Loreena McKennitt’s The Mummer’s Dance.
I have that CD. One of those might work.
As I said in another thread, I listen to oldies (as can be seen by my preferences earlier in this thread). Today on the way home Down By The Sea by Men At Work came up. Completely different song from Orinoco Flow of course (but then, that’s the point), but it still had a visceral effect on me. The base, the lonely sax…
Pumping Iron for Enya work for you? 
Loreena McKennitt is one of the few artists that I’ll buy just about anything she puts out even though a lot of it sounds identical to what she’s already released. I don’t smoke pot but have the feeling if I did I’d love her all the more.
Hmmm… perhaps Teardrop by Massive Attack might be up your alley given those two songs?
Or the Cocteau Twins? Lush’s De-Luxe?
Heh. I actually saw that guy live in a punk club in Budapest circa 2002. Highly entertaining. 
Other Enya stuff that you may enjoy, (aside from Caribbean Blue which has already been mentioned)…
The original Book Of Days in Gaelic from the initial release of Shepherd Moons. It is rare. I had it on tape and much prefer it to the English version that replaced it in later pressings.
Storms in Africa (mp3) and Storms in Africa II (a somewhat different English version)
I can’t reiterate Loreena McKennitt enough either. A lot of her songs occupy that same love-at-first-hear place in my musical heart that Orinoco Flow definitely hit, as do these:
A bit further away from Enya, but ‘world music’ I love nonetheless-
Playing for Change’s Stand By Me- watch the video if you haven’t seen it; it’s street musicians around the world.
The old TV ads for it were cheezy but I expect the CD Collection Pure Moods has what you are looking for.
Or just search for New Age music.
That’s the thing. Orinoco Flow has the New Age vibe going on, but I generally don’t care for New Age music. It’s hard to explain, especially on a message board and before coffee. I’m not looking for similar ‘songs that sound like’ songs, but for songs that invoke a certain ‘resonance’ in me. I’m not sure how to explain that.
Orinoco Flow has a very punctuated rhythm, both instrumentally and vocally. That and the harmonies induce a pleasant reaction in spite of the ‘New Age-iness’ of it. I’ve always been drawn to water. The song makes me think of the rivers and bodies of water, where they are in the world, how they look, the cultures surrounding them, etc.
I mentioned Down By The Sea upthread. That one has a steady, punctuated drumbeat. The guitar is sparse and ‘lonely’ or ‘introspective’. There’s a melancholy bass track. The sax reminds me of the old guy in Betty Blue who plays his tune by the beach. Of course, this is a ‘water song’ too. I don’t know if you’ve ever been down at the docks at three in the ayem, but it’s awesome. Very quiet. No screaming gulls, no activity. Just silent ships and warehouses. The song puts me in that place.
Continuing with the oldies, there’s The Bangles’s cover of Hazy Shade of Winter. It starts out with that ethereal sound that I seem to like, and then goes into a driving guitar riff and heavy drumbeat. At one point it just stops, and then picks up again. Nice harmonies, too. Unlike the other two songs, it doesn’t really ‘take me anywhere’; but it ‘moves’ me.
Tubthumping by Chumbawamba, a couple songs by Qkumba Zoo, some of the soundtrack to Run Lola Run, drum corps, Delta Blues, The Damned’s Sanctum Sanctorium, the theme from Peter Gunn, It’s A Shame About Ray by The Lemonheads, Do It Again and Missing Person by The Kinks, Last Ride In, Good Riddance, and Armitage Shanks by Green Day… Some of them ‘transport me to another place’. Some have a rhythm or harmonies or something that resonates. That’s what makes it difficult to make a playlist that ‘fits together’. If it were all New Age or New Wave or Celtic or this or that or the other, then it would be easy.
How do you arrange disparate genres in a playlist? My iPod is always on Shuffle mode. Orinoco Flow might come up and put me in mind of tramping through Colombia and Venezuela, and when it ends I’d like to hear another song that keeps me there or moves me to a similar place. And then wackiness by Karl Zéro or melancholy from one of Johnny Cash’s last albums or the good ol’ Pogues will come on. From the Orinoco River and the waters of Fiji I might find myself looking out for the Goo Goo Muck. As songs come up I’ll find myself in the moment of that song, and the style of thing I’m looking for in the OP is forgotten. But it would be good to have a playlist I can go to that would keep me ‘feeling’, if you know what I mean.
Slight musical tangent: Check out Colin James Hay (Men At Work vocalist) solo albums, “Looking for Jack” is well worth tracking down.
…or if you want to stream an eclectic mix of world-wide artists and styles, go to
It’s focused toward many Australian and New Zealand artists, but there’s lots of other interesting artists.
For instance, Jim Moray is another Celtic-influenced singer with lush musical arrangements, his music is often on rotation on Dig.
I wonder why I end up finding your threads all the time 
Anyhoo, something that you may find suits you - Capercaillie
Personally I prefer them to Enya, she seems to have a weakness in her voice - can’t quite put my finger on it, lack of power, steadiness, holding a note, maybe it is sliding into the right note instead of hitting it dead on - just can’t quite say.
I’ll give you something else to try out, check out the Saw Doctors
There’s a lot of life, humour, sadness and wistfulness in their music, along with some rollicking good jigs and reeels.
I highly recommend Delerium. I really like their album Semantic Spaces (especially “Flowers Become Shades”, the video was pretty cool as well) and their follow-up album Poem.
I’d post some links but I’m on my Blackberry.
MtM
I knew I forgot something…I was also going to link to some Delerium, and Conjure One, and anything else that Rhys Fulber gets his fingers into next.
I was going to recommend Delerium and Kate Bush, but have beaten to it.
Some suggestions…sorry, I am at work and have difficulty finding works…
Laika - Trip-hop
Ekova - World beat, kinda
BitterSweet - Trip-pop
Lisa Gerrard - Half of Dead Can Dance, she has some real gems although a lot is…uh…quieter
Bel Canto - kinda poppy
Maybe Vanessa Daou - smokey jazz pop.
And, not in anyway connected to what you asked for, but I have been groovin’ to them for the last week or so…The Wonderstuff. 3-minute guitar pop that should have made it bigger than they did.
Some things you’re likely to have, that might fit the bill, mood-wise rather than genre-wise:
Stranglers - Golden Brown, The Raven, Nice and Sleazy, Strange Little Girl and Always the Sun
Waterboys - Whole of the Moon, Stolen Child, A Girl Called Johnny, Fisherman’s Blues
Julian Cope - Charlotte Anne
Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon, Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
The Church - Under The Milky Way
Let me know if any of those resonated…
I may be way off base here, but I would think maybe some mid-period Eno. like:
Golden Hours
Everything Merges With the Night
The Big Ship
St. Elmo’s Fire
Julie With…
By This River
Spider and I
Mother Whale Eyeless
Also, maybe “Kids” by MGMT?
Ooh I can’t wait til I get back from class this afternoon and get to check out all the recommendations in this thread. Like the OP, I usually like rock and punk (The Distillers just came on shuffle as I posted this) but I have a soft spot for new age music.
I would like to add a couple of obscure tracks by obscure artists.
george - Spawn (the album version is better imo but is not on Youtube)
Holly McNarland - Mystery Song
I seem to have a shortage of time recently, and haven’t had a chance to check out the recommendations myself. I will, though! Keep them coming!