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Welcome to this WWW page for Enigma, and for the man behind it - Michael
Cretu. Here you'll find a wealth of information on Enigma and Cretu.
Sandra, the female voice of Enigma and a recording artist in her own
right, has her own web page:
Into A Secret Land - The Sandra Homepage.If you are looking for a specific item of information, try the web page search form.
This web page is maintained by Joar Grimstvedt. Do let me hear any comments you might have.
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September 14, 2024:
In a scene from the Norwegian TV series
"Våre beste år"
("Our best years"), Michael Cretu's song
Samurai (Did You Ever Dream)
is used as background music. The
scene is from the
episode
"Fleinsopp og dagbok"
(season 1 episode 5, "Psilocybe mushroom and diary"), and the song
plays as a boy in a karate uniform is out on his bike. The series is shown on
NRK and set in the 1980s, and features songs of that period in the soundtrack.
Samurai (Did You Ever Dream) was a hit in Norway so it's not too
surprising to see it used.
August 29, 2024: The Enigma website is 30 years! On August 29, 1994 this website was announced to the Enigma mailing list, with work having been started in May that year. It was the first Enigma site on the web - the next one would appear one year later. It's also the longest-running Enigma website, with a news archive going back to 1994, covering the releases from Enigma's second album. The site has basically the same appearance today as it had when it started. The web site originally had the address http://www.hsr.no/~joarg/Enigma.html, then http://www.stud.his.no/~joarg/Enigma.html from November 1995 and finally the current http://www.five.no/enigma/ from February 1998.
The latest Enigma album to date is The Fall Of A Rebel Angel, released in November 2016. There hasn't been much Enigma activity in the last years, but in June Enigma Music FanClub reported that Michael Cretu is working on a new Enigma album, citing people close to Cretu.
![[The Complete Studio Album Collection album set]](news/images/20210723-the_complete_studio_album_collection.jpg)
July 23, 2021:
The Complete Studio Album Collection is released - containing
all of Enigma's eight studio albums put together in a limited edition box. Each
album has different cover art compared to the original releases, with the cover
art being the same as the ones for the
May 2018 vinyl releases, only this time with
monochromatic colours and with black vinyl. The list of albums are as
follows:
The eight albums are also released individually, along with a ninth album
which is the 2001 compilation album
Love Sensuality Devotion - The Greatest Hits.
![[Sadeness (Part I) - Anniversary Edition - 30 Years EP]](news/images/20210618-sadeness__part_i____anniversary_edition___30_years.jpg)
June 18, 2021:
The EP Sadeness (Part I) - Anniversary Edition - 30 Years is
released, to mark the original release of Enigma's first single. It is a
10" purple coloured vinyl, limited to 1,500 copies, with four tracks
containing three songs from Enigma's first album as well as the lead single from
the second album:
The EP was originally planned for release on October 9, 2020, which would be close to the 30 year anniversary of the original Sadeness (Part I) single release date of October 1, 1990, but the release was subsequently postponed.
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