"Carly's Song" is a song created by the musical project Enigma for the 1993 film '' Sliver'', starring

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. Released as a single in Australia by

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, it peaked at number 91 on the

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singles chart in November 1993, spending one week in the top 100.

Overview

The song is featured on

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of the 1993 movie '' Sliver''. The song uses samples from the Mongolian traditional long song, "Tosonguyn Oroygoor", sung by Dechinzundui Nadmid. This song is also featured in the

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" Baasha" (1995) as villain Mark Antony's (

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) intro bgm. This song was later remixed and re-released as " Age of Loneliness" on Enigma's second studio album, ''

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''.

Critical reception

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from ''

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'' magazine wrote, "Act that left many panting with ' Sadeness' returns with hypnotic

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gem, layered with an insinuating, shuffling

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beat, and primal female chanting. Track gets its movement and color from a subtle use of African percussion and unusual keyboard effects. Requisite heavy breathing adds to its sensual ambience." He added, "Don't miss the heavily bewigged

in the videoclip!" Alan Jones from ''

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'' felt the song was featured in '' Sliver'' "to great effect".

Track listing

# "Carly's Song" – 3:47 # "Carly's Song" (

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Remix) – 6:31 # "Carly's Loneliness" – 3:11 # "Carly's Song" (Instrumental) – 4:00

Charts

References

{{authority control 1993 singles 1993 songs Enigma (German band) songs Songs written by Michael Cretu Songs written for films Virgin Records singles