Enya – Moya Brennan and the end of Aigle Music
On September 10, 2025, in Dublin, Nicky Ryan was missing, at the age of 79, an important pillar in Enya’s music.
On 13 April 2026, at the age of 73, Enya's sister, Moya Brennan, disappeared in her native land, Gaoth Dobhair.
On 15 April 2026, Aigle Music was dissolved.
The Aigle Music Company Limited was officially founded 28 September 1981 in Ireland with registration number 85184.
Founded by Nicky Ryan together with the wife Rome Ryan, the label and production house was born shortly after Nicky had finished his collaboration as manager with the Clannads. The name "Aigle" (which in French means "aquila") is closely linked to the artistic path of Enya, who joined Ryan shortly after the foundation of the company to begin his legendary solo career.
The study was the place where Enya recorded most of his music, and became one of the symbols of his artistic career. Aigle Music was also closely linked to the production and management of its repertoire.
Here are some key details about the company:
Historical location: Initially located in Artane (Dublin), the operating base was subsequently moved to Killiney, where the homonymous Aigle Studio was born in which almost all the world successes of Enya were recorded.
Creative team: The company represented the core of the creative trio composed of Enya (music and voice), Nicky Ryan (production and arrangements) and Roma Ryan (texts).
Current status: "The company 'Aigle Music Company Limited' is formally dissolved in Irish commercial records and, with the disappearance of Nicky, the artistic project of the trio Aigle Music has also ended. "
Curiously, it seems that the name was also chosen as a tribute to the Eagle track of ABBAs, a group of which Nicky Ryan was a great estimator.
1. The link with Artane (The origins)
The origins of Enya's "professional family" (composed by her, producer Nicky Ryan and paroliera Roma Ryan) actually reside in Artane, a suburb north of Dublin. This is where Nicky Ryan had set up a small home studio (often called colloquially "Aigle") where they started experimenting with the laminated sound that would later make Enya famous all over the world with the album Watermark.
2. Transfer to Killiney (The Success)
With the consolidation of world success, the business moved to Killiney, an exclusive residential area south of Dublin. This is where the Aigle Studio was established, located near the Ryan residence.
Production: Almost all Enya's discography, from Shepherd Moons onwards, has actually been finished and recorded here.
Atmosphere: The studio was famous for being a private and technologically avant-garde environment, fundamental to create the "mirror of sounds" typical of the artist.
3. The registered office (Blackrock)
The address (2 Bath Place, Blackrock) corresponds to the registered office of Aigle Music Company Limited.
Blackrock and Killiney are both located in the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (Dublin metropolitan area), a short distance from each other.
While Bath Place was the administrative and fiscal address (often associated with consulting studies or representative offices), the actual creative activity took place historically in Killiney's private studio.
Enya's latest official album, Dark Sky Island, was released on November 20, 2015. Since then no new studio album has been released. In April 2026, about 10 years and 5 months have passed since its publication.
State of the Company
As far as society is concerned, the official records indicate the following:
Current status: The company is in the state of "Struck Off" (delivered from the business register).
Last movements: Although operational activity had already been reduced in recent years (with the latest balance sheets deposited dating back to 2018), formal closure took place following the cessation of activity and, inevitably, the loss of its main founder.
It is a moment of great melancholy for fans, since Aigle Music was not only a label, but the symbol of an artistic and family partnership that has sold over 75 million records worldwide, always remaining independent and reserved.
A new day
After the storm, it usually calms back. Yesterday’s pst told a deep dark while this morning there was a little more light.
The words on the blog are a vent but also a diary that serves over time to rebuild important parts of the trip. Some phrases and thoughts can be interpreted differently from the meaning that he wanted to give the author and this depends on our personal interpretations, experiences and life times.
For example, what made me uncomfortable yesterday was not just ears and there is not only one physical malaise but we are also connected with the emotionality that is also connected to our health more material in turn connected to our history and mood.
Dark background
There are less than 50 hours and the month of March 2026 will be passed.
I feel that within me there is a wound that adds to the others, and that hurts.
A few days ago Gino Paoli was missing. He had reached an advanced age, with all the health problems that this entails, and yet I miss it.
How can someone you've never met?
Perhaps the explanation is that not all meetings happen physically. His voice, his words accompanied summers of several years ago, and his music continues to be present in my reality, both in the days before his disappearance and now. Our presence is energy that somehow spreads unique vibrations and breaths.
This deep darkness that I feel is a malaise made of different wounds and nuances. Time passes and, in the last year, I perceive a worsening of my quality of life. First of all a health problem to the ears, so I did not find a solution — and it seems that — and then, besides this, I feel that there are other important aspects: signs of time and my history but also the energy of what surrounds me.
Today is deep darkness. In these days, climb and descend.
A few days ago I wrote on my blog a post entitled "Arrivederci Gino Paoli". Soon after I published it, I wondered if that arrivede were suitable.
This evening I discovered that, in his song, Autunno (to the end, at the minute 4:04), says: "When I leave, I will say goodbye."
And again: "I will return every time you feel lonely, I will return every time your heart hurts."
These words remind me of the warmth of the texts and music of Renato Zero.
I remember that Gino Paoli, in an interview, said that this world no longer liked him, because he felt that it was missing the goodness.
Maybe that's also what hurts: to think that such a voice, such a sensitivity, is no longer here.
I realize I still look for that poem in the air, as if I could somehow reach it, as if a subtle, almost magical contact was possible.
As if I could still connect to him and ask him for help: to bring a little more poetry, a little more good energy here.
The lightness and magic I live in his lyrics and voice continue to exist and, perhaps it is there that I can still meet him or perhaps draw me is the message, energy, a warm voice, history and a reality of other times.
This darkness will pass...
Goodbye Gino Paoli
On March 24, 2025 Gino Paoli greets us a short distance from Ornella Vanoni. He is missing in Genoa.
Born on 23 September 1934 in Monfalcone, Italy.
He wrote magic pieces like "The sky in a room", "the cat" and the song "lost". One of the most beautiful albums for me is characterized by four songs that group in itself different pieces and which are titled as the four seasons; the title of the album is "Along Travel".
Gino Paoli cremated at the lay temple So.Crem of Staglieno, the ashes were scattered in Boccadasse: village in which he lived and wrote "the cat".
Jerry Andrus Dragon | Optical illusion
Today, without knowing how well, I came up with a video or article of Jerry Andrus’s optical illusion. I thought I'd try to print the template on a sheet and watch videos try to build it.
It didn't work once. I had bent and glued the pieces badly, on the other hand even watching the video I could not well understand how to make the folds because I fell into the optical illusion even in the video.
How to Assemble the Thinky the Dragon Optical Illusion
Criaturas de Papel con Vida (ILUSIÓN ÓPTICA )
The effect if it comes is amazing!
The principle:
