Amarantine Days
I’ve picked up Enya as one of my favorite artists back in the old college days in Pittsburgh. I had a room mate (who looked very much like Enya) that would play her music and fall asleep to it.
This week my mother in-law (also a big fan) told me that she was coming out with a new album after five years. She had seen an advertisement in the paper that Best Buy would be selling it under ten dollars. As she was telling me this on the phone, I looked at a few coupons that I got from McDonald’s. I had a total of five dollars in Best Buy Bucks.
I went on over today. As I walked through the doors, a table was rite there with a few items laid out. I figured that this might be the stuff in the advertisement and quickly found Amarantine priced at $13.99. The register at the front picked up the discount of $9.99. The cashier said I could only apply up to three dollars towards a musical album. The total came to $7.49. That is still a very good deal.
Much of her music was just like much of her other stuff. There are subtle differences. I especially liked Less Than a Pearl, Someone Said Goodbye, A Moment Lost, Drifting, Amid the Falling Snow, and Water Shows the Hidden Heart. The album cover simply had Enya with a white backdrop. Simple.
One thing that I noticed was a small comment on the back. The lyrics for three songs (Less than a pearl, The river sings, and Water shows the hidden heart) were sung in the Loxian language. I haven’t heard of this language before. My mother in-law said that some songs were sung in elvish or a similar language in some of the past films from the Tolkien trilogy, “Lord of the Rings“.
This comment went on to say that the language was taken from the book “Water Shows The Hidden Heart”. Amazon doesn’t have this book. They don’t even have the person, Roma Ryan, as an author either. They are mainly a lyricist/conductor for Enya. I found a related article that said that the language was inspired from her work with Lord of the Rings.
“Roma suggested a fictional language for singing and tried to create a culture and history behind it,” Enya says. “The Loxians live on another planet and are looking out, wondering, ‘Are we the only ones who exist?’ It’s a beautiful idea.”