You guys are listening to Sadeness? Awesome! I still remember when it came out. Gregorian chants, cool beats, French whispers, heavy breathing…what more could you want?

@philiphudgens4726

2 жыл бұрын

It to stop!

@storiedworlds6261

2 жыл бұрын

@@philiphudgens4726 😅

@mattticknor9825

2 жыл бұрын

😂

@raisa_cherry33

2 жыл бұрын

😂💜

@fredericokeyser5628

Жыл бұрын

I used Gregorian chants in order to learn Latin and it worked also my Girl is from France so I speak french Aussi...

I was in the Navy when this album came out in the early 90's. I fell asleep to this album nearly every night while underway. To this day, every time I listen to this I'm transported back to the ocean in my mind.

@alexjohnson6462

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. Only I was at NAS-Memphis going to A-school (AT) when my roommate first introduced me to it. I told him it sounded like soft core porno music which he didn't get... which I still think it does after all these years. I wish I could thank him for introducing me to it.

@DarthD00bius

2 жыл бұрын

I was on a college trip to Europe in January, 1991 and MTV Europe played the hell out of this.

@TheRedRaven_

2 жыл бұрын

So my uncle clearly left out some stories when he used to work on a nuclear sub, lol

@VadulTharys

Жыл бұрын

Was stationed in Rota Spain when this came out.

@peaceisnature

Жыл бұрын

That's an awesome insight into your life 😃

Enigma is the musical project of producer Michael Cretu in which his wife, the German singer Sandra, actively participated (she is the voice of Enigma and chanted lyrics in French). The topics covered in the songs often revolved around sex and religion. The song Sadeness, for example, refers to the "Marquis de Sade" who was a libertine. Enigma is at the origin of the musical movement called new-age which will be born in the 90s and produced 8 albums between 1990 and 2016.

@TheOneTrueChris

2 жыл бұрын

New age was around well before the 90s.

@TheRealMirCat

2 жыл бұрын

The namesake of Sadism and Sadistic

@tammymartin7017

2 жыл бұрын

The complete opposites of energy in the song and the meaning of the song.

@ireallyreallyhategoogle

2 жыл бұрын

+

@Le_Chat_Cosmic_4493

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheOneTrueChris Enigma has greatly popularized the new-age

I was dating this girl who asked me to go to a yoga class with her. I had never been to one but I went along just to see what it would be like (and because I liked her). Anyway they played this song during the cool down, meditation portion of the class. I really liked it and went to the instructor after class to get the artist's name and then bought the CD. I still have the CD but that girl I went with has been long gone. :)

@virgenfigueroa2586

4 ай бұрын

Enigma will stay with you a lifetime

@Khasahll

4 ай бұрын

That girl you dated was an angel that took you to wonderful music. You may be forever gratful to her!

Simply put, in the 90s people liked songs like this as quiet background music. What they did while it played is up to your imagination!

@kings6143

Жыл бұрын

I do it nowadays too...

@TruckerMike_FL

Жыл бұрын

I had this album when I was in my 20s & yeah it was great for intimate get togethers

@Casey420

11 ай бұрын

This does get the mood going ngl. It's raw and sexy. That said tho Deftones does it for me more. Entombed in particular🥵

this was massive.....because it was soooo different....i still have my vinyl 45 of this

This was a big hit in the 90s

Return to innocence is probably their most popular track and would be a good follow up if you do one (has 100m+ views)

@Sannoz

2 жыл бұрын

Agree 100%

@MaxPenguine

2 жыл бұрын

Need to react to video. The only way to return is to turn back time.... best video ever - to the point.

@calvin20877

2 жыл бұрын

💯 correct!!!

@tangerine4665

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, but the official video.

@joelcorpuz6732

2 жыл бұрын

I used to love listening to that all high in weed... LOL..

this was such a huge global smash hit. Enigma had a vey unique sound & sold millions of albums. I think the guy behind it is Romanian

With most of Enigma you don't try to understand it you just let it wash over you and you float away into your own mind, I find it incredibly relaxing and calming

I was a little surprised to see y’all listening to this. Enigma is a bit out of your wheelhouse! Great stuff!

Probably the most well known modern pop song with Gregorian chants.

@chrisstorms7511

2 жыл бұрын

they fall into the new age category, and one of the most popular songs from that genre. so, popular but not "pop"

@MVUK358

2 жыл бұрын

Era - "Ameno" was also very popular in a similar style 😊

@pashaabasu6233

2 жыл бұрын

Mistic - Glorifica

This was very much one of those mood-altering albums - whether you were focusing on something, relaxing in a dark room, or focusing with someone else in a dark room.

@shermanwest3168

2 жыл бұрын

Hell yes. Great for focusing on someone else. Well put.

@diakojim1977

2 жыл бұрын

@@shermanwest3168 The best memories of my life in terms of emotions such as passion, lust, ecstasy, eroticism but also relaxation, are associated with this band..Αnd a particular girl..

@shermanwest3168

2 жыл бұрын

@@diakojim1977 I always loved the mix of bass on this album. Underrated for sure.

@diakojim1977

2 жыл бұрын

@@shermanwest3168 I love the Platinum-Collection of ENIGMA and the active subwoofer it was worth the money just for this..

@shermanwest3168

2 жыл бұрын

@@diakojim1977 Oh, never caught that one. I bet it's great.

This song peaked at 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Came out in 1990. I believe it's talking about the MArquis of Sade, ie, the person who "invented" sadism.

@kings6143

Жыл бұрын

de Sade,but I got you.

@251to502

5 ай бұрын

It also peaked at #67 R&B.

This song used a sample of Gregorian Chant (mostly Latin sung by the Roman Catholic church and not set to music) from the 1976 album Paschale Mysterium by the German choir Capella Antiqua München. The chant is mostly "Procedamus in pace!" (Let us proceed in peace). The vocals were at first used without permission and a lawsuit followed in 1994 and was settled by compensation.

@Wolverines77

2 жыл бұрын

Only used by the Gregoian monks, not the entirety of the Roman Catholic Church. Other sects of monks do have lesser known, though very similar styling.

@PanglossDr

2 жыл бұрын

What is Roman Catholic? There is no such thing.

@DerEchteBold

2 жыл бұрын

@@PanglossDr Well yes it is, Roman Catholic Church, that's what it's called for 400 years or so. I think in English this term isn't used very often but it's synonymous with Catholic Church.

@PanglossDr

2 жыл бұрын

@@DerEchteBold I have been a member since I was born and can assure you that I have only ever been a member of the Catholic Church. I would remind you that catholic means universal so roman universal is a bit senseless. This is an incorrect term invented by Anglicans who call themselves Anglican Catholic. This is to pretend they are really Catholic. The had to invent Roman Catholic as a term to distinguish the real Catholic church.

@DerEchteBold

2 жыл бұрын

@@PanglossDr In German it's the official term, in English it's mentioned as an alternative to 'Catholic Church', I looked it up. And although it came up after the Reformation in Germany and Switzerland (I found no mention of the Anglicans), the Catholic Church apparently uses this term nowadays for some purposes. If you start getting pedantic about the original meaning of words and how they're used now you won't have time for much else.

This whole album is a masterpiece. A totally original concept and so atmospheric. Always gives me chills.

This song was HUGE! The entire Album was - there was no club or moody bar that was NOT playing Enigma in the early 90's. Enigma AND PORTISHEAD were THE Make-out Albums

What? You guys didn't know that trip hop Gregorian chants were hot for a minute in the early '90s? 😄

Bought the album because of this single, it was like nothing we had heard before and it took you on a musical journey. One of my stepping stones into Ambient and other electronic music in the early 90s. Listen to Papua New Guinea by The Future Sound of London... the computer brought a lot innovation to music.

@BRIDINC1972

2 жыл бұрын

Return to innocence was amazing

@mournblade1066

2 жыл бұрын

"Papua New Guinea" by FSOL sampled "Dawn of the Iconoclast" by Dead Can Dance.

That beautiful 90s mid tempo dance beat. With all this 90s revival, why does this not make a return? So sexy.

@Khasahll

4 ай бұрын

I'm working for years to make a revival, and i'm currently working on creating similar music, and i have 2 tracks on development, but it takes time and i don't have much free time. I'm doing also a research of similar music, and trust me, there is a lot of artists that are as good as Enigma (like Erotic dreams, Paul Hardcastle, and many others. Just type on youtube the words "sensual relaxing & dreamy" and you will see one playlist or two with similar music ...some may be a bit different, but still good in the overall style.

In an enigma there is no single explanation, everything about it is both of 2 opposite sides. Both good and evil, which is it, you can't decide which way the scale tips.

From enigma "Mea Culpa" goes in the same instrumental/chant direction, but i would more recommend "Return to Innocence" as it has far more of a pop song with only a few new age vibes. One of the enigma componist/producer married a german singer named Sandra and wrote songs for her which would fit the channel probably more and are worth checking out like "Maria Magdalena", "In the heat of the night" and "Hiroshima" (very emotional). Later on she stopped as Sandra to only sing for his project and both really got into new age/esoteric, but then the music got difficult to listen without the right substances and they become less and less popular. You can already put that song in the line of the new age/ esoteric direction.

Lights way down low, maybe some candlelight, by yourself, or with your partner and just let the music take over your mind, to transport you wherever you want. This music is definitely a mood. I love it. I'm pleased you've happened on it and are willing to give it a go 💜

@HouseInfinity

2 жыл бұрын

Definitely plenty of babies made to this track

@collinmc3079

2 жыл бұрын

Lights off , in bed with headphones and just drift away . Love it.

I once fell asleep with this track on and had the absolute weirdest dreams of my life.

This is NEW AGE (not to be confused with new wave/post-punk) music, mixed with worldbeat/ world music (musical style/elements from other countries) , folk music. Electronica, trip hop. With some religious chants. It's chill, relaxing, late night interactions with the significant other (lol), meditating, slow dance music. Enigma (German group) was very popular during the '90s and early '00s even in the US. They had some hit songs and videos on MTV and radio. Yall should have watched the video! They are nice. Other good ones are "Gravity of Love" , "Mea Culp", "Push the Limits", "Return to Innocence" (another huge hit, samples from a Taiwanese song) . Bands similar and in the same genre to check out as well: Royksopp (2000s, from Norway), Enya (late '80s, '90s, early '00s. Irish), Deep Forest (French, '90s/'00s), and others. Need more NEW AGE , worldbeat music on the international streams.

@johnstjohn6658

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, she misidentified a song as being New Age a few weeks ago. Enigma, Deep Forest, Enya, Cocteau Twins,... Reminds me of walking through Sharper Image shops and looking at the gadgets while this type of music was playing in the background.

@DurandCompton

2 жыл бұрын

It's most certainly not New Age.

@joesmith8725

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnstjohn6658 True lol

Mixture of gregorian chant and modern beat was trendy in the 1990s. It refers to the marquis de Sade, aka the divine marquis, an french author of extreme libertine novels in the 18th century. The term 'sadism' is derived from his name.

@martinduquette8749

2 жыл бұрын

The Celts Enya album puts you out of your world when listening to it like this one. My 15 years old of age in 1990. That drum beat as well as Tom's Diner and so many other songs...

Enigma is all about the mood, the feeling, and the vibe. It's great music to relax to.

damn this reminds me of the pure Moods compilation album commercial they played a million times on tv back in the 90's.

@sethdarby708

4 ай бұрын

i had that CD i listened to it so much lol

When Enigma hit the scene they exploded!!!! I love them!!! Best back ground, relaxation music....them and Deep Forrest.

Enigma was a project of Romanian-German Producer/Singer Michael Cretu (Mihai Crețu) in which he started in a new age worldbeat style with his first and third albums but progressed into more ethnic and cultural sounds, then more electronic, then pop, opera, rap and even dubstep. He had 8 Enigma albums in total, but released other solo and group projects as well as being a producer for artists and bands too. He produced many of his former wife Sandra (Lauer) Cretu's initial major solo singles (after she left the group Arabesque, which was huge in Japan and Russia), before she became one of the major vocalists within the Enigma project. Other main vocalists were Louisa Stanley, Ruth-Ann Boyle, Andru Donalds , although a few others were also used. He produced all of Sandra's 11 albums from 1985-2002. I was and still am a massive Sandra fan, and collected everything and anything connected to Sandra, Michael, Hubert Kah, Cretu and Thiers etc.

This was some Serious baby making music back then. Guarantee it’s someone you know too… Thanks Enigma and Sade.

@raisa_cherry33

2 жыл бұрын

*Baby making* dying at this but also cant disagree 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

@jetfowl

2 жыл бұрын

You got that right! This was some serious baby-making music!

@landisix9709

2 жыл бұрын

@@raisa_cherry33 🤭

@landisix9709

2 жыл бұрын

@@jetfowl 🙌

@Valorius

2 жыл бұрын

Sade was the female vocals on this track?

When this album came out, that song was EVERYWHERE from radio to Mtv to movies. Most people had never heard anything like it (or afterwards, for that matter). Personally, it drew me into the realm of world trance music. Great stuff!

@bobdavis4848

Жыл бұрын

Well, Gregorian chants alone are "like it"...I'd have written most people hadn't heard anything like the mix of elements.

@scorpionformula

Жыл бұрын

I finally found them again, and now I know where my love for gregorian chanting is from... originally heard this as a child from my mothers music. I knew i recognised the gregorian chants but couldnt think where.... it was so familiar.. then I found enigma again and knew it had come from them as the my only 4 favourite chants seem to be the same as the ones featured in enigma lol

Their albums are pretty incredible. Worth doing a deep dive.

Yeah, count me in in encouraging you to listen to Return to Innocence. It sounds a lot like this song blended with a pop song, and it was a major radio hit.

This brings back memories. Used to go to my friends house sometimes, we'd make a fresh pot of coffee and have a few bottles of beer ready, fresh packs of cigarettes. Dim the lights, crank up the stereo, press play on the CD player and listen to the whole album in one go. Back then when I actively took time to listen to a whole album. And yes, the songs were played on the radio all the time and in discos too when it was cooldown time before the faster techno tracks came pumping again. Good times in the 90s! 80s were great too but that's another story 😉 Edit: Concerning your comment about church music - have you ever thought about how people from Europe reacted to Gospel music from the USA? That was definitely not the kind of singing done in churches over here back then! 😄

OMG!!!! I'VE BEEN ASKING FOR THIS FOR MONTHS!!! I've been listening to Enigma for decades. Next you need to listen to "Mea Culpa!"

It's a sample of Gregorian Chant - sung by monks in monasteries with no musical backing ( Gregorian Chant was big at the end of the 80s ) - the backing track is basically a mix of trance and tribal hip hop . This was MASSIVE when it was released in 1990 - it shot to No1 in 14 countries and topped the Dance Chart in the U.S.. I would strongly recommend you do a reaction to " RETURN TO INNOCENCE " with the VIDEO as it's probably more your type of thing ( especialy Brad's )

Lights off. Just candles and incense laying in a easy chair with headphones on and just meditating and zoning out. This is just a banger. I call this Gregorian chant with disco monks lol 😆 always love this group and this song

I used to do pen & ink drawings of ancient buildings that I saw in my imagination. I'd aways listen to Gregorian Chants or Enigma when drawing them. I've taken a 20 year pause and am ready to start drawing again. It helps me to get away from the world that has become a nightmare these past couple of years. Music like this is comforting and inspiring.

I listened to this CD so much that I think I wore it out. Perfect chill-out music. Enigma and Enya...

I don't know who's recommended your stuff, but being someone who graduated in91, your on point! I was a punk, metal, goth, hip-hop, enthusiast and I jam this shit while I was tattooing!

Enigma didn't bring dance music to the church, it took Gregorian chant to the dance floor. There are several versions of popular songs in this style (Queen, Nirvana etc...).

@reymontcantil199

2 жыл бұрын

Nirvana??

@Silencio.Encerrado

2 жыл бұрын

@@reymontcantil199 Yes!

Definitely recommend Return to Innocence. What a time to be alive this was.

It's best to experience this song as a part of a whole - that being the first Enigma album. Listening to it from beginning to end. It's GREAT.

I forgot about this song! Soul 2 Soul next! KEEP ON MOVING!

It’s very simple. The world needed a song to conceive children to.

This stuff was cool as shit back in the day. It was fucking beautiful just to listen to, for one thing, but it also introduced a lot of folk to Gregorian chant, and even the works of Sade. Crazy.

The whole album could put you in a trance 👌🏻great after coming down after a dance all-nighters 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👍🏻👌🏻

This album was the soundtrack to the conception of roughly a third of Gen Z.

Ooohhh SNAP, you got into Enigma!! Looots of good songs to sit back with lights low, chillin, smokin a blunt, and just letting yourself get absorbed in the sounds. Oh, and the song has to do with the Marquis De Sade...look into it ;)

I went to college 1500 miles away from home and drove myself there each semester. This was one of the tapes I had on replay, over and over. Made the miles fly by. GREAT album!!

You guys should react to more Enigma… "Callas Went Away", "Mea Culpa", "Knocking On Forbidden Doors", "Return to Innocence", "Age of Loneliness", "The Cross of Changes", "Beyond The Invisible", "T.N.T. for the Brain", "Gravity Of Love", "The Eyes of Truth", "I Love You… I’ll Kill You" 🎸🤘

@freedomfan4272

2 жыл бұрын

Return to innocence is great

@Bashimillar

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, we're fine thanks

@diakojim1977

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bashimillar I am quite sure that the sexual side of your life is very boring ..

@cleanenergyinside1921

Жыл бұрын

@@Bashimillar No we are not. We need more Enigma to soothen the crap from this decade.

@haalcyon100

Жыл бұрын

"Amen" is 2016

I am french living in Lyon and this song was a big hit here in 1990. I was 14 and was puzzled by this german band using french and quoting Marquis de Sade. He was a 18th century french writer known for erotic & pornographic novels and he's the origin of the french word "Sadique" which means sadistic.

Enigma has the most profound and powerful songs on the planet when you dive into their catalogue.

Another artist you might wanna check out sometime is Enya... She's an Irish singer and the music is beautiful. "Orinoco Flow" is probably the most well-known of her tracks

the song is about how LOVE (sex) and FAITH tear at you, the sides of us all take us in different directions... parts are in Latin and others in French, the two languages most associated with those diverse thoughts

@matsv201

2 жыл бұрын

Its intresting. Abour the time there was a breef moment of about 4 or 5 years erotic movies was so mainstream they was shown on network TV... of cause me beong 13 never saw them once... anyway, some part pf the song is really simular to the leed music of one series.

@user-dy5bi3fg7o

2 күн бұрын

Sadness is not a French word it sounds like latin but it's gibberish

It's New Age genre not religious as such. It was a very popular genre back in the 90s in Europe especially, and Enigma had a lot of decent hits. Enya is another famous New Age artist worth checking out.

@martinXY

2 жыл бұрын

"Watermark" is still a brilliant album. Will listen to it tonight 👍

@scorpionformula

Жыл бұрын

Prefer engima to enya but she was a gem in her own right

I remember my mom telling how she was interested in Gregorian chants, which became very popular at that time around '94, and was looking for some CDs of that music in a record store. A young clerk offered his help and he directed her to this when she described what she wanted. She was not happy when she got it home to listen to and promptly returned it.

@Stupha_Kinpendous

2 жыл бұрын

HA!!! Drinks for you.

@sergiodavila5269

2 жыл бұрын

….must’ve been put off with the heavy breathing halfway thru the song ❤️‍🔥

@edwardlongshanks827

2 жыл бұрын

@@sergiodavila5269 No, she actually just wanted Gregorian chants and didn't have the slightest bit of interest is some new age electronic music regardless whether there was any heavy breathing.

@sergiodavila5269

2 жыл бұрын

@@edwardlongshanks827 cool….one more crazy story. My mom was into workout music, but hated black metal or any type of satánic music. I put on “Very Groovy Boots” by Electric Hellfire Club & she started doing her workout routine. Don’t we love messing with our moms?!?!! 🤣🤣

@edwardlongshanks827

2 жыл бұрын

@@sergiodavila5269 My mom liked a lot of different music though what she was willing to listen to varied quite a bit depending on her mood. She liked ZZ Top, Bruce Springsteen, and other rock music. She also really liked bands, such as the Gypsy Kings, whose music made her want to get up and dance. She grew up listening to big band music and popular music of the 40s and 50s.

Return to Innocence is a must, even better watched with the video

You need to listen to Return to Innocence, native American theme. & like all their tracks very thought provoking.

This is one of those songs where you should just close your eyes and let yourself float away. As I remember those years around 1990 it was a period with great experiment with different music genres and a lot of world music hitting - like Era-Ameno, Ofra Haza-Im Nin Alu, Deep Forest-Sweet Lullaby, Khaled-Didi and a bunch of stuff with Youssou N'Dour and so on and so fort. A lot of exciting stuff to listening to from that specific period.

This is a beautiful song so calming and relaxing 😌

Lex is right…this is music that most of us just vibed to back in the day…but it’s a pretty unique mash up: electronic beats with religious Gregorian chants in Latin and a little French sprinkled in.

Definitely a mystical trip ,this is a great album.

In some variations of this song, the beginning of the song has a female voice say "Turn off the lights, take a deep breathe, and relax". Awesome song! A Canadian band " Delerium" had similar back beats.

thanks for actually listening and feeling it, not interrupting often. it's song of my childhood. gives me faith and lust everytime i listen.

This song was the vibe from the first time I heard it back in the 90s. Lyrics don’t matter for this one. I am windows down, bumping this morning. It’s a great start to the day!

Interesting fact: This song was featured on the “Now That’s What I Call Boy Love” compilation album released by the Vatican in the late 90s. “I’ve been a baaad bad boy, Father.”

Enigma, hell yea! New Age music, trip hop. Like the artists, Enya, Delerium, and Deep Forest. We GenX loved this stuff. Enigma was a good group for the '90s and '00s. Their music videos are trippy too. "Return to Innocence" was another great one. Church like chants, but not for church. I used to get lucky with the chicks to this kind of music back in the days 😆. This is like chill, dark night club dance music.

"Priests with the roes getting down" LOL!!!

Enigma is pretty much mood music. Love their stuff. Two of my favorites are Return to Innocence and Indian Chanting.

I just remember being on the dance floor when this would come on... Ancient chants, set to a totally sensuous beat... gentle strobe lights... It was almost primitive in a sense, dancing to this.. so awesome...

Finally! Someone reviews this. Wonderful song. Doesn't hurt if you understand French and Latin, either.

Enigma have done some great tracks over the years. T.N.T for the Brain, Return to Innocence, Mea Culpa, The Eyes of Truth, Beyond the Invisible, are all great but my favorite is Gravity of Love. Another band to use samples in a similar way Is Deep Forest. They sampled folk songs from all over the planet and turned them into EDM (but in a good way)

@Le_Chat_Cosmic_4493

2 жыл бұрын

The canadian band Delerium also.

@dggydddy59

2 жыл бұрын

That first Deep Forest CD was really fantastic!!

@42Mrgreenman

2 жыл бұрын

Have to agree...I've listened to Gravity of Love so many times over the years and it somehow never gets old...

@richardgoddard37

2 жыл бұрын

@@Le_Chat_Cosmic_4493 I've got most of their stuff too. They are just one of the many side bands of Front Line Assembly. They've got a new album from Conjure One coming soon.

@richardgoddard37

2 жыл бұрын

@@dggydddy59 There's only Eric Mouquet now, but he is still active as Deep Forest, and he's still creating amazing music.

This was a staple of any pure moods compilation album in the 90s. Along side the orb little fluffy clouds and merry Christmas mr lawrence. And the theme from the last emperor.

@pauldocmusic2411

2 жыл бұрын

Along with Lily Was Here, Theme from The Mission, Tubular Bells, Oxygene, etc etc was great chill out music after a night out lol

@johnstjohn6658

2 жыл бұрын

Ryuichi Sacamoto (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence, The Sheltering Sky, The Last Emperor,...) and his group the Yellow Magic Orchestra predate the whole New Age trend of the nineties

I was singing this to myself at work one day & my coworker looks at me with a totally MORTIFIED face & says “you need to CALM down we’re at work” because she THOUGHT I was singing ‘Sodomy’ in a fancy accent 🤣🤣 Core memory 🤌🏾💫

The monks had bit too much of the "special" wine that day and ended up in a circle taking turns break dancing. "Brother Timothy, tell me you got this," as Timothy peered out from behind his iPad nodding and wearing a silly grin.

Downtempo 90's. Real art.

One of the lucky things to growing up in europe is ENIGMA , ERA & GREGORIAN .......We just cant live without listening to their masterpieces , Gregorian chants ......the type of music is called .......NEW AGE and it is the music which takes you from this world and brings you in the world of souls the world of magic .......you must hearing it only when you are alone and better time is sunset

I remember when this was first released in the UK back in 1991 it was a massive hit and inspired a whole movement of New age music.. combines a whole bunch of concepts... the divine intensity of sex, pain and pleasure... (the references to Sade... ie the marquis d'sade) the power of lust, and the agony of a celebate being tempted by lust... the chatting is known as plainchant and is from the Gregorian order of monks. ENIGMAS first 3 albums were really new age in their sound subsequent albums went down the more dance/ trance oriented sound... la rois est mort vive la rois was there best album imho and well worth a dive.

IDEALLY PLAYED... in a large empty building with open or missing doors, big speakers played loudly but at a distance to get monastery style sound relections, in the dark and ideally with a joint on the go. I haven't puffed in years but I'd light one up again for this track.

I'm lying down on a pile of cushions in my garden next to my fire pit with a drink and a smoke looking up at the night sky on a Summer "Sunday" evening, browsing a bit of utube, so this is perfect!!! Setting is everything.🙏😎

It doesn't make much sense to comment since they don't seem to read comments, but hey. Gregorian chant was the type of chant practiced by monks in medieval times. They still sing it In several churches. In the 90s, surprisingly, some record of this type of music was a worldwide hit. I don't remember this song and I don't know if it was before or after, but in any case it was around those years, and more strange fusion projects came out that worked well. I remember Afro Celt Sound System and above all another that mixed native American songs, Sacred Spirit. It's not that I followed that kind of music very much, but it was played on the radio here in Spain.

There's something truly divine about this song. Everything came together to create perfection.

This was a very popular group from Germany in the very early 90's. It made a fairly Iarge splash here in the U.S. This is Latin mixed with French put to a club beat. Even though the youth in Europe seems very non-religous, they still take their Catholism very seriously. Unlike the U.S., Euro's have been able to cut the cord of life being a constant service to God and Jesus, yet respect the church at the same time. At least that is how I saw it after spending 13 of my first 21 years growing up in Germany in the 70's, 80's and coming home in '90 for good. Can you just imagine the freaking uproar amongst the BAC's of this nation if some DJ came in, put a heavy club beat to their music and released it as a pop album? They would be hunting that person... We used to chill out sometimes on a random weeknight, listening to Engima, Enya, Clannad, Yanni, Kitaro just to name a few. New Age is great music to relax to, with or without adult party enhancers. Just put on the headphones, slide into your easy chair, close your eyes and just float to the edge of "your" universe on the trance/hypnotic stylings...

Wow. I remember listening to this and similar music between the late 90s and early 00s. Mostly, in my opinion, New Age is just trippy and intended to be mood-altery by design. It's like the late-80s and 90s version of psychedelic music. It's been a LONG time since I sat and listened to this genre.

Sadeness, refers to Marquis de Sade, from the late 1700s to the early 1800s, French revolution times. It is from him and his title we get words like Sadomasochism, his writings were erotic, but he was into cruelty, ended his days in an insane asylum, perhaps for insanity, perhaps because he was also very blasphamous against the church. Much of their music has this airy mystical sound, a very similar song to this, sort of part 2, is "The princiiples of lust", maybe don't do the official video but it worth a listen. One of my favourites from them would be "Return to Innocence", much less provocative.

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The word Masochism comes from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, not Sade. Sadism does. Sade enjoyed causing pain, Sacher-Masoch enjoyed receiving pain.

Thanks for this review. I have the original release of this album on CD. Dates back to early 90's. This was very popular at the time. Great songs to relax and clean the house to. "Mea Culpa" another good track from this set.

Beginning of New age music...I played this while pregnant as it was so chill along with Enya...great album

never understood a single word of this song - yet found in insanely soothing after a week's work.

This is the song that put them on the chart. I think it's cool that y'all get to hear all the stuff I grew up listening to. Good stuff. I approve. 👍👍👋

You needed to see the video. Enigma from Germany. Compositions of new age music, gregorian chants and south American music. Beautiful albums - mcxc ad, cross of changes.

This brings me back to going to the mall record store and buying this on the new thing that wasn't going to last... a "CD"

That's an Enigma classic. Part 2 to that sing is beautiful too.

I absolutely love Enigma. When I was single and practically homeless, I used to listen to this every night as I went to bed. It touched something deep inside me and I didn't even know the words.

I would LOVE to watch a music video based off of Lex's interpretation of the song. "A priest. Spraying holy water. They gettin down in the church." 😂 to me personally this sounds like a soundtrack to something on HBO After Dark 😂

Wow, talk about a blast from the past... This takes me back to my High School years.

This is one of those songs that transport you to a magical, different time and place

It was interesting when Lex said this reminds me of my childhood, because I think Enigma's debut album or CD came out in her childhood.

wow. haven't listened to Enigma in many years. wanna say living in Germany in the mid-'90's. brings back some memories.