About this song
- The song was highly popular in the early 1990s and was featured on many pop music compilations. It shares part of its name with Orinoco Studios (now Miloco Studios), where it was recorded. The division of syllables to follow the pattern of music may trick the listener into thinking that the song is written in Latin (as some Enya tracks are), but the lyrics are in fact English. At the end of the song she pays tribute to Warner Brothers Music UK CEO Rob Dickins and makes a more veiled reference to producer Ross Cullum. In 1998 a special edition 10th anniversary remix single was released. Locations referenced in lyrics (in order of mention) Orinoco River, Venezuela and Colombia Tripoli, Libya Yellow Sea, China Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Palau, islands near the Philippines Avalon, British Isles Fiji, Fiji islands Tiree, Scotland Isles of Ebony, England Peru, Peru Cebu, Philippines Babylon, Iraq Bali, Indonesia Cali, a city in Colombia Coral Sea, Australia Ebudae (Inner Hebrides), Scotland (also the name of a later Enya song) Khartoum, Sudan Sea of Clouds, the Moon, possibly Mount Huangshan, China Island of the Moon, Madagascar Ross Dependency (this was an in song reference to Ross Cullum) . User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply. — lastfm
- "Orinoco Flow", also released as "Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)", is a song by Irish singer-songwriter Enya from her second studio album, Watermark (1988). It was released on 3 October 1988 by WEA Records in the United Kingdom and by Geffen Records in the United States the following year. The song topped the UK Singles Chart for three weeks and received two Grammy Award nominations for Best Music Video and Best New Age Performance at the 32nd Annual Grammy Awards. — wikipedia
