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Spirit5
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quote: | Originally posted by Igaryok
After a few listens I love it, probably my second favorite Enigma album after MCMXC, there's not really a song that I don't like, and I really like how most of the songs have a trancey feel to them. Definitely not crap. |
Yeah I think it's up there with MCMXC AD, probably Enigma's third best album. The first I think is MCMX AD obviously, and the second is The Screen Behind The Mirror...because it had some awesome tracks and was very suspensful, esp the use of the Carmina Burana (O Fortuna) by Carl Orff. I liked the way it flowed. The other CDs I don't like as much (had some really good tracks, mixed in with some rather weak ones IMO), though I love "Return To Innocence" and "TNT For The Brain" on the other CDs, and a few more downtempo and ambient tracks like "Morphing Through Time" or "Shadows In Silence". But I am an Enigma fan through and through, though I'm not a huge fan of Michael Cretu's singing, but on this CD it's tolerable. Okay here's how I rank them...
1. MCMXC A.D.
2. The Screen Behind The Mirror
3. A Posteriori
4. Le Roi Est Mort Vive Le Roi!
5. The Cross Of Changes
6. Voyager
Feel free to disagree...
Last edited by Spirit5 on Sep-28-2006 at 05:20
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quote: | Originally posted by eulerfx
I thought it have a similar, subtle feel as Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi after the first listen. I definatly liked it. The first track sounds like a slowed down, old-school trance track, Enigma style. |
I think the similarities to that album come with the fact that this album was largely dealing with space and or other dimensions. Some of the tracks on that CD definitely had a feeling like your in space or some really bizzare dimension or plane of existence. For example..."Morphing Through Time" evokes images of space. "Shadows In Silence" does as well, but also other tracks like "Almost Full Moon". They also evoke images of the depths of the ocean, esp "Shadows In Silence", but at some points, you feel like your in a mystical cathedral with fog pouring through from the outside or late at night, with the moon shinning through...really other-worldy. "Beyond The Invisible" and "TNT For The Brain" definitely have another dimension feel to it as well..very other-wordly, and some of the others have a more wordly and somewhat inspiring feel, like "Child In Us", "Why" and "Prism Of Life".
What I like about Enigma's music is that it can be really earthy and inspiring, and also very ethereal and detached, sometimes at the same time. Like tracks such as "Age Of Loneliness", or "Beyond The Invisible" and a few tracks on this album...combining ethnic voices to make it sound not always earthy...but very other-worldly. It's definitely has a variety of emotions all gobbled up into a complete package, and I like the way that Enigma has definitely has gone in a concept or theme approach, even more so in this album than others. Most of the songs seem to have something to do with space, and with the last track "Goodbye Milky Way", gives hints about the message that Enigma was trying to get across. Every Enigma album seems to have a message but often time it is hidden in a wash of sound and emotion...which is cool. This music makes you think, leaves stuff up to the imagination, and this is what makes Enigma...Enigma.
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