Conference mr1pst::music

    I'm sorry but there's a few mistakes there that I must clarify. Firstly
    to be pedantic there are FOUR Enya L.P.s:
    
             THE FROG PRINCE  (did not chart)
    
             ENYA            (no.67 UK  didn't chart in U.S.)
    
             WATERMARK       (no.5 and double platinum in U.K. no.25 and
    gold in U.S.)
    
             SHEPARD MOONS   (no.1 in U.K. and platinum so far)
    
    
    The FROG PRINCE is a sountrack  to a cartoon . ENYA is music from the
    t.v. series THE CELTS (thus it was released by BBC records). ORINOCCO
    FLOW is on WATERMARK (all four million copies of it!).
    
      I'm not an ENYA fan but I find her music pleasant to listen to.I do
    hope that loadsa replies are forthcoming in this note tho' (patriotism
    and all that) . The only reason I didn't set this one up is cos I'm not
    that interested in her . 
    
    
                    Niall
    

    I believe she is a classically trained musician, so this might account
    for her musical prowess.
    "The Celts" and Watermark are really excellent albums, blending the
    typically celtic minor key themes into most pleasant offerings.
    
    Recommended listening
    Tim

    
    I've got only one release by her..."Watermark", and there are some
    beautiful pieces on it. (I didn't care for "Orinoco FLow that much, but
    the video was interesting.)
                                                   ,
    The song I'm interested in is "Na Laetha Geal M'Oige". I first heard it
    on an FM station while sea kayaking up in British Columbia in 1988. The
    combination of her haunting voice and the brooding, sustained synth
    chords with the visual experience of being (seemingly alone) amongst 
    fog-shrouded islands and calm waters was so powerful, I don't think
    I'll ever forget it.
    
    Is there a translation of the lyrics  (from Gaelic, I guess) available ?  
    
    Peter
    

    I've got all the albums.  Except for the first one that didn't chart.
    It's a smooth listening experience, and she's got a gorgeous if soft
    voice, and the backgrounds are expertly self-effacing.  But the
    instrumentals are bad New Age, and she uses a cheap sampled grand piano
    most of the time (even on the latest album).  
    
    There's little or no musical growth evident - the second one sounds
    like the first one sounds like the third one.  There's only so many
    solo voice-with-muted-synth-pad pieces I can listen to.  Very
    occasionally, especially on Watermark, she uses overdubbed voice chords
    percussively to great effect.  Overall I find myself pretty uninterested 
    in the Shepherd Moons album,  as it covers the EXACT same ground as the 
    other two albums.
    
    I classify her as a minor talent and a one-trick pony.  Maybe two
    tricks, max.  Not bad, not great.  
    
    karl

    Go check out her family's recordings.  Clannad was using the massed
    vocals against synth backgrounds years ago.  They are a band of two
    sets of twins (cousins) plus another cousin and they all sing. 
    Gorgeous stuff. 
    
    Their earliest recordings are acoustic Celtic folkmusic.  The newest
    ones are pop/rock.  The ones that are most like the Enya stuff are
    "Magical Ring" (Tara/Shanachie) and "Legend" (RCA).
    
    							Brian

>    Go check out her family's recordings.  Clannad was using the massed

So she's related to Clannad?  I remember seeing one Clannad album with two 
females was she perhaps one?


Bob

    She's a sister of the lead singer Maire Ni Bhrenneain. She was also in
    Clannad for two years ending in '82.
    
                    Niall
    

    re: .0
    
    One other correction, she doesn't write her own lyrics (only the
    music).
    
    Ken....
    

    re: .8
    
    I am aware that she doesn't write her own lyrics.  I simply said she
    composes, arranges and performs her own music.  
    
    
    
    Bill

Hi I'm Shrenit (Shez). I also enjoy listening to Enya's music.  I've been
a fan of her music ever since she released Orinocco Flow back in 1988. I've
got three of her albums and I didn't know about her first album.
	I was wondering if it's available in record shops and if it's just
as good as her other three.
	Just out of interest does anyone know about the ghost story that 
Evening falls is based on?  When I heard it sent shiver's down my spine. The
story is potrayed excellently through the lyrics of the song and Enya's 
haunting voice adds to the atmosphere of the the spooky tale. The reason I ask
is,that I can vaguely remember it.

	I would be grateful if anyone can tell me where I can find her first
album.  I've tried in most of well known record stores. NO LUCK !

Shez  Man ! (Shrenit)

    Order it from the record company or see if Enya has an information
    service/fan club.
    
    Niall
    

    
    
    
    
                        Newsweek Article Mentions Enya
    
    The current issue of Newsweek magazine (the one with Patrick Buchannon
    on the cover) has an article about a new technological type of music.
    Can't remember the exact term, but the short of it is that this music,
    the way it is engineered in the studio, can be "felt" as well as heard.
    
    They mention Enya and her newest album, "Shepherd Moons", and say that
    this album falls into this new type of recorded music.  Some of the
    comments they make about the album are not so complimentary.  In one
    part of the section on Enya, the author writes something to the effect
    that (paraphrased) - at this level, it ceases to be music and becomes
    sounds passing through soft tissue...
    
    It's interesting to read, though not as complimentary as I would be
    about the album.  There is a picture of Enya included, she is dressed
    in a long black dress, and there is an inset picture of the "Shepherd
    Moons" album cover.
    
    By  the way, I have turned several friends on to the album, and I know
    about six people that swear it's now their favorite album.
    
    There's something pretty magical about it.  Hard to put into words, but
    I do get into "another place" when I listen to it.  To me, with her
    power to create and perform this magical music, she is the female
    equivilant of Andreas Vollenweider. 
    
    
    Bill Slater
    
    PS:  I wrote Enya a hand-written letter last week and requested an
         autographed picture.  If she writes me back, and I expect that 
         she will, I'll post some of the information about her here under
         this notes topic.  
    
    
    Back to the Shepherd Moons!

    >the way it is engineered in the studio, can be "felt" as well as heard.
    
    Uh-huh.  I'll pick up the article.  They MAY be alluding to a new
    Roland device, the (?) Space Processor (?) which allegedly allows sound
    to move in 3 dimensions (besides time, the fourth) when reproduced on a
    standard stereo thru speakers.  '3D' sound has been around a long time
    with 'holographic' or 'binaural' recording technique, but required that
    you listen thru headphones to get the sound positioning.  This new
    Roland device, over $20K, is getting a lot of attention and a lot of
    major acts are using it in the final mixdown to stereo.
    
    karl

    Enya was interviewed (poorly) this morning (I took the day off) by Joan 
    Lunden on Good Morning America.  Enya was pushing "Shepherd Moons".  
    Talked about the overdub process and how she'd like to (but wasn't) 
    put a band together to perform some of her recorded material.
    
    She claimed to have performed over 500 vocal overdubs on some
    unspecified piece.  Didn't say she kept them all, just that she did 500
    dubs on one piece.
    
    karl

    Looks like other people are apreciating enya , in the last couple of
    months I have heard her music on no more then twelve t.v programes ,
    seven adverts on t.v and four movies like  L.A story and FAR AND AWAY.
    She is very good.
    
    
    TEC...

    We have one of her CD's (the most recent, I believe).  It's very mood
    inspiring/relaxing.  I enjoy it.  My wife and I heard it in the
    background in trinket shop in Vancouver while on vacation.  We asked
    the store owner who it was and the rest is history.
    
    steev

    
    Audio Valium from a woman who needs to do less overdubbing and explore
    synth patches beyond pizzicato strings.
    
    YAWN!
    
    -Ed
    

    
    There's a new album due in the States early in December.
    
    Anyone got a URL for a Web site?  I seem to remember tripping across
    one once, but I can't put my hand to it.
    
    DFW

    
    
     Is this a different one than the newly released remastered first one?
    I would like to hear some new material from her. What else have you
    heard about it? Curious....
    
                                 mike
    

    
    No -- this is different than the remaster going under the title 'The
    Celts.'  I believe it's already out in the UK.  I don't have any other
    information at the moment.
    
    DFW

    
    
              http://www.repriserec.com/enya
    

    
    Which tells us that The new album, called The Memory of Trees, (11
    brand-new tracks) is due to hit the bins on December 5.
    
    The aformentioned Web site has a picture of the cover and sound clips.
    DFW