I will say that this is a very personal album for me. Life has made it so. Usually that is what I do with music that moves me...I bring it into myself and make it personal. (I'm sure most people do that.)

You know how people have "names"? Like on my birth certificate it says my first name is Jeffrey. Well, I chose for myself a "musical name" and for several years now, it has been the title track to this album "The Memory of Trees". For me, despite whatever the actual intent of singer/songwriter with this piece, it represents my 'inner innocent child-like dreamy self' that I aspire to be, that if I am at my best, I am. So if I'm feeling "down" and need to remind myself that I am better or that I can be better, I listen to "The Memory of Trees" piece.

Perhaps strange. But it is what it is to me now.

The piece "Hope Has A Place", is a song I attach not to a "romantic" love, but to someone I love in general who held me up when things were not at all great. Enya's voice is like that someone's voice singing, as they held me up. A love, much more complex and wide-ranging than just romantic love, breathes out in this song. These words are my favorite:

"Whispering world, a sigh of sighs,
The ebb and the flow of the ocean tides.
One breath, one word may end or may start
A hope in a place of the lover's heart."

Very slow and graceful. I can feel my pulse just slowing and I can just feel myself floating and melting into caring arms with them. Are their any slower, quieter images than these, relaxing images than these?

All of her albums are welcome, because she breathes and sighs and sings so gracefully, elegantly and without any "poisons" in her words. Her voice makes me float in this album (and it all the others).

This has to be Enya's most saddest album. Every time I hear the first opening chords of the title track, I can't help but burst right into tears. There's a reason she titled the song (and the album) "The Memory of Trees," and while listening to that opening song you actually understand how and why she did this. This probably isn't a very easy listen to those that are not already fans, but ... it does offer a bit of everything. Aside from the emotional title track, there's the poppy "Anywhere Is"; the dark, somewhat scary, "Pax Deorum"; the beautiful ballad "China Roses"; and the fun "Tea House Moon." Other Enya fans will know what I mean when I say this album has variety.

My favorite Enya album to date is "A Day Without Rain," but this one is right up there, too. It's good music to listen to during dinner or when you're laying in bed, or just trying to relax. At my house, Enya is always playing no matter what. And that's the way I like it. :)

According to me Watermark, Shepherd Moons and The Memory Of Trees represent Enya's golden trio. They complement each other in a perfect way and her music is varying; from beautiful to powerful, from calm to dynamic. The CD covers are also very beautiful and poetic. My personal favourite on The Memory Of Trees is her well known hit Anywhere Is, but the album contains lots of great tracks such as the title track (perhaps her best instrumental track so far), Pax Deorum, Athair Ar Neamh, China Roses, Tea-House Moon and On My Way Home. The Memory Of Trees is perfect to play in autumn and winter when the darkness falls. I promise you it will be a moment full of feelings.

Here comes a short description of the tracks on The Memory Of Trees:

1. The Memory Of Trees - Instrumental; great, very beautiful, special*
2. Anywhere Is - English; great, wonderful, special*
3. Pax Deorum - Latin & Gaelic; great, pretty powerful, special*
4. Athair Ar Neamh - Gaelic; very beautiful, special*
5. From Where I Am - Instrumental; beautiful, relaxing
6. China Roses - English; very beautiful, special*
7. Hope Has A Place - English; very beautiful, relaxing, special*
8. Tea-House Moon - Instrumental; very beautiful, relaxing
9. Once You Had Gold - English; beautiful, relaxing
10. La Soñadora - Spanish; beautiful, special*
11. On My Way Home - English; great, beatuiful, special*

* Hard to say why these songs are special, but perhaps because they don't sound like any other musical stuff. There's only one person that's able to create songs like these and her name is - Enya. You must hear them, but don't forget to try her other albums such as Watermark and Shepherd Moons.