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Enigma - Seven Lives Many Faces
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Artist...............: Enigma
Album................: Seven Lives Many Faces
Genre................: Enigmatic/New Age
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2008
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode)
Codec................: LAME 3.97
Version..............: MPEG 1 Layer III
Quality..............: CBR 256, (CBR 256kbps)
Channels.............: Joint Stereo / 44100 hz
Tags.................: ID3 v1.1, ID3 v2.3
Total Size...........: 120MB
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CD1
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1. (00:03:12) Enigma - Encounters
2. (00:04:25) Enigma - Seven Lives
3. (00:03:36) Enigma - Touchness
4. (00:05:20) Enigma - The Same Parents
5. (00:03:24) Enigma - Fata Morgana
6. (00:03:51) Enigma - Hell's Heaven
7. (00:03:28) Enigma - La Puerta del Cielo
8. (00:04:11) Enigma - Distorted Love
9. (00:04:19) Enigma - Je T'aime Till My Dying Day
10. (00:02:56) Enigma - Deja Vu
11. (00:04:31) Enigma - Between Generations
12. (00:04:21) Enigma - The Language of Sound
Playing Time.........: 00:47:34
Size.................: 87.21 MB
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CD2
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1. (00:02:57) Enigma - Superficial
2. (00:03:51) Enigma - We Are Nature
3. (00:02:08) Enigma - Downtown Silence
4. (00:02:38) Enigma - Sunrise
5. (00:03:56) Enigma - The Language Of Sound (Slow Edit)
Playing Time.........: 00:15:30
Total Size...........: 28.43 MB
NFO generated on.....: 14/12/2008 13:24:26
As the driving force behind German band ENIGMA, Micheal Cretu has spent the majority of his 18 year long career as a recording artist creating some of the most culturally diverse music on the planet. But its not without avail. With more than 40 million albums sold worldwide, 50 number one chart positions, and 100 platinum sales around the world, ENIGMA is Germanys most successful export in the last 20 years. ENIGMA has always had a by the wayside reputation.
Enter the seventh studio album, aptly entitled, Seven Lives Many Faces. Recorded over a period of 11 months, Cretu secluded himself with a sonic palette of 400,000 sounds to create the perfect headphone album. And it shows. But while the message of ENIGMA music has always been the same, this time around there’s a lot more to shake a camera at on tour here at ENIGMA acres. From the album’s beginning, you notice that chants of past albums have been replaced with spoken word exclamations and hip hop beat box.
On the opening track “Encounters”, a heartbeat laden spoken word regret that rides the wave of an atmospheric rainstorm. Throughout the album’s 47 minutes of moral latitude and spiritual
melodies, you find the music to be a vehicle that escapes the fact that although the lyrics are not too prolific, the sanctity of the music is asylum enough to allow yourself not to be disappointed.
The focus of ENIGMA’s proverbial instrument is to translate music into feelings by using sounds to shuffle your emotions. One example of the albums innovation is the addition of a 60 year old female Ibiza vocalist on two of the albums best produced tracks, the relentless explanatory stomp of “La Puerta del Cielo”, and the mournful regret of “Between Generations” , both spoken in the Catalan dialect.
ENIGMA closes the album with the appropriately titled groove based affirmation of “The Language of Sound” After listening to ENIGMA, when you really think about it, you realize one thing: that music like this is so one of a kind that its stock is far too explanatory in and of itself to ever be improved upon. It never really gets any better than this, so there you have it. Friends purchase it at once, enemies avoid it like the plague, but to anybody out there who’s curious, I suggest they find themselves a reason and jump right on in. The waters fine.
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