Omar Faruk Tekbilek: Percussion, baglama & voice To listen to this music is to hear again the tantalizing echo of a long-vanished time and place.īrian Dunning: Flutes, whistles, accordion & voice The music of this masterful recording reflects the enchanting blend of cultures and traditions – Celtic, Greek, Latin, Arabian – accurately capturing the rich and enticing influences which distinguished that fabled city.
Like an enormous cultural magnet, its legendary wealth and power, sophistication, learning, and artistic excellence drew people from all over the world and seduced them with its myriad charms. For the people of Medieval Europe, it was both the gateway to Arabia and Asia, and the capital of the greatest Empire the world had ever seen. Lawhead (author of Byzantium) –įor over a thousand years the word 'Byzantium' conjured images of the exotic and mysterious East. Johnson and Dunning's modern Celtic leanings are taken in an Eastern direction in a tapestry interwoven with rock, medieval and middle eastern threads. Aidan's adventure from the Irish Sea to the Mediterranean, from the Viking kingdoms of the North to the Arabian deserts of the South, from Kells to Constantinople. A rich and diverse soundtrack which captures the spirit of Stephen Lawhead's epic tale of St.
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