![]() ![]() Her performance on "Mother" is a whispered hush, with overtly Oedipal overtones. Anggun's breathy, seductive spoken word is answered by her remarkable singing voice. The intro is excerpted from Bach's "Toccata and Fugue in D Minor" and introduces dubby loops, tablas, a classical choir, Gregorian chant (of course), and ritual singing by members of Taiwan's Ami Tribe. It features one of three vocal performances by France-based Indonesian pop singer Anggun. The set's first single, "Sadeness (Part II)," is a sequel to MCMXC A.D.'s global smash of the same name. in what Cretu says is "a new musical language." Each track contains a part of the narrative journey (adapted from an epic poem by Michael Kunze), and is represented in the booklet by an accompanying print of an original Beltracchi painting. It's a conscious attempt to recapture the spirit and aesthetic of MCMXC A.D. The Fall of a Rebel Angel is a concept album about the evolution, redemption, and transformation of an unspecified protagonist. ![]() He too is a copyist, and it works on a commercial level: He's sold over 70 million records. Enigma has been, since its 1990 debut album MCMXC A.D., a lush, carefully strategized, and orchestrated melange of electronic and cinematic styles (from crossover classical and new age to ambient and rock), with expansive textures, samples, and beats. There is poignant irony in the fact that Enigma's Michael Cretu chose painter Wolfgang Beltracchi, the world's most famous art forger, to illustrate The Fall of a Rebel Angel, his first album in eight years. ![]()
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