Track listing
1. Unto the Burning Circle
2. Dancing With the Lion
3. Hippolyte
4. Dance of the Masks
5. Pearls and Tears
6. Garden of My Childhood
7. Still Life
8. And the Long Shadows
9. See, My Love....
10. Silver Dew, Golden Grass
11. Ascent From the Circle


This is such wonderful and beautiful album as "Down to the moon", #1 album of all the Vollenweider's. He used piano for the first time for this unique album giving it freshness and variety. He added sound effect very skillfully and efficiently. Be amazed how he could do another great job in a row after the grammy awarded "Down to the moon".
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A lion's roar sets the tone for this continuation of Andreas Vollenweider's ever-evolving creative vision. This music for electroacoustic pedal harp, cheng, synthesizer, solo voice, chorus, percussion and a variety of other instruments is so unique and multi-textured that it tends to defy description. If pressed, I'd term the offerings on this album a fusion of the best of jazz and New Age elements with flavorings from Africa, the Orient, and somewhere far off-planet. Energizing and calming, ethereal and grounding, tantalizing and satisfying, it is an unexpected blending of extremes into a truly artful soundscape that transports you to a world free of woes and full of magic. Beginning with "The Trilogy" and "Down to the Moon", Vollenweider continues his musical journeys here, and then enhances his signature sound in ever new and intriguing ways in "Eolian Minstrel", "Book of Roses", "Kryptos" and "Cosmopoly".

CD in excellent condition played couple of times at most; in jewel case.