Curious about the places mentioned in the song, I tracked each down in an atlas.
Camille from Toronto, OhYou really get the feeling that you're going on a journey when you hear this song.Orinoco Flow will always hold a special place in my heart. She, in my opinion, has created some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard. This song to me is a journey.a journey that began that day when I discovered Enya on MTV. Anyway, I went out and bought Watermark that very day and I have been a huge fan ever since. I actually knew her name from her speaking on the song 'Never Get Old' from Sinead O'Connor's first album, The Lion and the Cobra. I had missed maybe 10 seconds of the opening, but I sat through the rest of the video thinking "Oh my God! Who is this? This is amazing!" I got to the end of the video and wrote down song title and album. It had just been released and one afternoon, I turned on MTV (when they actually played videos). Brad from Topeka, KsI remember the first time I heard this song.It's haunting in a Wuthering Heights Kate Bush way.
And it was one of those songs that had broad appeal. But I'd never heard anything like music like that song before. Cause the song feels like you are rushing and tumbling with the river. Figuring out it was about a powerful river the Orinoco Flow I thought about for the first time, about the beauty and the attraction of water in general. Apart from it being a high brow classical departure from the usual pop stuff that was around in the UK at the time.
But when it went to #1 I thought, 'I'm in the lyric of a number one song, how fabulous.' All these years later, if I hear that line 'Rob Dickins at the wheel' I can't help smiling." Funnily enough, I hadn't even noticed the lyric until they printed the album. It's one of the things I'm most proud of. It went from 29 to five, then to #1 and we sold bucketloads of albums. We met at an Irish awards ceremony and I said, 'You must do a vocal record.' The record company thought I was mad, but I said what became a famous quote - 'Sometimes you sign acts to make money and sometimes you sign acts to make music.' In the week of release, Tower Records phoned up to say that when they played the album in the shop they sold 45 copies - almost everyone in the shop had bought the record.
#Celtic woman orinoco flow series
Someone said, 'You like Clannad, you'd like this soundtrack album this ex-Clannad member has done.' She'd done the music for the BBC series The Celts. I was in charge of the record company for the UK and Ireland, but we never had any Irish music. The whole thing was a metaphor for a journey for all of us. Orinoco was the name of the studio and I think they saw me as the captain of the ship. He sent over what became 'Orinoco Flow.' There was no middle eight, and 'Sail away' was after every line - it drove me crazy, but there was something there that could be worked on. After we'd made the Watermark album, I said as a joke, 'Nicky, where's the single?' A week later Nicky rang up and said, 'We've got it!' Got what? 'We've got the single!' In an article published December 13, 2008, Dickins said: "When I signed Enya, her manager/producer Nicky Ryan said, 'You're not going to push us for singles, are you?' It wasn't that kind of music. Dickins is listed as a producer on the album. The words "We can steer, we can near, with Rob Dickens at the wheel" refer to Rob Dickins, the head of her record label WEA.
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