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Finalmente Enya. L'inizio del nuovo millennio segna il ritorno dell'autrice irlandese con un album nuovo di zecca, lavoro di cesello per il quale Eithne Ni Bhraonain - è questo il suo nome prettamente gaelico - ha speso quasi un lustro: il suo ultimo lavoro assolutamente originale, "The Memory Of Trees", risale al 1995, e sembra proprio che tanti anni di distanza non possano che ripagare la lunga attesa dei cultori del genere. Così è: "A Day without Rain" compare in una veste rassicurante, con l'immagine di Enya che seduta su un divano rivolge uno sguardo rilassato e sereno; i pezzi, dodici, contribuiscono a definire un lavoro ben realizzato e piacevole. È quest'opera, pur nella sua omogeneità, un prodotto variegato, restìo a quella ripetitività di cui i maligni hanno spesso accusato l'autrice irlandese, ricco di armonia, di semplicità, ma al contempo di pàthos, di dolore, di dramma.
L'inizio, costituito dalla title-track, è notevolmente promettente, con bella esecuzione al piano della stessa Enya: ouverture di livello che introduce l'uditorio al pizzicato di "Wild Child" poco dopo; brano di incantevole dolcezza, ha nella pomposa orchestralità la sua forza. L'hit "Only Time", terza traccia, ha quel sapore lentamente orientaleggiante che tanto è caro all'autrice irlandese: il tempo, soggetto e oggetto del brano, si dilata meravigliosamente in canto e controcanto con grande soluzione di continuità; tutto procede per il meglio, quando, quasi a ricordare che il tempo è drastico cambiamento di stagioni, irrompe l'angosciosa "Tempus Vernum": di taglio Neoclassico - in senso musicale - attrae l'ascoltatore in un torbido vortice dai toni roboanti. La quiete dopo la tempesta è la malinconica "Deora Ar Mo Chroì", omaggio enyano al sapido verbo gaelico, mentre nuovamente deliziosa è "Flora's Secret", il cui tema, ripreso successivamente, si dissolve malinconicamente in "Fallen Embers", che quasi a rafforzare il precedente concetto, vela ancora l'atmosfera di tristezza parlando di tempi lontani. Dopo la movimentata "Silver Inches" e la struggente "Pilgrim", il minimalistico incanto di un albero che perde le sue foglie diventa soggetto di lieve dolore in "One by One", tra i più bei pezzi dell'album, poco prima di dare il la alla scanzonata "Lazy Days" finale, serena chiosa di un lavoro garbato e dai toni costantemente smorzati; in mezzo, la strumentale "The First of Autumn", di ligia orchestrazione. Autrice raffinata Enya, non di questo Mondo.
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02 Wild Child (03:47)
Ever close your eyes?
Ever stop and listen?
Ever feel alive
And you've nothing missing?
You don't need a reason
Let the day go on and on
Let the rain fall down
Everywhere around you
Give into it now
Let the day surround you
You don't need a reason
Let the rain go on and on
What a day
What a day to take to
What a way
What a way to make it through
What a day
What a day to take to
A wild child
Only take the time
From the helter skelter
Every day you find
Everything's in kilter
You don't need a reason
Let the day go on and on
Every summer sun
Every winter evening
Every spring to come
Every autumn leaving
You don't need a reason
Let it all go on and on
What a day
What a day to take to
What a way
What a way to make it through
What a day
What a day to take to
A wild child
What a day
What a day to take to
What a way
What a way to make it through
What a day
What a day to take to
A wild child
Da da da da da da da da
Da da da da da da da
Da d
What a way
What a way to make it through
Da da da
Da da da da da da
Da da da
Da da da da da da
What a way
What a way to make it through
What a day
What a day to take to
A wild child
What a day
What a day to take to
A wild child
03 Only Time (03:40)
Who can say where the road goes,
Where the day flows?
Only time...
And who can say if your love grows,
As your heart chose?
Only time...
(interlude)
Who can say why your heart sighs,
As your love flies?
Only time...
And who can say why your heart cries,
When your love lies?
Only time...
(interlude)
Who can say when the roads meet,
That love might be,
In your heart.
And who can say when the day sleeps,
If the night keeps all your heart?
Night keeps all your heart...
(interlude)
Who can say if your love grows,
As your heart chose?
Only time...
And who can say where the road goes,
Where the day flows?
Only time...
Who knows?
Only time...
Who knows?
Only time...
04 Tempus Vernum (02:24)
Ergo, oceanus, maritimus
ergo, opacare, matutinus
ergo, septentrio, meridies
ergo, occidens et orientis
Ergo, oceanus, maritimus
opacare, matutinus
septentrio, meredines
occidens et orientis
Ergo, terra, stella, hiems et aestas,
ergo, autumnus et, tempus vernum,
ergo, radius solis, et umbra,
ignis, aqua, caelum, luna
terra, stella, hiems et aestas
autumnus et, tempus vernum...
tempus vernum....
05 Deora Ar Mo Chroí (02:49)
Ba dheas an l� go o'che
Na gl�rtha binne i mo thaobh
'S aoibheneas i gach �it gan gruaim
Athas ar mo chro' go deo
He-a-ro
He-a-o-ro
Ma shiu�laim � la laetha beo
An ghrian 's an ghealach ar mo ch�l
N�l uaim ach smaointe � mo shaoil
Deora ar mo chro' go br�n
He-a-ro
He-a-ro
He-a-o-ro
-----
(English): Tears on my Heart
How beautiful the day and night;
the earth is singing in the wind,
the voices rise and touch the sky
telling all the earth's believing
and in the night sighs fall down,
and from the skies sighs fall down on me.
And when I move away from view
my voice is singing in the wind,
it rises up to touch the sky
telling all that I believe in,
and from the night earth shall sing,
and from the night earth shall sing,
and from the night earth shall sing again.
06 Flora's Secret (04:07)
Lovers in the long grass look above them
Only they can see where the clouds are going
Only to discover dust and sunlight
Ever make the sky so blue
Afternoon is hazy, river flowing
All around the sounds moving closer to them
Telling them the story told by Flora
Dreams they never knew
Silverwillows, tears from Persia
Those who come from a far-off island
Winter Chanterelle lies under cover
Glory-of-the-sun in blue
Some they know as passion, some as freedom
Some they know as love and the way it leaves them
Summer snowflake for a season
When the sky above is blue
When the sky above is blue
Lying in the long grass close beside her
Giving her the name of the one the moon loves
This will be the day she will remember
When she knew his heart was
Loving in the long grass close beside her
Whispering of love and the way it leaves them
Lying in the long grass in the sunlight
They believe it's true love
And from all around them Flora's secret
Telling them of love and the way it breathes and
Looking up from eyes of amaranthine
They can see the sky is blue
Knowing that their love is true
Dreams they never knew
And the sky above is blue
1
07 Fallen Embers (02:31)
Once, as my heart remembers
All the stars were fallen embers
Once, when night seemed forever
I was with you
Once, in the care of morning
In the air was all belonging
Once, when that day was dawning
I was with you
How far we are from morning?
How far we are?
The stars shining through the darkness?
Falling in the air?
Once, as the night was leaving
Into us, our dreams were weaving
Once, all dreams were worth keeping
I was with you
Once, when our hearts were singing
I was with you
09 Pilgrim (03:12)
Pilgrim, how you journey
on the road you chose
to find out why the winds die
and where the stories go.
All days come from one day
that much you must know,
you cannot change what's over
but only where you go.
One way leads to diamonds,
one way leads to gold,
another leads you only
to everything you're told.
In your heart you wonder
which of these is true;
the road that leads to nowhere,
the road that leads to you.
Will you find the answer
in all you say and do?
Will you find the answer
in you?
Each heart is a pilgrim,
each one wants to know
the reason why the winds die
and where the stories go.
Pilgrim, in your journey
you may travel far,
for prilgrim it's a long way
to find out who you are...
Pilgrim, it's a long way
to find out who you are...
Pilgrim, it's a long way
to find out who you are...
10 One by One (03:54)
Here am I,
Yet another goodbye.
She says: Adios!
Says:Adios!
And do you know why,
She won't break down and cry?
She says: Adios!
Says: Adios Goodbye!
One by one my leaves fall,
One by one my tales are told.
It's no lie,
She is yearning to fly.
She says: Adios!
Says: Adios!
And now you know why
He's a reason to sigh.
She says: Adios!
Says: Adios Goodbye!
One by one my leaves fall,
One by one my tales are told.
My oh my,
She was aiming too high.
He says: Adios!
Says: Adios!
And now you know why,
There's no moon in her sky.
He says: Adios!
Says: Adios Goodbye!
He says: Adios!
Says: Adios Goodbye!
Dadedadeda...
No goodbye,
For love brightens their eyes.
Don't say: Adios!
Say: Adios!
And do you know why
There's a love that won't die?
Don't say: Adios!
Say: Adios Goodbye!
Don't say: Adios! (eeehe)
Say: Adios Goodbye! (eeehe)
Don't say: Adios! (eeehe)
Say: Adios Goodbye! (eeehe)
11 Lazy Days (03:41)
Lazy old day
rolling away
dreaming the day away
don't want to go
now that I'm in the flow
crazy amazing day
-----
One red balloon
floats to the moon
just let it fly away
I only know
that I'm longing to go
back to my lazy day
-----
And how it sings and how it sighs
and how it never stays
And how it rings and how it cries
and how it sails away... away... awaaaay....
-----
14 Isobella (05:30)
I do bheatha sa t�s, sa deireadh,
I do bheatha sa t�s, sa deireadh.
Isobella, o
Isobella, o
I do l� 's t� go s�mh
I do l� 's t� go fior.
Gr�, anois go deo na ndeor.
I do bheatha sa t�s, sa deireadh
I do bheatha sa t�s, sa deireadh
Isobella, o
Isobella, o
I do l� 's t� gan buairt
I do l� 's t� gan br�n
Gr�, anois go deo
Gr�, anois go deo na ndeor.
(Translation
In your life in the beginning, in the end
In your life in the beginning, in the end
Isobella, o
Isobella, o
In your day while you were so peaceful,
In your day while you were so true,
Love, now forever and ever,
In your life in the beginning, in the end
In your life in the beginning, in the end
Isobella, o
Isobella, o
In your day while you were without trouble,
In your day while you were without sorrow,
Love, now forever,
Love, now forever and ever )
(English Adaptation
by Roma Ryan
Out of morning and into midnight,
Through the sunrise and under moonlight.
Isobella, oh!
Isobella, dream of me.
Everything that comes from day
Comes into the heart to stay.
Love is in your name each day.
In the moment you come before me,
In that moment I see you only
Isobella, oh!
Isobella, dream of me.
Everything that comes from night
Comes within your shining light.
Love is in your name each night. )
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