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. 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.” “I find it’s important to go to the studio to try and kind of
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