Amarantine

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Amarantine
Studio album by Enya

Publication
(s)

2005

Label (s) EMI Music Publishing Ltd

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

New Age

Title (number)

12

running time

45 min 37 s

occupation
  • Singing: Enya
  • Instruments: Enya

production

Nicky Ryan

Studio (s)

Aigle Studio

chronology
Only Time - The Collection
(2003) 		Amarantine Sounds Of The Season
(2006)

Amarantine is Enya's sixth studio album . It was released in November 2005. In 2006 the Amarantine Special Christmas Edition was released , which contains a second CD with four other titles.

background

The word "amarantine" means "immortal", but in English it is mainly written as "amaranth" or "amaranthus". “Amarantine” does not appear in English dictionaries. Enya was inspired by the Greek word “amarantos”. Amaranth is a genus of plants that grows almost everywhere due to its modesty and is interpreted in a poetic sense as a symbol of immortality.

The artist herself commented on this as follows:

“We called the album Amarantine because the title expresses immortality. Many poets use this word to describe an immortal flower, and I love that idea. We worked on this album for two years and it is an exciting moment for me when in the end everything comes to bloom and people can hear what we have done during that time. "

- Enya

The songs Less than a Pearl , The River Sings and Water Shows the Hidden Heart are sung in the " Loxian " language invented by Roma Ryan . The booklet contains the text in Loxian - and accordingly illegible - characters as well as the English translation. The song Sumiregusa ( Wild Violet ) is sung in Japanese. The text is in a Latin transcription and an English translation in the booklet .

Single releases

The songs Amarantine and It's in the Rain were released as a single. The second CD of the 2006 Christmas edition contains four previously unpublished Christmas carols .

Success and reception

In 2007, Enya won the Grammy for "Best New Age Album" with Amarantine . The album sold very well worldwide. In Germany it reached number 3 in the album charts and stayed in the top 100 for a total of 30 weeks, with two re-entry. It also achieved triple gold status in Germany (over 300,000 copies sold). Despite these successes, critics complained about the lack of imagination of Enya's album concepts, which always followed the same pattern.

Track list

  1. Less Than a Pearl - 3:44
  2. Amarantine - 3:13
  3. It's in the Rain - 4:08
  4. If I Could Be Where You Are - 4:01
  5. The River Sings - 2:49
  6. Long Long Journey - 3:17
  7. Sumiregusa - 4:42
  8. Someone Said Goodbye - 4:02
  9. A Moment Lost - 3:08
  10. Drifting - 4:12
  11. Amid the Falling Snow - 3:38
  12. Water Shows the Hidden Heart 04:39

Bonus CD (Special Christmas Edition)

  1. Adeste fideles
  2. The Magic of the Night
  3. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
  4. Christmas Secrets

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Ferber: A Dictionary of Literary Symbols. (PDF; 162 kB) Second edition. Cambridge University Press
  2. ↑ Enya - Amarantine - Lyrics and Translations. ( Memento from December 29, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ All the music on the Internet ( Memento of the original from January 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. musicline.de @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  4. ↑ Gold / platinum database entry for the album on the website of the Bundesverband Musikindustrie e. V. , accessed on February 23, 2012
  5. ↑ criticism at swr3.de

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