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A Posteriori (other)
''A Posteriori'' is the sixth studio album by German musical project Enigma (German band), Enigma, released on 22 September 2006 by Virgin Records. In December 2006, the album was nominated for Grammy Award for Best New Age Album, Best New Age Album at the 2007 Grammy Awards. While the previous album, ''Voyageur (Enigma album), Voyageur'', contained minimal amounts of the project's signature sounds, ''A Posteriori'' only contains the signature "Enigma horn" (a foghorn) during the opening minute of the album, and even then it is a fleeting glimpse. Coupled with the album's subject matter of the Andromeda–Milky Way collision, collision of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, ''A Posteriori'' is, compared to earlier releases, stark and foreboding. Background News about the album's title and track list were first made public on 18 July 2006 through the Crocodile-Music.de website and EnigmaMusic.com's forums, while the album cover was made public ten days later. The first track t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enigma (German Band)
Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu. Cretu had released several solo records, collaborating with various artists, and produced albums for his then-wife, German pop singer Sandra (singer), Sandra, before he conceived the idea of a New-age music, new-age, worldbeat project. He recorded the first Enigma studio album, ''MCMXC a.D.'' (1990), with contributions from David Fairstein and Frank Peterson. The album remains Enigma's most successful, helped by the international hit single "Sadeness (Part I)", which sold 12 million units alone. According to Cretu, the inspiration for the project came from his desire to make a kind of music that did not obey "the old rules and habits" and presented a new form of artistic expression with a return to mysticism. Enigma followed ''MCMXC a.D.'' with a series of albums that involved different musicians and producers working with Cretu. The first was ''The Cross of Changes'' (1993) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |