That’s where Roma said, “You know what?”-because she’d studied the Elvish language and she could follow how Tolkien had created the fictional language-and she said, you know, “I’m gonna have a go at doing a fictional language,” and we went, “Great.” In the studio, if anybody has an idea, it’s “Why not?” and “Great!” There’s never an “Are you sure?”ĮNYA: Firstly, she did it song by song. When we were working on Amarantine, we had just previously worked on Lord of the Rings and I sung in Elvish-to add to the Gaelic and the Latin, it was Elvish-and there was a particular song, “The River Sings,” and we couldn’t find the right language to sing in. It’s a long time, but what drew us to each other was that we all had different ideas-musically, lyrically, poetry-we all brought something different to the studio, and we still do.
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Do you look at the tree that you pass every day? We shouldn’t really lose sight of what’s there, because life is hard enough.īLVR: When you talk about watching TV with Nicky and Roma, do you consider them friends or family?ĮNYA: We’re very, very close, because I’m godmother to their daughter, who’s now a mother, who has a child.īLVR: You’ve known each other for thirty years now.ĮNYA: Yes. I feel that it’s important for people to make time for a moment like that. Just get on a boat, have a look at the stars. It’s so nice to hear of a place that’s a little bit of heaven. That was the first song I wrote on the album.īLVR: Does it sound appealing to you, to move to somewhere like that?ĮNYA: Not necessarily to move, but I’m fascinated. But this is where it is so vastly different because there are so many stars and planets to view. She was describing that the sky is quite unrecognizable to us, because we’re used to looking up and seeing landmarks. The only way to get to the island is by boat. They do not have any cars, to limit how much light there is on the island. I was asking what she was working on and she told me about this island in the Channel Islands, Sark Island, where it’s the first designated “dark sky area.” There’s only six hundred people. For instance, Dark Sky Island-the inspiration came from Roma, because of her poetry writing. I’ll take breaks, go away for two weeks, and come back again and listen to my ideas.īLVR: Does it feel like you’re giving a part of yourself away?ĮNYA: In a sense, yes. But also, when I leave, I leave the song in the studio. It’s very interesting, because once I walk in the door, the focus is on that song that I’m going to write, and you forget everything.
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Once I’ve written the song then I go into working with Nicky and Roma (who writes the lyrics), but the first part is myself. Instead of only going to the studio when I have a song-I feel that wouldn’t work for me-I find it’s important to go to the studio to try and kind of live with all my inspirations for a while. Our names are actually on the gates as well.īLVR: Do you spend hours there every day?ĮNYA: I am a very slow composer. It’s a stone building with beautiful gates, ornate gates leading into the studio. Two years and two albums later, Enya was born.īLVR: Have you ever been upstaged by an animal?īLVR: What does your studio look like? Can you paint a visual portrait?ĮNYA: Not too little, not too big. She had joined the group out of university at the suggestion of Nicky Ryan-Clannad’s manager, soundman, and producer. It was a turning point for the artist, who had started her career in a family band called Clannad.
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The song hit number one in the United Kingdom, a position it held for three weeks before ceding its title to its musical opposite-Robin Beck’s “First Time,” a hair-metal-inspired slow jam made famous in a Coca-Cola ad. It blended Enya’s otherworldly voice with heavy production, world music, Celtic undertones, and a fluid rhythm quite unlike anything else out there. In 1988, Enya had a massive, if somewhat inexplicable, hit with the song “Orinoco Flow.” At a time when Phil Collins’s “A Groovy Kind of Love” and George Michael’s “Faith” were topping the charts, “Orinoco Flow” was like a fat gust of fresh air tumbling over the Irish Sea. Bhraonáin, who is better known by her far more easily pronounced stage name, Enya, makes music to astral-project to. It’s hard not to picture Eithne Ní Bhraonáin entombed in velvet and surrounded by a coven of comforting witches who have trained butterflies to gently flutter their wings in rhythm with the sound of a babbling brook. Live with all my inspirations for a while.”
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“I find it’s important to go to the studio to try and kind of