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One of Enya's most popular releases, WATERMARK is an enchantingly dreamy album, featuring washes of keyboards and ethereal vocals. On the title track, the gentle piano melody mimics the sound of falling water, and Enya's multi-tracked voice cascades over the music like a calm wind on a rainy night.
The most memorable composition on this 1988 record is the hit "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)." Marked by its keyboard-generated staccato strings and infectious vocal hook, this piece is probably the singer's best-known (and best-loved) song. "Cursum Perficio" features a gloomy vocal reminiscent of Carl Orff's CARMINA BURANA, while "On Your Shore," "Na Laetha Geal M'Oige," and "Evening Falls..." reflect Enya's traditional Celtic roots. WATERMARK is one of the finest New Age/pop crossover albums on the market, though its distinctive compositions transcend that label, making for much more than just a series of tranquil soundscapes.
Live Recording
Recording information: Orinoco Studios.
Photographers: David Hiscook; Russell T.
Arrangers: Enya; Nicky Ryan.
Personnel: Enya (vocals, keyboards); Davy Spillane (pipe, Uilleann pipe); Neil Buckley (clarinet); Chris Hughes (drums, percussion).
Audio Mixers: Jim Barton; Ross Cullum.
Rolling Stone - 3.5 Stars - Very Good Watermark Music Review Average Rating: (4 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews She succeeded where Enigma failed
Enya goes beyond the traditional stereotypes of the "new-age artist", and has crafted a masterpiece. This whole album feels like you're wandering in her native Celtic homeland, taking in the sights and sounds while seeing and experiencing all those old native Celtic legends as they wander in and out of your eyesight. At the same time, it is catchy, as shown in "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)", but it isn't so catchy that it feels out of place or out of mood, even. Symphonically, I've never heard a better record. Even the quality of "Pet Sounds", one of my absolute favorite albums, falls far, far short when compared with this masterpiece. Enya created her sound on her first album, and she expanded it over the years, but never straying far from this winning formula, which, in all honesty, is simply amazing.
Submitted by Galen Baumgartner (Anchorage, AK, USA)
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Wonderful
This album was simply breathtaking. Enya has always been one of my favorite artists, and this CD only heightens my appreciation. While I do feel Orinoco Flow is a little too hyped up, every song was equisite. A must have for any Celtic or Classical music fans.
Submitted by Raven (Cumming, Georgia)
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If you ever need to relax after a long day, need some music to send you off into dream land, or just need some music to aid you in daydreaming, this is the music to listen to. Enya's music transports you to lands of the unknown, relaxes you, and envelopes you in a warmth no other music can wrap you in.
Submitted by puppyg13 (Windsor, CO, USA)
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The classic Enya album!
Submitted by Brad (Colorado Springs, CO, USA)
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Enya has a beautiful voice that fills the air, and her music is so special.
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Purchase Watermark CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Enya Shepherd Moons CD (1991)
Watermark
 $15.15  
Her otherworldly voice is trance-like in such songs as the tranquil "Shepherd Moons," "Angeles," "Evacuee," and "Marble Halls." Accessibly lilting, awash in synth strings, "Caribbean Blue" is this album's answer to "Orinoco Flow," ...
| | Enya Celts CD (1987)
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| | Enya Memory Of Trees CD (1995)
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$14.39
THE MEMORY OF TREES won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
These are specifically those trees held sacred by the Druids of ancient Irish mythology; but there is just enough ambiguity in the title of Enya's latest album to please her enthusiasts, ...
| | Paint The Sky With Stars: The Best Of Enya CD (1997)
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Enya created a style whose wide open soundscapes were reminiscent of New Age, but more melodic, heavily based on the traditional Celtic music that formed much of her early singing career. This synthesis of styles proved marketable: the single "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) was a global smash, underscoring the universality of her work. Its dramatic ...
| | Enya Day Without Rain CD (2000)
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$10.65
A DAY WITHOUT RAIN won the 2002 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
Celtic songbird Enya ...
| | Enya Amarantine CD (2005)
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After a five-year silence in the wake of her phenomenally successful release A DAY WITHOUT RAIN, Enya reemerged in 2005 with AMARANTINE. The ...
| | Seamus Egan Traditional Music Of Ireland CD (1985)
Watermark
$14.65
Over two decades after this album was recorded and released, it's rather funny to look at the cover photo of Seamus Egan in his cargo pants with his feathered haircut and sweet, unassuming smile. In the intervening years he became a superstar producer of modern Irish folk groups and a highly sought-after studio musician, with a wardrobe tending toward black leather and no more on-camera smiles. In 1986 he was a new face on the scene, a remarkably talented teenage multi-instrumentalist who had already won all-Ireland titles on four different instruments. On this album he plays flute, tres, ...
| | 50th Anniversary Celebration: The Best Of Back To Balboa CD (1992)
Watermark
$13.49
Recorded live at the Hyatt Newporter Resort, Newport Beach, California in 1991. Includes liner notes by Audree Coke Kenton.
BEST OF STAN KENTON 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION - BACK TO BALBOA is a single-CD compilation of tracks from the five-CD box set STAN KENTON 50TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION - BACK TO BALBOA.
Kenton alumni perform Kenton material and with their own bands, highlights from 5CD set ...
| | Archie Fisher Sunsets I've Galloped Into... CD (1995)
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Although Archie Fisher is probably the most respected Scottish singer/songwriter of his generation, his recorded output is surprisingly limited; 1995's Sunsets I've Galloped Into is only his fourth ...
| | Chieftains Wide World Over: A 40 Year Celebration CD (2002)
Watermark
$8.99
This a companion disc to a later release of 2002, DOWN THE OLD PLANK ROAD, celebrating the 40th anniversary of The Chieftains.
Additional personnel includes: Sinead O'Connor, The Coors, Ricky Skaggs, Joni Mitchell, Diana Krall, Sting, Linda Rondstat, Los Lobos, Erich Kunzel, The Cincinnati Pops, Elvis Costello, The Rolling Stones.
There are few groups so closely and unalterably associated with their home country as the Chieftains. These carriers of the traditional Irish folk torch had spent 40 years as Ireland's musical ambassadors by the time of this commemorative collection. On the one hand, they're unquestionably fine at laying down Irish tunes in the grand old style with bodhran and pipes blazing away (as on such tradition-minded fare as "Mo Ghile Mear" and the medley involving "King of Laois" and "Paddy's Jig." On the other, they've always been open to collaboration with artists from every corner of the music world, whether it's a former new wave hellion like Elvis Costello searching for his roots on "Long Journey Home" or countryman Van Morrison sounding entirely at home joining the lads for the evocative folk song "Shenandoah." As THE WIDE WORLD OVER makes abundantly clear, a large part of the Chieftains gift is in knowing how to mix the old and the new without compromise on either side of the equation.
Recorded between 1987 and 2002.
All tracks have been digitally remastered.
Corrs,R.Skaggs,J.Mitchell,Van Morrison,D.Krall,E.Costello +
The Chieftains include: Kevin Conneff (vocals, bodhran); Sean Keane (fiddle); Derek Bell (harp, keyboards, tiompan); Matt Molloy (flute); Paddy Moloney (whistle, Uilleann pipes).
Engineers include: Brian Masterson, Jeffrey Lesser, Warren Peterson.
Personnel: Ricky Skaggs (vocals, guitar, mandolin); Ziggy Marley (vocals, guitar, percussion); Joni Mitchell (vocals, guitar); Kevin Conneff (vocals, bodhran); Diana Krall, Garfunkel, Faith Chorale, Sharon Riley, Sinéad O'Connor, Van Morrison, Elvis Costello (vocals); ...
| | Eleanor McEvoy Early Hours CD (2004) (Import) SACD Hybrid
Watermark
$16.09
This is a hybrid Super Audio CD playable on both regular and Super Audio CD players.
'Early Hours' takes Eleanor McEvoy's music to new heights. Couched now in a mature jazz/blues context, her melodic and sensitive songs - packed ...
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| | Sydney Devine You Can Dance CD (2006) Import
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| | Courage & Patience & Grit: Great Big Sea In Concert CD (2006)
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The lively Canadian folk group does for Newfoundland folk music what the Pogues did for its Irish equivalent in a concert recording ...
| | Marc Almond Virgin's Tale Vol 1 & Vol 2 CDs (2008) (Import) Import
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