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Enya: Amarantine

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Artist: Enya
Title: Amarantine
Released: 2005.10.25
Label: WEA Records
Time: 45:37
Producer(s): Nicky Ryan
Appears with:
Category: Pop/Rock
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Purchase date:  2006.04.13
Price in €: 7,99
Web address: www.enya.com

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[1] Less Than a Pearl (Enya/R.Ryan) - 3:44
[2] Amarantine (Enya/R.Ryan) - 3:12
[3] It's in the Rain (Enya/R.Ryan) - 4:08
[4] If I Could Be Where You Are (Enya/R.Ryan) - 4:00
[5] The River Sings (Enya/R.Ryan) - 2:49
[6] Long, Long Journey (Enya/R.Ryan) - 3:17
[7] Sumiregusa (Enya/R.Ryan) - 4:42
[8] Someone Said Goodbye (Enya/R.Ryan) - 4:02
[9] A Moment Lost (Enya/R.Ryan) - 3:08
[10] Drifting (Enya/R.Ryan) - 4:11
[11] Amid the Falling Snow (Enya/R.Ryan) - 3:38
[12] Water Shows the Hidden Heart (Enya/R.Ryan) - 4:39

 A r t i s t s ,   P e r s o n n e l


Enya - All Instruments and Voices, Mixing

Nicky Ryan - Arranger, Cover Design, Mixing
Roma Ryan - Lyricist, Artwork, Cover Design, Fonts
Dick Beetham - Mastering

 C o m m e n t s ,   N o t e s


2005 CD Reprise 49474



Mit Enyas Namen verbinden Millionen in aller Welt zeitlose Musik voller Wärme, echter Gefühle und natürlicher Balance, ungemein geschmack- und kunstvoll komponiert, arrangiert und produziert. Mit schlafwandlerischer Sicherheit vermeidet sie jeden Bombast und jede überflüssige Note. Enya´s neues Album erscheint genau zur richtigen Zeit: Zu Beginn des Winters, in dem die Nächte lang sind und die Träume von Licht und Farbe handeln. Es trägt den Titel Amarantine und verweist damit auf eine Anemonensorte, jene Wüstenblume, die jahrelang in trockenem Zustand überlebt und zu grüner Pracht aufgeht, wenn sie mit Wasser in Berührung kommt. Schon im Alten Testament galt die Amarant als Symbol für Werden und Vergehen, für den ewigen Kreislauf des Lebens und die Wiedergeburt.



After a five-year silence in the wake of her phenomenally successful release A DAY WITHOUT RAIN, Enya reemerged in 2005 with AMARANTINE. The singer knows better than to mess with a good thing, and all of the hallmarks of her sound are here: the evocative Celtic overtones, the symphonic arrangements and lush soundscapes, and the singer's pure, haunting vocals. Additionally, Enya's long-time creative sidekicks--producer arranger Nicky Ryan and lyricist Roma Ryan--are on board here too, and the time-tested results show. AMARANTINE, a poetic name for a mythical, everlasting flower, is an appropriate metaphor for the music. Luxuriant, mysterious, and with a deep aesthetic sense, Enya's music seems to surge and unfurl like a blooming flower. Fans who feared Enya may have lost her touch since this album's multi-platinum predecessor can rest easy. Atmospheric, stirring, and masterfully executed, AMARANTINE is as fully realized and accomplished as anything the artist has released.



Second only to U2 as the most successful Irish recording artist of all time, Enya has built an empire out of multi-tracking her beautiful voice over the same keyboard patches that appeared on her post-Clannad debut since 1987. It's an empire that has progressed at a slow burn, peaking in 2000 and 2001 with her chart-topping ballad and unofficial post-September 11th anthem, "Only Time." Amarantine, Enya's first full-length album in five years, builds on her reputation as the world's premier purveyor of audio comfort food, providing another collection of mini-soundtracks that are often as awkward in their earnestness as they are breathtaking in their production. Boasting 12 new songs that retain the tapestry of sound that is her trademark, while stealthily stripping it of some of its excess, Enya has managed to both repeat herself and move forward without losing anything in the translation. Besides the swirling, "Ebudae"-esque "The River Sings," Enya, lyricist Roma Ryan, and producer Nicky Ryan have crafted the most subtle record of their careers, a move that may alienate some Watermark-era purists. Standout tracks like "Long, Long Journey," "Water Shows the Hidden Heart," and the gorgeous -- but lyrically embarrassing -- title cut show a newfound understanding of the simple power of Enya's voice, resulting in an intimacy that's eluded previous releases. While Amarantine will do nothing to win over the wrongly pegged new age artist's many detractors, longtime fans will find enough moments of serendipitous pleasure to hold them over for another five years.

James Christopher Monger - All Music Guide



From the first blanket of choral voices awash in reverb, Amarantine is instantly recognizable as a product of Enya, the Irish chanteuse who has created a genre unto herself. Although it's been five years since her last CD, on Amarantine it's as if time stood still. The triumvirate of Enya, lyricist Roma Ryan, and producer Nicky Ryan work the formula they perfected on Watermark, layering her voice in lush choirs pushed along by pizzicato synth strings, swooning orchestral pads, and harpsichord arpeggios. On tracks like "Less Than a Pearl" and "Drifting," Enya flirts with a timeless sound born in gothic chants and hymns. The former is one of three songs that she sings in Roma Ryan's fictitious language of Loxian. It seems to free her, especially on "The River Sings," a veritable rave-up where she gets the tribal choir going in the style of Scottish mouth music. But to get there you have to slog through slo-mo ballads that manage to be dirge-like and singsong at the same time, like the Carpenters on Quaaludes. The relatively restrained arrangement of "It's in the Rain" almost attains a folk-like simplicity that Enya hasn't experienced since she sang with her siblings in Clannad a quarter-century ago. Amarantine sounds like it was born in cloistered solitude, self-referentially echoing Enya albums past.

John Diliberto - Amazon.com



Poesie, Sanftmut, Schönklang - diese Begriffe kennzeichnen einmal mehr die Musik von Enya. Auch auf ihrem sechsten Studioalbum erschafft sie eine Welt der Harmonie und inneren Einkehr, offeriert dem Zuhörer eine Oase der Ruhe und Besinnlichkeit. Die Irin aus Gweedore im County Donegal bleibt also dem soften New-Age-Pop treu, den man seit Charterfolgen wie "Orinoco Flow" und "Only Time" mit ihr verbindet. Das Festhalten an bewährten Erfolgsformeln in Ehren, man kommt jedoch nicht umhin, die doch recht häufigen Selbstreferenzen der Künstlerin vom Eire-Eiland zu registrieren. Abgesehen von einem Lied auf Japanisch ("Wild Violet" basiert auf einem Haiku des Dichters Basho) sowie drei Songpoemen in der erfundenen Sprache "Loxianisch" ist seit dem fünf Jahre zurückliegenden Album A Day Without Rain alles beim Alten geblieben. Ohne merkliche Veränderungen wiederholt Eithne Ní Bhraonáin (so der bürgerliche Name) hier das bekannte Soundkonzept aus Melodiemotiven der keltischen Folkloretradition, sakralen Frauenchören, die sie wiederum ganz allein via Mehrspurverfahren im Studio eingesungen hat, symphonischen Klangtexturen und Popelementen. Auch in den Songtexten bleib alles beim Alten: In Versen, für die erneut Roma Ryan verantwortlich zeichnet, singt Enya wie gehabt von der Macht der Liebe ("If I Could Be Where You Are"), von Naturmetaphern ("Amid The Falling Snow", "It's In The Rain") und kosmologischen Schöpfungsmythen ("Less Than A Pearl"). Fans der ersten Stunde werden den Einwand des künstlerischen Stillstands freilich mit dem Hinweis auf Enyas Beständigkeit entkräften. Und da ist ja auch was dran: In einer Ära der kurzlebigen Moden tut es ganz gut, wenn hin und wieder wenigstens ein paar Dinge konstant bleiben. Vielleicht hat Enya deshalb den Albumtitel Amarantine gewählt. Er steht für eine Pflanze aus der Familie der Fuchsschwanzgewächse, und die stellt in vielen Regionen unsrer Erde ein Symbol für Zähheit, für Unvergänglichkeit dar.

Harald Kepler - Amazon.de



It's been five years since Enya last emerged from the studio with a new album -- a huge span in the realm of pop culture, but a mere blip in the seemingly changeless sonic universe ruled by the Irish singer. In some ways, Amaratine picks up the thread Enya left dangling with A Day Without Rain -- the misty perspectives, the cocooning vocal layers -- but she does expand the palette. For one thing, she's moved away from singing in her native Gaelic, largely concentrating on English-language material but also roving into Japanese (on the breathless "Sumiregusa") and an invented tongue she's dubbed Loxian. The three songs in the latter language -- which longtime lyricist Rona Ryan adapted from Tolkien's Elvish dialect -- are perhaps the disc's most hypnotic, in part because listeners are left with little choice but to drift along and accept Enya's vocal lines as just another instrument (albeit a gorgeous one). She makes the most of that venture on the appropriately titled "Drifting," which builds to peaks suited to a Gothic cathedral, but most intriguing is the album's overall restraint, which is particularly palpable on folk-like songs such as "It's in the Rain," a brisk tune that's reminiscent of Enya's work with Clannad all those years ago. Then again, this is Enya's world, where time melts away with the merest breath -- a source of delight, no doubt, to its many visitors.

David Sprague - Barnes & Noble
  

 L y r i c s


Less Than A Pearl

Out of night has come the day.
Out of night, our small earth.

Our words drift away.
Our words journey
To find those who will listen.

We call out into the distance...
We call out into the distance...
We call out into the distance...
We call out into the distance...

Less than a pearl in a sea of stars,
We are a lost island in the shadows.

It may be our words become lost.
It may be our words find nothing, find no-one.

We call out into the distance...
We call out into the distance...

[Repeat]


Amarantine

You know when you give your love away
It opens your heart,
Everything is new.
And you know time will always find a way
To let your heart believe it's true.

You know love is everything you say;
A whisper, a word,
Promises you give.
You feel it in the heartbeat of the day.
You know this is the way love is.

[Chorus:]
Amarantine...
Amarantine...
Amarantine...
Love is.
Love is.
Love...

You know love may sometimes make you cry,
So let the tears go,
They will flow away,
For you know love will always let you fly
...How far a heart can fly away!

[Chorus]

You know when love's shining in your eyes
It may be the stars
Fallen from above.
And you know love is with you when you rise,
For night and day belong to love.


It's In The Rain

Every time
The rain comes down,
Close my eyes and listen.
I can hear the lonesome sound
Of the sky as it cries.

Listen to the rain
Here it comes again
Hear it in the rain

Feel the touch
Of tears that fall
...They won't fall forever
In the way the day will flow
All things come,
All things go.

Listen to the rain
...The rain...
Here it comes again...
...Again...
Hear it in the rain
...The rain...

Late at night
I drift away -
I can hear you calling,
And my name
Is in the rain,
Leaves on trees whispering,
Deep blue sea's mysteries.

Even when
This moment ends,
Can't let go this feeling.
Everything
Will come again
In the sound,
Falling down,
Of the sky as it cries.
Hear my name in the rain.


If I Could Be Where You Are

Where are you this moment?
Only in my dreams.
You're missing, but you're always
A heartbeat from me.
I'm lost now without you,
I don't know where you are.
I keep watching, I keep hoping,
But time keeps us apart

Is there a way I can find you,
Is there a sign I should know,
Is there a road I could follow
To bring you back home?

Winter lies before me
Now you're so far away.
In the darkness of my dreaming
The light of you will stay
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If I could be close beside you
If I could be where you are
If I could reach out and touch you
And bring you back home
Is there a way I can find you
Is there a sign I should know
Is there a road I can follow
To bring you back home to me


The River Sings

Our words go beyond the moon.
Our words go into the shadows.
The river sings the endlessness.
We write of our journey through night.
We write in our aloneness.
We want to know the shape of eternity.

Who knows the way it is?
Who knows what time will not tell us?

Mountains, solitude and the moon
Until the journey's end?
The river holds the lost road of the sky;
The shape of eternity?

Who knows the way it is?
Who knows what time will not tell us?

Where is the beginning?
Where is the end?
Why did we fall into days?
Why are we calling out into the endlessness?

Who knows the way it is?
Who knows what time will not tell us?


Long Long Journey

City lights shine on the harbour,
Night has fallen down,
Through the darkness
And the shadow
I will still go on.

Long, long journey
Through the darkness,
Long, long way to go;
But what are miles
Across the ocean
To the heart that's coming home?

Where the road
Runs through the valley,
Where the river flows,
I will follow every highway
To the place I know.

Long, long journey
Through the darkness,
Long, long way to go;
But what are miles
Across the ocean
To the heart that's coming home?

Long, long journey
Out of nowhere,
Long, long way to go;
But what are sighs
And what is sadness
To the heart that's coming home?

[Repeat]


Sumiregusa (Wild Violet)

Mono no aware
Murasaki iro no hana
Haru no hana
To fuyu mo koyuki
Harahara

Shizen no bi kana
Ah! Midori no ha to
Aki no iro

Kaze no koe
Tori no saezuri
Kanashii umi
Yorokobino umi
Yama
Koishi
Ayamegusa


[English translation:]

The poignancy of things
A purple flower
The blossoms of spring
And the light snow of winter
How they fall

The beauty of nature
A green leaf and
Autumn colours

The voice of the wind
The song of birds
A sad sea
A joyful sea
Mountains
Pebbles
A wild iris


Someone Said Goodbye

Summer. When the day is over
There's a heart a little colder;
Someone said goodbye,
But you don't know why.
Somewhere there is someone keeping
All the tears they have been weeping,
Someone said goodbye,
But you don't know why.

Is there a reason
Why a broken heart begins to cry?
Is there a reason
You were lost although you don't know why?
Give me a reason
Why you never want to say goodbye.
If there's a reason,
I don't know why.

Always looking for a meaning,
All the time you keep believing,
But I don't know why
You won't say goodbye.
Even when the sun is shining
You don't see the silver lining,
But I don't know why
You won't say goodbye.

Is there a reason
Why a broken dream can never fly?
Is there a reason
You believe and then you close your eyes?
Give me a reason
Why you hide away so much inside.
If there's a reason,
I don't know why.

Is there a reason
Why a broken heart begins to cry?
Is there a reason
You were lost although you don't know why?
Give me a reason
Why you never want to say goodbye.
If there's a reason
I don't know why.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.


A Moment Lost

It's only now when words are said
That break my heart in two,
I wonder how you can endure
All I've said, all I say to you.

How strong, how brave, how true of you
To bear the hurt I gave.
I know it tears your heart in two:
All I've said, all I say to you.

After all the words are said,
After all the dreams we made;
Every one a precious one,
Every one a summer sun...

A moment lost, forever gone,
Can never be again,
So know how much it means to me;
All you said,
All you gave,
All your love to me.


Drifting

[Instrumental]


Amid The Falling Snow

How I remember sleepless nights
When we would read by candlelight,
And on the windowpane outside
A new world made of snow;

A million feathers falling down,
A million stars that touch the ground,
So many secrets to be found
Amid the falling snow.

Maybe I am falling down.
Tell me should I touch the ground?
Maybe I won't make a sound
In the darkness all around.

The silence of a winter's night
Brings memories I hold inside;
Remembering a blue moonlight
Upon the fallen snow.

Maybe I am falling down.
Tell me should I touch the ground?
Maybe I won't make sound
In the darkness all around.

I close my window to the night.
I leave the sky her tears of white.
And all is lit by candlelight
Amid the falling snow.


Water Shows The Hidden Heart

From the City of Constellations
To the wanderer
And a Place of Rains
He journeys on...
...The City of hesitation and doubt
The Island of the house of the colour of the sea
The Plain of Mementoes
He journeys on to find his love...
...The Valley of lost time
The City of End and Endlessness
The Isle of Revenents
He journeys on...
...The City of Solitudes
The City of the distance from you
The City of Words of blue
And yellow and red and green
He journeys on to find his love...

...Where the road takes him through
The City of Sleep
The thinking that does not end is within him
Then he dreams
The road takes him
This man who is searching
It brings him
In silence through the night

Where the Cities that do not Exist, exist
It brings him
In silence through the night
Close to the City of Realisations;
It is here one finds the way...
...Mount Orison
The City of Days
The Tree of the lost
He journeys on...
...North of his love
A road through a valley of darkness
The islands that are not of this world
He journeys on to find his love...

It is a long way through darkness
To the way of the eremite
The eremite sings of the world and of
The journey of love, which is not lost in eternity
...The Valley where the moon is caught in the trees
Water shows the hidden heart
Endlong into midnight
He journeys on...
...The parable of day
The Room of Books
Where the winds come to him and say...
 

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