Thread Of Time: The Best Of The Music Of Enya Norristown PA

Thread Of Time: The Best Of The Music Of Enya

Taliesin Orchestra

Compendia Music Group, 2002

REVIEW BY: Duke Egbert

ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED: 03/26/2002

Boy, there are just some times when you wonder what in the hellpeople were thinking.

I can just hear the idea guys on this one. "Hey, let's take someof the most soporific air-pudding music around and make it evenMORE soporific! We'll have people falling into comas as theylisten! What a great freakin' idea!"

To be fair, Taliesin Orchestra is occasionally interesting. (Ihave another of their discs around the Office O' Doom somewhere,and they do a damned fine cover of Peter Gabriel's "Secret World".)For those who don't know, they're just what they sound like; astudio symphony orchestra who does covers of popular music. Kind ofMuzak™ for the more musically inclined, but occasionallypleasant. In the case of Thread Of Time, though, it's two mediocre things thatsynergize into something unspeakable.

I admit it; I'm not a huge Enya fan. About the only time I digout my couple of Enya CDs is as pre-ritual music in my Wiccanreligious practice, and even then I'm likely to prefer mymeditative and spiritual state of mind be induced by old AlanParsons CDs or something. Enya is just too damn ethereal for me; Iprefer my music either have grit or grandeur, and Enya rarelyachieves either.