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Post by phantas on Jul 31, 2009 12:04:27 GMT -5
See this thread for explanation: enyaforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=celts&thread=378Which tracks would you choose as representation of the album? (I know this one is tricky!) Here is my (changeable) selection: - The Memory of Trees - Anywhere Is - Pax Deorum - China Roses - On My Way Home This one is tricky as there are so many outstanding tracks on this album. But generally I feel these have the most staying power and they linger even when other songs are forgotten.... but this is all IMHO. What's your take on it? Love, Phantas
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Post by tellmeverbatim on Jun 18, 2021 12:12:45 GMT -5
The title song Memory of Trees - I realize it's an instrumental with no lyrics. But there are two words spoken in what I perceive to be the repeating chorus. I've always been curious if anyone has discovered what they are. Phonetically, they sound like "Feel Da." I don't think they're just rhythmic tones like Da-Di-Da. It's a long-lasting curiosity because they are placed poignantly in the music, and repeated.
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Post by Isabel on Jun 19, 2021 2:54:53 GMT -5
The title song Memory of Trees - I realize it's an instrumental with no lyrics. But there are two words spoken in what I perceive to be the repeating chorus. I've always been curious if anyone has discovered what they are. Phonetically, they sound like "Feel Da." I don't think they're just rhythmic tones like Da-Di-Da. It's a long-lasting curiosity because they are placed poignantly in the music, and repeated. Good observation. I also listened to the title song of the album, Memory of Trees, again. It is not just instrumental there is vocals too. Also heard the "Feel Da"...
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Post by ๐ชทaestas๐ชท on Jun 19, 2021 5:19:28 GMT -5
I'm sorry, I feel like The Memory of Trees represents the album, but I also hear the sun in the end of China China Roses which is funny because I used to hear I see the sun, I see the stars, I know the way or something like it, odd.... I always hear things in Enya's music and hear more towards the end.
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Post by tellmeverbatim on Jun 20, 2021 0:50:10 GMT -5
I'm sorry, I feel like The Memory of Trees represents the album, but I also hear the sun in the end of China China Roses which is funny because I used to hear I see the sun, I see the stars, I know the way or something like it, odd.... I always hear things in Enya's music and hear more towards the end. Yes. Enya seems to be uncanny in creating environments and places to which we long to escape. They are places where we can forget daily urban life - places we never wish to leave. There is a romanticism about it that expects Enya to be there too. Where I live there are desert plants whose only view has been the landscape toward the West, and I think how tiresome to be a plant that only sees one view for months and years on end, unless the wind changes things for a rare moment. But of course plants can't see. Then one encounters a 500-year old redwood and you think about all the conversations that have been heard near that tree, the styles of vehicles and modes of dress. If trees could talk.
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Post by tellmeverbatim on Jun 20, 2021 0:53:33 GMT -5
The title song Memory of Trees - I realize it's an instrumental with no lyrics. But there are two words spoken in what I perceive to be the repeating chorus. I've always been curious if anyone has discovered what they are. Phonetically, they sound like "Feel Da." I don't think they're just rhythmic tones like Da-Di-Da. It's a long-lasting curiosity because they are placed poignantly in the music, and repeated. Good observation. I also listened to the title song of the album, Memory of Trees, again. It is not just instrumental there is vocals too. Also heard the "Feel Da"... I mentioned instrumental because in the liner notes and on lyrics sites, none exist for the song. But I also do hear other words very distant. The closeness with which Enya and Roma conceive the total effect is truly magical. I don't know too many composers who let someone else do the lyrics. Lerner and Loew, Rodgers & Hammerstein. With R and H though, the Hammerstein lyrics often seemed silly because of the complexity of Rodgers phrasing.
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Post by sempiternity on Jun 21, 2021 22:16:08 GMT -5
The title song Memory of Trees - I realize it's an instrumental with no lyrics. But there are two words spoken in what I perceive to be the repeating chorus. I've always been curious if anyone has discovered what they are. Phonetically, they sound like "Feel Da." I don't think they're just rhythmic tones like Da-Di-Da. It's a long-lasting curiosity because they are placed poignantly in the music, and repeated. That particular bit is to my ear 'Fรกilte' (Gaelic "welcome"). The major word later is to my ear 'bua' (Gaelic "blessing", more loosely "ability, relief"). There's more in the background but difficult to make out. There are fragmentary words/phrases in many, perhaps most, Enya songs. Most seem to be in Gaelic originally but a few have been in Latin. Many are intelligible with difficulty or unintelligible. The trio generally doesn't explain them. Enya has said that when she's working on a song, she usually has a bit of Gaelic verse that goes with it and keeps her reminded of what the song is about to her. She works on individual songs off and on, weeks and months and years apart, and the trio doesn't seem to give them names until they're nearly done. So it starts as some sort of memory aid. The trio seems to have often simply put/kept these in the songs.
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Post by phantas on Jun 23, 2021 7:31:58 GMT -5
All I hear where vocals or vocalisations are concerned in The Memory of Trees track is "Eo Deo" which imho makes sense as it returns in Pax Deorum. In THAT song, Athair ar Neamh is already included, which is the following song on the album. Hence I think Enya (as in Eithne & Nicky) made a sort of trio of songs, starting with TMOT, then Pax, then Athair ar Neamh where a part of the lyrics/vocalise is included in a previous track.
As a side note, this topic is digressing from my original question. Which songs would you say are the Core of the album?
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Post by tellmeverbatim on Jun 23, 2021 18:25:11 GMT -5
The title song Memory of Trees - I realize it's an instrumental with no lyrics. But there are two words spoken in what I perceive to be the repeating chorus. I've always been curious if anyone has discovered what they are. Phonetically, they sound like "Feel Da." I don't think they're just rhythmic tones like Da-Di-Da. It's a long-lasting curiosity because they are placed poignantly in the music, and repeated. That particular bit is to my ear 'Fรกilte' (Gaelic "welcome"). The major word later is to my ear 'bua' (Gaelic "blessing", more loosely "ability, relief"). There's more in the background but difficult to make out. There are fragmentary words/phrases in many, perhaps most, Enya songs. Most seem to be in Gaelic originally but a few have been in Latin. Many are intelligible with difficulty or unintelligible. The trio generally doesn't explain them. Enya has said that when she's working on a song, she usually has a bit of Gaelic verse that goes with it and keeps her reminded of what the song is about to her. She works on individual songs off and on, weeks and months and years apart, and the trio doesn't seem to give them names until they're nearly done. So it starts as some sort of memory aid. The trio seems to have often simply put/kept these in the songs.
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Post by tellmeverbatim on Jun 23, 2021 18:25:53 GMT -5
This was the most informative. Thanks for your reply.
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Post by Suvi on Jun 24, 2021 9:29:56 GMT -5
My list:
The Memory Of Trees Pax Deorum Athair Ar Neamh Anywhere Is
I too hear many "eo deo's" in TMOT as well...
Suvi
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Post by ใค๐โณโฒ๐ง ๐
๐๐โ๐๐๐๐ on Dec 11, 2022 12:18:41 GMT -5
I would say The Memory of Trees itself, Anywhere Is, Pax Deorum and On My Way Home are the core songs of this album. They are all nice tracks, though most of them are a bit gloomy. Some of the songs suggest the idea of being extra optimistic in the face of darkness, through the happy melodies Enya wrote. There are always some sort of misheard lyrics, and also mistaken titles of songs. For Enya's songs I could understand 'Sail Away' for Orinoco Flow (there is the subtitle of it too) and maybe the 'Alleluia' song for Echoes In Rain. However, this one made me laugh as I just noticed it: some know Anywhere Is as 'Emotion on the Ocean' (lots of misheard lyrics here too) www.justsomelyrics.com/2018713/enya-emotion-on-the-ocean-lyrics.html
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