Artist: Enya

Superb!!!, 2010-08-25
This is another fine work from this amazing artist. Full of soft, unforgettable melodies. Perfect for having a nice cup of tea or coffee near Christmas.

Artist: Enya

To many people, Enya has become synonymous with new age music. Her haunting voice, clear and crisp above richly woven musical arrangements and adaptations, represents some of the best in the genre. Her performances on The Memory of Trees justify the Celtic songster's reputation. Songs like "China Roses" and "Hope Has a Place" complement the simple elegance of traditional folk music with luxuriantly layered instrumentation and highly crafted studio production. The ultimate effect is dazzling, to be sure. Whether she sings in English, Gaelic, or Latin, Enya conveys a profound, if slightly disconcerting, mix of spirituality and sensuality. --L.A. Smith
"I have been given one moment from heaven...", 2010-06-13
'The Memory of Trees' has become my second favourite Enya album after 'Watermark'. 'The Memory of Trees' proved to me that Enya is still a force to be reckoned with. The single that was lifted from this wonderful album, 'Anywhere Is' is a catchy tune and moves along nicely then makes way to the almost hymnal 'Pax Deorum' which opens with sounds of rainfall. Enya's voices and musicality on this track on almost pitch perfect. For someone who does all the vocals and plays all the instruments herself, she makes a truly exquisite sound.

The rest of the album is nearly flawless and the tracks flow together really nicely. Finishing off with the wonderful closing track 'On My Way Home' this album is testament to her genius and skill as a multi-instrumentalist and singer.

Artist: Enya

Enya's 1988 recording, Watermark, achieved landmark success with her groundbreaking use of multi-tracking technology to fuse new age and Celtic themes and instrumentation. The meticulous production defines her sound and achieves continuity even while weaving together tender ballads, piano pieces, massively layered vocal harmonies and symphonic synthesizer movements. Although Enya's pristine voice isn't especially strong, her lead vocals possess a vulnerability that reflects the lyrics' sense of personal searching. From the ubiquitous, frothy single "Orinoko Flow" to the hard, bold edge of "Cursum Perficio", Enya's style remains fresh and engaging. --Richard Price
New age pioneer, 2010-09-02
With 'Watermark' (1988), Eithne Ni Bhraonain (Enya), brilliantly merged Celtic-like melodies, exotic rhythms, electronics and neoclassical angelic whispers. Enya's more orchestral compositions emphasize minimalist harmonies that stretch out out into her angelic voice which embraces a spiritual, contemplative, metaphysical and anthropological philosophy.

The opening title track sports a romantic piano which serve as overtures to fairy-tale landscapes and solemn hymns of almost religious intensity. 'On Your Shore' is sung with a lyrical and austere tone, whilst 'Longships' is akin to a Buddhist trance. 'Storms In Africa' arguably the album's centrepiece, is the sound of marching African percussion - a masterpiece of melodic progression that perfectly illustrates Enya's ability to exude the maximum emotion with mimimal harmonious effort.

'Orinoco Flow', an expression of the rhythm of the jungle and Enya's most famous song, reaches a spectacular crescendo of keyboards and percussion. Watermark is an enchanting polyphonic music - an album of rich abstract ballads and intensely epic symphonic classic pop that is hugely influential, particularly on new-age music.

Artist: Enya

Born Eithne Ni Bhraonain, this classically-trained pianist was kid sister in the musical family that became Clannad, joining the Irish band in 1979 but dropping out amicably three years later to pursue her own muse. This music, produced in the mid-'80s as the soundtrack to a BBC series, was released as her debut in 1987 and promptly ignored--yet its mix of atmospheric soundscapes and Enya's lush, layered vocals, sung in both English and Gaelic, is the template for her subsequent global hits, beginning with Watermark the following year. --Sam Sutherland
Simply Brilliant, 2010-02-19
I have listened to Enya for some years now, a talented musician with a beautiful voice. Her music is timeless and this album is another master piece. It's not really about chill it's about loosing yourself in the music and letting the worries and stress of the world slip away.

Artist: Enya

Superb Album, 2010-06-05
A friend introduced me to Enya I listened to this CD and went right out a bought it. If you like music to relax to and calm this is about a good as it gets, it's magical

Artist: Enya

New Age diva Enya first became widely known when her 1988 album Watermark sold 4 million copies and launched the single "Orinoco Flow". Her follow-up, Shepherd Moons, was even more successful, selling over 10 million copies despite its slightly lower grade of ethereal enchantment. In 1997 she released Paint the Sky with Stars, an assortment of her best work from these two early albums plus gems from 1995's The Memory of Trees and the soundtrack to the BBC series The Celts. The most melodic and atmospheric examples of Enya's lovely Celtic-flavoured songwriting shine on this disc. Those unfamiliar with the former Clannad member will find charm in such sweet lullabies as "Marble Halls" and "China Roses" while delighting in the more energetic "Book of Days", "Storms in Africa" and "Caribbean Blue". Overall, an outstanding collection from an artist who gives New Age a good name. --Karen Karleski
Gift, 2010-06-30
I can not realy say much about this item as it was a gift, but Enya is always great.

Artist: Enya

Enya seventh studio album, And Winter Came can be enjoyed in two ways. With songs like “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel”, “Journey Of The Angels”, the children’s song “Toy Soldier” and a Gaelic version of “Silent Night”, (“Oiche Chiuin”) it is, at least half of the time, a celebration of Christmas, flush with joyful, traditional festive cheer (and those haunting, floating vocals). But other songs here are less overtly religious. The ambient title track, the ethereal “Last Time By Moonlight” and the chugging, rhythmic “Trains And Winter Rains”, although equally emotive, conjure up slightly different imagery--namely, landscapes of ice-covered forests and star-strewn nightscapes. Of course all the songs somehow together to create a coherent winter tapestry that’s broken only by the surprisingly poppy "My! My! Time Flies!”--an upbeat number that features, believe it or not, some adroit blues guitar. Perhaps on Enya’s next album we’ll see more of her pop side let loose; but for now this is as “adult contemporary” as it gets. --Danny McKenna
Enya "And Winter Came", 2010-08-17
Another great CD from Enya - She really is one of my most favourite artists - Highly recommended.

Artist: Enya

The success of her first international hit, Watermark, confirmed Enya as less a singer or songwriter than a sonic architect: working with producer Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan, the classically trained pianist built vaulting cathedrals of sound, framed by luminous piano, shimmering synthesizer orchestrations, and, above all, the seemingly infinite layers of vocal harmonies she applied to every song. The deeply romantic Celtic pop on its 1991 successor, Shepherd Moons, sustains the same spectrum of hushed reverie and surging, rhapsodic releases, as well as its mix of ballads, floating midtempo pieces, and forays into Celtic and Latin-- and it's every bit as seductive. The terminally hip will sneer, but it's no accident that "Caribbean Blue", the best known song here, managed to sneak onto modern rock, top 40, and adult-oriented radio playlists. --Sam Sutherland
One of Enya's best Albums., 2010-04-26

In my opinion; this is Enya's best Album until the 'record-breaking' 'A Day Without Rain' that was to follow almost a decade later.

This was an Album we played over and over again in the car when I took a most unusual holiday at an odd time of year (barely Spring) and to a cold place (Devon!) with my boyfriend of the time back in early 1992. Each Track is a Masterpiece, and it was back then with this Album that I realised that Enya would always be something pretty 'special'. Almost twenty years on, and she's still going strong! (not so the relationship... Moved on and with a different guy now! )

This is a mixture of beautiful and haunting melodies - along with that 'classic' Enya sound we all recognise.

Artist: Enya

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. 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, sel...
BEST ENYA ALBUM TO DATE!, 2009-03-07
I love Enya but this album beats all of them! Thoroughly recommend it, especially Disc 1.

Artist: Enya

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 ...
Her best yet!, 2009-03-18
Loved this album on first hearing, especially the first disc. The second disc is more a Christmas time of year theme. If you love Enya, you will love this album and I'm sure many tracks will become timeless classics as on her other albums.