Amarantine | 
 enlarge | Artist: Enya
Label: Reprise / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $18.98
Buy Used: $5.70
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Rating:  286 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 49474
UPC: 936249474244
EAN: 0093624947424
Release Date: November 22, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | Less Than A Pearl | | • | Amarantine | | • | It's In The Rain | | • | If I Could Be Where You Are | | • | The River Sings | | • | Long Long Journey | | • | Sumiregusa | | • | Someone Said Goodbye | | • | A Moment Lost | | • | Drifting | | • | Amid The Falling Snow | | • | Water Shows The Hidden Heart |
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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 
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Album Description
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.
Album Description
Japanese two-disc pressing features her 2005 album coupled with a Christmas EP. Warner. 2006.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 281 more reviews...
 Love this Music August 29, 2008
J. Lucas
This is my favorite Enya music for a long time. I enjoy all her sounds, but this album is special. It's really her best for a long time. I recommend this CD.
Enya Amarantine CD July 29, 2008
Froglady (Rhode Island)
I'm very pleased, not only with the price for the "slightly used/not new" CD but for the voice quality and sound of this Enya CD.
 Another Enya cd, another disappointment. June 12, 2008
B. Nallick (Mpls, MN)
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Her first three changed the music landscape with their innovation and brilliance.
The following three including this one???
Dull, lifeless, unmemorable.
Enya has been making the same cd for over ten years without adding anything new to the mix.
It would be different if they were all as good as the first three but they're not.
Enya needs to go back to her debut and get some inspiration from that.
Either that or try a new genre.
Heavy Metal maybe lol ???
Wouldn't that turn the music world upside down!!!
Enya teams up with Dimmu Borgir, face paint and black leather spikes galore.
Oh, I can only imagine the horror of her easy listening audience.
Comon Enya, if you can't match the brilliance of the first three, then at least go down in a blaze of glory.
Amarantine by Enya April 7, 2008
Sebnem Erseren
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
All songs in the CD are perfect!! you can listen when you would like to relax, or play in your invitations.. If you are Enya lover,I strongly suggest this album...
Beautiful Serenity April 6, 2008
Rocky Oberlin (Stanton, Michigan, USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I was excited to finally be able to buy this CD and I wan't disappointed. I first heard it on the radio and started to look for it. Now I'm able to listen to it and the other songs with it. It is something I could put in my CD player and listen to while I sleep during the day (I'm night shift at a hospital). You may not be able to sing along with most of the music, but it is calming in my opinion.
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