The album's front cover depicts Enya posing with stuffed wolves.
Enya includes 39 minutes of selected pieces from the soundtrack. Roma recalled that Enya was given "various pastiches" that Richardson wished to incorporate into the episodes, which Enya then used as a guide for to write music to complement them. Ī total of 72 minutes of music was recorded for the series. One such example was Nicky's use of reverb, which he set to 24 seconds instead of the more common placement of one-and-a-half seconds. Nicky said he told them "to forget everything learned and just bear with us for at least a week". When they recorded at the BBC studio, Nicky had to teach the audio engineers how he and Enya worked as their unusual recording process confused them at first. The album was recorded in two locations at Aigle Studio, a 16-track studio installed in the Ryans' home, then located in Artane, a northern suburb of Dublin, and a sound studio at BBC Enterprises at Wood Lane, London. Įnya worked with her usual recording partners, arranger and producer Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan.
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Initially, each episode of the series was to feature a different composer, but series director David Richardson liked Enya's track so much, he commissioned her to compose the entire score. As a coincidence, Enya had recorded a track named "March of the Celts" before she was asked to be involved, and decided to submit it to the project. In 2009, The Celts was reissued in Japan with a bonus track.įollowing her work on the soundtrack to the romantic comedy film The Frog Prince (1984), Enya's first major project as a solo artist followed when, in 1985, she was invited by producer Tony McAuley to compose a track for his 1987 BBC television documentary series The Celts. 10 on the UK Albums Chart and sold a further one million copies in the United States. After the commercial success of Enya's next two albums, the album was reissued as The Celts and outperformed its original sales. Despite its commercial performance, the album helped Enya secure a recording contract with Warner after chairman Rob Dickins became a fan of its music. The album continued to sell it was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments of one million copies. It was a mild commercial success, peaking at No. After its director David Richardson liked her demo, Enya accepted his offer to compose the entire score with her longtime recording partners, producer and arranger Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan.Įnya received mostly mixed reviews from critics when it was released in 1987. Four years into her largely unnoticed solo career, Enya landed her first major project in 1985 when producer Tony McAuley asked her to contribute a song to the soundtrack. The album is a selection of music she recorded for the soundtrack to the BBC television series The Celts, aired in 1987.
It was renamed as The Celts for the 1992 international re-release of the album by WEA Records in Europe and by Reprise Records in the United States. I’ve painstakingly rebuilt my house and my heart since then and this album narrates it,” she disclosed.Enya is the debut studio album by Irish singer, songwriter, and musician Enya, released in March 1987 by BBC Records in the United Kingdom and by Atlantic Records in the United States. “That friend who snuck in and left a magazine with a face mask and some bath salts to make me feel loved while inadvertently reminding me not only what month it actually was but that I should probably exercise some self-care! And then that friend who no matter what, checked in on me even though I’d stopped checking in with them because I’d become so consumed by my own grief. The get up and go friend who would pick me up and take me somewhere I said I didn’t want to go but just wanted to get me out the house for some vitamin D. Not to forget the one who’s wild and says ‘It’s your Saturn return babes fuck it, you only live once.’ The friend who’d stay up all night and just hold my hand while I’d sob relentlessly not knowing why. “My wise friend who always gives the best advice.
“When I was writing it, it was my friend who came over with a bottle of wine and a takeaway to cheer me up,” she wrote.
In announcing the album last week, Adele compared the album to having a friend during “the most turbulent period of my life,” a time in which she married, divorced and raised her now nine-year-old son. She released the first song from the album, “Easy on Me,” on Friday. The show is produced by Fulwell 73 Productions and Onward Productions in association with Harpo Productions executive producers are “Late Late Show With James Corden” producer Ben Winston (who also shepherded the 2021 Grammy Awards), Adele, her manager Jonathan Dickins and Raj Kapoor.
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