What is the mysterious garden? A band?

Secret Garden introduced

Mystery Garden is a famous new age music-style band, which consists of Norwegian composer and keyboard player (Rolf Laufran) and Irish female violinist (Philip Aunola Sally). In 1994, they met for the first time in the European singing contest. At that time, Laufran was already a well-known songwriter, and they came together because of their unimaginable understanding of music. In 1995, their pathfinding work "Nocturne" won the European singing contest in one fell swoop. In April 1996, their debut album "Songs from the Mysterious Garden" was a great success, and its influence spread all over the world. The band combines the ethereal music style of Ireland, Norwegian folk music and classical music. The music is quiet and far-reaching, natural and smooth, which makes people unconsciously melt into it.

The origin of the name "Mystery Garden"

"Once, a boy and a girl were taken to a deep forest and abandoned by their parents. Because their parents can't feed them any more. However, on the way into the forest, the clever boy scattered many white stones on the road. As night falls, the light of the moon illuminates these white stones. The light reflected by the stones led the children out of the forest and to a safe place. " This is the story that inspired Rolf Lovland (Norwegian composer and harpsichordist) and luna Sherry (Irish violinist) with the "mysterious garden". Anyone who knows the "mysterious garden" will be familiar with this story.

band member

Rolf Lovland

Lovland was born in Kristiansand, a small town in southern Norway. His talent in composing music was shown when he formed his first band at the age of nine. Since then, music has been an important part of his life with his young time. Later, he studied at the music school in Kristiansand and obtained his master's degree in music from the Norwegian Conservatory of Music. Lovland has won many awards, such as the Norwegian Grammy Music Award, and is also known as the most successful pop song writer in Norway. The establishment of the mysterious garden group has given Lovland more inspiration to explore the music with deep feelings, which has enabled him to pursue a broader music field in his composing career. In the combination, he plays an important role in music creation, arrangement and keyboard performance, and is undoubtedly the soul of the mysterious garden.

Fionnuala Sherry

Sherry grew up in an Irish musical family and was born in Naas, a small town in Kildare, Ireland. She was influenced by all kinds of influences since she was a child, which led to her great interest in music, and later graduated from the Music School of the University of Ireland. In addition to classical symphonies and concertos, Sherry also dabbles in a variety of music topics that interest her. Before the establishment of the Mystery Garden, Sherry had accompanied the albums of famous Irish singers Xie Ni O 'Connor and Van Monissen. In Secret Garden's performance, Sherry's exquisite and unique violin performance vividly showed Lovland's artistic conception of composition, and the cooperation can be described as bringing out the best in each other.

Five albums of Mystery Garden and their tracks:

Songs From A Secret Garden (song from a secret garden)

In p>1995, the first album "song from a secret garden" was released, which was produced by Polaroid Norway and released under the Philips label, and it was an unprecedented success. By the end of 1997, more than 65, albums had been released and had been on the American biilbod music charts for one year. This album has a unified style, soothing and soft music, full of nostalgia and melancholy, and inadvertently reveals a little sadness, which makes people have to indulge in it. Among them, "pastoral" is a famous work of the band, and won the European singing contest in 1995. Song From A Secret Garden was published and popular in Norway before the band was formed.

1 Nocturne

2 Pastorale

3 Song From A Secret Garden

4 Sigma

5 Papillon

6 Serenade To Spring

7 Atlantia

8 Heartstrings

9 Adag IO

1 The Rap

11 Chaconne

12 Cantoluna

13 ode to simplicity

White Stones

In p>1997, White Stone, the second record of the Mystery Garden, was produced by Polaroid Norway Company and released under Michael's label. Compared with the first album, "White Stone" is richer and more comprehensive, with lively style and many characteristic musical instruments and big bands. Since its launch, the sales have been very good, and the rising momentum is very fierce. By the end of 1997, the album has exceeded 5, copies ...

The title of this album comes from a fairy tale: a pair of little brothers and sisters were abandoned in the forest by their poor parents, and they found their home by the reflection of Baishi in the moonlight. The author's moral is obvious. He hopes that people who have lost themselves in the busy modern life can find themselves through the wonderful notes in this album. I think we can at least temporarily escape the troubles and pressures in real life in their music and relax and enjoy the spirit. This album adds some jumping Latin rhythms to the original style, which is much brighter than the first one.

1 Steps

2 Poeme

3 Hymn To Hope

4 Moving

5 First Day Of Spring

6 Passacaglia

7 Refletion

8 Windancer

9 Appassionata

1 Esc Ape

11 sacred

12 celebration

13 home 3: 26

14 illumination

Dawn of a new century

In p>1999, at the historical moment at the turn of the century, the third record of Mystery Garden, Dawn of the New Century, began to be released all over the world. Compared with the previous two albums, the new album does have a lot of new content, and they have begun to get involved in new music fields, including Shirley's participation in singing. They also sang with Norwegian singer anne karin knag and American singer nikki matheson; "anuna" from the Irish Chorus and terijerypdal, a legendary guitar player from Norway, will also be involved in the production of the album. Although this record has different changes in style, the way of real meditation and inner pursuit once again runs through the music works of Dawn of the New Century.

This album basically keeps the usual mysterious garden style, and the vocal part is increased compared with the previous two, especially Prayer, which can be called a song and is a very moving song. The last song "Dawn Of A New Century" is one of the band's rare works with a little atmosphere.

1 Moongate

2 Prayer

3 Elan

4 Dreamcatcher

6 In Our Tears

7 Children Of The River

8 Evensong

9 Lore Of The Loom

1 Aria

11 Divertimento

12 Aquariull

13 Dawn of a New Century

Once in a Red Moon

continues the dominant position of violin and piano in music and the expressive force of ancient narrative songs, and once again demonstrates the fusion skills of Secret Garden to classical and Celtic folk music, as well as to small orchestras and harmony groups. The album has invited many well-known Irish New Age musicians, and You Raise Me Up is composed by Celtic &; Brian Kennedy, the lead voice of Riverdance in the Heartbeat series, and Anuna, a retro folk group, sang in Elegie. The last song, Elegie, was composed by the band based on piano chords sent by netizens from the Internet.

1 Awakening

2 You Raise Me Up

3 Silent Wings

4 Greenwaves

5 Invitation

6 Duo

7 Belonging

8 Gates Of Dawn

9 The Promise

1 Fairy Tale

11 once in a red moon

12 elegie

Earth songs

Mystery Garden-Song of the Earth

The limited edition of p>Secret Garden's latest recording "Song of the Earth" comes with a DVD, including a rare live production of the Mystery Garden, and the album (2 minutes) is made with flowers. The latest hit recommendation of major radio stations around the world! The mandarin version of "Always by My Side" invites pop singer Hins Cheung as the lead singer, and the English version is led by Russell Watson. It also includes that the movie "246" never published the soundtrack "Searching For The Past". And "Lotus" played erhu by musical ghosts.

1 Sometimes When It Rains rainy season

2 Fields Of Fortune

3 The Reel waltz

4 Always There waiting for a lifetime

5 when darkness falls

6 Sleepsong lullaby

. 7 Lotus lotus fairy

8 Searching For The Past

9 silent voices

1 Daughters Of Erin

11 Half A World Away

12 Canzona chorus