“Storms in Africa”is an almost instrumental melody with deep enthusiastic murmurs that springs out. This strikingly short melody takes dramatic turns in between casting pale and beauteous shadows while picking up the rhythm. The soft patter of the wind and escalating piano-riff blinds you and you are lost in the orbit. A pretty much, what I feel to be an escapist song, it was written about the moons that caress Jupiter like a shepherd. The very birth of “Shepherd Moons” calms you down, hazes visions something like aromatherapic candles. Want to go mellow? There’s “China Roses” Though lyrics at the foreground, the instruments arise bloom and mature and touch the zenith. It unfolds with its sheer beauty like a newly born child and waves slowly, that’s one reason and the gleeful end makes it my favourite track. “Saol na saol,Tús go deireadh.Tá muid beo Go deo.”These catch Gaelic lines remind us of the mankind that has to live and flourish. “The Celts”is a meticulous combination of various instruments with cheery vocals, which strike at perfect intervals. With the carefully derived combination of the menacing and frolicking chorus and the French patter “Ah! Je voudrai voler comme un oiseau d'aile” which soar to tell that she wants to fly sticks glued to the memory. Following it is the bonus, “Only if” is promising and euphoric like a child’s stubborn and hardships song. Even the short pause just before the ending doesn’t hamper this superb piece of music. It focuses on its shuttling vocals making it sound optimistic. A superb piece of music that makes us feel that life is joyous yet like a maze that can end you nowhere. Its follow-up “Anywhere Is” is equally upbeat with a merry and beautiful chorus that will gently pull your heartstrings. The song is partly in Gaelic (Irish), which has made the scenery startling like an escapade. It swerves every now and then like the journey she want to talk about, the hard way which has to be crossed, of tears and salvation. “Book of Days”has chirpy vocal hooked by the twists and the turns, which portray the very “Irish folk” colour in it. It has Latin phrases, which act as the sorrowful hooks. Feels like a witchcraft that meets its end in the way. “Caribbean Blue” is melancholic and inspiring with its drifting sorrow, which washes away in the circulating conclusion of her hums and the piano. The running tempo and the re-surfacing and flowing of the repeated “Sail away”bring one good smile on your face. “ let me sail, let me sail, let the Orinoco flow, let me reach, let me beach on the shores of Tripoli.let me sail, let me sail, let me crash upon your shore,let me reach, let me beach far beyond the Yellow Sea.” Her joyful voice scampers from one place to the other ends of the world, dragging coastlines and inspiring us to travel and explore the oceans. The opening theme, which was her debut single of 1988 “Orinoco Flow” start painting the canvas in an enthusiastic manner, with the swift notes of the uplifting piano. In the listening the river of her myriad vocals sing together the genuine and ethereal lyrics of Roma Ryan. “Paint the Sky With Stars”, her 1997 release of the best singles in her career sets forth the changes – changes that are noticed – changes that are enjoyed from the uninhibited joy of “Orinoco Flow” to the gloomy visions of “Boadicea”.
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A streak of confidence, with the abundance of perfection will breathe and enliven the souls deep inside. Questions arise on the melodramatic and sometimes so very vulnerable melodies that make you forget that life is not always jaded, as it seems to be. “Sail away” to Enya’s island of her music and the frailties that become strong where she welcomes you on her shores.