It’s been a long long time since my last post and it gets harder to write each day that passes along, but I just wanna say I’m still here and I’m back today to break the silence. I haven’t even been able to post the so called reviews I had earlier promised. I’ll do them, it’s a promise.

For now, I’m gonna share one of my favorite songs from Enya. Make sure to watch music video after reading the meaningful lyrics.

Track Name: Only Time

Album: A Day Without Rain (2000)

Artist: Enya

Lyrics:

Who can say where the road goes,
Where the day flows?
Only time…

And who can say if your love grows,
As your heart chose?
Only time…

(interlude)
[Vocals]

Who can say why your heart sighs,
As your love flies?
Only time…

And who can say why your heart cries,
When your love lies?
Only time…

(interlude)
[Vocals]

Who can say when the roads meet,
That love might be,
In your heart.

And who can say when the day sleeps,
If the night keeps all your heart?
Night keeps all your heart…

(long interlude)
[Vocals]

Who can say if your love grows,
As your heart chose?
Only time…

And who can say where the road goes,
Where the day flows?
Only time…

Who knows?
Only time…

Who knows?
Only time…

Live Performance:

As most of you know, Enigma 7 is due to be released on 19th September. You can now have a pre-listening experience through official Enigma myspace page called Enigma Planet (12th to 14th September). I just finished mine, a completely mixed feeling about the new album. I don’t want to comment on the new album right now since I’ll publish a full review later, but the first impression was just fine. I admit that I had higher expectations but I believe that E7 has a strong potential to grow inside just like E6 did on me.

You can also read the comprehensive review about E7 form Enigma Fans web site.

So far, a huge plus for these tracks: The Same Parents, La Puerta Del Cielo, Je T’aime Till My Dying Day, Between Generations .

Click here to launch the player and listen to new album

Enigma project’s seventh album will be released soon! This is probably the best news I’ve heard in days. The official release date is September 19th, 2008. Below is the official comments on the new album from newly created website of Enigma (EnigmaSpace.com):

“The musical project ENIGMA leaves for a gigantic, infinite NEW WORLD. Seventh chapter will expand the current sound catalogue with a totally new one, creating an Omnicultural wave all around!!”

And here again we have very meaningful track names in revealed tracklisting:

Disk 1:

01. Encounters

02. Seven Lives

03. Touchness

04. The Same Parents

05. Fata Morgana

06. Hell’s Heaven

07. La Puerta Del Cielo (means “The Door to Heaven” in Catalan language)

08. Distorted Love

09. Je T’aime Till My Dying Day

10. Déjà Vu

11. Between Generations

12. The Language Of Sound

Disk 2 (Additional Tracks, Available in Special Edition):

01. Superficial

02. We Are Nature

03. Downtown Silence

04. Sunrise

05. The Language Of Sound (Slow Edit)

I really can’t wait to listen to this hopefully another masterpiece from Michael Cretu, the man behind Enigma. The title of the album also moves me just like the track names. Besides all these good news, I also read that Michael Creto and his wife Sandra got divorced. This was a sad one but I hope it won’t have any side effects on Michael’s music career.

Anyways, I’m eagerly waiting for 7th Enigma and I hope that I’ll get the same or even higher pure joy I have been experiencing with Enigma’s 6th, A Posteriori.

Update:

The single release for new album was released on August 8th with two tracks of
the new album:

1. Seven Lives

2. La Puerta Del Cielo

In my own opinion, “Seven Lives” is much like E5 style while “La Puerta Del Cielo” is a totally Enigmatic song which takes you off earth. A great and brilliant song that you can’t ask for more! Anytime I listen to it, I visualize “The Door to Heaven”. A perfect match for the meaning, wouldn’t enter Heaven without this song being played

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don’t know where it goes
But it’s home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
and I’m the only one that and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a…

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone

I’m walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line
Of the edge and where I walk alone

Read between the lines
What’s f****d up and everything’s alright
Check my vital signs
To know I’m still alive and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a…

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk a…

I walk this empty street
On the Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I’m the only one and I walk a…

My shadow’s the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
‘Til then I walk alone…

God knows how I adore life
When the wind turns on the shores lies another day
I cannot ask for more

When the time bell blows my heart
And I have scored a better day
Well nobody made this war of mine

And the moments that I enjoy
A place of love and mystery
I’ll be there anytime

Oh mysteries of love
Where war is no more
I’ll be there anytime

When the time bell blows my heart
And I have scored a better day
Well nobody made this war of mine

And the moments that I enjoy
A place of love and mystery
I’ll be there anytime

Mysteries of love
Where war is no more
I’ll be there anytime…

Enigma has become a familiar name for music lovers in last fifteen years. The man behind Enigma is “Michael Cretu” who does almost every single step in Enigma music. Enigma was born on October 1st, 1990 with “Sadness Part 1″. On September 22nd, 2006 Enigma released it’s sixth album.

For me, Enigma’s music has been the only music kind that never takes my mood down. The music is very special that you never understand the depth and beauty in the first time of listening. As you listen over and over, you get into the depth more. Enigma’s latest album, “A Posteriori” is no exception and it is a big step forward compared to 2003′s “Voyageur” album.

In my own opinion, Enigma’s music is an extraordinary one which does not bind itself to this world. In fact, we’re talking about the music which is beyond normal human understanding. That’s why Enigma rules. What comes from the heart, goes to the heart, Spiritual and direct. Yeah, that’s why.

Below is a summary of what is written in Enigma’s official web site about new album:

“I lock myself in my own world of thought, in a kind of hypnotic trance,” says Michel Cretu. He writes, composes and arranges this seemingly other-worldly music in the same way he wants his listeners to experience Enigma. “I was able to transform myself into a kind of tranquil, spiritual state, so that I could reach a completely different atmosphere.” The musical rush was just as strong on the maker of this music as it is on the listener. “I am always grateful for sources of inspiration, but there weren’t any.” No TV, no video clips, no studying the music charts. Instead Cretu was able to create his own Enigma universe with just a view of the Mediterranean and the stars, and his studio control room, which is a bit smaller these days. He “wanted to do justice to my own high musical ambitions.” The result is an intergalactic sound trip, in twelve stages, that lasts 53 minutes and 42 seconds. It is the longest of all of Enigma’s voyages so far, and one that guides its guests into unknown worlds, with every song leading into another orbit.

In a change from the previous five albums, there are hardly any lyrics on “A Posteriori”. Language appears only in fragments, or as reminiscences of Enigma’s own history. “Language is too limited and words are too small to get my sentiments and deepest thoughts across to other people,” Cretu says. The musical vision of Enigma lives off what Michael Cretu calls “positive confusion”. Whereas in the past Enigma used voices to serve as “human instruments” within an integrated concept, this album finds voices being used in a very different fashion. “Voices for me are effects and sounds, nothing more”, explains Cretu. He created digital voices-immaculate sounds from another dimension. “Although these artificial voices can be associated with human voices, something about them is disorienting, abnormal.” The effect is magical.

“The Alchemist” is not only the title of the second to last track on “A Posteriori”, but also the ideal definition of what the album’s creator represents. Alchemist is the perfect description of the Michael Cretu of the 21st century: singer, multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, producer and sound engineer. The set of musical formulas that he deciphered and commands mirrors those of the wizards of organic and inorganic sciences. “What is completely new about “A Posteriori”, is that, for the first time in my life, with the exception of two spoken lines, I have done everything myself.” That, too, is a conscious result of his new minimalism. “I felt that if I wanted a guitar, I didn’t necessarily need a guitarist.” Indeed, even experienced guitar players will find it difficult to believe that most of the subtle riffs and effervescent solos were done on keyboards. “It’s probably the first pure synthesizer-album that doesn’t sound like synthesizers at all.” The dream of latter-day alchemist Michael Cretu has come true.

You can draw an analogy between Enigma and silent movies. With silent movies, the music, the sound, and the words emerged from inside the viewers’ minds. With Enigma, the pictures, the colors and worlds are created in listeners’ heads and allow them all to experience the unique, personalized intoxication of being transported to another dimension. The acoustic gravity dissolves. You lift off – most effectively at night. “A Posteriori” does this without cheap sound effects and trance-inducing loops. “Not a single measure is repeated. And I played nearly everything through from start to finish, as opposed to building it measure by measure.” On no other Enigma album before has his classical training as concert pianist has come in so handy as with this one. “There are these little serendipitous coincidences on “A Posteriori”, where I transformed a mistake into something positive, I integrated a false note harmonically in such a way that the listener gets confused in a positive way. Only then music becomes alive.” For Michael Cretu musical success means emotion trumping rationality. Which is another reason why this time, he has bridged the transitions between the songs with “more emptiness, with absurd, multidimensional sounds. I wanted to create a tonal vacuum similar to the sensation you get when pressure builds up when dive under water.” But these are only short moments before you re-enter the “living, constantly morphing monotony,” as Cretu describes it. “This monotony, of course, is false, because with every new measure something different happens.”

As an Enigma listener, I tell you, Enigma’s “A Posteriori” stands as a most recommended album ever. So, give it a try and let the music spread spirituality.