The Mirror Pool is Lisa Gerrard's first solo album, released by 4AD in 1995 (one year before the release of Spiritchaser, the last work Dead Can Dance issued before disbanding in 1998).

Gerrard explained the album title: "If you read about African music, they believe that during the process of making this music that you come into contact with spirits from another plane.

Gerrard noted, "There is usually a surplus of work that overlaps the continuous nature of a Dead Can Dance record.

Some of these pieces, which were not realized for reason of continuity, have been collected together in the form of largely orchestral-based works and pieces written primarily for 'voice' music.

"[4] The tracks "La Bas (Song of the Drowned)", "Celon" and "Gloradin" were used for the 1995 Heat soundtrack.