Cretu explained that the album was about unsolved crimes and philosophical themes such as life after death, hence the name Enigma. The album was Cretu's first commercial success through the single " Sadeness (Part I)" Fact|date=July 2008, which juxtaposed Gregorian chants and sexual overtones over a dance beat that was highly peculiar to the ears of the public at that time. In December 1990, after 8 months of preparation, Cretu released Enigma's debut album, the groundbreaking " MCMXC a.D." that received over 60 platinum awards worldwide. Cretu revealed in an interview that he believed that his ideas were running out at that point. Before Enigma, he released a number of albums under his own name, but none of them sold particularly well. Their first and most successful album, " MCMXC a.D.", sold more than 16 million copies.Įnigma was among the first recording groups to use a digial audio workstation as a recording studio and to include non- percussion musical instrument and vocal samples, such as the Shakuhachi flute and Gregorian monk chants samples.įrom the late 1970s onwards, Michael Cretu already had his own music career on his hands and apart from some collaboration efforts with several other musicians, he also produced his wife's albums. Seven studio albums have been produced under the name of the project. Jens Gad co-produced and played guitar on three of the Enigma albums.
Cretu is both the composer and the producer his former wife Sandra often provided vocals on Enigma tracks.
Notable_instruments = Shakuhachi ( sampled)Įnigma is German electronic musical project founded by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. New Age ] TranceĬurrent_members = Michael Cretu (since 1990) Img_capt = Screenshot from " Mea Culpa (Part II)"
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