Adiemus Consists Of The Welsh Composer Karl Jenkins And His Finnish "Adiemus Singers".
The Session Singer Miriam Stockley Performed The Vocal Parts On The First Four Albums. Additional Vocals Were Provided By Mary Carewe On All But Dances Of Time Which Saw The Introduction Of The Finnish Adiemus Singers Who Would Later Reappear On Vocalise. Extra Vocals And The Chorus Effects Were Created By Overdubbing Multitracked Recordings Of The Singers In Some Cases Up To Forty Times And Varying The Speed Of The Tape. Stockley Was Described By Jenkins As Central To The Adiemus Project Due To Her Range And Intonation However For Reasons That Remain Unclear She Was Not Re-Engaged For Vocalise.
The Songs Of Sanctuary Orchestra Consisted Of A String Section Augmented By Various Ethnic Percussion Instruments With Occasional Further Additions Such As Bells A Recorder And A Quena. Mike Ratledge With Whom Jenkins Had Played In Soft Machine Contributed To The First Album As Well. Jenkins Added Brass And Woodwind For Cantata Mundi And Continued To Add More Diverse Instruments Such As Acoustic Guitar On Later Albums. From Songs Of Sanctuary To Dances Of Time The London Philharmonic Orchestra Was Used Jenkins Later Formed His Own Adiemus Orchestra To Perform On The Eternal Knot Recordings Returning To The LPO For Vocalise. . User-Contributed Text Is Available Under The Creative Commons By-SA License Additional Terms May Apply.
Frogtoon Music - Song Info: King Of The Sacred Grove
While Listening To This Track You Are Completely Reminded Of 'Enya's' Gentle Style And Then It Slowly Trails Into An African Ethereal Sound. Just Bringing You Trailing Through The Rugged Plains Of Africa. Then The Light Flute That Comes In Brings You Completely Back To The Fantasy Realm. It's So Amazing What A Few Sounds Can Do To Your Mind And Take You On Such Wild Journeys. You Can Just Relax While You Listen To 'King Of The Sacred Grove'. Completely And Let Your Mind Go Free. Around 3 00 Where It Slows Down You Start To Feel Like You’re Walking On Air And Give You The Appearance Of Floating Through Nothing… All Your Troubles Disappear And You Just Want To Fall Into A Cloud. Then While The Drums Slowly Creep Their Way Back Into The Majority Of The Song It Brings You Through Enya Yet Again Back To The African Plain. A Full Circle Yes But A Pleasure To The Ears…