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Seamus Egan, of the Celtic super-group Solas, and composer of the best-selling soundtrack for THE BROTHERS McMULLEN, as well as Sara McLachlan's widely beloved and Grammy-winning "I Will Remember You" has shaped the expansive range of this extraordinary soundtrack. Collaborating with Antje Duvekot, whose first major studio CD, the recently released "Big Dream Boulevard", is garnering national attention, and featuring the dazzling, driving sound of the Vermont-based indie-folk quartet Assembly, Egan has packed the soundtrack with an extraordinary range of offerings. Alternately tender and lyrical and sizzling with joyous Celtic and Celtic-influenced brio, the selections range from traidtional Irish Sessiun music performed live in the film, exquisitely scored cinematic sequences featuring fragments of poetry by the Irish poet Greg Delanty, dazzling Assembly tracks which push Celtic into the realm of jazz and fusion and two new songs co-written by Egan and Duvekot, "Hold On" and "Enough Tears." Writing about "Hold On" in the Boston Globe, music critic Scott Alarik observed: "[Duvekot's} honeyed mezzo...makes everything she sings feel like a shared secret...her lyrics are so deftly chiseled, single lines become songs unto themselves...'There's no mercy sleep under stolen sheets'."