Sail Away with Enya (Only Time: The Collection - Enya)

Member Name: briangilmour

Product:	Only Time: The Collection - Enya
Date:	16/05/08 (56 review reads)
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Advantages: Value for money, relaxing music

Disadvantages: Very different and many may not enjoy.

In my brave attempt to open my mind to all different musical genre's I felt I had to really try something outside my comfort zone, so who better than the loveable Irish musician Enya and her strange New Age contemporary sound to set me on my tracks to a new musical love. Did I find one?

Not really ,I felt the best way to approach Enya would be in the form of a greatest hits album, so I grabbed myself a copy of "Only Time- The Collection" , to say it was a bit overwhelming would be an understatement. 4 Discs wasn't what I expected, as in my thinking, how could she have 4 discs worth of greatest hits yet managed to escape me all this time.

It's too big a collection to go through track by track but the most impressive thing for me is that all vocals and instrumentation is all performed by Enya herself, that's 51 tracks in all that she wrote and performed on her lonesome.

The only problem some may find with this album and which can make it hard to get into is that a lot of the tracks are written in her native Gaelic and some in Latin , however that doesn't take away from some of the beautiful songs on this compliation.

Orinoco Flow (Think the old Volkswagen Adverts) is her most famous single to date but theres various different soothing tones and relaxing music on these Cd's

Overall I'm not a converted Enya fan but I do feel a bit musically richer for having given this a try, there may be a time in the future where I'll return to listen to her work more. For now I'd say its worth giving a try and she is an undeniably very talented woman.

Summary: It's worth a listen if you are open minded when listening to new music