Earthsongs

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Earthsongs
Secret Garden - Earthsongs (2005) front cover.jpg
Studio album by
Released24 August 2004
Genre New-age
Length67:34
Label Decca
Producer
Secret Garden chronology
Once in a Red Moon
(2001)
Earthsongs
(2004)
Inside I'm Singing
(2007)
Singles from Earthsongs
  1. "Sleepsong"
    Released: 30 December 2003

Earthsongs is the eighth album by Secret Garden. It was released in 2004 on Decca Records.

Contents

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Sometimes When It Rains"4:35
2."Fields of Fortune"4:10
3."The Reel"3:25
4."Always There"4:43
5."When Darkness Falls"5:23
6."Sleepsong (featuring Fionnuala Gill)"4:49
7."Lotus"4:32
8."Searching for the Past"3:10
9."Daughters of Erin"2:35
10."Half a World Away"4:35
11."Grace"4:45
12."Raise Your Voices"4:09
13."Canzona"4:34
14."Sarabande"3:13
15."Silence Speaks"4:38

Song notes

"Sleepsong" features artist Fionnuala Gill (Saoirse). "Grace" features Ole Edvard Antonsen on trumpet and piccolo-trumpet.

Lyrics for "Always There", "Sleepsong", "Half a World Away", and "Raise Your Voices" were written by Brendan Graham. "Half a World Away" features vocals by Jan Werner Danielsen, and is a lyrical version of the instrumental opening track "Sometimes When It Rains". [1]

Charts

Chart performance for Earthsongs
Chart (2005)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA) [2] 51
Norwegian Albums (VG-lista) [3] 9

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References

  1. Earthsongs Liner Notes. Retrieved 30 August 2021.
  2. Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 247.
  3. "Norwegiancharts.com – Secret Garden – Earthsongs". Hung Medien. Retrieved 2 October 2022.