Anam Music Cd

Clannad - Anam

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Anam      Artist : Clannad      List Price : $11.98 USD        ProductGroup: Music      Release Date : 1992-07-14      Studio : Atlantic / Wea      Label : Atlantic / Wea      Avg. Customer Rating : (16 reviews)

Reviews Customer Reviews for Anam      Go for the older stuff      Rating:      I'll state this as positively as I can. Anyone disappointed by this CD should not give up on Clannad. I can vouch for Clannad 2, Fuaim and Dulaman. The early ones were lively and beautiful at the same time. There, I said only nice things, even if they weren't about this CD.     Customer Reviews for Anam Cd      Stylistic mish-mash, incoherent      Rating:      The problem with this, as another reviewer hinted at, is Clannad seems here to not know whether they want to be pop ("Love and Affection" and "In a Lifetime"), Celtic ("The Poison Glen" and "Harry's Game"), alt-country ("You're the One"), or "smooth jazz" ("Why Worry?"). It's hard to know exactly WHO will find this disc captivating. HIGHLIGHTS: The best known cut here is probably the best one. "Harry's Game" (from the PATRIOT GAMES soundtrack) is wonderfully ethereal as a layered wall of Maire Brennan's vocals meld perfectly with bandmate Ciaran Brennan's along with heavenly keyboard produced "oohs" and "aahs" that remind me of nothing so much as the backing vocals in 10CC's "I'm Not in Love". "Harry's" and "Ri Na Cruinne" will probably be the ones most beloved of ENYA fans. The title track is a soft peace anthem. ("when will I see/an end to destruction and woe/and how will I see/no division in my life?") "The Poison Glen" is a bit more traditional number but still mixes in rock influenced drumming, mandola, harmonica and what SOUNDS like an (uncredited) accordion. LOWS: "In a Lifetime" doesn't work...Bono's rocker wail sounds completely out of place amidst the more ethereal Clannad vocals and delicate harp which collides against wailing sax and almost jazz drumming. The whole thing is fraught with disaster. "Why Worry?" sounds like SADE's "Smooth Operator" with a lesser lyric. BOTTOM LINE: Enya fans...look elsewhere. "Harry's Game" fans...just get PURE MOODS. I don't know that I could honestly recommend this for anyone but Clannad diehards. Editorial Reviews for Anam Audio Cd      Amazon.com essential recording      The Brennan family and their band Clannad led the new Celtic music revolution for many years, with a string of solid acoustic albums that made them a must to hear. But with the success of Brennan diva Enya, and the popularity the band achieved as their "Harry's Game" made it into TV and movies, they have slowly turned a course toward a more popular sound, awash in layered voices, reverb, and synthesizers. Anam is the center ground between the two careers, with plenty of rootsy folk supplied by fiddle, bouzouki, guitars, and harp. And it's impossible not to like the singing of Marie and Ciaran Brennan. But the album also marks the beginning of that wash of sound that was to make them famous, so this is possibly the last truly "Irish" album they made and the first "new-Celtic" one. --Louis Gibson