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 | Title : A Day Without Rain
Author : Enya
Release Date : 20001121
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $18.98
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Editorial Reviews :
As each new Enya release has washed over all who have ears to hear, as each heaven-touched work leaves admirers sitting speechless in slack-jawed wonder, questions eventually come to mind: Might her layered, choral-like approach gradually become predictable or stale? Will she ever exhaust her deep reservoir of soul-stirring ideas? Remarkably, A Day Without Rain, Enya's fourth release since her 1988 breakthrough, Watermark, establishes new artistic heights for the gifted Irish vocalist and keyboardist. The project, polished and refined over a five-year period in the company of longtime collaborators Nicky Ryan (producer) and Roma Ryan (lyricist), may qualify as her best yet--a radiant, beatific collection of works that command attention with their cathedral-like resonance as they soothe your spirit with some of Enya's loveliest, most graceful voicings ever. The disc's opening three tracks (including the spellbinding 'Only Time') form a gorgeous trilogy that suggest Enya has deepened her focus on the nexus where sophisticated pop and regal mysticism, the twin rivers of her singular sound, form a seamless intersection. The disc's gentle timbre is disturbed only once, and in memorable fashion, with 'Tempus Vernum,' a marshalling of mythic sonic forces that brings to mind the theme from the De Beers diamond commercial, but with a Celtic/Goth edge. Additional highlights abound. The closing 'Lazy Days' will leave your soul dancing in a shower of flower petals and sunshine. A wonderful recording.
Buyer Reviews :
I mean really! She's been at this for about 14 years now: every couple of years re-record the same songs as before, with perhaps just a few minor differences, get that Nicky Ryan bloke in to produce it, then punt it out to the world and wait for the readies to flood in. It's no wonder she's one of the richest women in the UK/Eire (seriously - she has dozens of millions in the bank; she topped a recent magazine poll of the UK's richest women).
In this day and age, every other artist in the world has to strive and struggle to get a recording contract and to get the their music heard. Why should Enya get an easy ride? I'll tell you why - it's because the record companies know that punters will buy her albums in droves irresepctive of the quality. Other bands from the late eighties (when Enya first started) have gone on to make challenging and imaginative new music, but seem to have enormous difficulty finding a record deal (such as Lloyd Cole & The The), while Enya carelessly tosses out bland pseudo-classical pop in cynical fashion without a care in the world.
It's all just another symptom of how the major record labels are concentrating only on the artists they know will make the most money, and ignoring the artistic integrity and musical variety of all the others.
And to add insult to injury, she only bothered to record 37 minutes worth. Maybe she found her own music so boring she couldn't bring herself to add any more. No? Come on Enya! Another twenty minutes of ambient humming and plinkety-plonk piano might've made all the difference!
Here's hoping for some electric guitar or a drum solo on the inevitable sixth album, due in 2004.
(by Graham Adair)
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