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This album is very excellent. The beat, the songs, it's all so innovating. Here the style seems to be so rhythm and blues, Great. All new with a Enigma's touch.
Although this product came from a European Source, delivery was within days of purchase. I would highly recommend this product and service.
If you're a sound->color synesthesian then you'll get waaaaay more out of this album and norms do.A must own. It's subtle and unexpected, and definitely NOT more of the same.
I have most of the released albums (and even one of the supposed underground albums) and I have to say I love this album.As a learning producer and musician. I've read several of the other reviews on this album, and I have to disagree.
The arrangement of strings and other classical instruments put to hip hop and club loops is pure audio stimulation. This album is, from a technical aspect, awesome.
And that's unbiased. My favorite Enigma album is 'Engima 3: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi' and this comes in a close, VERY close second.This album causes you to look a little deeper, and listen a little more.
Special Edition even more so if you can get it.
This is not my favorite Enigma CD, and I have many. There are only two songs I really like.
It's Enigma, of course it's going to be great. The heavy industrial keyboards on "Hells Heaven" and soft budding beats on "Downtown Silence" show that Cretu is making excellent progress with The Alchemist (a workstation he's composed the last 2 albums with).
On this new album, Cretu goes for a "worldbeat" feel, which implements many of the cultural elements he's woven throughout his music already. Of all the Enigma albums I can compare it to, I'd say this is most similar to The Cross Of Changes.
Its recommended to buy the double disc edition of this album, as there were several instrumentals composed for this album. Yet this album is a return to form.
After the mostly vocal-free A Posteriori, this album brings back many of the beautiful voices and melodies as before, this time including his own children on "The Same Parents." Highlights include the almost hip-hop influenced "7 Lives", and "La Puerta Del Cielo" evokes the classic "Return to Innocence" with the voice of a beautiful woman chanting throughout, while the music ebbs and flows along with her. What more can be said.
Go out and buy this album today.
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