Enigma - Seven Lives Many Faces (2 CDs)
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Free Music Review: It's ENIGMA
Hit: 5 Stars
For me, a new ENIGMA album is a "must-buy." Admittedly though, I can't listen only once through an ENIGMA album and make a final judgment. Nearly every ENIGMA release has taken some time to sink in and take hold (some longer than others). I can still remember hearing all of MCMXC a.D. for the first time and wondering if I liked it or not. Now? It's classic. This (and every other ENIGMA) is no different. I can honestly say that I don't have one favorite ENIGMA album; they all have unique aspects to them that I enjoy. To me, they all compliment each other and build towards something new and exciting.
At first listen of every ENIGMA album I definitely ask myself, "Do I like it?" The answer is never "no" but it's also rarely an instant "yes." However, after a week of solid listening to Seven Lives Many Faces I can honestly say that I very much like this album.
Yes, Seven Lives Many Faces is different and no, it doesn't have every element that made MCMXC a.D. so popular. I also find some of the lyrics to be cheesy in Seven Lives Many Faces (e.g., "Touch me, I'll be your daddy. Smell me, I'll be your mommy"). However, what it REALLY has is what all the others DON'T have. Just what is it? I can't tell for sure. All I can tell you is that for me, what makes ENIGMA such an enigma is that each album is so different yet, somehow when you hear it, you know you're listening to ENIGMA.
So, don't open Seven Lives Many Faces with demands of what it should be. Simply let it unfold to tell you what it is. ENIGMA.
Free Music Review: Enigma grows on you
Hit: 5 Stars
I eagerly anticipate every new Enigma album. Artists, (like the rest of us), get bored with repetition. I believe Michael Cretu adds those etherial trumpets not only as a signature, but to reassure those looking for the same old thing, this is still Enigma.
Each release has been different enough from the previous, to spawn negative reviews that always sound the same. "This album sucks. This one doesn't have the xxx..., I loved so much on the last one." They want more of the same. Grace Slick sang "Life is change. How it differs from the rocks."
I'm not a music critic, but I thought knew what I liked. My initial response to each new release has been cool, to disappointed. Then certain songs start growing on me. Soon phrases or refrains start haunting me. Seven Lives... has done this to me, again.
Another distinct aspect of Enigma I truly appreciate is the ability to return to any of the earlier songs or albums and say "I really like this music." There are very few popular or Top 40 songs do I ever want to hear again.
Enigma & B-Tribe are the only artists I have purchased multiple copies of their CDs, for home, car & work.
My only disappointment with this release is both CDs were not filled to capacity. The more to grow on me.
Free Music Review: Mindblowing - the most EPIC Enigma yet!
Hit: 5 Stars
Of all the Enigma albums I can compare it to, I'd say this is most similar to The Cross Of Changes. On this new album, Cretu goes for a "worldbeat" feel, which implements many of the cultural elements he's woven throughout his music already.
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.
Its recommended to buy the double disc edition of this album, as there were several instrumentals composed for this album. 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).
What more can be said? It's Enigma, of course it's going to be great! Go out and buy this album today!!!
Free Music Review: As GREAT as Voyager
Hit: 5 Stars
Voyager was Enigma's most underrated CD. I challenge anyone who claims to not like it to turn the lights off, turn the music up loud, and pour a glass of red wine (or your preferred equivalent :))
This is a great CD-Vocal songs are much more hard hitting that A Posteriori-it is great that Andru Donalds is back in classic form. He literally carries the 2nd song (Seven Lives). Much more MUSIC and much less space than A Posteriori-with especially hard hitting vocals on The Same Parents and Distorted Love.
Great instrumentation throughout-a return to more classical elements, but with minimal Gegorian chant, which is fine. If I want more, I listen to MCMXC A.D.
As with Voyager-if you say you don't like it-you need to turn off the lights and turn the volume up. This is easily in Enigma's top three CDs.
I am thankful that it IS different than early Enigma. Artists that don't expand seem to go away and I want Michael Cretu to be around for a while.
Free Music Review: One of my many faces
Hit: 5 Stars
I felt an intensity of vibrations inside me listening to this production that I couldn't experiment with the previous 6 main productions or additional remixes. The elements of classical, not only european instruments, but world rythms involved ,sound very different from the 2nd production which has a lot of oriental in it. I really don't like to compare Cretu's masterpieces because I feel his true emotions behind each production are very different from each other. Each one has its own feelings; the ones we let others see, the ones we hide to ourselves and the ones we had inside we didn't recognize before listening to ENIGMA. For me ENIGMA has been a key to unlock many things through this seven faces and in this one I can say I finally understand beyond myself. I dare everyone, from children to adults to enter in the ENIGMA experience through SEVEN LIVES MANY FACES. Is the music that liberates many things that I think somehow where missing before. Seven is perfection. Just enjoy it.