Reena’s Exploration Challenge #111 — Riding a Brain Wave

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I came across this song by chance maybe a year ago, and it had the effect of making a space at the top at the back of my skull start tingling and it’s tingling right now as I listen to it. Of course I had to know more about the singer, the instruments, and about the music played live in a place in Spain called Alhambra. I bought the album and DVD and am transported to another place when I experience music that is what I consider spiritual and otherworldly at the same time.

Nights from the Alhambra is a live album and DVD from the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist, Loreena McKennitt and is her first live concert DVD. It was recorded in September 2006, live at the Palace of Charles V, in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, and released commercially in September 2007.

Amazingly, all…