Enya - Watermark
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Track List: Watermark
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- Watermark
- Cursum Perficio
- On Your Shore
- Storms In Africa
- Exile
- Miss Clare Remembers
- Orinoco Flow
- Evening Falls...
- River
- The Longships
- Na Laetha Geal M'OigeDownload & Buy
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Album Details: Watermark
- Release Date:
- 11/12/1991
- Label:
- Warner Bros Uk
- UPC:
- 022924387524
User Reviews: Watermark
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Watermark
, December 7, 2005Reviewer: george - See all george's reviews -
Simply the best Enya album ever!
, November 15, 2001Reviewer: Bit Burn - See all Bit Burn's reviews<EOM>
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Pro Reviews: Watermark
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Thanks to its distinct, downright catchy single "Orinoco Flow," which amusingly referenced both her record company boss Rob Dickins and coproducer Ross Cullum in the lyrics, Enya's second album Watermark established her as the unexpected queen of gentle, Celtictinged new age music. To be sure, her success was as much due to marketing a niche audience in later years equally in love with Yanni and Michael Flatley's Irish dancing, but Enya's rarely given a sense of pandering in her work. She does what she does, just as she did before her fame. Admittedly, avoiding overblown concerts run constantly on PBS hasn't hurt. Indeed, the subtlety that characterizes her work at her best dominates Watermark, with the lovely title track, her multitracked voice gently swooping among the lead piano, and strings like a softly haunting ghost, as fine an example as any. "Orinoco Flow" itself, for all its implicit dramatics, gently charges instead of piling things on, while the organled "On Your Shore" feels like a hushed church piece. Elsewhere, meanwhile, Enya lets in a darkness not overly present on The Celts, resulting in work even more appropriate for a moody soundtrack than that album. "Cursum Perficio," with her steady chantingviaoverdub of the title phrase, gets more sweeping and passionate as the song progresses, matched in slightly calmer results with the equally compelling "The Longships." "Storms in Africa," meanwhile, uses drums from Chris Hughes to add to the understated, evocative fire of the song, which certainly lives up to its name. Watermark ends with a fascinating piece, "Na Laetha Geal M'Oige," where fellow Irish modern/traditional fusion artist Davy Spillane adds a gripping, heartbreaking uilleann pipe solo to the otherwise calm synthbased performance. It's a perfect combination of timelessness and technology, an appropriate end to this fine album. - Ned Raggett, All Music Guide |
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With her blend of folk melodies, synthesized backdrops, and classical motifs, Enya created a distinctive style that more closely resembled new age than the folk and Celtic music that provided her initial influences. Enya is from Gweedore, County Done...Full Enya Biography
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Pros: Easily the leader of the new wave
Cons: none
Your are driving on a lonely coastal road ...evening mist creeping in and out following the path of the days last seagull disappearing and feeling forever at peace with God.....