Enigma — Voyageur
Voyageur is an album created by the musical project Enigma. It is Enigma’s fifth album and released in 2003.
Voyageur was considered to be Enigma’s most different album ever created, due to Enigma’s drastic changes in sound as compared to the previous four albums. The project’s signature shakuhachi flutes, Gregorian chants and tribal chants found on the earlier albums were all but gone on Voyageur. Instead, most of the songs found on the album were more pop-oriented, such as «Voyageur», «Incognito», «Boum-Boum» and «Look of Today»; the latter of which interpolates the chorus of ABC’s hit «The Look of Love (ABC song)». Michael Cretu described Voyageur’s genre as «sophisticated pop». Only a few samples of previous works are retained; a familiar reversed cymbal rhythm appears in «Look of Today», while «Incognito» contains the chorus of previous hit «Sadeness» buried in the bridge of the song. The «Enigma foghorn» also appears at the opening of the record.
This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.
Artist: Enigma
Album: Voyageur
Genre: New Age, Ambient, Chillout
Format: mp3
Quality: 192 Kbps
Year: 2003
File Size: 64.62 MB
Track list:
1. «From East to West» (Cretu) – 4:10
2. «Voyageur» (Cretu, Jens Gad) – 4:36
3. «Incognito» (Cretu) – 4:24
4. «Page of Cups» (Cretu, Gad) – 7:00
5. «Boum-Boum» (Cretu) – 4:30
6. «Total Eclipse of the Moon» (Cretu) – 2:16
7. «Look of Today» (Cretu) – 3:44
8. «In the Shadow, In the Light» (Cretu) – 5:33
9. «Weightless» (Cretu) – 2:18
10. «The Piano» (Cretu, Gad) – 3:00
11. «Following the Sun» (Cretu) – 5:48
Enigma — Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! (French for «The King is Dead, Long Live the King!») is a 1996 album created by the music project Enigma.
Released on November 25, 1996, the album reached to the top spot in Norway’s top 40 charts and third in the whole of Europe. Two singles from the album — «Beyond the Invisible» and «T.N.T. for the Brain» were also released at around the same time of its parent album. A planned third single, «The Roundabout» was scrapped at the last minute for unclear reasons, even though a remix had already been created by DJ Quicksilver.
This album continued Enigma’s trend, giving it a slightly more modern, futuristic sound by combining the elements of Enigma’s first album, MCMXC a.D. and their second album, The Cross of Changes. Michael Cretu, producer of the project, considered Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi to be the child of the previous two albums, with the first being the father and the second being the mother, as indicated by the 19-second track, «Third of its Kind».
There are two editions of the packaging; one with standard paper artwork, and another with translucent tray and booklet artwork printed on a heavier plastic.
Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! was nominated in the 1998 Grammy Awards for Best New Age Album and Johann Zambryski’s album art design earned him a nomination for Best Recording Package.
The intro track begins with a sample of mission control contacting the Discovery from the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey. The intro, including the famed «Enigma horn», is played in reverse for the closing track, «Odyssey of the Mind».
The track «T.N.T. for the Brain» contains samples taken from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds. The samples are just audible, underlying the main music. They can be most clearly heard at the start and the end of the track, but are just noticeable throughout.
Artist: Enigma
Album: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
Genre: New Age, Ambient, Chillout
Format: mp3
Quality: 256 Kbps
Year: 1996
File Size: 81.91 MB
Track list:
1. «Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!» (Michael Cretu) – 1:57
2. «Morphing thru Time» (Cretu) – 5:47
3. «Third of Its Kind» (Cretu) – 0:19
4. «Beyond the Invisible» (Cretu, David Fairstein) – 5:00
5. «Why! …» (Cretu) – 4:59
6. «Shadows in Silence» (Cretu) – 4:21
7. «The Child in Us» (Cretu) – 5:06
8. «T.N.T. for the Brain» (Cretu) – 4:26
9. «Almost Full Moon» (Cretu) – 3:26
10. «The Roundabout» (Cretu, Fairstein) – 3:38
11. «Prism of Life» (Cretu, Fairstein) – 4:55
12. «Odyssey of the Mind» (Cretu) – 1:40
Enigma — The Screen Behind the Mirror
The Screen Behind the Mirror is a 1999 music album created by the musical project Enigma. Recorded at the A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, it was released worldwide by Virgin Records.
Supporters of the album credited it as the most mature album Michael Cretu had created, while critics lamented the use of extensive samples from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, even though it only appears on four out of the eleven tracks on the album.
Artist: Enigma
Album: The Screen Behind the Mirror
Genre: New Age, Ambient, Chillout
Format: mp3
Quality: 192 Kbps
Year: 2000
File Size: 106.59 MB
Track list:
1. «The Gate» (Michael Cretu) – 2:03
2. «Push the Limits» (Cretu, Jens Gad) – 6:27
3. «Gravity of Love» (Cretu) – 4:01
4. «Smell of Desire» (Cretu, David Fairstein) – 4:55
5. «Modern Crusaders» (Cretu) – 3:51
6. «Traces (Light and Weight)» (Cretu, Gad) – 4:13
7. «The Screen Behind the Mirror» (Cretu) – 3:59
8. «Endless Quest» (Cretu) – 3:07
9. «Camera Obscura» (Cretu) – 6:42
10. «Between Mind & Heart» (Cretu) – 4:09
11. «Silence Must Be Heard» (Cretu, Gad) – 5:20
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