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Devin Townsend

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The Importance of Enya

I consider Enya to be as important as Brian Eno. She took Irish traditional music, mixed it with synthesizers and created something that is only Enya. And I think there's a bit of a misogyny in how Enya's not called Ambient, she's called New Age. The difference between Ambient and New Age is... Ambient music is like it has artistic rigor. But New Age is like wallpaper. It's what you play when you're getting a massage. You don't listen to it for the pleasure of the art. That's my counterintuitive. Yeah, it sounds very Protestant. Hi, I think... But it does. Well, it's funny

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