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List Price: $53.98 | | Label: Wea Japan
Salesrank: 742169
Released: December 15, 2007 |
| Our Price: $26.00 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Amarantine Track Listing:
1. Less Than a Pearl
2. Amarantine
3. It's in the Rain
4. If I Could Be Where You Are
5. River Sings
6. Long, Long Journey
7. Sumiregusa
8. Someone Said Goodbye
9. Moment Lost
10. Drifting
11. Amid the Falling Snow
12. Water Shows the Hidden Heart
Editorial Review:
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.
Description of Amarantine:
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 |
Amarantine Reviews:
From Enya's Elvish Twin 
2009-08-14 - First off, I'm a new Enya fan... just this year. Yeah, I'm also the LotR freak, so I've heard Aniron, May it Be, and practically drooled over them... very lovely. That wasn't enough to get me into 'Enya'. I am also a huge lover of music, I own all three of the LotR complete recordings... I go for music. I love music. I'm also very conservative. I don't listen to rock... just hymns and some soundtrack... Narnia's first two scores were something of a disappointment. So, I'm picky. Yes, it's true... I don't go for guady jewelry, I don't like banging music. I like soft, quite, thoughtful, or happy and chipper. I am a die-hard for sad music too. I want something to make me cry. I was given Celtic Woman and expected a lot, I was disappointed. Only two songs I would ever buy... so, when I got into Enya I wasn't expecting to like every single song except one in all of her albums.
Enya is... well... Enya paints pictures in my mind. I see a scene of nature or between people everytime I hear the song. She inspires me to go write on my book... Amarantine is perfect. I love the songs...
1. Less than a pearl
this song is the perfect adventure, either that or it's provoking you to stand out in the middle of the sunlight with your arms spread out, your head back, singing to the sky.
2. Amarantine
A lovely, sometimes hyper song, with an eeire chourous. It's perfect for any helpless romantic... I'm not one of those, but hey! it is Enya! I love her music, I love this song!
3. It's in the rain
sigh... the words to this song... every time it rains I begin this song in my head. So lovely, sorta peaceful. I can see the rain drops dripping from leaves.
4. If I could be where you are
a lovely song, but it's not my top fav...
5. The river sings
a highly celtic twist. Very lively. Makes me want to dance around somehow. Enya's good at that. Makes you want to go on an adventure, even when you stubornly say no to her, she takes you with her anyways.
6. Long long journey
I think Enya must have written this for Bilbo Baggins. I see scenes from The Hobbit everytime I listen to this. It begins with city lights upon the harbour... and I see Bywater reflecting the lights of Hobbiton in RotK at the end when the Hobbits are at The Green Dragon. The courous shows you Bilbo's steps from The Mountain and There and Back Again... this is Enya's hobbit-walking song!
7. Sumiregusa
Lovely! where Less than a pearl makes you look up at the sky, this has you looking for violets in the wild woods.
8. Someone said goodbye
this is my absolute favourite. it's sad and desperate, and I probably shouldn't go on about it forever! But... it's Cooper who's singing this to a friend, Samantha, or Pepper Darcy... her husband's died. She's alone... she's lost... she doesn't know why. Her dreams won't fly, her heart cries, she won't say goodbye to anyone, and for the life of her, Pepper can't figure out why! Neither can Cooper.
9. A moment lost
another great song... Tom regrets... he's ruined Awel's life, and he can never change it... his moment was lost.
10. Drifting
no real opinion. It does feel like your moving about in the water, somehow...
11. Amid the falling snow
This is a very white song! I love the strings here. it should have been The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe's credit song! It gives me chills.
12. Water shows the hidden heart
Somehow this feels elvish, in a strange way. It's lovely, but again, this isn't my top favourite, but I still like it anyhow
From where the Willows weep (and yes, Enya SHOULD make an album, call it that, and send me a copy : )
Ithilwen~
SUX 
2009-04-28 - I dunno why I haven't written a review on this piece of junk before. I've only owned it since it came out. In fact, I pre-ordered it before its release since I'm a super Enya fan and listen to the "other" CD's often. But this one - I've listened to it once again to see if it was as crxxpy as i had remembered. IT WAS! Maybe if I start listing things on the net, I'll be able to unload this and make space for good music.
Excellent for your Enya collection!
2009-03-31 - It has been quite some time since Enya released her previous album, not counting singles and movie tracks. Get this CD. Enya is not going to change her style, which you wouldn't expect of ANY artist, and that's what I like about her. Her voice continues to sound excellent, and the non-vocal tracks are just as pleasant.
Aside from the cover song, "It's In the Rain", "Someone Said Goodbye", and "Amid The Falling Snow" are my favorite. As I write this review, I wish I had that CD in my hand to play right now!
Enya Supreme
2009-01-06 - While occasionaly criticied for the "sameness" of her sound, when it is this good, why not? There is not the duplication one finds on several of her other CDs. All new...all good. A gifted voice for all to enjoy. Easy listening.
I woke up with a generous heart today 
2008-11-13 - I was curious about Enya when I first heard of her; due to my love to U2's music and knowing that Enya became Irland's second biggest musical export after U2 (she's from Irland, such a bad stereotype on my part).
There's no way one's can deny her beautiful voice and remarkable style, but I came to think that all her music has the same redundant theme when it comes to lyrics or music.
This album reached the top 10 in both the UK and the US, peaked at number 3 in Germany, won the Grammy award for best new age album for 2007, and I'm in disbelief and trying to understand what is so special about this album.
The reason I'm giving it three stars is that she is a hard working artist with glorious presence on the stage(at least she's not winking at the audience and acting cheesy like il Divo boys). With the inimitable style she has, maybe it is expected to have a theme in all her albums, but the lyrics of this album don't measure up to the standards she had in her other albums and they are either too repetitive and empty or just beyond my mental capacity. I'll go with the first choice; the lyrics are repetitive and empty.
