer, songwriter, keyboardist and producer Jeff Johnson & Irish flautist and composer Brian Patrick Dunning (December 21, 1951 – February 10, 2022), independently released on Ark Records in 1992, distributed by Sparrow Distribution. The album was produced, recorded and mixed by Jeff Johnson at The Ark in Camano Island, Washington; March-October 1991. Featuring Derri Daugherty of The Choir fame on guitar.

Songs from Albion is the first installment of a three-part series, and was followed by Songs from Albion II released in 1993 and Songs from Albion III released the following year.

What if there was a place beyond time, a place where icy crystalline streams played across heather-covered hills, where the sun shone with such power and majesty and brilliance that a holly leaf and a willow trunk gleamed with the bright light of Joy? And at the heart of it all was a song – a song the like of which has never been heard in our world, but is known in our deepest hearts?

Come to Albion. Albion – the very name entices, speaks healing into our wounded land and broken spirits, calls to our souls, resonates with that deep unspeakable longing C.S. Lewis named as sehnsuct.

Here are songs from that secret land, Albion. Songs that touch a forgotten place, a place obscured by civilization and its discontents. Here is all the power and mystery of the Celtic mythos, a musical excursion that will lift your soul and spirit out of the humdrum and into the infinite, the precincts of felicity, where vast vistas of glory open out into forever.
– Jan P. Dennis [Note printed on the back of the CD]

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CD tracklist:

01. The Enduring Story – 3:35
02. Aurochs And Jaguars – 2:45
03. Plexus – 5:24
04. An Otherworld – 3:27
05. Sycharth – 3:53
06. A Rippling Ring – 2:44
07. On Scatha’s Island – 3:10
08. Gorsedd – 4:10
09. The Prophesy/Goewyn’s Fair Face – 5:38
10. Heart Of The Heart – 5:37
11. Dawn Singer – 3:53

Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Ark Records. Available at Bandcamp: https://jeffjohnsonarkmusic.bandcamp.com/album/songs-from-albion-1

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