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Enya News

October 8, 2009

The tracklisting for both the cd-only and cd-dvd set of The Very Best of Enya was posted to enya.com yesterday.

CD Only:

  • Orinoco Flow

  • Aniron

  • Storms in Africa

  • Caribbean Blue

  • Book of Days

  • The Celts

  • Only Time

  • Wild Child

  • Water Shows the Hidden Heart

  • Anywhere Is

  • Cursum Perficio

  • Amarantine

  • Aldebaran

  • Trains and Winter Rains

  • Watermark

  • Boadicea

  • A Day Without Rain

  • May It Be

For the CD-DVD Format:

CD:

  • Trains and Winter Rains

  • My My Time Flies

  • Stars and Midnight Blue

  • Amarantine

  • Sumerigusa

  • The River Sings

  • If I Could Be Where You Are

  • Wild Child

  • Only Time

  • Drifting

  • Flora's Secret

  • Fallen Embers

  • One by One

  • Pax Deorum

  • Athair ar Neamh

  • Anywhere Is

  • Orinoco Flow

  • Watermark

  • Boadicea

  • May It Be

  • Caribbean Blue

  • Aniron

DVD:

  • Orinoco Flow

  • Caribbean Blue

  • Only Time

  • The Celts

  • Amarantine

  • Trains and Winter Rains

  • Evening Falls

  • Anywhere Is

  • It's in the Rain

  • Wild Child

  • Only If

  • Storms in Africa

  • On My Way Home

September 24, 2009

The Nightflowers competition on www.enya.com ends. The winning names are: Fragile Moon, The truelove found across the night (Ancient) and Kan Hooromay Eepha. Three extra prizes be awarded at The End of The Games. Roma will award prizes to three people who submitted names for flowers that already exist! Roma may be a tricky and sneaky puzzle master, but she's always generous with prizes. Roma's note, left in the Castle at www.enya.com:

September 24, 2009, 5:59 p.m.

Hello Everyone,

Congratulations to the winners of the 'Nightflower' competition. Well done to all of you, you had some pretty inventive names! the prizes will be announced after The Loxian Games. It may interest you all to know that there will be three extra prizes awarded after the Games. Why? Because there were three names submitted which already exist! But you will have to wait until the Games finish to find out who the three extra prizes will be awarded to. I can't give you the names of the nightflowers as you may encounter them during the Loxian Games.

Well, maybe. Maybe not.

Well done to all!

Roma Ryan


The Three Nightflowers:

The First Nightflower The First Nightflower The First Nightflower

Cover image of And Winter Came

September 21, 2009

The cover of Enya's 2008 winter-themed album, And Winter Came... has been selected for nomination for a Grammy award. Roma's note on www.enya.com:


21/9/09
Enya, Nicky and Roma are delighted to announce that the cover artwork design for 'And Winter Came' has been selected for nomination for a Grammy award.

Way to go, Aigle!

September 21, 2009

A warm-up event for The Second Loxian Games is announced on Unity--name three Nightflowers on Roma's website at www.romaryan.com. The game will run from Monday, September 21st through Wednesday, September 23rd. Roma's announcement, left in the Castle at www.enya.com:

Sepember 21, 2009, 11:28 p.m.

Hello Everyone,

The first of Autumn - earth-time - approaches! Although The Loxian Games will not commence on this date, nevertheless, to celebrate the First of Autumn there will be a special event. As the first of Autumn reaches us all at slightly different times, the event will begin just after midnight on Monday 21st September and end at midnight on Wednesday 23rd September. Please to to the library on Roma Ryan's website and find the Nightflowers. Obviously, as this is a Loxian Games event, the winners won't know what they have won until the end of The Games. Have fun!

Roma Ryan



Cover of The Very Best of Enya

September 19, 2007

It's the album cover that launched a 100 controversies. The artwork for The Very Best of Enya is posted on www.enya.com. The new artwork was announced on Unity several days in advance of Warner sending it out to its affiliates. A cool well done to Roma Ryan for letting the forum have first peek at the new cover.


September 7, 2009

The Second Loxian Games: The websites are starting to change--Romaryan.com, Nicky Ryan.net, certain parts of enya.com, as Roma uploads her terribly sneaky and downright dastardly teasers of what's to come with the next Game. In a surprise move that left us all reeling, she snuck into Unity this afternoon and had the infamous Mr. Nigel Borealis Australis post a message on her behalf. Yep--the games are coming, and she's not telling when! Beware; Roma's at it again!

September 4, 2009

The Second Loxian Games were announced on Unity today, an exclusive announcement to the Forum. No start date has been given yet, but it sounds like it's going to be soon.

In other news, several online retailers, including CD Japan have pre-orders for a special edition of the "very best of" Enya cd due out in November, which includes a dvd with documentary footage and, perhaps, music videos. We're dealing with rumor city here. Who knows what's going to be on dvd--a re-released and updated music video collection, the rumored biography project from the Galway ceremony in 2007? The Japan release of the compilation is set for November 18th. It should come out in the U.S. on November 17th. After a quiet doze through the Summer, Unity is getting quite busy these days!

August 27, 2009

The rumored The Very Best of Enya compilation has been confirmed by Aigle. Posted to enya.com on August 26th:
Warner Music will be releasing a new 'Best of Enya' album this coming November 16th. The album will include titles from all the Warner albums with favourite songs chosen by Enya, Nicky and Roma. A special edition will contain DVD and documentary footage. Details to follow.

On the same day, Roma left special word for the fans in the News area on enya.com (interactive/castle view):

26/8/09: 11:57 a.m.
Hello everyone,

It's been quite a long time since our last communication. I hope you've all had a chance to relax during the summer holidays. As you will see soon on the Home Page, Warner Music will be releasing a new 'Best of Enya' album this November 16th. They have asked Enya, Nicky and myself to choose the tracks, which we are in the process of doing at the moment. They will also release a special edition which will contain both DVD and documentary footage. I will keep you posted as we progress with this. Hope you've all been keeping well.

Roma Ryan

August 17, 2009

A listing for a new Enya "best of" compilation has appeared on www.play.com, The Very Best of Enya, with a release date of November 16, 2009. Neither Aigle nor Warner have yet made an official announcement, but in the past, play.com has proven to be a reliable source of early Enya release information. The Treecat would be very happy to find the new Enya compilation titled My! My! Time Flies! The Very Best of Enya, and using that gorgeous photo of Enya standing by the lake that was used on the Swedish MMTF promo cd. My My! Wouldn't that be the best Enya album cover since The Memory of Trees?

Jan. 6, 2009

Dreams are More Precious has been selected as the new theme song for Fuji TV's Japanese network drama Arifureta Kiseki. The announcement was made in the Jan. 6th issue of Ireland's Hot Press magazine.

November 2, 2008

Enyatv debuts on Youtube

. You can now watch all of Enya's music videos, including the new one for Trains and Winter Rains, on the enyatv channel on Youtube. The videos are available in standard and high definition modes. Fans have needed this for a long time!


Beginning Wednesday, November 5th, the Independent.ie (Ireland) will preview the songs from And Winter Came along with a track-by-track video guide to the album. "Warner Bros are giving Independent.ie readers an exclusive opportunity to see Enya's latest video, her track-by-track guide to her new album, and all this week, listen to songs from her new album."


And Winter Came: is now available on iTunes (UK) with bonus track, Miraculum and a track-by-track video guide to the album. The bonus track and video are available for with album pre-orders. No word yet on whether or not the bonus track will be availble from other iTunes stores.


screen capture, snowflakes, from epk

October 26, 2008 Aigle has uploaded an electronic press kit video for And Winter Came to the Video Gallery at www.enya.com. This warm interview with Enya also features comments by Roma Ryan and Nicky Ryan. The video was filmed at Powerscourt House and Garden in Enniskerry, Co. Wicklow, Ireland. Additional footage shows Enya at work with Nicky on the music for And Winter Came at Aigle Studio. The 12-minute interview gives insight into the making of their seventh studio album and hints at greater challenges to come from The Trio. Well done!


Loxian Games winners screen capture

October 23, 2008If Enya undertands the 'drama of clothes', Aigle understands the drama of announcements. After watching names pop up in The Loxian Games over two days, starting October 20th, all winners were announced last night. The Top Ten winners are: Andy from Argentina, Silmaril, Ben McMullen, Boreas, Jim Jack, Kitkat, Phantas, Terry aka Yodaman, Treecat, and William Teng.
The 30 Runners Up are: Andrea Mocci, Anna Zabojnikova, Pilirojo, Skippy, (C)arl Ville, David Llorent Gimeno, Daniel Ramz Herrera, Witherwings, ErinP, Ezequiel Salvarezza, Kevin Hock, Ingo D., Rulhusen, Javier Varz Perelgui, Jeffrey Carman, Versatis, The Memory of Trees, Laura C. Viggiola, Gaetano Pezzillo, Ephiriel,, Green Diamond and TIAN Ye. Congratulations to all winners!


Clip from video Trains & Winter Rains

October 22, 2008 The new video for Trains and Winter Rains is now available to view at AOL.com, Trains & Winter Rains This is an extremely slick and contemporary video, featuring black and white photography, bright neon colors and the hard sheens of glass and metal of a big city landscape. It's a radical, and welcome, departure for Enya videos. If you want Enya to put on the velvet robes and go back to the Celtic mists, forget it. She's stylishly dressed, black gloves, silver jewelry--a contemporary woman in an upscale, contemporary landscape. Enya, you go, girl!


September 29, 2008: Aigle Music announces the first single from And Winter Came: Trains and Winter Rains. The single will debut on Terry Wogan's Morning Show, on B.B.C. 2. (7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. GMT). The song will air at approximatly 9:10 a.m. The song should still be available on the Wogan archives afterward.


September 12, 2008: Aigle Music announces Enya's eighth studio album, And Winter Came. The album will be released on November 10th in the U.K. and Europe, and November 11th in North America.