Enya - Shepherd Moons
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Free Music Review: Try and find the Original print of this album.
Hit: 4 Stars
Is it just me, or does the orginal "Book of Days" without the Far and Away lyrics in it sound so much better? Regardless it is a great album, and if you can try to find the original print that is in her celtic language and not the Far and Away mumble jumble.Free Music Review: The real Enya. The GOOD Enya.
Hit: 5 Stars
With all the talk about what to call the music, the voice layering, creative genius, etheralness, Wicca, the appropriateness of a friggin' dance remix of Orinoco Flow, etc., etc., let's all remember one thing...she's a Celtic traditionalist. (And from what I heard, a devout Catholic, hence someone not really into the New Age lifestyle, but let's not go there.) Not a trendsetter or pioneer, and *absolutely* not a pop princess. Like most of us, she's at her best when she's working within her element.
That's what's so great about Sheperd Moons and makes it stand out from even the fine Watermark and The Memory of Trees (I found A Day Without Rain a big step in the wrong direction, particularly after hearing that mega-sappy Only Time played on the radio about 25 million times). She's not trying to appeal to a market or gain mainstream respectability. All she's doing is making beautiful Celtic music for its own sake, much like she's done her whole life, and adding her own personal touches to it.
Enya, more than anyone else, has the amazing ability to take any song...anything at all...and make it sound nice. But when she has an organic, unforced, straight-from-the-heart song to begin with, the result is pure beauty. It works so well, she doesn't even need to use her voice (Lothlorien and No Holly For Miss Quinn) to get an enchanting result.
The signature track is Smaointe, a six minute journey through tempo changes, Celtic chants, and a plethora of instruments (love that horn solo). For more mainstream tastes, there's Carribbean Blue and Book of Days (which is about as poppy as she should've ever gotten).
If you could buy only one Enya album...no, scratch that. Buy only one Enya album, and make it this.
Free Music Review: Beautiful, Soothing Music and Enya's Best!
Hit: 5 Stars
People have to get over the need to categorise music as New Age, Classical etc and then get disappointed when a certain musical style doesn't seem to fit in and then worse try to compare this with the others to come up with a conclusion that therefore this falls short in some way.
People have tried to do the same with "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield for example but these people fail to see the point. These genres are created for convenience by others and musicians don't go out thinking "Ah, I'm going to write music for this genre and so I'm going to restrict everything I do to these defined rules that everybody out there expects me to confine myself to...."
Such musicians compromise and aren't being true to themselves. True musicians play what they hear in their heads and if we feel we have to critique and categorise and put into containers/genres what we hear then the problem lies with us and not with the musician. That's why I refuse to call Enya's or any true musician's work "New Age", "Progressive Rock", "Alternative" etc because then you limit and belittle the work of art that it really is.
Some reviewers are saying this is not "true" New Age etc, which just seems to me to be complete and utter nonsense and totally immaterial to what is clearly a very good work of art and I think Enya's best album to date.
Music that is soothing, hauntingly beautiful in its very distinctive Celtic influence and clearly a keeper for years to come irrespective of genre. The sound quality here is quite good too but I think it's time for Reprise Records to come up with remastered versions of this and "Watermark" to bring the sound quality up to today's standards.
This is great music on its own that doesn't deserve to be crudely put into artificial 'boxes' just for convenience's sake but should be experienced in its entirety as a cohesive, flowing, great work of musical art at one sitting. Clearly one album where the whole is much, much greater than the sum of the individual tracks.
Highly recommended!
Free Music Review: Shepherd Moon - Enya
Hit: 5 Stars
I have to agree with the others who have given a review for this album. I love Loreena McKennitt and so equally this album is in line with that type of ethereal music. Very soothing and calming to the soul. I also love her album "A Day Without Rain". I think everything she has produced has been unmistakebly beautiful, so if you are in doubt in buying anything of hers, don't be afraid of liking a track here and there, you will love it all and the more you listen the more you will love it. She is infectiously graceful and ethereal. A great pleasure to listen to.Free Music Review: Enya,Shepard Moons
Hit: 3 Stars
Nice Music,but not as good as her original "A day Without Rain"