The music proclaims the essential spirituality of ancient Israel in the iconic memory of a young woman and mother. Water flows everywhere in the world of spirit just as it does underneath the mantras of Magnificat. Water takes as many shapes and forms as the embracing earth can allow.
Water is indestructible.
There are three distinct settings of mantra prayer on this recording. Each set consists of an Our Father, a series of Hail Marys and a culminating Glory To God. The music ascends continually in a spiraling movement of layered sound and lyrical prayer. Shawn Tracy wedded the words of the Lord's Prayer to a root melody during long walks in the mountains of Pennsylvania. In the splendor of meadowed flowers and the clarity of lake mirrored mountain skies the musical direction for the mantras of Magnificat began.