Written By Nhung
We are coming home with Winter poem
Throughout the album. the warm, heart- touching sound reminds us of beautiful eternal winter memories & landscape.For the duo and us, winter is not an ending, it's just a new beginning :" We love to choose titles that are important to us and reflect where we are at the time of writing. Winter is a very special time for us in Secret Garden, the long dark nights tend to bring out the melancholy creative side of Rolf! This, balanced out with hopeful, crisp white snowy Norwegian days, a frozen landscape that inspires and helps us through the darkest nights!". It's the beginning of joy, reunion, love and wonder. An album with beautiful messages. 
Make a wish is a magical song.Synthesizer, piano, violin and background vocal create a romantic and heavenly mood. Anticipation is a call from home, the exciting feeling when we return to where we belong after a long time being away from home. Frozen in time and lament from a frozen flower are like still photos of winter snowy white lanscae-breathtakingly beautiful and magical.Winter poem also has a lot of life messages.The Dream, performed by the duo and Moya Brennan from Clannad,has a strong message :
"We reach for the impossible
As unreal it may seem
Still we sail 'cross the ocean
And follow the dream
Her uplifting voice gives the song a power. 
Powered by Nature, with the lyrics written by Rolf, flows naturally. Espend and Tracey make the best duet when they perform this song.
Secret Garden revealed :"... our inspiration comes from many different places and we did not feel we were the best choice to produce another “Santa Type” song". But WP has a beautiful Christmas song- Mary's Lament, sung by a friend of the duo- Fionnuala Gill.
We've read several cooments about this album, e.g : " Formula and Predictable", " Nothing special, reminds me of White Stones". We disagree with that. This album is a true gift,  with new light but still keep the original spirit: melodies tell stories and stories without words/ Throughout the album, you can hear new sound, especially the vocal layers/ background- whic creates a very poetic mood to most of the songs. We also mention Suite- a 15 minute track- an unspoken story with endless mood, beautiful sound and arrrangements

Written by Nhung Candy
Earthsongs is a simple, beautiful and healing album. Violin and piano sound are extremely  pure,  like a spring wind, the summer sun and an autumn stream.. The harmony of sound is not only natural but also sentimental. The opening track Sometimes when it rains was inspired by Rolf's rainy autumn mood, when he realised: " the repetitive rhythm of raindrops tapping on the window still createda poetic melancholy." The song wont be poetic without Fi's soulful violin and Des Moore's romantic guitar sound. Field of Fortune leads us to the land of endless fantasy when keyfiddle sound recalls the voice of dreams and desire :" One of our most valued assets is our ability to dream, to give our thoughts wing to fly. By wandering in our mind, we can visit places without physical limitation, and hourey to beautiful imagined lanscape.Music is our way of traveling- a free ticket to go anywhere, anytime. Fields of Fortune is a fairytale journey to where we find oneness with the earth and its precious treasures". Return from that journey, we let the darkness surround ouss to bring us back to the memories- most of them are sad but still close to us.Rolf's piano sound is deep in sorrow , strong in reminiscence ( we can feel that in Searching for the past too).Out of the night, here comes the light- Always there, a warm, heart touching piece,with wonderful lyrics written by Brendan Graham: When I'm less than I should be
And I just can't face the dayWh
en darkness falls around me
And I just can't find my way
When my eyes don't clearly see
And I stumble through it all
You, I lean upon, you keep me strong
And you rise me when I fall
You are there when I most need you
You are there so constantly
You come shining through, you always do
You are always there for me

There are MORE special things here, in this album. The Reel-Violin duet of Fionnuala and Maread Nesbitt, a " 21st century reel" and Daughter  of Erins give us joy and energy. And how wonderful it is to see the band play this song live! Earthsongs also have some melancholic pieces like Lotus- influented by Chinese traditional music and expressed by violin and erhu sound.We also mention Grace, an elegant piece with Baroque- inspired moment and trumpet sound
What a gift!