Enigma - The Cross of Changes
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Artist: EnigmaEdition: Music CD
Published: 1994
CD Release Date: 1994-02-08
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Second Chapter
- Eyes of Truth
- Return to Innocence
- I Love You, I'll Kill You
- Silent Warrior
- Dream of the Dolphin
- Age of Loneliness
- Out from the Deep
- Cross of Changes
Free Music Notes for The Cross of Changes
Free Music Review: New Age Brilliance!
Hit: 5 Stars
In 1994 it was, perhaps, impossible to view VH1 at any given moment and miss the memorable clip for Enigma's "Return to Innocence". Opening with the peaceful death of an elderly man beneath a tree, the video unfolds in reverse exposition (a la Coldplay's "The Scientist") to weave the tale of that man's life all the way back to birth - the literal return to innocence.
Fronted primarily by the gifted Michael Cretu and an insanely awesome bamboo flute, Enigma burst onto the electronica/new age scene in the early nineties with impressive bravado. For a few precious years, they accomplished the improbable and made new age sound rather swell.
Then, as fate would have it, Yanni had his Acropolis deal in '94 and Enya released an album a year later. New age sunk back into its former state of what could be described as "cotton candy" music. Though it should be noted Enya did win a Grammy for her record, but a new age Grammy is pretty much a Gimme Grammy. Enya has racked up a win for nearly every album released. At last count, she is up to at least four or five.
You see, it's not exactly a hotly contested genre.
But I digress.
With the release of MCMXC a.D. in 1990, Enigma catapulted themselves to stardom with a brilliant cohesion of Gregorian chants, sweet synth beats, and the aforementioned insanely awesome bamboo flute. Their work would be drafted into dozens of films, trailers, and television ads and have the distinction of featuring on my fifth grade mix tape.
Their early albums, perhaps inevitably, sound a bit prosaic at present. It is probably difficult for first-time listeners to recognize that in 1990 the sound of Enigma was both edgy and stylistically nouveau.
Fourteen years after release, there is still something innately special about "Return to Innocence" - indeed, the whole of Cross of Changes is an impressive piece of work. Never, before or since, did Cretu and crew combine their stock of worldly chants and electronica beats with such pitch perfect effect.
That's why it will always remain a mainstay in my collection, and that's why it should remain in yours as well.
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More from Enigma
 Love Sensuality Devotion: The Greatest Hits |  MCMXC A.D. |  A Posteriori |
 Voyageur |  Enigma 3: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi! |  MCMXC a. D. - The Complete Album DVD |
Haunting, evocative, mysterious, and magnificent, Enigma's Cross of Changes offers nine musical explorations of sound and sensation that dazzle and amaze. The songs unfold in rolling waves, each more complex and richly layered than the last, yet each fully capable of standing alone as a musically satisfying experience. The standout track on this disc is "Return to Innocence," which combines Native American chanting, Celtic harmonies, and a deceptively simple lyric to devastating effect. At once esoteric and elemental, Cross of Changes is a fine example of the best the genre has to offer. --L.A. Smith
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