Much of the album was recorded at Aigle Studio, the recording studio in the Ryans' home, then located in Artane, a northern suburb of Dublin. Shepherd Moons was recorded with new equipment purchased with the profits from Watermark. Initially, Enya felt worried that by recording non-original songs, she would be unable to perform them with the same amount of emotion as she might with her own compositions, though her strong feelings towards them coupled with their age, made recording them easier. Two tracks on Shepherd Moons are traditional songs that Enya rearranged with Nicky. She gained inspiration from several sources and stories, including her personal diaries and her grandparents. Her Catholic upbringing and childhood experiences of hymns and church music, coupled with later studies in classical music, were big influences that helped form her albums.
As with Watermark, Enya sings Irish, her first language, English, and Latin. Only when she has pieced one together, usually with vocal ideas or with piano accompaniment, does she then build a song around it. You forget that." As with all her albums, Enya considered a strong melody as a fundamental part to her songwriting. You can forget about charts, how much you sold. And in a way it's nice because you can concentrate only on the music. She added, "It felt like Watermark was a dream. When the process got underway, she was able to forget about the success of Watermark and start again. "A continuation of where I'd left off with Watermark. When I was composing new melodies I kept thinking "Would this have gone on Watermark? Is it as good?" Eventually I had to forget about this and start on a blank canvas and just really go with what felt right in the studio." Enya recalled: "I put a lot of pressure on myself at the beginning. The success of Watermark complicated the writing process at first. Enya worked with her long time recording partners, manager, producer and arranger Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan. With such a length of time for promotion, Enya felt the priority was to return to the studio and record a new album rather than spend further time planning and completing a concert tour, partly due to the various difficulties involved in recreating her studio-oriented sound in a live setting. The album propelled Enya to worldwide fame and she spent much of the following year travelling worldwide to promote it through interviews, appearances, and performances. It became an unexpected commercial success, charting around the world helped by its international top-ten hit, " Orinoco Flow". In September 1988, Enya released her second studio album Watermark.
It was reissued in 19 the latter was a Japanese release with bonus tracks. In 1993, the album won Enya a Grammy Award for Best New Age Album, the first of four she has won in her career. As with Watermark, Enya supported the album with a worldwide promotional tour that included several interviews and televised performances. Between 19, Enya released four singles from Shepherd Moons: " Caribbean Blue", " How Can I Keep from Singing?", " Book of Days", which charted at number ten in the United Kingdom, and " Marble Halls". The album was certified multi-platinum by the British Phonographic Industry and Recording Industry Association of America for shipments of 1.2 million and five million copies, respectively. It went to number one on the UK Albums Chart and peaked at number seventeen on the Billboard 200 in the United States. Shepherd Moons received generally positive reviews from critics and became a greater commercial success than Watermark. The album was recorded in Ireland and London and continued to display Enya's sound of multi-tracked vocals with keyboards and elements of Celtic and new-age music. At its conclusion, she wrote and rehearsed new material for her next album with her long time recording partners, manager, arranger and producer Nicky Ryan and his wife, lyricist Roma Ryan. After the unexpected critical and commercial success of her previous album Watermark (1988), Enya embarked on a worldwide promotional tour to support it. Shepherd Moons is the third studio album by Irish singer, songwriter and musician Enya, released on 4 November 1991 by WEA.
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