For quite some time, I’ve been following the musical artist Enya, of Ireland, on Youtube, and in particular, of Orinoco flow, Caribbean blue, and, Only time.
However, apparently due to some Internet spoilsport by the name of WMG, her Youtube publications have more often ceased, than to exist.
Actually, it’s become something of a sport, to watch them come and go, on Youtube.
Has anybody else noticed such a thing?
BTW, I’d gladly give a Youtube sample of her work, but it might not be here by the time you get to it.
I sometimes wonder what Enya’s voice would actually sound like if it wasn’t so electronically modified and over-layered with echoes. Behind all of the mush there actually might be a genuine voice, but, then again, maybe not.
Jack, I apologize for any unfair remarks that you think I have made about Enya. I haven’t been to one of her live performances; I have only learn her sing on TV and the radio, but what I heard, I didn’t like. I don’t think that I ever heard her sing “unaided”, as you say, but I would be interested in hearing an example of the “unaided” Enya on video or audio recording. I can easily change my opinion, if warranted.
The person at the sound board can make or break a performance. They can adjust voices while amplifing them electronically.
Laurie Anderson comes to mind as an extreme of that.
Is what you’re saying is that Enya performs at her concerts not amplified through a microphone?
I’ve seen Johanna Newsome do that. She just walked on stage and belted out a song unamplified electronically.
It was a big hall.
She filled the room with that lovely but strange voice of hers.
My guess is that she would sound a lot like her sister, Maire, the female vocalist for Clannad. I have one of Clannad’s earlier folksy recordings, without all the fancy special effects, and it’s a nice voice.
There was one time during the winter when I was living in BC and had to relocate from Vancouver to Surrey. I’d placed a good deal of my things into storage in anticipation of the move, including my cd collection.
When I got my basics into my new apartment we got hit with a killer snow storm and the storage unit was closed for a few days (and then I got snowed in to the parking lot for a couple more days). The only cd I had at the time was a copy of The Celts. I’d had it in a backpack I used to pack a few day to day items.
Maxfield Parrish? Yes! I’ve had one of his works, on my wall for many years. It’s titled, “A Path to Home,” a moonlit, winter landscape, looking down into a valley having a far distant mountain in the background, with a fully developed, mature but leafless maple tree on an open, snow covered field in the foreground, and having an old farm house, downhill, just before the valley, with but one window illuminated in a soft yellow. It’s of a quality which could invite a person to appreciate the scene for hour after hour, beautiful! And, unlike so many other Parrish works, there’s nobody to be seen.
