I got my
signed Ancient Land CD today!
SPOILER ALERT, I GUESSIt came with a double-sided photo. One side shows Susan sitting and Tara standing nearby. It looks very vintage, like it's from the 1960s. The other side shows Éabha and Susan standing in front of a stone staircase and some elegant windows. I wonder if you guys will get the same photo! (Another thing for Tom to frame! 😃)
The CD itself is beautiful.
The seal on the top edge of the CD was broken, so the girls could sign it. The back of the CD has many scratches in the plastic, probably from the same activity.
The seal on the top edge of the CD says "Celtic Woman Ancient Land (Return to the Castle)" (in all caps). It also says "UMG", says the UPC, and has a bar code, like you would expect on any CD.
We've already seen the images that Celtic Woman posted on Facebook with the track names and performer names. Each of those images turns out to be two pages in the liner notes, facing each other.
There are two more pages of liner notes that give proper credit to all the musicians and lists what tracks they performed on.
The back page of the liner notes has a picture of the four girls in white dresses, their printed first names, and signatures of their first names made with thick markers. Tara's signature in silver and Éabha's signature in black both look great, and they were given plenty of space. Mairéad's signature is some kind of gold, and Megan's signature is very similar but maybe I'd call it bronze. The gold and bronze do not stand out very well against the pink. Mairéad's signature goes outside of the small allotted area, overlapping her printed name and the logos below it, while Megan managed to squeeze her signature into that limited space. (Personality analyzers... go!)
There are 21 orchestra members listed from the Orchestra of Ireland. I only counted 19 at the filming of the DVD. (The harpist doesn't count, the orchestra only has violins, violas, and cellos.)
I still see the same message on the Celtic Collections website which says "We've accepted your order, and we're getting it ready." So their order tracking system basically doesn't work and if you see that same message it could mean anything.
I ripped the CD to my computer using iTunes. All 18 tracks seem to be there and approximately the right length, adding up to 1 hour and 5 minutes.