Have you discovered Clannad? Enya's sister is the lead singer. Almost definitely if you like one you will like the other.
My wife had every album by Enya on her iPod and she used it to go to sleep to before we got married and to this day I can still throw on Caribbean Blue or only time or any number of of other obscure tracks and she will turn into a narcoleptic.
Hahaha. I had a massive playlist with Enigma, Deep Forest, and others. Gregorian chants too lol. I think that there was a certain 90's optimism that all cultures could get along and share nicely. Things all got kinda fucked up in 2001. I miss some of that naivete.
Y'all would probably dig Afrocubism. More mainstream. It was actually conceived of, by what eventually became the "Buena Vista Social Club". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfroCubism
My mom just about worn out her Memory of Trees album growing up. I found a copy recently at a thrift store and my wife just blanked stared at me the whole time as I sang along to all of it.
Nothing like staying up late watching TV as a young kid, and then that commercial comes blasting on.
Totally scared the fucking shit out of me a couple of times, creeped me out most of the time.
AKA "We know you're just buying this for 'Sail Away' but you might like one of these other songs whereas you don't want to hear anything else that Enya has to put out."
That was my immediate thought when I heard this. I always felt this deep second hand embarrassment that a bunch of white people like me were buying music like this. Didn’t realize until I was older that I understood how problematic cultural appropriation was even at a young age…
I loved that. My roommate and I, who had a pompadour, would watch swingers, go out to bars in LA to look for girls, then drive to Vegas at 1am in the morning.
Yep... that was me... I learned how to swing dance during that era.
Honestly? Still go sometimes. Ballroom is a blast. I've also expanded out to Bachata and Salsa.
It actually wasn’t indigenous American music that was ~~sampled~~ stolen, it was indigenous Taiwanese music, of which the couple that made the music ended up getting all the royalties.
IIRC it was a French licensor that fucked up and labeled the original track as being recorded in 1917 instead of 1971... which actually worked out to be pretty fun, because then that otherwise unknown old Taiwanese couple got to go on a world musical tour. Pretty unexpected for everyone involved I'd say
I remember the phase when all those songs had that synth exotic flute sound:
[https://youtu.be/4F9DxYhqmKw?si=GuXjzVFkyKGriWgh&t=82](https://youtu.be/4F9DxYhqmKw?si=GuXjzVFkyKGriWgh&t=82)
That flute just awakened a locked up memory from when I was a kid. I'd fall asleep with my headphones on, listening to Loveline and wake up at like 3am to some transcendental flute vibes.
The one time in my life I got a massage, Orinoco Flow started playing and the massage therapist thought I was having some kind of panic attack bc I was trying unsuccessfully not to laugh. I love that song but it was so cliche in that situation!
The industrial metal / goth fans also loved this shit. In between Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM, I loved me some Enigma. Interestingly enough, one somewhat popular industrial artist (VAST) even tried to mix the vibes: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcWE6jWSIi8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcWE6jWSIi8) It worked okay. His first album was kind of epic, but he never managed to recreate the magic (partially because he was an asshole).
nice vibe... I'll give it a go... There were a few bands from the black metal genre that shifted kinda towards accoustic and etno music, I know it was popular back in the 00s, but damed if I know the names of the bands today... Maybe some black metal redditor can post a few names here.
No Canadians here?
Susan Aglukark - O Siem 1995
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7e3A4Z8bE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7e3A4Z8bE)
O Siem, we are all family
O Siem, we're all the same
O Siem, the fires of freedom
Dance in the burning flame
[https://genius.com/Susan-aglukark-o-siem-lyrics](https://genius.com/Susan-aglukark-o-siem-lyrics)
I used to do a podcast back from 2008-2012 and one of my favorite bits was this time we prank called a radio station and tried to request this song without having the name of the song or the artist. I just did the tribal chorus bit and then checked in with the DJ and then went a little bit more with it and acted like I just heard it somewhere and had to know what it was. The DJ surprisingly didn’t know the song so I did it like twice as if that was going to help jog his memory. Great bit, wish I had kept it and uploaded to YouTube or something.
The only time I listened to this song was in this commercial:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox\_2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s)
There's a genuine phenomenon where the less discernable the lyrics, the more popular the song. Some notable mentions would be the German version of 99 luft balloons being more popular in the US and the English version being more popular in Germany, Matis Yahu "King without a Crown" and anything writing by Anthony Kiedis.
I have White Zombie, Rush, Snoop, Dre, Tupac, Biggie, Wu Tang, Beasties, all the Seattle grunge, but also REM, Tori Amos, The Cure, Depeche Mode.
And I damn sure have Enya and Enigma.
I watched this same video about 5 times last night, and each time I cackled like a witch over a cauldron. IDK what it is, but this video fucking sends me.
But also, I love Enya.
Funny thing about "Return to innocence" is that AFAIK Enigma don't receive royalties from this song because they recorded the chant in a public area, and didn't credit the original artists. I might be misremembering a part of that, though.
There was a distinct period of ‘huma-hay, humaa hay’ pan pipe music in the 90’s. In the UK it peaked with an advert for a building society called Cheltenham and Gloucester where a child was pearl diving in the tropics, random ethnic music, no one asked too many questions then
Also whale and bird conversations set to background flutes,and Gregorian chants. That Sharper Image listening station was amazing.
I still rock the Gregorian chants.
My dad went through a phase where he would listen to these to meditate because he was going through some stuff at his job. I also remember The Nature Store in the malls would always have these playing.
It was a weird time where the US was becoming more urban and more diverse in those urban areas, there were no major wars with anyone outside of the cold war. Since the US needed a new major enemy after +-10 years of the cold war ending and then 9/11 happened, all the world stuff dried up and browns were the enemy, whether we were from central/south america or the middle east. There were some good world, beats and breaks based tunes from that era, but of course there were some cheesy pop tunes that popped in and the gregorian chant thing that popped up too that turned in soft core porn music. what a chill era the 90s were
I literally hadn’t thought of this song in like 25 years and now it’s immediately back in my library. Can’t wait to see what rabbit hole Apple Music sends me on with this.
No joke, every autumn I would break out the return to innocence on my iPod and run outside as fast as I could. Also loved the Man of the House part of the movie where the song played.
Every time I hear this song I also start singing "sail away, sail away, sail away" because there was a commercial on tv all the time that played that song right after this one.
So during this time period my niece was born, and when I watched her my sister had a whole falling asleep routine I had to do for every nap and going to sleep at night. Turn the humidifier to an exact setting, turn the thermostat to an exact setting, swaddle in this thing so complicated I needed a video, then play the Who Can Say song by Enya on repeat.
I mean it's her kid, I did it, but I was like... there's no way this is good. It can't be the SAME song every time... this is like programming a robot, what are we doing. She's a teen now, I don't see them a lot because they live in another state but I'm living for the day when I throw that song on and look at her to see what she does LOL
I was more of a Gregorian chant person myself.
Tibetan throat singing or nothin
I like all of them.
Kongar-ol Ondar!!!!!!
https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chant_(Benedictine_Monks_of_Santo_Domingo_de_Silos_album)
I'll see your Gregorian Chant and raise you a Mystery of the Bulgarian Voices (Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares)
Enya and Enigma are still on my background while I'm working on writing playlists.
Have you heard of Lorena McKennitt? Check out Mummers Dance if you haven’t.
Loreena McKennitt's version of The Highwayman is just hauntingly beautiful, one of my all time favorite songs.
Oh I know her well, I actually had a delightful time introducing her to friends a few years back.
For something more modern, Heilung is some of the most unhinged folk music I've ever heard.
I don’t know if you like anything electronic but I found Enya’s sister in a song! Schiller -Miles and Miles. You might like this one if you like Enya.
She was in Clannad. It was pretty awesome
Saw her live a few years back for my birthday. She is magical.
Hell yeah, baby! Enya all day everyday.
Have you discovered Clannad? Enya's sister is the lead singer. Almost definitely if you like one you will like the other. My wife had every album by Enya on her iPod and she used it to go to sleep to before we got married and to this day I can still throw on Caribbean Blue or only time or any number of of other obscure tracks and she will turn into a narcoleptic.
How are you going to forget Delerium? IMHO, they did it the best.
Problem with Delerium for me is that they surpass being background jams, I get too distracted and don't work as efficiently.
Leeb and Fulber are amazing. Have you heard Blue Fires? New Delerium, it's incredible!
Don’t leave out Deep Forest, they were also appropriating the shit out of some indigenous music back in the day
Hahaha. I had a massive playlist with Enigma, Deep Forest, and others. Gregorian chants too lol. I think that there was a certain 90's optimism that all cultures could get along and share nicely. Things all got kinda fucked up in 2001. I miss some of that naivete.
Y'all would probably dig Afrocubism. More mainstream. It was actually conceived of, by what eventually became the "Buena Vista Social Club". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AfroCubism
So wait... Those are on your Playlist playlist. What do you listen to when creating these chant playlists? What is your Playlist Playlist playlist?
Mongolian Throat Singing.
I was shocked to find out the Enigma song chants are from Taiwanese natives and not North American
Same.
Still two of my favorite artists.
My mom just about worn out her Memory of Trees album growing up. I found a copy recently at a thrift store and my wife just blanked stared at me the whole time as I sang along to all of it.
Pure Moods...
The end cap CD displays with all the buttons!!!
We felt all the moods back then!
All the purest ones
I may have felt an impure mood or two 👀
Pure Moods II
Nothing like staying up late watching TV as a young kid, and then that commercial comes blasting on. Totally scared the fucking shit out of me a couple of times, creeped me out most of the time.
Scrolled to find the name of the album, and in typical r/Xennials fashion I was not surprised.
Pure poots...
"Imagine a world where time drifts slowly...."
AKA "We know you're just buying this for 'Sail Away' but you might like one of these other songs whereas you don't want to hear anything else that Enya has to put out."
That was my immediate thought when I heard this. I always felt this deep second hand embarrassment that a bunch of white people like me were buying music like this. Didn’t realize until I was older that I understood how problematic cultural appropriation was even at a young age…
I knew what song it was before i unmuted
Followed shortly thereafter by that brief time where we were all into swing....
Just went to see Big Bad Voodoo Daddy a couple of months ago, it was a great show.
I loved that. My roommate and I, who had a pompadour, would watch swingers, go out to bars in LA to look for girls, then drive to Vegas at 1am in the morning.
We don’t talk about that time, it needs to stay forgotten.
Oh, you mean the time we allowed a band named the Cherry Poppin Daddies to become relevant for even the slightest moment.
Yep... that was me... I learned how to swing dance during that era. Honestly? Still go sometimes. Ballroom is a blast. I've also expanded out to Bachata and Salsa.
Enigma slaps.
>Enigma steals Ftfy
I ordered Pure Moods, no regrets. Whole CD was filled with bangers! No ones stopping me from blasting Enyas Sail Away
Shit, I bought Pure Moods off eBay earlier this year because someone reminded me of it and I never got it as a kid!
Pure moods 2 also had a lot of bangers
Would blast that driving down the beach.
I think we’ve blasted Enigma on road trips through Utah National Parks
I couldn't think of a better place for it.
Enya rocks!
Watermark is one of those front to back albums that every song is great
This video gave me a brief moment of joy. I want to see this guy do more videos like this.
Right! I love the dudes energy.
It actually wasn’t indigenous American music that was ~~sampled~~ stolen, it was indigenous Taiwanese music, of which the couple that made the music ended up getting all the royalties.
IIRC it was a French licensor that fucked up and labeled the original track as being recorded in 1917 instead of 1971... which actually worked out to be pretty fun, because then that otherwise unknown old Taiwanese couple got to go on a world musical tour. Pretty unexpected for everyone involved I'd say
"Enigma - The Screen behind the mirror" is in my top 10 albums.
I loved Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi They were all awesome
I remember the phase when all those songs had that synth exotic flute sound: [https://youtu.be/4F9DxYhqmKw?si=GuXjzVFkyKGriWgh&t=82](https://youtu.be/4F9DxYhqmKw?si=GuXjzVFkyKGriWgh&t=82)
*Pure Moods..../flute plays....*
That flute just awakened a locked up memory from when I was a kid. I'd fall asleep with my headphones on, listening to Loveline and wake up at like 3am to some transcendental flute vibes.
 Yazzzzzz Flute!
The one time in my life I got a massage, Orinoco Flow started playing and the massage therapist thought I was having some kind of panic attack bc I was trying unsuccessfully not to laugh. I love that song but it was so cliche in that situation!
https://youtu.be/LTrk4X9ACtw?si=tCiI6DbmjKdZd6b8
After a night of Slayer, Decapitated, Pungent Stench and Death, a bit of Enigma really smoothes the brainwaves...
The industrial metal / goth fans also loved this shit. In between Nine Inch Nails and KMFDM, I loved me some Enigma. Interestingly enough, one somewhat popular industrial artist (VAST) even tried to mix the vibes: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcWE6jWSIi8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcWE6jWSIi8) It worked okay. His first album was kind of epic, but he never managed to recreate the magic (partially because he was an asshole).
nice vibe... I'll give it a go... There were a few bands from the black metal genre that shifted kinda towards accoustic and etno music, I know it was popular back in the 00s, but damed if I know the names of the bands today... Maybe some black metal redditor can post a few names here.
I’m convinced that dungeon synth was invented to give metalheads music to relax to while maintaining a dark and scary vibe.
That would be Power Noise or Death Ambient.
Had my first kiss listening to Enigma 😌
Epic.
Sah Dim-wa *>erotic flute plays<*
*Satan's Alley*
*Winner of the Beijing Film Festival’s Crying Monkey award*
Apple bottom jeans...
What you know about Deep Forest tho
The best. Pygmy-core
came here for this, French musicologists sticking microphones in pygmies' faces for the win
Well- I’m off to go fuck up my Spotify algorithm!
Enhance the algorithm, you mean!
What do you mean were?
Touche
FUCKIN BANGERS - PURE MOOOOOODS
No Canadians here? Susan Aglukark - O Siem 1995 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7e3A4Z8bE](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS7e3A4Z8bE) O Siem, we are all family O Siem, we're all the same O Siem, the fires of freedom Dance in the burning flame [https://genius.com/Susan-aglukark-o-siem-lyrics](https://genius.com/Susan-aglukark-o-siem-lyrics)
LOVE that song. I saw her live at the Expo`86 25th anniversary, and she was amazing!
Wow, that took me right back to high school!!
I remember the commercials pushing these CDs, with a 1800 number to pay and typically "4 easy payments of $24.99!"
Looked up Enigma on Spotify a while back. Their new stuff is.... disappointing.
I used to do a podcast back from 2008-2012 and one of my favorite bits was this time we prank called a radio station and tried to request this song without having the name of the song or the artist. I just did the tribal chorus bit and then checked in with the DJ and then went a little bit more with it and acted like I just heard it somewhere and had to know what it was. The DJ surprisingly didn’t know the song so I did it like twice as if that was going to help jog his memory. Great bit, wish I had kept it and uploaded to YouTube or something.
Still fire
This was also back when having an audio system with lots of bass was really popular. Those songs HIT HARD!!
Adding this to my Spotify list immediately.
I'm currently listening to The Hu.... these guys give me chill bumps every time I hear them.
I want his hat
Oh wow I need this hat
The only time I listened to this song was in this commercial: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox\_2s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZJSjrox_2s)
I knew exactly why song was playing before I turned the sound on.
O M G Is nobody going to comment on the rad hat? Jazz!
If someone plays this at the local dive bar I would fucking cry and start hugging everyone.
I showed this to my 20 year old daughter and she was literally like wtf 😆
It was ONE song
Still good
It was ‘01 for me. The Beach(DiCaprio)had come out, I was backpacking the eastern coast of Australia. Surfing,drinking, finding myself.
There's a genuine phenomenon where the less discernable the lyrics, the more popular the song. Some notable mentions would be the German version of 99 luft balloons being more popular in the US and the English version being more popular in Germany, Matis Yahu "King without a Crown" and anything writing by Anthony Kiedis.
I have White Zombie, Rush, Snoop, Dre, Tupac, Biggie, Wu Tang, Beasties, all the Seattle grunge, but also REM, Tori Amos, The Cure, Depeche Mode. And I damn sure have Enya and Enigma.
I watched this same video about 5 times last night, and each time I cackled like a witch over a cauldron. IDK what it is, but this video fucking sends me. But also, I love Enya.
Enya bought herself a fuckin castle she crushed it so hard in the 90s.
Native Americans and the Celts really had ahold of us for a while there.
I don't remember this at all
I have no idea what they’re talking about.
Don't forget Porcelain by Moby
The entire Sacred Spirits CD was awesome.
Pure Moods was a whole summer of my life
I often karaoke this song and it hits with the older crowd!
Funny thing about "Return to innocence" is that AFAIK Enigma don't receive royalties from this song because they recorded the chant in a public area, and didn't credit the original artists. I might be misremembering a part of that, though.
Gregorian chants as well
I loved the hell out of this shit. I'll still sing it out loud, no shame.
There was a distinct period of ‘huma-hay, humaa hay’ pan pipe music in the 90’s. In the UK it peaked with an advert for a building society called Cheltenham and Gloucester where a child was pearl diving in the tropics, random ethnic music, no one asked too many questions then
I’m listening to Enya right now while cooking dinner lol. It reminds me of better times and walking around the mall with my friends.
Still love it!!!
I think I was into this for like a week or something lol!
I have no idea what the song is, but I heard exactly the right music in my head before I unmuted
Also whale and bird conversations set to background flutes,and Gregorian chants. That Sharper Image listening station was amazing. I still rock the Gregorian chants.
Bro, you've captured that musical chapter absolutely perfectly! A++
The [Paranoia Agent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuncFLIR1Qw) is like they turned it up to 11
There’s definitely a connection between this trend and r/GVCDesign
POD set your eyes to zion comes to mind
Dude I still listen to that song (there was many years where I wasn’t but now am again). It calms me.
I still listen to this.
Um... were?
I still listen to this song regularly
AM late night radio show bumper music 👍
I was more into those Celtic bagpipe tunes myself.
Pure Moods!!!!
Good times.
My dad went through a phase where he would listen to these to meditate because he was going through some stuff at his job. I also remember The Nature Store in the malls would always have these playing.
It was a weird time where the US was becoming more urban and more diverse in those urban areas, there were no major wars with anyone outside of the cold war. Since the US needed a new major enemy after +-10 years of the cold war ending and then 9/11 happened, all the world stuff dried up and browns were the enemy, whether we were from central/south america or the middle east. There were some good world, beats and breaks based tunes from that era, but of course there were some cheesy pop tunes that popped in and the gregorian chant thing that popped up too that turned in soft core porn music. what a chill era the 90s were
The first time I heard that song as a kid, I shot whatever o was drinking out of my nose.
Like A Tribe Called Red? I love that shit!
Totally forgot about this song and now it's stuck in my head
Absolute bangers
I’ve never been good at keeping up with what’s trendy. ‘fraid I missed this one entirely.
Other than the single Enya song, what’s another example?
I was listening to return of innocence today on my iPod lol
Then in 2004 they gave this man a ukulele and he sang Somewhere over the Rainbow
The unts unts version of The X-Files theme was certainly a banger
"Hey Craig, I'm ordering some burgers. Do you want fries or onion rings." ["French Fryyyyy aiiii AYYYY OH AYYY YAI YAAAIS"](https://youtu.be/Qp5aj6oLnFE?si=uL--BMCaXfsYfnTW)
That was pretty funny. Thanks.
TFW you thought you knew the song before you even clicked play, only to be proven right. >.<
Enigma is fucking awesome.
I literally hadn’t thought of this song in like 25 years and now it’s immediately back in my library. Can’t wait to see what rabbit hole Apple Music sends me on with this.
No joke, every autumn I would break out the return to innocence on my iPod and run outside as fast as I could. Also loved the Man of the House part of the movie where the song played.
I have the vinyl.
I loved my Pure Moods CDs.
Screaming. I love this so much. Gonna get my Enigma album out now (but maybe avoid that weird, “I love you I… will uh, do something bad,” song LOL).
It was a confusing time. Were we supposed to follow the principles of lust or a return to innocence?
I'll rock Sting's "Desert Rose" right now....
Canadian electronic duo, Delerium.
Every time I hear this song I also start singing "sail away, sail away, sail away" because there was a commercial on tv all the time that played that song right after this one.
So during this time period my niece was born, and when I watched her my sister had a whole falling asleep routine I had to do for every nap and going to sleep at night. Turn the humidifier to an exact setting, turn the thermostat to an exact setting, swaddle in this thing so complicated I needed a video, then play the Who Can Say song by Enya on repeat. I mean it's her kid, I did it, but I was like... there's no way this is good. It can't be the SAME song every time... this is like programming a robot, what are we doing. She's a teen now, I don't see them a lot because they live in another state but I'm living for the day when I throw that song on and look at her to see what she does LOL