Voyageur (Enigma album)

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Voyageur
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Studio album by
Enigma
Released8 September 2003
Recorded2003
Studio A.R.T. (Ibiza, Spain)
Genre
Length47:18
Label Virgin
Producer Michael Cretu
Enigma chronology
Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection
(2001)		Voyageur
(2003)		 15 Years After
(2005)
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Voyageur is the fifth studio album by the German musical project Enigma, released on 8 September 2003 by Virgin Records.

Contents

Voyageur was considered to be Enigma's most distinctive album to date, due to Enigma's drastic changes in sound as compared to the previous four albums. The project's signature shakuhachi flutes, Gregorian chants and tribal chants found on the earlier albums were all but gone on Voyageur. Instead, most of the songs found on the album were more pop-oriented, such as "Voyageur", "Incognito", "Boum-Boum" and "Look of Today"; the latter of which interpolates the chorus of ABC's "The Look of Love". Michael Cretu described Voyageur's genre as "sophisticated pop". Only a few samples of previous works are retained; a familiar reversed cymbal rhythm appears in "Look of Today", while "Incognito" contains the chorus of previous single "Sadeness" buried in the bridge of the song. The "Enigma foghorn" also appears at the opening of the record.

Release

Voyageur was released on the CD and cassette formats, while the CD cover art (done by Johann Zambryski) has two different versions:

In May 2018, the album received its first vinyl release as part of The Colours of Enigma series of reissues, which includes all other Enigma studio albums.

Track listing

All music is composed by Michael Cretu, except where noted.

No.TitleLyricsMusicLength
1."From East to West"  4:11
2."Voyageur"Cretu
4:36
3."Incognito"Cretu 4:23
4."Page of Cups" 
  • Cretu
  • Gad
7:01
5."Boum-Boum"Cretu 4:29
6."Total Eclipse of the Moon"Cretu 2:16
7."Look of Today"Cretu 3:43
8."In the Shadow, in the Light"Cretu 5:35
9."Weightless"Cretu 2:15
10."The Piano" 
  • Cretu
  • Gad
3:00
11."Following the Sun"Cretu 5:49
Total length:47:18

Personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Voyageur. [2]

Charts

Certifications

Certifications for Voyageur
RegionCertification Certified units/sales
Russia (NFPF) [23] Gold10,000*

* Sales figures based on certification alone.

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