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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0093624947424
Label: Reprise / Wea
Manufacturer: Reprise / Wea
MPN: 49474
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Reprise / Wea
Release Date: November 22, 2005
Studio: Reprise / Wea
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Editorial 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. 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
More Enya
The Celts |
Watermark |
Shepherd Moons |
The Memory of Trees |
A Day Without Rain |
Paint the Sky with Stars: The Best of Enya |
The first album in five years from Enya follows the biggest-selling album of her illustrious career, the six-times platinum A Day Without Rain, which transcended all commercial expectations. Having sold more than 50 million albums worldwide, Enya is one of the most successful female artists of all time and second only to U2 as the biggest selling Irish artist in history.
Japanese two-disc pressing features her 2005 album coupled with a Christmas EP. Warner. 2006.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Wonderful Addition
I have listened to Enya's Music since Watermark and I love every Album she has come out with. Amarantine is a wonderful piece of Art, making up a new language is the coolest part of this album. Not to be mean to others, but there are wrong when they say that this her worest album yet!!!
Rating: - Love this Music
This is my favorite Enya music for a long time. I enjoy all her sounds, but this album is special. It's really her best for a long time. I recommend this CD.
Rating: - Enya Amarantine CD
I'm very pleased, not only with the price for the "slightly used/not new" CD but for the voice quality and sound of this Enya CD.
Rating:  - Another Enya cd, another disappointment.
Her first three changed the music landscape with their innovation and brilliance.
The following three including this one???
Dull, lifeless, unmemorable.
Enya has been making the same cd for over ten years without adding anything new to the mix.
It would be different if they were all as good as the first three but they're not.
Enya needs to go back to her debut and get some inspiration from that.
Either that or try a new genre.
Heavy Metal maybe lol ???
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Rating: - Amarantine by Enya
All songs in the CD are perfect!! you can listen when you would like to relax, or play in your invitations.. If you are Enya lover,I strongly suggest this album...
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