Gerrard's album is a bewitching collaboration with the award-winning composer Patrick Cassidy and is a transcendent, hymnal collection of music which draws on a global variety of musical influences, literary inspirations and mythical traditions.

Mixing traditional Maori instruments and vocals with more conventional orchestral strings, Gerrard has created the perfect soundtrack to accompany this acclaimed contemporary story of love, rejection and triumph as a young girl fights to fulfill her destiny.

Lisa Gerrard was so indelibly and obviously a part of what made Dead Can Dance what it is, that it's little wonder her debut feels essentially like a continuation of that band's haunting, vast atmospheres and when it comes to singing she again is without peer.