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Seven Lives Many Faces

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Released
  
September 19, 2008

Artist
  
Enigma

Producer
  
Michael Cretu

Length
  
50:01

Release date
  
19 September 2008

Label
  
Virgin Records


Recorded
  
2007–2008at various places with the "Alchemist" (all in one computed mobile studio)

Seven Lives Many Faces(2008)
  
The Platinum Collection(2009)

Genres
  
New-age music, Pop music, Downtempo, Electronica, Electronic dance music, Electropop

Similar
  
Enigma albums, New-age music albums

Seven Lives Many Faces is the seventh studio album by German musical project Enigma. It is Enigma's 7th album. The album was released on 19 September 2008 worldwide and on 30 September 2008 in North America. Michael Cretu stated that the new album will feature an omnicultural sound unlike anything on its previous releases. On 12 September, the album was released on Enigma's MySpace page for pre-listening. After enjoying a huge success on MySpace (with over 400,000 listens in 2 days), several international MTV and VH1 web sites started streaming the album until 22 September.

Contents

Seven Lives Many Faces was also released in DVD format with 5.1 surround sound, similar to their previous album A posteriori.

Enigma encounters


Singles

The first two singles from the album are "Seven Lives" and "La Puerta del Cielo". The videos for each song use scenes from previous Enigma videos, "Push the Limits" for "Seven Lives" and "Age of Loneliness" for "La Puerta del Cielo". "The Same Parents" was released as the third single off the album.

Critical reception

AllMusic's James Christopher Monger gave the album three stars out of five. While he praised the singles "Seven Lives" and "La Puerta del Cielo" calling them "quietly stunning", he found that in most cases "the new age, fortune-cookie derived lyrics... mirror the unimaginative, two-chord melodies that carry them along."

Commercial performance

The album debuted at No. 92 on the Billboard 200, and No. 1 on the New Age Albums, selling 6,000 copies in the first week. The album has sold 85,000 copies in the United States as of September 2016.

Bonus disc

All tracks written by Michael Cretu.

Credits

  • Michael Cretu – music, lyrics, performance, production, programming, arrangements, engineering
  • Andru Donalds – vocals (tracks: 2, 4, 8, 9), co-writer (tracks: 8, 9)
  • Nanuk – vocals (track: 4), narration (track: 9)
  • Nikita C. – vocals (track: 4)
  • Sebastian C. – vocals (track: 4)
  • Margarita Roig – vocals (tracks: 7, 11, 2 (Bonus CD)), co-writer (tracks: 7, 11)
  • Ruth-Ann Boyle – vocals (tracks 3, 5, 2 (Bonus CD))
    • Additional personnel
  • Photography – Rosemary Robenn
  • Artwork – Dirk Rudolph

    • DVD release

    The entire album was released on DVD, with claimed 5.1 surround sound. Unlike previous DVD release called A Posteriori, Seven Lives, Many Faces features video movies to each song.

    Songs

    1Encounters3:12
    2Seven Lives4:25
    3Touchness3:35

    References

    Seven Lives Many Faces Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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