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| Enya - A Day Without Rain Band: Enya Tracks: - A Day Without Rain - Wild Child - Only Time - Tempus Vernum - Deora Ar Mo Chroi - Flora's Secret - Fallen Embers - Silver Inches - Pilgrim - One By One - Lazy Days "A Day Without Rain" is breathtaking and brilliant I must begin by saying this: Enya is simply and utterly the most amazing Artist I have ever discovered, and will surely remain as such for all eternity. Her capability to keep creating albums and songs that are all so different, yet all so amazing and beatiful, is genius! The album begins with the pure and refreshing title track, which is an instrumental. As an added bonus, there are vocals throughout the song by Enya. Then you are taken to a brighter, less serious level in "Wild Child", whose title fits perfectly! This song is joyous and slightly spunky, and reminded me a little of "Anywhere Is". The single and third album track, "Only Time", is calming and reassuring, and seems to say that worry is worthless, since all is in Time's hands. "Tempus Vernum" seems to stir up every sense in me. This is easily one of my favorites from the album, and is a Latin chant that crescendos to the very end. The effect that occurs between the fourth and fifth songs is very interesting. When "Tempus Vernum" ends, the background actually fades into the background for "Deora Ar Mo Chroi". This Irish Gaelic song's translations are given in the album booklet, which speak of the earth's voices singing and gentle skies falling. It also mentions the singer's voice rising to the sky and "telling all that I believe in". The song ends with the knowledge that the Earth will sing again after night concludes. "Flora's Secret" is, surprisingly, a Love song. The background sounds very much like the beginning of "Wild Child", but the melody and lyrics differ extremely. This song is light and full of the comfort of Love between two people. The seventh song on the album, called "Fallen Embers", seems to tell a personal Love story between the singer and someone close her. It is reminiscent of time spent with this person, how nights seemed to last forever, and how their hearts were singing. While the song speaks of Love lost, Enya manages to hint at hope and gives the listener a bittersweet reaction. "Silver Inches" is a delightful interlude for this album and entertains happily before the ninth track. "Pilgrim" is a sober yet retainingly beautiful piece about journeying in self-discovery and life itself. The next song provides another relationship song, "One By One", filled with partings between the characters and then, without outright mention, coming together again. This airy piece begins the conclusion to A DAY WITHOUT RAIN. "Lazy Days", I must say, is just about the most perfect ending for a music Journey that I can imagine. The lilting track's beginning even gives off an almost "goofy", lighter side of Enya. The piece continues into spending days doing nothing but enjoying the present, and the vocal "chorus" stirs the m A day without pain All human beings suffer. We suffer at different rates. In between moments of suffering there are moments of intense enlightenment, introspection, self-awareness, joy. These are the very moments Enya captures in "A Day Without Rain." I am not an Enya fan. Never heard of her before the song "Only Time" haunted my life three times in one week. First, I heard her song in a movie preview while waiting to watch "Hanibal" (great Soundtrack by the way). Later in the same week I fell asleep with the TV on. I woke thinking for a moment that I had died and crossed over. I heard this angelic music, a prayer in musical form filling the night. It was Enya performing on Leno. Finally in the same week, I watched "Providence" with my wife. This particular show really touched me. Then this same song began invading my soul. The show ended with a powerful intertwining of "Only Time" with the show's suffering characters. The entire CD is a prayer, a Psalm, a hymn. You can't listen to this CD without changing. Enya invades your heart, soul, and mind. She encourages you to believe that you're not just the chance explosion of thinking cells. You are a spiritual being with a hold on eternity. You are forever. I encourage you to listen, learn, grow, love. Love and good journey, Kevin Nothing In Particular...................... The only complaint I have of "A Day Without Rain" is the lenth of of the CD, which apparently only clocks in at 34 minutes? What's up with the 2 minutes songs, Enya? When you wait this long for an original recording by an Artist of Enya's magnitude, you expect alittle bit more. If Jessica Simpson and Britney Spears can crank out endless cd's of disposable garbage, why on Earth can't Enya give us a "double album" of epic porportions like she did on "The Celts"? I think there is a definite market for Enya, and one can never get enough of her trademark sound. She remains consistant and never deviates from her mystical yet familiar sound. Enya's angelic vibe prevails on her latest release "A Day Without Rain". Ironically speaking, the title of her album calls for sunshine when Enya's music clearly evokes a more moody, solemn aura. I believe a darker, edgier album would have more effectively captures her sound, but you can't discredit Enya's newly found optimism. Rather I applaud her apparent "I can see clearly now" inspired revelations, although I long for sounds of her earlier works. "A Day Without Rain" is a perfect follow up for "The Memory of Trees", an almost formulatic replicant. One track celtic, the next track radio friendly Enya pop (if there is such a thing), there is nothing remarkable or distinguishable from the other. There is one advantage for this newest release from Enya. If you happen to have a disc-exchange System on your CD player, you can load all the previous Enya albums in, and play them back to back. "A Day Without Rain" will blend beautifully. Buy Enya A Day Without Rain at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.comJamster - the latest ringtones for your phone! |
