ENYA NEWS

There is a new The Very Best of Enya Limited Edition 12" Boxset available in Enya's official store. It includes a 12" hard-backed book featuring exclusive notes, photos, lyrics and biography, housed with the deluxe CD/DVD and 12" Orinoco Flow picture disc vinyl. The relase is limited to 1000 copies and will be available from 30th November 2009. It looks thoroughly awesome, the only drawback is the price of £74.99. Aaaach, I'd love to get but it's too expensive :/

The Very Best of Enya is a divine retrospective of Enya's musical career. Within this exclusive Limited Edition Boxset - only available in the uk from www.enyastore.co.uk - you will find the deluxe CD/DVD featuring 22 tracks spanning her 20 year career a previously unreleased version of Aniron as featured in 'Lord of the Rings', plus a DVD collection of 13 videos and rare interview footage, and a 12" Picture Disc vinyl of landmark single Orinoco Flow complimented by a 24 page exclusive 12" hard-back book containing hand written lyrics, linear notes, a detailed blog and photos. PLUS the 22 track deluxe album delivered as high quality MP3s to your inbox!

I've been thinking about redesigning the site since August and the very best of release gave me both a colour scheme and an excuse ;) Everything is still in the testing mode so if you encouter some strange behavior, please let me know. Cheers & enjoy!

Warner Music Japan published a cute never-before-seen photo of Enya. It looks like it was taken during And Winter Came photoshoot.

The USA release date was postponed again, this time to Tuesday 1th December. On the other hand, they are getting a bonus tracks! Yes, I know you've already guessed it yourselves, it is nothing else than Oiche Chiuin :) As for Europe, the release date stays on 20th and 23th November respectively, but there's no sign of a bonus track. The Japanese edition released on 2th December will include 3 bonus tracks: To Go Beyond (Part II), Only If and Dreams Are More Precious.

Amazon.com has a short article about the limited edition mentioning some new information: CD/DVD package will be a hardback deluxe slipcase with book featuring Enya art and images. The Very Best Of Enya CD/DVD package features the most comprehensive Enya DVD to date, encompassing thirteen videos as well as interview and behind the scenes footage. It also includes two making of mini-documentaries examining the creation of the Caribbean Blue and Only Time videos. The DVD will contain audio up mixed to 5.1 surround sound.

I created a page for The Very Best of Enya compilation so all the information can be found at one place. If you go there you can see the new slightly different version of the cover, the back cover and the lovely packaging of the special edition :)

Enfin, bad news for the Japanese Enya fans: the release date was postponed once again. This time to 2th December 2009.

HMV Japan uploaded the European tracklist for The Very Best of Enya. They confirm that Aniron included on the new release is indeed "a previously unreleased version". En plus, the dvd disc will contain three documentary videos: Enya: A Life in Music, Only Time: The Making of the Video and Caribbean Blue: Only Time: The Making of the Video.

Those are nice little documentaries but I'm a tid bit disappointed that they didn't include something more recent like And Winter Came track-by-track guide or a completely new footage. However, I'm still excited about Aniron! Have I already told you that I love the song? Well, I do ;)

Let's start with the bad news: the relase date of the 'best of' was postponed by a week. That means that the new release dates are as follows:

• Friday 20th November: Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Ireland
• Monday 23th November: rest of Europe, most of the world
• Tuesday 24th November: USA
• Wednesday 25th November: Japan

I suspect it might have been caused by the fact that I've put up a countdown ;)

Now the good news is that some of the songs have been newly remastered!

The Very Best of Enya (cd only tracklisting)

1. Orinoco Flow (Remastered 2009 version) --------------- 04:25
2. Aniron (Album) -------------------------------------------------- 03:14
3. Storms In Africa (Remastered 2009) ---------------------- 04:03
4. Caribbean Blue (Remastered 2009) ----------------------- 03:56
5. Book Of Days (Remastered 2009) -------------------------- 02:55
6. The Celts (Remastered 2009) ------------------------------- 02:56
7. Only Time (Original Version) -------------------------------- 03:38
8. Wild Child --------------------------------------------------------- 03:47
9. Water Shows The Hidden Heart --------------------------- 04:39
10. Anywhere Is (Remastered 2009) --------------------------- 03:58
11. Cursum Perficio (Remastered 2009) ---------------------- 04:06
12. Amarantine (album version) --------------------------------- 03:10
13. Aldebaran (Remastered 2009) ------------------------------ 03:05
14. Trains And Winter Rains ------------------------------------- 03:43
15. Watermark (Remastered 2009) ----------------------------- 02:44
16. Boadicea (Remastered 2009) ------------------------------- 03:30
17. A Day Without Rain ------------------------------------------- 02:38
18. May It Be (Album version) ---------------------------------- 04:16

Total: 64:43 Source: WM Switzerland, Enya's Castle

You might have noticed that the running time of Aniron listed for the new album is 3:14, however the piece featured on The Lord of the Rings soundtrack is about half a minute longer. I wonder if they've just shortened the orchestral part composed by Howard Shore or cutted it out completely and added the missing stanzas not included in the film.

* The lyrics in italics are not included in the version feaured on the soundrack

Enya.com published the tracklist for the new 'best of' which will be released on 16th November 2009. The songs were chosen personally by Enya, Roma and Nicky. The cd-only edition contains 18 tracks, the cd/dvd edition contains a cd with 22 tracks and a dvd with 13 music videos. There are no new songs included. I'm intrigued to hear about the selection process because the two cds seem quite different from each other. Maybe Enya reveals some background information in the promotional interviews.

I've noticed that the cd from the cd/dvd package follows the 'journey back in time' pattern and the songs go from 'And Winter Came' to 'The Celts'...just an observation :)

CD-ONLY FORMAT TRACKLISTING

1. Orinoco Flow 2. Aniron 3. Storms in Africa 4. Caribbean Blue 5. Book of Days 6. The Celts 7. Only Time 8. Wild Child 9. Water Shows The Hidden Heart 10. Anywhere Is 11. Cursum Perficio 12. Amarantine 13. Aldebaran 14. Trains and Winter Rains 15. Watermark 16. Boadicea 17. A Day Without Rain 18. May It Be

CD/DVD FORMAT TRACKLISTING: CD

1. Trains and Winter Rains 2. My My Time Flies 3. Stars and Midnight Blue 4. Amarantine 5. Sumiregusa 6. The River Sings 7. If I Could Be Where You Are 8. Wild Child 9. Only Time 10. Drifting 11. Flora's Secret 12. Fallen Embers 13. One By One 14. Pax Deorum 15. Athair ar Neamh 16. Anywhere Is 17. Orinoco Flow 18. Watermark 19. Boadicea 20. May It Be 21. Caribbean Blue 22. Aniron

CD/DVD FORMAT TRACKLISTING: DVD

1. Orinoco Flow 2. Caribbean Blue 3. Only Time 4. The Celts 5. Amarantine 6. Trains And Winter Rains 7. Evening Falls 8. Anywhere Is 9. It's In The Rain 10. Wild Child 11. Only If 12. Storms In Africa 13. On My Way Home

According to the Roma Ryan's site, The Second Loxian Games begin Friday 9th October 2009. I'm sure they will be fun so mark the date on your calendars and prepare your Loxian dictionaries :)

As for the Nightflower competition (participants had to submit names for three nightflowers, Roma chose the ones she liked the best), the winning names were: Fragile Moon, The truelove found across the night (Ancient) and Kan Hooromay Eepha. There will also be three extra prizes awarded at the end of the Games to the people who submitted names for flowers that already exist.