Intervista ad Enya per radioBERLIN 88,8
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martedì 12 aprile 2016
sabato 9 aprile 2016
Intervista ad Enya su Studio 360 | WNYC
Proprio nella giornata che la vedeva impegnata agli #ECHO216 a Berlino, l'emittente radiofonica statunitense Studio 360 | WNYC ha messo in onda un'intervista ad Enya rilasciata durante il suo secondo viaggio promozionale a New York il mese scorso. L'intervista, condotta dal romanziere Kurt Andersen e intitolata Enya Sails Away on an Ocean of Stars, è stata rilasciata in formato podcast (durata 17 minuti) ed un estratto è stato riportato sul sito. La chiacchierata tra i due - a cui partecipano negli ultimi minuti anche Nicky e Roma Ryan - è intervallata da una playlist costituita da alcuni brani della cantante ed uno dei Clannad (Orinoco Flow, Dark Sky Island, Boadicea, Mhorag 'S Na Horo Gheallaidh, Lazy Days, The Humming, Aníron ed Echoes In Rain).
Qui di seguito l'estratto dell'intervista
When Enya released “Watermark” in 1989, her first solo album became an international hit. Since then, she has continued to release albums every few years — and even appeared on the soundtrack of “The Lord of the Rings.”Late last year, she released her seventh album, “Dark Sky Island,” a collection of new songs showcasing the ethereal voice that launched her career nearly three decades ago.
During a rare trip from her native Ireland to the US, Enya visited Kurt Andersen in Studio 360 and talked about speaking Gaelic, living in a castle, and the inspiration behind her latest album.
Kurt Andersen: Did you grow up speaking Gaelic?
Enya: Of course. It was my first language, and still is my first language.
I read that this album was inspired by a place called Sark Island. Where and what is Sark?
Sark Island is one of the Channel Islands off the coast of England, and this island in particular, [my lyricist] Roma had written a poem about. The story about Sark Island is that it’s the first island to be designated a dark sky area. There’s only 600 people that live on this island. They never had cars. The only means to get to the island is by boat. I’ve not been —
Really?
Yes, but I’ve met a lot of people who have been. If you go outside on a clear night, there are certain landmarks we would look for, but it’s impossible to see because of the vastness of the stars.
And so your lyricist Roma Ryan found out about it and decided to write poem?
She wrote this beautiful poem. It was a lovely inspiration for me because I love the sea; I love stars. Being brought up in Donegal on the Atlantic coast, there wasn’t a lot of light pollution. So when she told me this story, I could relate to it. So much so that it was the inspiration for the first song I wrote.
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Fonti: Studio 360 | WNYC, Wikipedia
venerdì 18 marzo 2016
SONG TO SOUL: lo speciale dedicato a Enya
Fonti: BS-TBS, BS-TBS SONG TO SOUL, YouTube, Wikipedia
AGGIORNAMENTO (19/03): Le restanti parti di SONG TO SOUL (video 2-8). Buona visione.
AGGIORNAMENTO (19/03): Le restanti parti di SONG TO SOUL (video 2-8). Buona visione.
Fonte: YouTube
mercoledì 16 marzo 2016
Enya su The Wall Street Journal
Un nuovo articolo-intervista sulla cantante pubblicato ieri sull'edizione online del The Wall Street Journal.
Ireland’s Enya on How Life by the Sea Influenced Her Music
One of the Emerald Isle’s best-known singers recalls her Celtic upbringing in coastal Gaoth Dobhair
Irish singer-songwriter Enya Brennan, 54, known professionally as Enya, is one of the world’s best-selling recording artists and has won four Grammy Awards. Her latest album is “Dark Sky Island” (Reprise). She spoke with Marc Myers.
The sea has been in my heart since I was a little girl. I grew up in Gaoth Dobhair, an Irish-speaking parish on the Atlantic coast of County Donegal, in the northwest corner of Ireland. The area is known for its rugged cliffs and windswept beaches, and the sea’s moods and spirit still find their way into my music.
When I was little, Gaoth Dobhair was a rural area and fairly secluded from the rest of Ireland. It’s still pretty much that way today. It’s the largest Gaelic-speaking parish in Ireland. When I was 4, I attended primary school to learn English.
The parish of Gaoth Dobhair is still quite picturesque. The most recognizable feature is Mount Errigal, which is surrounded by deep glens and lakes. There are six small islands off the coastline, including Gola and Tory, and I’d often take mountain walks and look out at them. We had quite a bit of rain throughout the year, but the rain never bothered me.
The house I grew up in was on my grandparents’ property, behind their house. Ours was built in the 1950s and wasn’t very big. We had a girls’ room and a boys’ room for nine children. I was the sixth, with four brothers and four sisters.
School was an extension of my home life. My grandfather, Hughie Duggan, was the schoolmaster and my grandmother, Mary Duggan, was the head teacher at the primary school. My grandfather was a great storyteller. Before I attended school, I’d wait for him to arrive home each afternoon hoping he’d tell me a story. Halfway through he’d stop and say, “Tomorrow, we’ll continue.” It was all so dramatic.
Music was big in our household. My father, Leo, was the leader of a dance band, and my mother, Maire, was a music teacher and a pianist in his band. They toured a great deal, mostly in Ireland and Scotland. When they did, my grandmother and my mother’s sister took care of us. Naturally, we were spoiled.
By the time I was 4, I was eager to learn to play the piano. I loved melody, and the piano fascinated me. As a child, music unlocked my imagination, and today I still find music very visual. When I write, it’s like a journey. I never know where I’m going to go. It’s only at the end that I become aware of the song’s main inspiration.
When I was 5, I began entering singing competitions. The first time I sang was at the local theater. You had to perform two songs, starting with a slow one and finishing with a fast one. They were songs we were taught in primary school. During the concert, my mother was seated at the piano in front of the stage and provided contestants with their starting notes. When it was my turn, I mistakenly began with the fast song. I didn’t realize my error until I saw my mother’s frown. I stopped singing and covered my mouth. There was silence, followed by laughter.
My mother quickly played the starting note again and I sang the right song. When I finished, there was a pause and I sang the fast song again. I won the contest. I was determined to get it right, and the audience’s laughter didn’t deter me.
Being a middle child wasn’t difficult. Middle children aren’t usually asked tough questions by adults. Those go to the older ones. So I ended up listening more than talking at home. It wasn’t until I was 11, when I went away to boarding school at Loreto College in Milford in County Donegal, that I began to hear the sound of my voice and actually enjoyed it.
After boarding school, I joined Clannad, a folk group that included three of my older siblings and two uncles. Nicky and Roma Ryan were managing the group at the time. Nicky felt the group needed a new musical element and suggested I join. I toured with them for two years. Then I left to explore a new musical approach with Nicky and Roma.
Soon after I left Clannad, I started writing what was described as “instrumental music” and “visual pieces,” a style I continue to write in today. In 1986, I was signed to Warner Music.
Today I divide my time between two homes—one near Dublin overlooking the Irish Sea and the other on the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France. Near Dublin, I live in a Victorian castle that was built in 1840. When I bought it in 1997, there was a lot of work to be done. It took two years to restore it to its charming original state. I also put in large windows to view the sea.
At my castle, I take long walks. I have to say, one of my favorite views is the moon reflecting on the water at night. It’s spectacular. All that silent glittering on the water, it’s like looking at a secret.
Articolo di Marc Mayers
Foto di Brad Trent
Fonte: The Wall Street Journal
martedì 15 marzo 2016
Enya a HuffPost Live
Dopo l'esibizione mattutina su (Fox5), nel pomeriggio di ieri Enya è stata ospite di UffPost Live dove è stata intervistata. Una lunga chiacchierata di circa 24 minuti dove tra l'altro ad una fortunata fan è stata data la possibilità di interagire con la cantante ponendole una domanda in diretta via webcam. Un'altra domanda è stata poi scelta dal conduttore tra quelle arrivate sul sito.
Fonte: UffPost Live
mercoledì 16 dicembre 2015
Enya su Hot Press annual 2016
Hot Press, la rivista nata in Irlanda e specializzata in musica e politica, ha dedicato la copertina del 2016 ad Enya, ma non solo; sul sito infatti è presente un estratto dell'articolo The Untold Story of Enya presente all'interno della copia cartacea (e digitale) della rivista. Nell'estratto si parla di un concerto al Metropolitan di New York, da trasmettere in tutto il mondo, e di registrare i brani più celebri della cantante irlandese negli studi londinesi di Abbey Road. Notizia questa già nota nel maggio del 2011, quando Nicky Ryan rilasciò un'intervista dove si paventava tale possibilità. Sarà la volta buona?
Enya: Plan To Record The Hits Live Revealed
Live gigs are being considered by the Enya triumvirate – with live in-studio recordings of the big tracks from her back catalogue providing a potential starting point...
Enya has revealed to Hot Press that she is considering the possibility of doing live gigs. But the likelihood is that the potential live show will be tested and developed via a live in-studio recording, with long-time producer Nicky Ryan in charge of proceedings.
“We talked about using The Metropolitan in New York to just even one concert that can be screened all over the world,” Enya reveals. “But to hear it first is the most important thing: to hear ‘Orinoco Flow’ or ‘Caribbean Blue’ as they would sound live. We’ve done some really great TV shows for Japan and you have the string sections - ten cellos and twenty violins - playing the music and you hear all the parts and the choir. It’s time to experiment with getting the sound on stage.”
While nothing is yet written in stone, there’s also talk of ensconcing themselves in the world’s most famous studio.
“Nicky has this idea of recording all the hits live,” Enya reveals. “He’s a big Beatles fan, so he’d love to do it in Abbey Road.”
The bumper 2016 Hot Press Annual has Enya – who was christened Eithne Ní Bhraonáin – on the cover. The interview, conducted by Hot Press editor Niall Stokes, delves deep into the enigmatic Irish star’s creative process.
Enya says she didn’t properly know where her new Dark Sky Island album was taking her until the conclusion of the sessions.
“It’s only when you finish the eleven songs - the eleven stories and what they are saying - that you know,” she reflects. “You understand how I work with Nicky Ryan. I write a song. We work on it for a while and then we leave it. You mightn’t go back to that song for three months or six months. When you go back, that’s where you try and see what the emotional feeling was, what was in the melody?”
Noting that, “It’s really important to live your life right now; you never know what tomorrow will bring”, Enya says she’s keener than ever to perform her first solo gigs.
The article, which runs over six pages of the Annual, offers unique new insights into Enya’s development – and also reveals the origin of the star’s name. Nicky Ryan recalls that he was concerned that the world might have difficulty knowing how to pronounce the name Eithne.
“I came up with the idea of a phonetic spelling,” he reveals. “E-N-Y-A. How much easier is that to understand and to pronounce? It was something that I felt we had to do, but it made sense in every way.”
The in-depth interview is available only in the 2016 Hot Press Annual.
PS: Se verremo in possesso dell'intero articolo lo pubblicheremo
Fonte: Hot Press
PS: Se verremo in possesso dell'intero articolo lo pubblicheremo
Fonte: Hot Press
mercoledì 18 novembre 2015
Enya intervistata da RTL 102.5
Domenica 22 novembre alle ore 18 sull'emittente radio televisiva RTL 102.5 (Italia), verrà trasmessa l'intervista ad Enya realizzata da Luca Dondoni. L'intervista andrà in onda all'interno del programma Pop around the clock in RADIOVISIONE sul canale 36 del digitale terrestre e sul canale 750 di Sky.Link diretto: Enya ospite a Pop around the clock
Fonte: Enya's Castle, RTL 102.5
