{"id":2661,"date":"2012-11-18T09:50:16","date_gmt":"2012-11-18T14:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=2661"},"modified":"2012-11-18T09:50:16","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T14:50:16","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-326-the-90s-going-with-the-orinoco-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/11\/18\/my-musical-evolution-part-326-the-90s-going-with-the-orinoco-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 326 The 90’s Going With The Orinoco Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Enya<\/a>I’ve got to do something. I’ve been writing about New Age<\/em> for the past several posts and that is fine. I’m satified with calling this era A New Age<\/em>. It makes sense in that it applies to both the genre and the fact that I had shifted from The Roach Days Revisited<\/em> into another era of\u00a0My Musical Evolution.<\/p>\n

The part that I have struggled with\u00a0is that so far, all the major eras\u00a0of My Musical Evolution<\/em> seems to have disctinct timeframes and reasonable appropriate titles. For some reason, apart from New Age, <\/em> this era doesn’t seem to have any clear and present name that seems to apply let alone satisfy.<\/p>\n

I’ve been wrestling with\u00a0why that might be. Part of it might be that after becoming married and having\u00a0children, my music acquisition rate dropped pretty significantly. It might be that music in general got pushed to the perimeter and forced to take a minor supporting role rather than center stage. Still an important part but the hours of casual listening had given way to the epic of raising and supporting a family.<\/p>\n

Another aspect\u00a0of this may be that when\u00a0I was buying\u00a0Compact\u00a0Discs, I was backfilling material from my earlier eras. I was picking up quite a bit\u00a0of stuff from\u00a0The Scratchy 45 Days. This musical reminiscing my be a factor in the lack of musical identity.\u00a0 Perhaps it is hard to put a name to it because in reality, it is still in play. Where all the previous eras of My Musical Evolution <\/em>have a distinct beginning and end, I feel that I’m still living this last and longest segment.<\/p>\n

So here I am begrudgingly calling this era The 90’s.\u00a0<\/em>I’m hoping that segmenting it like that will help to\u00a0move forward. Actually, the segment should be called Married With Children<\/em> as that name supports the era a little more actively. As you will soon see, even my very young children\u00a0held influence in My Musical Evolution.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>So let’s talk about this Enya<\/em> album now. It was the early 90’s and I was deep into New Age <\/em>Music.\u00a0 Depeneding on where you were shopping, Enya\u00a0<\/em>would show up in New Age, Celtic, <\/em>or\u00a0World.\u00a0<\/em>So I had seen here name and a few album covers as I searched for New Age<\/em> music to add to my collection.\u00a0 Her song Orinoco Flow\u00a0<\/em>had gained some\u00a0attention even making its way into advertising. I\u00a0feel that\u00a0here again I must remind you of the absence of the internet and phones that cansample a song and return all you want to know about it. I would hear\u00a0Orinoco Flow every once in a while, usually on the overhead music systems of retail outlets.\u00a0 One day, I heard it on the radio at work and as luck would\u00a0have it, they actually announced the artist and name of the song. I wrote it down with the intention of looking for it on my next CD outing.\u00a0 It is a good song and I still enjoy listening to it very much. It would have been easier to find if Enya <\/em>adopted K.C. & The Sunshine Band’s method of naming songs. It would have been called “Sail Away, Sail Away, Sail Away”.<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>I’m sorry that this is such a long post but I need to cover a lot of ground here that just happens to coincide with this album. The next part, I’m sure that I’ve mentioned a dozen times already. It is about the disappearance of the Album<\/em> and the emergence of the download a track a time. Watermark <\/em>is another album that I initially bought for the one song Orinoco Flow. <\/em>I listened to\u00a0that song. I included it on a few road tapes [Since the big party days were left behind at The Roach Motel<\/em>, my desire to make mix tapes evolved into travel tapes. I even had people come to me and commision mix tapes for their road trips. More about that later.<\/p>\n

So I indulge on Orinoco Flow <\/em>and then put Watermark <\/em>on the shelf. This is where the Steve Martin Move L.A. Story<\/em> comes in. L.A. Story was OK as a movie but there were some really amazing songs on the soundtrack that reached me. For the longest time, I searched for the L.A. Story Soundtrack<\/em> which as far as I could tell, did not exist.\u00a0 I would watch the film on when it was on TV and soak up those songs. Fast forward some years and I’ve taken Watermark <\/em>off the shelf and I’m listening to the entire thing.\u00a0 Track three starts and a chill washes over me as I hear on the L.A. Story<\/em> songs that I loved so much. A couple tracks later and it is another! For years I was looking for them and all this time, they were in my possession. I had overlooked them for several years. If I had simply downloaded Orinoco Flow, <\/em>I never would have know what I was missing.<\/p>\n

Watermark<\/em>
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