OK, dammit. I’ll admit it. I like Enya. Orinoco Flow, anyway. And I have an old Clannad CD. There. I said it.
So Orinoco Flow popped up on the iPod. I’m thinking I should make a playlist with similar music. But not ‘identical’. I mean, in that case I’d just have to play the album. What I’m looking for is songs with a similar ‘feel’. Here’s the hard part: People ‘feel’ thinkgs differently. Also, you don’t know what I have in iTunes and there are too many to list.
Why would one be hesitant to admit to liking Enya?
Well, you know… A lot of my other music is Green Day, Bad Religion, Sex Pistols, The Dickies, The Cramps… The Damned are playing right now.
But my tastes are eclectic.
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I suppose it depends on how similar you wanted it to be. I’d probably throw in some Dead Can Dance. Probably something off The Serpent’s Egg. I’m thinking Echolalia. It’s not that similar but I link it would fit in.
Do you know about Pandora? Create a channel on Pandora called “Orinoco Flow” and you will get dozens of similar tunes.
I’m not feeling too inspired today, so I tried plugging the name into Music Map. Some of the results are obvious (Sarah Maclachlan) while others are a bit puzzling (Bruce Springsteen).
You might like Anúna, or at least some of their work. It’s a mix of traditional and modern Irish, chorally based. (Yes, they’re the first choral group from Riverdance. No, that’s not all they do.)
Dead Can Dance has some wonderful dreamy flowy stuff that is something like, and totally unlike, Orinoco Flow. Their live show was the second most spiritual experience of my life. Seriously.
Afro-Celt Sound System is just made of awesome. They’re not particularly like Enya, and they’re not like the other bands you mention, but for some reason, I think you might like them. Lots of drums and cool shit, with both African and Irish influences in their music (as you might guess from their name.)
I love Enya also, but Orinoco Flow isn’t at all a typical Enya song; it’s kind of like Martha My Dear was to The Beatles.
So after my last post Dropkick Murphys and Floggin Molly played. Men at Work’s Down Under just finished. Strangely, I get a similar pleasure out of that song that I do from Orinoco Flow.
I’ll have to check the links after I get home, where I can play what I want and the connection is faster.
And now for some Sublime…
I have Orinoco Flow on the Pure Moods CD–the first one. You should check it out. A lot of the songs have a similar feel.
You could try her sister.
You might like Toumani Diabate, the Malian master kora player.
If you like the ethereal feel, you might want to try Julee Cruise, especially her first album.
Not Celtic, but very dreamy.
Doesn’t need to be Celtic. I’m just trying to find a certain common vibe.
How about Adiemus, also from pure moods.
Not to get you off onto an Enya tangent, but try her “Caribbean Blue.”
Best wishes,
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Sheila Chandra- Ever So Lonely
I think she’s Irish, too.
Try Loreena McKennitt. Pandora has quite a lot of her work.