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Enigma: Seven Lives Many Faces

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Label: Virgin Music
Released: 2008.08.05
Time:
 47:37
Category: Pop/Rock
Producer(s): See Artists ...
Rating: ********.. (8/10)
Media type: CD
Web address: www.enigma.de
Appears with: Michael Cretu
Purchase date: 2008.12.02
Price in €: 14,50



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[1] Encounters (M.Cretu) - 3:12
[2] Seven Lives (M.Cretu) - 4:25
[3] Touchness (M.Cretu) - 3:35
[4] The Same Parents (M.Cretu) - 5:19
[5] Fata Morgana (M.Cretu) - 3:23
[6] Hell's Heaven (M.Cretu) - 3:51
[7] La Puerta del Cielo (M.Roig) - 3:28
[8] Distorted Love (A.Donalds) - 4:11
[9] Je T'Aime Till My Dying Day (A.Donalds) - 4:18
[10] Déjà Vu (M.Cretu) - 2:56
[11] Between Generations (M.Roig) - 4:31
[12] The Language of Sound (M.Cretu) - 6:52

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Michael Crétu - Producer, Orchestration, Digital Programming
Nikita C. - Voices
Andru Donalds - Voices
Margarita Roig - Voices

Rosemary Robenn - Photography
Dirk Rudolph - Artwork

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Seven Lives Many Faces is Enigma's seventh album. This album expands the sound catalogue of previous releases and it is expected to lead to a new Omni-Cultural wave. The lead single "Seven Lives" is a powerful fusion of modern and classical elements. Enigma is an Electronic musical project founded by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. Cretu is both the composer and the producer; his former wife Sandra often provided vocals on Enigma tracks. Jens Gad co-produced and played guitar on three of the Enigma albums.

ENIGMA hat 2008 die rechnerische Volljährigkeit erreicht: Michael Cretu veröffentlicht »Seven Lives Many Faces«, das siebte Album seines Musikprojekts, fast auf den Tag genau 18 Jahre nach dem spektakulären Debüt »Sadeness Part I«, das im Herbst 1990 erschien. Die neue ENIGMA-Expedition ist ein vielfältiger kultureller Trip geworden, der 47 Minuten und 35 Sekunden dauert, aber viel länger nachhallt. Denn die 12 Kapitel des siebten Musik-Rätsels sprengen das bisher bekannte Soundspektrum, erweitern den Hör-Horizont und erfüllen den hohen Anspruch, den United Colors Of Music eine weitere Farbe zu geben; sie bauen der Architektur des musikalischen Status quo ein neues Fundament. »Es ist ein sehr direktes und transparentes Album in seiner voluminösen Art. Es vermittelt Power, ist wie eine seelische Vitamintablette«.



Enigma mastermind Michael Crétu took a self-described "omnicultural" approach to his seventh release under the moniker, and while that progressive, pioneering notion looks good on paper, any sharp stylistic changes to the project's signature sound on Seven Lives Many Faces are subtle, to say the least. Once again, Crétu seamlessly blends ethnic fusion, new age, and neo-classical electronica into the perfect background music for a European tourism campaign commercial, peppering each track with his seemingly endless arsenal of samples, both new and old. When Enigma strikes a balance between the two worlds, as is the case on the elegant (and surprisingly muscular) first single "Seven Lives" and its spiritual and melodic counterpart "La Puerta del Cielo" (the latter most resembles the band's most notable hit, "Sadeness, Pt. 1") the results are quietly stunning, but in more cases than not, the new age, fortune-cookie derived lyrics (especially when sung in English) mirror the unimaginative, two-chord melodies that carry them along.

James Christopher Monger - All Music Guide
 

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