The announcement of a possible new album was a misunderstanding, as
in there wasn't one planned. Panasonic in Japan wished to involve
Enya's music in an advertisement campaign specifically for the
Japanese market.

"Panasonic had sent a crew to Scotland to film some beautiful
landscape scenes for their advertising campaign and were good enough
to show us this before we gave a final answer. We talked about the
idea and we all felt that this was a suitable vehicle for the
particular piece we had in mind. We had been toying with the idea
of a song in Japanese for some time and had already taken this to
quite an advanced stage." (Enya.com)

There was no problem in being associated with Panasonic and so a
special opening for this ad campaign was made using the
song "Sumiregusa" (Wild Violet). WMJ (Japanese affiliate of Warners)
assumed a new album would follow and announced the "new album" would
have an exclusive song and gave it a catalogue number.

"None of the other affiliates knew about the news of the release
date until it had been announced by WMJ. When you realise that the
only people allowed to announce the release of any Enya album is
either ourselves or Warner Music UK you can see the upset this has
caused for everyone involved, including WMJ. However it is you, the
fans, that matter most in all of this and we sincerely apologise to
all of you." (Enya.com)

There is deep apologies for this disappointment and Enya hopes to
have our continuing loyalty and support.

~Erythisis~

All quotes are directly from Enya.com, the official Enya website.
Please go there for the most up-to-date information. No copyright
infringement is intended in quoting the website.