If you like Dead Can Dance or the soundtrack of Gladiator ....

... Listen to Lisa Gerrard, the female half of Dead Can Dance, which unfortunately broke up in 1996. The music is hard to describe: feminine, exotic, serious, positive. The lyrics are in phonetic imagination language or eg in Polynesian. The production technology is again excellent, one is used to from her.
Lisa Gerrard begins where Loreena K. or Enya end, I can not think New Wave or New Age a comparison. Her vocal range is big, sometimes it sounds almost masculine. Some tracks have attractive Far East / African percussion patterns with Jembee, etc. I liked most the tracks "Sacrifice" and "Pilgrimage of the lost children" (with children's voices, I've heard that Duality was even used as birth accompanying music) ,
Recommended for connoisseurs of Dead Can Dance (of course), esotericism, listeners of Enya, Clannad or Loreena K. and lovers of classical music (there's a lot orchestral and strings).