Amarantine (Special Uk Christmas Edition) |
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Artist:
Enya
List Price: £18.99
Our Price: £10.92
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Disc 1:
| 1. Less Than A Pearl | | 2. Amarantine | | 3. It's In The Rain | | 4. If I Could Be Where You Are | | 5. The River Sings | | 6. Long Long Journey | | 7. Sumiregusa (Wild Violet) | | 8. Someone Said Goodbye | | 9. A Moment Lost | | 10. Drifting | | 11. Amid The Falling Snow | | 12. Water Shows The Hidden Heart |
Disc 2:
| 1. "Adeste, Fideles" | | 2. The Magic Of The Night | | 3. We Wish You A Merry Christmas | | 4. Christmas Secret |
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Product Description
ENYA Amarantine (2006 Taiwanese Special Limited Christmas Edition 2-disc set comprising a 12-track CD album including the single Its In The Rain plus BONUS CD featuring the previously unreleased original recordings The Magic of the Night and Christmas Secrets which produced by Nicky Ryan and feature Roma Ryan?s evocative lyrical skills plus the festive standards Andeste Fideles [the original Latin version of O Come All Ye Faithful] and We Wish You a Merry Christmas presented in a card picture slipcase complete with unique wrap-around obi-strip)
Amazon.co.uk Review
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, self-referentially echoing Enya albums past. --John Diliberto
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0825646414024
Format: Special Edition
Label: WARNER BROS
Manufacturer: WARNER BROS
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: WARNER BROS
Release Date: 2006-11-13
Running Time: 60
Studio: WARNER BROS |
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