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What would it take for you to score a major film with all new music? You started your recording career by composing for films. I'm able to take success at a very slow pace. "That's Enya." It's good for me and it's good for the music. To this day, people don't recognize me if I walk into a lobby of a hotel. But it's something I choose not to concern myself with. Some artists enjoy being bigger than the music. Besides the CDs, they enter into a labyrinth of rights, film soundtracks, and advertising campaigns. I took a year off, then we spent two years making The Memory of Trees.
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After a series of one-off trips to places like New York and Monte Carlo, we decided (in 1992) we were finished with the promotion of the album. Then we got involved with the soundtrack of Far and Away with director Ron Howard. Starting in late 1991, I was still traveling quite a bit doing the promotion for Shepherd Moons. Yet there was a four-year gap between Shepherd Moons and the new album?
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Upstairs we have this long room with two big arc windows at either end with a piano looking out over the Wicklow Mountains. But this time we had our own studio outside of Dublin - designed purely for us - where we could begin the album and finish it there with no distractions. Then we'd be in a studio in London with so many distractions. We would work together as three (in Ireland), very intimate and personal. Actually, we had a studio when we made Shepherd Moons, but it was much smaller, and we had to go to London to finish the album. What's changed for us is now we have our own studio. It's been remarked that when people gain success, usually something will change. Nobody else has gotten involved, and we're happy about that. Here is the lion's share of our conversationĪbsolutely wonderful. Enya, strikingly attractive and dressed in green velvet, waved off my apologies with a gentle smile and an Evian. Following a snafu at the airport car rental counter, I arrived flustered, 30 minutes late for our interview. Enya's staff penciled us in during their recent publicity stop in Los Angeles. Yet each Enya release has become a Gavin tradition, with the magazine having done cover stories on her last two best-sellers. She rarely grants interviews, scheduling conversation time only when a new album is completed. With only three releases, 1988's Watermark, 1991's Shepherd Moons, and her latest, The Memory of Trees, (not even counting the recently re-issued The Celts soundtrack), Enya has built an impressive Irish, trans-European, Asian and American following, ringing multi-platinum in 15 countries.Īfter the December release of The Memory of Trees, a holiday flurry of three million copies sold pushed her worldwide total past the 20 million mark.įor such a top seller, Enya keeps an extremely low profile, preferring to let the music take the bows. I can layer it perfectly without the click.Įnya & the Memory of Trees Keith Zimmerman Even though I'm going to layer my voice and play the instruments, I can still do that because I know the time.
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Playing free time gives you so much feeling within the melody. We found that a click track takes a huge chunk of emotion out of the song. He doesn't see the music as important as I do. But that's difficult because it is his film, and he loves to enhance the film with music. The only way I could score a film is to have a director that's really understanding to the music. You write a melody and they want ten seconds cut off. I still enjoy doing soundtracks, but scoring is difficult.
