Dutch Artist Corjan de Raaf releases single inspired by Kathleen McGowan's Book of Love

• Monday, 07 September 2009

The song "The Book of Love" by Dutch recording artist Corjan de Raaf was inspired by Kathleen McGowan’s bestselling novel of the same name

The song "The Book of Love" by Dutch recording artist Corjan de Raaf was inspired by Kathleen McGowan’s bestselling novel of the same name and her earlier work, "The Expected One", an international sensation that has sold millions of copies and has been published in fifty languages.

The song captures the bitter irony and associated emotions of Mary Magdalene, the woman who fell in love with Jesus. In a few lines of text, the songwriter sketches how Mary Magdalene’s unconditional love for the man and his ideas survived time through her imagery and the secret Book Jesus allegedly left her.

With his song, Corjan de Raaf establishes a crossover between his career as a recording artist and his work as a mystery researcher and publicist.

Kathleen McGowan and Corjan de Raaf first met during an interview for Radio Rennessence in February 2009. They met up in Bruges, Belgium in May of that year where the author was attending the Procession of the Blood.

In Corjan de Raaf's own words: "In over 20 years of songwriting, I never felt so close to a subject as after reading this book. Normally I write about things that happen directly around me. Relations, events, personal observations, that kind of thing. Kathleen's bemusing storytelling and the historical context that she describes related to me so closely that I felt comfortable capturing the atmosphere of the book in a song as if it was my own. I wouldn't want to call myself a religious man but I do strongly believe in our roots and our early traditions. However, believing doesn't mean that you can't question and it is that which Kathleen does in a terrific way, without ever compromising the fragile subject we are dealing with here. This fantastic love story had and has to be told and be sung about. I am grateful Kathleen helped me to make the lyrics perfect and authorized me to use her book title so we could really relate our two works."

ABOUT THE ARTIST CORJAN DE RAAF

Corjan de Raaf is probably best known in the international world of Mystery Hunters for his contributions to the research into the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château. The enigma around the French priest Bérenger Saunière who became rich and powerful almost overnight after he had made a mysterious discovery, has captivated audiences for decades and inspired countless books and movies like The Da Vinci Code. Today, Corjan de Raaf’s website Rennes-le-Château Research is one of the biggest and most authoritative english sites in the field. At the same time, De Raaf has published a large number of audio interviews with authors and researchers in the genre on Radio Rennessence, a mystery podcast website that he set-up with research colleagues Filip Coppens and Andrew Gough.

Corjan’s career as a recording artist started in September 2005 when he was the first artist to launch a single on a USB Stick. His USB Single Dief (Thief) occupied the first place of the Dutch Legal Download Top 100 for 5 weeks.

THE SONG IS AVAILABLE FROM ALL THE MAJOR ONLINE MUSIC STORES LIKE

iTunes, Amazon.com, eMusic, Shockhound

CONTACT INFORMATION

Corjan de Raaf
e-mail: corjan@raafmusic.nl
phone: +31 6 218 812 14
website: Corjan de Raaf Official Homepage
twitter: Corjan de Raaf on Twitter

Kathleen McGowan
website: Kathleen McGowan Official Homepage

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