THE STORY OF ENJA

Ambitious cinematic "Intro", orchestral, dramatic, worthy of a Lord of the Rings, by ENYA. "Born in the Enchanted Forest" continues with an air by Mike OLDFIELD and Maggie Reilly; this female voice signs the birth of the heroine on a pompous air boosted by aerial choirs with a melancholic flute. The grandiloquent, medieval and heady chorus. "Encounter with the Elven Prince" drives the point home with the bewitching vocal, not elven, Sonja perhaps; a folk air mixed with Genesisian keyboards from their 3rd period and the magic works; a solemn spleen air develops ancient reminiscences. The fat and velvety synth break leaning on the works of Tony BANKS with a moving guitar arpeggio. "The Quest for the Crystal Flower" continues, reverberating, mystical, dark, creating a new universe; the male vocal is abrupt and sends into a fusion space between solemn and epic, on the universe of the revisited 'And Then There Were Three'; the melodic break with the acoustic arpeggio refers to HACKETT for a time. "The Rescue of the Moonstone Dragon" with the pastoral ballad, major flute supported by the fat, bewitching keyboard, the composer's trademark; a consensual piece until the enjoyable variation. A magical synth solo that brings back memories of the end of the 70s.

"The Dance of the Will-o'-the-Wisps" elven title and sound that YES would not have denied; the voice drives the musical nail home, Jon in memory; everything is there to regress admirably; the vibrant guitar solo break, the plus of this title with a unique singular air. CEN-PROJEKT calibrated with the finale marked by GENESIS. "The Guardian of the Ancient Oak" returns to the bucolic atmosphere of the Charisma Label era, the vocal flirting with that of Phil COLLINS, astonishing. The development with the fat, velvety synth, gives pride of place to a folkloric, pastoral, medieval, progressive space; inaugural of a world apart like the esoteric finale. "The Melody of the River Sprite" heavy riff on a female voice, AI or friend, let's keep the mystery. The nervous guitar takes over giving the rhythm that was starting to be missing in the album; intoxicating, fruity and Banksian atmosphere; the enchanting guitar solo, spleen in the end for a Genesis ersatz of all beauty and the memory of the beautiful flamboyant years of the 70s. "The Guidance of the Ancient Druid" a YES sound with a magical vocal embellished with the Genesis keyboard, as proof that GENESIS could have lasted until today; break, bass by Chris SQUIRE, not Wolfgang for a rustic variation before leaving on the breathtaking solemn air. The keyboard that overwhelms the space, it's simple but it's beautiful. "The Triumph of the Elven Heroine" as a final climax with the Olympian trumpet. The testament of history, the bewitchment created by the magic keyboards, between fusion and reminiscence, like this synth-keyboard solo making us revise our progressive classics. Guitar arpeggio in the style of HOWE before the ambient-bucolic passage of yesteryear, the one where we took our time. Simple but still divine. Originally on Profilprog.

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