The Japanese music retailer Tower Records announced the lengths of the ‘Dark Sky Island’ tracks.
Dark Sky Island (deluxe)
| 01 | The humming | 3:42 |
| 02 | So I could find my way | 4:25 |
| 03 | Even in the shadows | 4:13 |
| 04 | The forge of the angels | 5:12 |
| 05 | Echoes in rain | 3:33 |
| 06 | I could never say goodbye | 3:28 |
| 07 | Dark Sky Island | 4:56 |
| 08 | Sancta Maria | 3:50 |
| 09 | Astra et luna | 3:20 |
| 10 | The Loxian Gates | 3:33 |
| 11 | Diamonds on the water | 3:33 |
| 12 | Solace | 3:56 |
| 13 | Pale Grass Blue | 3:33 |
| 14 | Remember your smile | 2:57 |
Total Time： 54:11
Edit: removed the language fields since the info on DSI is just too confusing.
25 October 2015 at 1:56 PM
No gaelic? How about latin? And instrumentals? Hmm.. Well, at least it still a new Enya
But, Who knows?.. :)
25 October 2015 at 2:58 PM
Pretty sure Astra et Luna is in Latin. It means Stars and Moon. :)
25 October 2015 at 3:07 PM
It IS strange that the Gaelic tracks have been in decline over the years. The last new Gaelic song we got was 15 years ago with ADWR. I am baffled, to be honest. I had hopes that, as we have had Gaelic tracks with English names, we might have one in DSI, but I do not know now…
Now, it seems we are getting a track in Latin, that is heartwarming.
Instrumentals, on the other side, have become pretty scarce, but I cannot imagine an Enya album without any instrumental. It would be sad. However, Pale Grass Blue and Solace sound like instrumental names, and I expected the title track to be one.
But as the person above me said, the important thing is that we will have the new album in our hands in a short time! And it looks like DSI is going to be beyond perfect!
25 October 2015 at 3:27 PM
Well, I’m not so sure whether “Astra et Luna” is actually in Latin (though I do hope so); it may well be an instrumental. Apart from that, the track “Sancta Maria”, Latin for “Holy Mary”, apparently has English lyrics despite its title.
25 October 2015 at 4:13 PM
“Loxian language, created by the trio’s lyricist Roma Ryan, makes a comeback in song on Dark Sky Island for the first time since the release of Amarantine and its accompanying book Water Shows The Hidden Heart, in songs ‘The Forge Of Angels’ and ‘The Loxian Gates’. These songs in particular focus on the ‘intergalactic theme’ and otherworldly and futuristic tales Roma Ryan uses Loxian for, along with the non-Loxian Astra et Luna”.
So I guess Astra et Luna is not an instrumental, otherwise they would have stated it in the official review.
25 October 2015 at 6:35 PM
@Athony
Thanks! I guess you’re right.
And I thought I knew the official press release by heart by now :-). I must’ve overlooked that passage about Astra et Luna.
25 October 2015 at 6:38 PM
oops, sorry typo, that’s supposed to be Anthony :-)
25 October 2015 at 9:07 PM
It sounds like Dark Sky Island might be a little like Amarantine – which is a bit of an oddity compared to other Enya albums: only one instrumental, no Gaelic or Latin tracks, with Loxian and other languages thrown in there instead. I’m hoping this album has at least one or two instrumentals because they definitely add to the flow of an album. I’m still guessing we might get a Latin track and an instrumental, but Gaelic doesn’t seem to make an appearance here (unless it has an english title). I’m excited, though! This is a fairly lengthy album – 14 tracks with most of them exceeding 3 minutes.
25 October 2015 at 9:13 PM
@Lucas, I was surprised to see two supposedly Latin songs one after another. Then, I experienced a glimpse of hope, thinking that Sancta Maria could be (magically) a Gaelic track. But then Nigel (global moderator at Unity) informed us about the launch party of DSI in New York, telling us that Sancta Maria had indeed English lyrics and saying, quoting verbatim, that it is bursting full of light.
I am really happy that Eithne and Roma decided to use Loxian again. Water Shows The Hidden Heart is in my TOP 10 and both Less Than A Peal and The River Sings are wonderful.
But I am still surprised that there are (apparently) no instrumentals.
25 October 2015 at 9:55 PM
I’d love to have a Gaelic and/or Latin song so much! But from what Nigel replied to my question about those languages, there were no intrumentals and only one Loxian track played during the launch party. I guess we’ll have more details once song previews are available.
25 October 2015 at 10:21 PM
@Georgi
The thing is that I absolutely adore Enya’s instrumentals. Watermark, From Where I Am, Tea House Moon, A Day Without Rain, The Promise, and of course Drifting. That’s why I was secretly hoping that Astra et Luna would be one of them. To me, her piano melodies convey themes and emotions in such purity, soothing, peaceful, sometimes with a more contemplative touch or an uplifting spirit like the instrumental part in Echoes in Rains, they make me feel like I’m floating through air…
25 October 2015 at 10:44 PM
@Lucas
No problem! ;) Back on the subject of Astra et Luna: judging by the title, it might have been sung in both English & Latin (or perhaps entirely in Latin), since, as is the case with most Enya songs, whatever a song title is, unless it’s an instrumental we are talking about, it usually comes from that very song lyric.
26 October 2015 at 7:28 AM
The songs which played in the party could be not expose the entire album. There must be two loxian, even in DSI standard release.
26 October 2015 at 4:22 PM
It says here in this interview, http://www.idolator.com/7612739/enya-new-album-dark-sky-island-generational-appeal-interview “It’s not like anything anybody else does — it’s songs in Gaelic, songs in Latin and in Loxian.”, so at least one song in Latin confirmed!
26 October 2015 at 6:40 PM
@Gabriel Yes, I am really really happy about those languages being used again.
26 October 2015 at 6:40 PM
im sooooooo hoping we get a gaelic track this time round, i find them most interesting, and more intimate, with it being enyas first language, almost an hours worth of music… alleluia lol :)))
26 October 2015 at 8:34 PM
@Lucas
I completely understand where you are coming from. One of the things that made me fall in love with Enya’s music is the diversity it offers. Diversity in languages, in melodies, in theme… But there also is that diversity that comes from “lyrics-free” tracks, that appeal me a lot. Knowing that she is capable of conveying emotions, thoughts, feelings… through pure music and vocalisations is something truly praiseworthy and something that not many could do. But Eithne is Eithne, and she knows how to do that properly. Hence, in the past, we have got magical instrumentals like The Memory Of Trees, Drifting, The First Of Autumn… The piano solo in Echoes In Rain caught me absolutely by surprise, but I loved it so much! We have never heard Eithne play the piano that way <3
27 October 2015 at 9:40 AM
How come there’re so many 3.33’s on the album? And it seems that there will be a Gaelic song this time, judging from what Enya said in the interview.
27 October 2015 at 6:19 PM
4 tracks at 3:33. Now what would’ve been great is 3 tracks at 3:33. That would be a triple trinity. 3 tracks with 3 numbers–all of which are 3’s…