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The next song, “Callas Went Away” is a more mellow number. The second movement is “Find Love” before the reprise of “Sadeness”. Because of the sexual overtone placed over Gregorian chants, it’s obvious that the Catholic community didn’t take too well to this album. It’s basically in honor of Marquis de Sade. The song consists of spoken dialog in French and English. The opening cut is “The Voice of Enigma”, it’s purely an ambient piece, with the lady speaking: “This is the voice of Enigma”, this song then segues in to a three piece suite called “The Priciples of Lust”, which starts off with “Sadeness”. It’s basically one long continuous play, each song is segued in to one another. If you like the sound of “Sadeness”, you’re bound to like the rest of this album. Anyway, “Sadeness” was the hit off MCMXC a.D., but it was actually released as a single a couple months before the album came out, so it gave people an idea of the Enigma sound before they got their album finished. I was wondering if an Enigma album would become available in America soon, which I’m glad it did. This was dance music, but that gloomy atmosphere, the Gregorian chants, and these electronic flutes really got to me. MCMXC a.D., so named because MCMXC is the Roman numerals for 1990 (the album was released in Europe in December 1990, but not released in America until February 1991) was the very first Enigma album, as as far as I’m concerned, Enigma’s most consistent work (I found their following albums a bit more inconsistent, even though they too had some good material).īack in November 1990, I was watching MuchMusic (Canada’s answer to MTV, which I thought was more interesting than MTV at that time, in my book) on the satellite dish (I was living in Florence, Oregon at the time) and there was this video being played on CityLimits (a show that played lots of underground/alternative/experimental/indie music) and they were airing this video to Enigma called “Sadeness”. He had already released a few albums and singles under his own name since the late 1970s. I generally don’t go for dance music, but Enigma was that rare example of making dance music actually interesting!Īctually Enigma was less a band and more the brainchild of Romanian-born Michael Cretu. Odd, only because it’s a dance album I actually like.