Where happened to the orchestra?
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By a_d_
What's with all the midi? You can always tell when someone's using fake instruments. The 'person' playing the oboe never breathes! And there's nothing I love more than the beginning and end of midi notes overlapping each other... Not.
If you don't have an actual orchestra, don't call yourself one. And please stop with the "poppy" stuff. I really love the old covers: The Celts, Evacuee, China Roses... Please get rid of the breathy woman. She was okay in Bodicea, I suppose...
This was just a mess.
Beautiful interpretation
5
By cordoc76
This is a tribute album and so should not precisely reproduce Enya's original, the way I see it. I found this faithful to her genre and the nuanced moods extremely pleasant to listen to. The underplayed, in general, vocal gives a hauntingly beautiful sensual background to the orchestral arrangements in most of the pieces. This is a great album to read to.
a tribute to this tribute
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By newagejunkie
Perhaps no has listened to more Enya than I; my little son wont listen to hardly anything else. I found Talisen provides interesting slants on the original. Some tracks have a hip-hop or dance music quality. Certainly, these peices don't have the production quality of Enya's originals - few artists can match her. For a curious spin on Enya's music, for fans, Talisenare worth hearing.
don't like it
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By eraser1298
not the worst enya album listended to but i dislike this album. it could be better., and they spelled paint the sky with stars wrong!
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5
By MickMickMick111
Beautiful arrangements, beautiful songs, great production, flows well, all in all a great CD and tribute to Enya. Buy this one-highly recommended for all lovers of Enya's New Age genius.
It could have been much, much better....
2
By sean76
When did Taliesin lose their Orchestra? Now they are a tribute band - beware. :-(
Not pleased
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By IanTrotsky
Just listen to Only Time if you are considering buying this album.
Good God.
Never having heard the original
5
By ahaiden
This is a beautiful instrumental arrangement, I've never heard where it came from, so I suppose I'm not entrenched in how it is "supposed" to sound though.
Not a new release
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By sacredrivers
Most of these songs were released 8 years ago on the Orinoco Flow album. Why sell them again, its remixed with a few new ones added. They butchered "Only Time" the rest sound very odd to me like it was thrown together.
Beautiful, but it could be better.
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By Seaaggie
I bought Amarantine and Wild Child and although they sounded beautiful, they could be better. I just felt like these songs were hastely put togather. The end of Amarantine was really awkward, it needs to sound more eloquent. More frustrating was the voice in the background of Wild Child, you hear this awkward breathing sound of the singer preparing to breath for her "Ohh-ing" in the song and you can bearly hear her saying the lyrics "What a day, what a day to take a wild child!" All in all, it was really awkward to hear these songs. Buy at your own risk.
