News archive 2008

November 28, 2008: As was the case with Enigma's previous album, a video album of Seven Lives Many Faces is released, in DVD format. It contains the music set to visuals, with most clips culled from Enigma's earlier music videos, as well as some new clips. The original music videos to Seven Lives and La Puebla Del Cielo is used for these songs. The bonus features comprise audio comments for each song by Michael Cretu, in both German and English versions, and a photo gallery. Unlike the video album for the previous album, this video album does not include any of the bonus songs which have only been available on some formats of the album.

November 26, 2008: On November 21, 2008, the album Oliver Geissen präsentiert Die ultimative Chartshow - Musikverhörer was released in Germany. The album presents 30 songs where parts of the original lyrics are "misheard" as German phrases, with a completely different meaning. One of the songs included is Enigma's Sadeness (Part I), where one of the Gregorian chant parts is misheard as "Anneliese, popel nicht", which translates to English as "Anneliese, don't pick your nose".

Some of the misheard lyrics were presented in the TV show "Die ultimative Chart Show - Die erfolgreichsten Radiohits" on RTL (Germany) on January 5, 2008, and again in the TV show "Die ultimative Chart Show - Die erfolgreichsten Comebacks aller Zeiten!" on RTL (Germany) on November 21, 2008. Both times the one from Sadeness (Part I) was presented. The misheard lyrics were originally presented on radio 104.6 RTL (Berlin, Germany), in the series Agathe Bauer Songs.

October 31, 2008: The second single from the Seven Lives Many Faces album is released: The Same Parents. The single contains the title track in a Radio Edit, and the song Piano Moods, which is not featured on the album.

The single is a download only release, available in iTunes Store.

September 19, 2008: Enigma's seventh album is released: Seven Lives Many Faces. All songs are written and produced by Michael Cretu, although some songs are co-written by their vocalists Margarita Roig and Andru Donalds. On the song The Same Parents Cretu's children Nikita and Sebastian sing. In 2007 they also sang on their mother Sandra's album The Art Of Love.

The album is released in a normal edition as well as a special edition containing a bonus disc with five additional tracks - four new songs and a different version of a song on the album. The Japanese edition of the album contains an additional new song as a bonus track. Finally, the iTunes Store edition also contains another new bonus song along with spoken comments on each album track by Michael Cretu.

August 8, 2008: The first single from Enigma's forthcoming seventh album is released: Seven Lives/La Puerta Del Cielo. La Puerta Del Cielo is the first song, co-written by Ibiza native Margarita Roig, who also perform the vocals. The other song is Seven Lives, with vocals by Andru Donalds.

Seven Lives has been chosen as the official song in the coverage of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by the German public TV channel ARD (Das Erste). For this reason the single was released one week earlier than planned.

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