So Nicky said, “That’s a great idea,” but he said the rhythm reminded him of a children’s skipping song, and he said to her, “It would be nice if each port or river or place had a rhythm in it, or else it rhymed.” So hence, the “Or-in-o-co Flow” or “From Bali to Cali, from Peru to Cebu.” Basically, we worked on it as a fun song.
And when Roma was doing the lyrics, she thought the “sail away” was so positive that it would be nice to relate the whole song to someone sailing all over the world.
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But even then, as singles go, it’s very different."Įnya: "Orinoco Flow, those, it started from the sound, from the pizzicato sound, and it was Nicky that said “This is great, let’s compose a piece of music with this sound.” So we put down a chord sequence, we built it up with the vocals, the hundreds of vocals sung in free time, and then we came to, the first section we had was the chorus, and it was “Sail away, sail away, sail away…” So the verse happened last. We would work on it for a while, forget it, go back to it but, again, because we had the time, which is important to point out, we were able at the end to listen to it and say ‘this is good.’ But all the time it was an album track and at the very end it was only decided that this might be good as a single. Only Time: The Collection, 2002 Quotes about the songĮnya: "…it is true that we had it shelved a few times and it was a very difficult song to work on. “Orinoco Flow” reflects the feeling of that time for us – adventure! There was a sense of discovery in the creating of this album, a sense of beginning, a sense of something new and exciting. Although it was the last track written for the album "Watermark" it was the first track to be released, and with great success.
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