FIRST TIME HEARING Enigma - Return To Innocence (Official Video) REACTION
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props to whoever requested this! This flooded my mind with memories of the 90s
A lot of people did I just react to what I see often in the comments
It's what we need again... a more spiritual time... bless ya🙏
I've requested it a couple times...
need some little fluffy clouds now and d-ream lol
Yep - instant time travel. I bought their album through one of those monthly CD club sign-up offers - and played it on my portable CD player :P
For nearly 30 years I've played this entire CD start to finish at bedtime, maybe once or twice a week, when I'm chilling with a candle burning - quietly. It's heaven for me. It's one of my favorite things in life.
I'VE DONE THE SAME WITH MINE. I LOVE IT. IT'S SO RELAXING
me too, Love Sensuality Devotion, a true masterpiece, Michael Cretu and those that collaborate in the creation of this music have given humanity true beauty, many more albums. and even a virtual tour of Ibiza studio online. the album is peace a gift to treasure heaven maybe ? i will fall asleep tonight to the album.
Enya - Paint the sky with star's album was mine... 🎶🤗💗💤
This CD has always been our go to song when DH and I fool around. It started out as a way to keep noises in our room and away from the kids and now DH can't hear it without getting 'happy'!
@@debler Beautiful album! Enya's song "Only Time" is my favorite! I don't think it's on that album though 🤔. I'll have to check! Looks like I'm gonna be putting on some Enya tonight! 🤗
There was an era in the nineties where calming, spiritual, kinda New Agey songs were highly popular. Maybe we all felt stressed and just wanted to chill.
Some of us still follow that way of life...needed today more than ever hey.....peace✌🙏
That's what made the 90's so special. What has happened to good, relaxing, new age music?
I had started to listen to Enigma all over again in the past few months. The world has just gotten too crazy.
@@JeffTiberend it's still out there... I've just found a new way to find it...☮🙏
Deep Forest! Delerium! et al
If you were a 90s kid, Return To Innocence and the Pure Moods commercial are forever burned into your memory. It's a tiny, but essential part of my childhood. Good times.
Yeah, I bought that album and I still have it today. :)
Funny thing is I bought it BEFORE those ads were on TV.
Yep that memory of that damn commercial eventually got me to backtrack to Enigma Aduemus and others!
Groovin - Pato Banton. This will bring some memories lol
i agree
Sadness (Part 1) was their biggest hit.
“The Eyes of Truth” got a big boost when it was the music for “The Matrix” movie trailer.
@Hot Jambalaya It felt like Sadness was more ubiquitous.
@@robertreichle1 Probably was
Have ya'll heard Sadeness Part II featuring Indonesian singer Anggun on his 2016 album "The Fall Of A Rebel Angel" ?
This song is different on the US CD version compared to mine in Canada…we don’t censor our music
We have to return to our innocence, because we were pure, we didn’t hate, we forgave others. We didn’t see colour either, just another child to play with. 😊💕
What a beautiful post. I couldn’t agree more!
So true... if only we could all think this way today...peace🙏
Amen!
Sigh. Color and differences are OBSERVED in childhood. Please stop trying to erase culture and colours of humanity. As kids, We just don’t hold it against them because we are naturally curious. We are taught division in schools. And family’s.
@@keetahbrough, that’s why I have put my comment, little children don’t think like adults. They really do see another child to play with. They are beautiful, in an innocent way. They learn from others how to be ugly.
It’s not schools that teach racism, it family and peers.
I am not erasing anything, I don’t see colour, like you do. If you want to talk colour I have dated white, Tunisian and Portuguese black men. I’m attracted to them as people, their personality, not the colour of their skin.
Ok, I’m in the UK. The Tunisian, here are different than the Tunisian in their native country. My Portuguese black boyfriend, his culture was Portuguese. He is very dark, and a really nice guy. The only one that I still talk to if I see him. The white British boyfriend, behaviour is different than those in France, Italy, Russia, American, etc. Culture isn’t colour. My family is a mixed bag.
Its one of those rare songs that can bring hope to a depressed mind.
This song gives me goosebumps and makes my eyes water up.
Same
Same for no reason at all either
So good!!! It’s been on super high rotation this past month.
same for me. you know i even use Enigma's tracks for meditation. u?
The chorus chant is actually a sampling of a recording by an elderly couple from Taiwan. The couple were members of an Indigenous ethnic group in Taiwan called Amis. There was a legal dispute about the use of their recording in Enigma's song. The case was settled out of court. Part of the settlement was to give official songwriting credit to the couple.
Thank you for this information. Beautiful.
th-cam.com/video/6oHGUr6HEow/w-d-xo.html
That is all correct...well done!!
@@overwhelmingevidence4836
I wasn't implying that the entirety of "Return to Innocence" is a rip off. But for the sake of clarity. . .Michael Cretu (the founder and leader of Enigma) is still credited as the primary songwriter, and deservedly so. The recording itself was owned and released by a French organization called MCM (though their ownership was later disputed, and it's not entirely clear who exactly owned the rights). For his part, Cretu purchased the rights to use the recording in his own music and never intended to "steal" anything. He incorporated the recording into his own compositions (hence why I said it was a "sampling"). I posted the information about the couple from Taiwan (known as Difang and Igay Duana) because I think a lot of people, including myself for a long time, don't know where the chant comes from. Difang Duana is quoted as saying that he just wanted "the world [to] know that there's an Amis tribe in Taiwan." I don't think a lot of people know. So I thought they should know. In other words, Enigma indeed helped bring Amis music to the world.
And the two Taiwanese people get 100% of the royalties from the Enigma song
💫💫💫”Don’t be afraid to be weak, don’t be proud to be strong” 💫💫💫
Love Enigma!
I thought there was something wrong about the last part of the quote. I heard it as "don't be too proud to be strong" which has an entirely different meaning than "don't be proud to be strong"
Lyrics:
www.goodreads.com/quotes/70753-don-t-be-afraid-to-be-weak-don-t-be-too-proud
“Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence
If you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and miss the chance
To return to innocence
That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and miss the chance
to return to innocence”
― Enigma
@@allannyholmnielsen5559 Thanks for this but I don’t think it changes the meaning. 😊
People forget just how big this song was when it first came out.
Enigma is technically not a band but a "musical project" by the artist Michael Cretu. All of the Enigma albums were super trippy, meditative, explorations of emotion and thought through music. Really deep and affective stuff. I've been a fan of theirs since I was literally 9 years old and I'm now 40.
LOVE THIS! This makes me want to go back to 1994!!! Their other big hit was in 1991, "Sadeness Part 1." You should check that one out!!! Gregorian chants set to music. 🙂✌
Yes!!
And 80's euro dance star Sandra doing the vocals. She was married to the guy behind Enigma at the time.
Yes I would love to see him do that one!
I loved Sadeness when it came out. Amazing music.
When I was a little kid, my dad would BLAST those chants every Saturday morning while drinking his French drip. At this moment I'm just now realizing that my father may, in fact, have been a yuppie. haha Bitter pill to swallow! :P
_Sadeness_ by Enigma next! It's my favorite track from them. 😁
Sadness is my favourite too.
Same as well!
Thats the most popular songs. If you like his music check out his album Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi. His best album even the songs didnt made it that far in charts.
And also Sandra the wife of Michael Cretu the man behind Enigma.
@@BWcapture Sandra gave her voice for some tracks but in the later albums she isn’t that present anymore which is understandable according to their later divorce. Doesn’t change the fact that Cretu always were the core of this project. He arranged and fit everything together. He is Enigma.
I remember in the beginning of 1994 the radio station said then: Here is the new single of Enigma "Return to Innocence". What a song! A timeless masterpiece!
Now we have "bad bunny" and all the reggaeton crap.
I sure miss it
When this song came out, it was the best and absolute worst in my life. My mother like most moms did not like my music and one day she came home early and heard me blaring this song. She walked in my room, sat down on my bed and listen. When the song was done she asked to play it again and so I did. That week she told us that she had stage 4 lung cancer and that it had already metastasis. This is one of her all time favs and wanted it played everyday till the end. This song gave life when it was fleeing ,Love when it could not be shown. Her last gift to us was always Love.
This is the kind of music that makes you step back and really take a look at the whole picture of life and ask the question: Why are we here?
I thought that was the Moody Blues forty years ago.
We are here to experience life. We're Souls in a Human body. Love is all!!
We're here to work and to produce.
There is no why, just how. 4.2 billion years in the making
This genre was such a vibe in the mid-90s. I wrote So. Many. Essays. in college with this type of music playing in the background. This, Lorena McKennet, Enya, Gregorian Chants, and PM Dawn were crucial to my collegiate career.
808 state also
Enya is great musician ... Storm in Africa 😃💙
You just named all of my favorites. Still listen to them to this day!!! Always like hearing it for the first time!!!!
Lmao, Enya was the nocturnal hymn for the 24-hour computer labs back at college. 😎
Deep Forest is a good addition to your list
This is gonna make me cry,I know it. Yup,..here I go,tears falling and I choked.
I love this song so much,and it's grace and beauty are incredible.
This video is playing the old man's life backwards from his passing.
The band is from Germany. The two singers were Kuo Ying-nan The song was based on a native Taiwanese chant by a Taiwanese tribesman Kuo Ying-nan and his wife Kuo Hsiu-chu, who had recorded the track in Paris in 1988 during a cultural exchange. Many people,though.,think the chant is Native American,due to the sound of it. Many of their chants sound like this.
Michael Cretu,a Romanian-German musician, singer, songwriter, and producer gained worldwide fame as the founder and musician behind the German musical project Enigma, formed in 1990. Initially Cretu was identified as "Curly" or "Curly M.C." in reference to his curly hair and creț meaning "curly" in Romanian.
Lyrics
Love
Devotion
Feeling
Emotion
Don't be afraid to be weak
Don't be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence
The return to innocence
And if you want, then start to laugh
If you must, then start to cry
Be yourself don't hide
Just believe in destiny
Don't care what people say
Just follow your own way
Don't give up and use the chance
To return to innocence
That's not the beginning of the end
That's the return to yourself
The return to innocence
That's return to innocence
Thank you so much for the backstory ✌️✌️🇳🇿🇳🇿🌏🌏🌈🌈
Every time I hear this song, I can’t help but tear up.. not bc of its lyrics but the feelings and memories of my childhood in the 90s that it brings up. Just makes me want to go back and relive it and not take it for granted, especially when my parents were alive.
Feels like the 30 years just went by in a flash doesn’t it 😢
@@jesc8827 Way too fast..😪
Michael Cretu is the genius behind Enigma. Every album is just awesome as he incorporates different languages, cultures..etc into every song..so soothing and deep
I agree
Since you're checking out Enigma, you may also want to check out Enya - sail away
Yes, sail away is actually called Orinoko flow. The Orinoco is a big river in my original country, Venezuela
@@user-gr6fv3pp1q wow that's so interesting, thank you for the insight! 😊
They are a tandem.
Yes, I was about to say it's Orinoco Flow. My FAVORITE Enya song is "Only Time"! It's soooo beautiful! 🥰
@@jennhurl that's a great one too
Many may not be familiar with his name, but millions across the globe will recognise this Taiwanese traditional singer's voice. A sample of his plaintive Elder's Drinking Song chant was used by Michael Cretu as the backbone for Enigma's Return to Innocence which went on to become one of Enigma's biggest selling singles. However Cretu had not obtained Difang's permission prior to using the chant which prompted a court-case in 1996 that saw the two settle out of court three years later with Difang being compensated. The controversy around the case propelled Difang into the international spotlight, and Dan Lacksman (whose most famous project had been the first Deep Forest album) approached him to produce an album together. Released by Rock Records Japan in 1998 Circle of Life is a mesmerising combination of Lacksman's usual electronic drumloops, ambient synths and sounds carefully constructed so as not to interfere with Difang's heart-felt singing based on traditional Taiwanese songs of love, work and celebration. Slower, more laid-back beats support songs like Visiting Song and the contemplative Fully Laden with Riches with its tinkling piano instrumentation and Difang's characteristic yodelling calls. However the more upbeat tracks like Love Song (with Deep Forest style lead synth-flute) and Working Song (with its dark string theme) are the real highlights of the album. As an obvious reference to the court-case with Enigma, Lacksman made his own, gentler modernisation of Elder's Drinking Song as well as including the original version of the chant unaccompanied on the CD. With the layered and more reverential sound of Circle of Life we see Lacksman mature as a world music producer, in comparison to his previous outings such as Pangea. Difang was a prominent producer and supporter of Taiwanese aboriginal artists. His last work was to be the solo-outing Across the Yellow Earth in 2001, sadly just as Difang was gaining much-deserved international acclaim, he passed away (blood poisoning due to a centipede bite) in March 2002 at the age of 82. His wife who, whose vocals accompanied Difang's chants, passed away a month later.
Original song MV website : th-cam.com/video/6oHGUr6HEow/w-d-xo.htmlsi=ZP86bc408dDTh-0f
One of the joys of getting older, especially when you're past middle age, it will dawn on you that you don't have to be anybody but yoursel. When were children, our parents and society build up our ego to protect us from the harsh realities of the world. Then somewhere in your adulthood it dawns on you that you don't have to be that ego anymore. You can go back to who you were when you were a child, only this time you don't need protection anymore. Life becomes simpler and joyful. You become both the child and the parent.
There was a whole CD of music like this in the 90s. It was the original pure moods CD. They ended up making multiple pure mood CDs after this one was such a big hit.
Coffee table musak
I still have that cd and still play it..one of the most relaxing cd's ever..every one on there is individual..you cannot put it into one genre of music..from The Mission to Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence..superb..
I still have the original pure moods CD as well. I'm surprised it still plays since I've listened to it so much over the years. There is so much good music on that CD.
It was a compilation. All of those songs were previously released.
@@Cadeho3 this is true, but it was nice to have them all on one CD.
Now that you have heard this, let me take you to a Native American group called Ulali. their voices will blow your mind!
Both my ex wives were Native American. Went to many Pow Wow's and enjoyed a lot of great live chant and drum music during the traditional and fancy dance competitions...
There's something very ancient and satisfying about that chanting and drumming, right? Even if I don't understand a word being said/chanted, it has a powerful effect. Come to think of it--humans have been doing that around the fire for thousands of years. Versus what--barely a century? of watching tv/movies. Sigh. I hope I can make it back to a powwow later this summer. I have missed the frybread too.
That sounds intriguing! I'll check them out
@@dnjLyons123 fry bread Indian tacos 🤙!
This is a ancient Hungarian drinking chant
Now that you have listened to this epic music. You need to listen to:
Now We Are Free - Lisa Gerrard
Adiemus - Karl Jenkins
May It Be - Enya
Into The West - Annie Lennox
Snow On The Sahara - Anggun
Obrigado pela dica! 👍
Deep forest sweet lullaby
'90s kiddies will remember this from the film "Man of the House" featuring Jonathon Taylor Thomas. :) haha
Fan of JTT in the 90s and when Return to Innocence was played in the last scene of Man of the House, I already love the song. By 2000, I saw the music video and recorded it on VHS.
I loved this song when I was younger. It’s still on my playlist decades later
Same!
Same!!
Oh my gosh I haven’t heard this in at least 20 years. What a beautiful breath of fresh air. Thank you. It truly does feel like even going back to the early ‘90s when this came out would be a return to innocence.
Still play this today.
So hauntingly beautiful
You should listen to the whole album to understand... Anyway, the group was created by Michael Cretu (from Romania), famous in the 80s for a song called "Samurai". He is married to another singer, Sandra (german), famous in the same period for a song called "Maria Magdalena" and she is part of Enigma too. They published 11 albums and their stile, so unusual, can be placed between what was called new age and ambient pop. It' difficult to place them in a specific category but I'm glad you liked it. 😊 Oh, if I remember correctly they were even in a part of the soundtrack of a movie with Sharon Stone and one of the Baldwin brothers... "Sliver", the movie.
It was Carlys Song
@@christianeisenhut173 Yes! That's the song! Thank you 😊
Enigma - Sadeness - Part i is also an amazing song.
Yes! I love that song!
Enigma, is one of my favorite musical group. Sadeness part.1 is another good one. Seriously, they just put you in a trance
Mea Culpa is just as good.
They just have a way of taking you on a journey and soothing the soul.
This song still makes me get goosebumps and get emotional no matter how many times I have listened to it. Still a favorite on my playlist.
When this album was out I had zero money so I borrowed it from the library!
This song really got me so deep, I would cry my heart out every time. It is deeply healing.
Thanks JV for sharing it.
You have to do Sadeness: Part 1. Another big song from them.
This was better so no need
I'd call this genre Ambient or Ambient dance music ... it suits certain moods and is just perfect for driving, doing yoga and so much more.
it was usually marketed/sold as "World Beat". Ambient wouldn't have that drum beat
I remember it was considered World Beat or New Age back in the day.
@@francb1634 Yeah...it was hard to classify but if a music store had a 'World Music' section that's probably where you'd find it
Exactly, Ambient Dance would be more precise.
Deaths not the return to yourself. Its the return to innocence. 😢 I remember my mom this way.
Enigma is one of the Best!! I have all of their music, so POWERFUL
This is great. I recommend reviewing Enigma's first hit "Sadeness" too. It's beautiful 😍
Oh yes!!!!!!
Enigma is in the New Age genre. Lots of good music there. Check out some Enya, another GREAT new age artist, definitely the most known in the genre. On Your Shore is one of my favs.
The main song he should react to from Enya is "Only Time" from 2001. ✌🙂
@@BillGraper No doubt that is also a good one. One thing I like about her music is SO much of it is incredibly beautiful.
That's my favorite Enya song as well! I always thought of her as world music, though. I guess she's both:)
@@jpeopolis Nice! I agree she would fall under world as well, hard to put a hard title on her music. Pretty genre bending honestly.
@@johns881 People oft forget it was her song "Boadicea" that The Fugees sampled on "Ready or Not". Didn't care for their music, but liked that tune for some odd reason. lol
Enigma is another level, no doubt, folks!
Enigma has a massive catalogue of songs, glad you enjoy this one =)
This song was huge when I was at highschool. Other Enigma masterpieces for you to react to: Principles of Lust, Sadeness, Beyond the Invisible.
They’re from another dimension.
Agree! "Beyond the invisible" music video still haunts me to this day.
Morphing through time the silence must be heard mea culpa and I'm asking why. And my most favorite cross of changes
Check out Enigma featuring Aquilo song of Amen. It is heavenly! 😇
Try Morphing thru time, Why! and TNT for the Brain :)
There was a time in the 90's when music like this and Chant albums were hugely popular. You should check out the video for The Mummers Dance by Loreena Mckennitt
That song is one of my favourites!
Mummers Dance was GREAT!!!!!
Love her!!!!
oohh i forgot about Mummer's Dance. I used to love that song. I think my brother used to listen to Loreena McKennitt a lot.
I used to work in a theatre/concert hall near the town where Loreena lived in Canada before she became famous, and I worked quite a few of her concerts. At first her audiences were on the smaller side, but it didn't take long before she was selling out to packed houses. Something about her voice and her music touched people deeply. My personal favourite song is The Stolen Child, which is a poem by W. B. Yeats that she set to her own music.
I am from Cameroon 🇨🇲 this song used to play on our national TV. This song clicked right away, I was immersed in this. It gives a vibe you can’t describe.
Such memories of the 90s with this song - there were lots of great New Age/Ambient/Celtic songs like this back then. You'd actually hear this on mainstream radio stations back then. I'd also highly recommend the artist Enya and her songs 'Orinoco Flow (Sail Away)' or 'Caribbean Blue' absolutely gorgeous & a huge inspiration to me as a musician :)
ALL right. Now listen to "Sadeness", another great song of them
I'm so happy you're exploring Enigma's music, it's amazing. I bought this album when it first came out and it was like nothing I'd ever heard. Check out Enya as well!
It’s a Taiwanese tribe behind the chants
I often listen to Enigma‘a Mea Culpa when I need to chill and let go of all my stress. They really were unique.
Another great song from their album
"This is the voice of Enigma." Ahhhh, what a great song this is. A jam. Iconic. Atmospheric. Euphoric. Hope. This song is a vibe, and it's timeless.
and you got to hear it at the beginning of every single album of him :)
One of the best albums of that year, can't remember very early 90's?? I still listen to it while working and chilling out. It's a progressive album that needs to be listen too from start to finish!!
“Oh that’s the guy with the tummy ache” is what my mom used to say whenever I played this song. Haven’t heard this in forever, it’s still kinda cheesy but in a good way, hits you right in the feels.
Man, I loved your reaction a lot!! This is one of the most beautiful songs of all ages. I've been listening to it since the 90's, and it still keeps on being fresh.
Love this song I wish I could reverse back to when this song was out I was younger and so.much more happier then
"Sadness Part 1" is one of the masterpieces from Enigma. Hope you react to this 🙏
I know the song and I love it.. Your reaction is so nice and your smile kills me... Sorry, but everything is true :love Enigma and love your smile. 🤷♀️😊 Thank you so much for everything.
You are choosing real gems for your reaction videos. This is gold dust. Thanks for doing this reaction. Many people, including myself have always loved this song for many years and it's a real pleasure to hear it again.
This song reminds me of taking E as we called it in those days lol and listening to this song and it was magical and blissfully fun. Don’t do drugs though kids lol
Edit: even a few minutes in I can see the song is getting to you by your facial expressions. You’re a rare gem. Enjoy!!
I had just started smoking weed when this came out. 2L bottle of old English cider, qtr of weed, 20 B&H and this song played loud on repeat. Those were the days 😊
I was gonna say - this is a comedown song?! a watching the sunrise on a beach in Ibiza sort of song?
I was there too bebbe! I loved those times...
@@jonnylumberjack6223 Easy Listening / Mood
Loved this one it's so great you're willing to react to do many different genres why I love your videos
Now go Cocteau Twins and, of course, Enya! lol
I used to play this when I was a nurse. I had an office and one of the dementia pts. started visiting my office, all he wanted was to listen to this song and one other then he would get up and leave. Ty for the memories.
You should react to a band called Cocteau Twins. Try their songs "Heaven or Las Vegas", "Carolyn's fingers", "Squeeze-wax" or "Pandora", just to name a few, to start a complete new journey.
I adore them. Liz was born just along the road from me. Well, they all were! Ethereal voice.
Yeah. Heaven or Las Vegas was good. Fotzepolitic and Summerhead on that album were fantastic too. Other ones I'd instantly recommend were the two that made them one of my top three favorite bands in the world. Blue Bell Knoll and Love's Easy Tears. (Orange Appled is also particularly good on the LET EP) Pitch the Baby, Touch Upon Touch and Violane I gotta say hit these too. Pioneers of the wall of sound ambient genre of punk and alternative in the 80's.
And can't forget Liz Frazer's singing "Song To the Siren" with This Mortal Coil, the absolute most heartwrenching angelic vocals ever recorded.
Congrats on 200k subs by the way! You deserve the recognition, my friend!
Thank you
The singing is actually an aboriginal Taiwanese drinking song, not a Native American chant.
Enigma is very relaxing music...Also listen to Enya, she is totally relaxing too. Caribbean Blue, Sail Away, and more...
The whole album is relaxing
as all of his albums.
Try Sadness Pt 1 and Mea Culpa!
Enigma 'Sadeness'. It's like nothing you've heard, blew everyone's mind when it hit the States. The 90s didn't start until that beat dropped!
Enigma (or the Enigma project) is a series of eight studio albums created by music producer Michael Cretu. He mixes classical music, world/indigenous music, and gregorian chant with modern artist and a rythm track to create something like this. While the songs can be appreciated seperately, each album is meant to be listened to from beginning to end (with the different tracks blending from one to the next) as one experience. You are right that it is the kind of music where you put on your headphones, turn off the lights, lie back, and just absorb the sounds.
The Chorus was a Taiwanese Indigenous Tribe song, sang by a couple, and recorded while on a cultural exchange program trip in Paris. The producer of Enigma believed it to be public domain and sampled it. He and others were later sued and settled outside of court. If you enjoyed that I have a song I would love for you to hear but be warned it's more hip hop. The Halluci Nation - R.E.D. Ft. Yasiin Bey, Narcy and Black Bear
The language it's sung in is known as "Pure."
I remember MTV used to play this video a lot back in the early 90s, and sometimes this vid would literally come on a short while before heading off to school back in the day. This song was quite different indeed when I first heard in too a long time ago as a kid
a return to innocence is a genuine return to nature. we place so many barriers between us and mother earth
I too recommend "Sadeness Part 1" as a personal favourite of Enigma.
Trivia: the male voice sample was initially lifted from a generic "World Music" CD with no credit and no royalties. The original artist - an indigenous Taiwanese singer - did eventually sue Enigma, who (dubiously) claimed they thought it was public domain music, but eventually settled for an out-of-court payment and royalties/credit on future releases.
Additional trivia: Most of the song is actually a "male voice." The lead vocalist is Andreas Harde, then about 21 years old, who also sang the backup harmony. The spoken words ("Death's not the beginning of the end...") are by German pop singer Sandra, then-wife of Enigma's producer Michael Cretu. The chants were indeed by Difang Duana, but also with his wife Igay Duana.
This whole album was like *the* makeout album when I was in high school.
When it was released, I wore the cassette tape out, then wore the CD out. I absolutely love this song, really beautiful music and amazing vocals. Still love it all these years later.
90s kid here! this song is and was so powerful. Very Spiritual.
I haven't heard Enigma in years. Their music is so relaxing and chill.
They don't make songs like this anymore. Def look up "Pure Moods TV Commercial" on here, it will show how some albums were sold on TV back in the day hahaha, but seriously another great track from them is Sadeness. Good stuff.
You know, there are four volumes of Pure Moods? When I went to buy the first one, I saw there were three more and I swiped them up!
I love how within the first 7 seconds your emotions showed wholehearted JOY my Brotha, im 39 now and the first time i heard this i was probably 11 or 13.
The Chorus is shared with an old First Nations Chat that is meant for the soul.
So Glad you discovered this, Well-come to your return to Innocence 💪🏾🙏🏾
I love this song so much and I've never even seen a reaction video before, but watching you experience the chorus actually brought me to tears. I could see it move you. Beautiful! Have a lovely day!
‘Sadness’ was their first hit. Was unique back in the day. You should checkout Delerium’s ‘Heaven’s Earth’, ‘Silence’, ‘Innocente’, ‘Flowers Become Screens’, ‘Incantation’, ‘Consensual Worlds’, it’s in a similar vein, but in my opinion better. Also, Leftfield ‘Release the Pressure’ will blow your mind.
It's not Sadness, but Sadeness, you know, from Marquis de Sade.
I haven’t heard this in years, my sister loved Enigma! It’s certainly like meditation 🧘♀️
Enya, Deep Forest, Enigma, Sared Spirit Yeha Noha, Te Vaka Mana, Learnng to Fly Pink Floyd, Galippoli was another song by a French composer. All these songs had that world and new wave sound.
When u know good music doesn't matter the language, I'm outside the box different first heard enigma and Enya music at 22yrs and loved it. Happy u were able to hear and enjoy their music.
This album just makes me cry, it's so angelic. Praise up 🙏
This is one of my favourite songs ever, such a masterpiece!
Instant throwback to my childhood in the early 90s.. damn, really makes me realize that I’m old now 🤣
This song is so beautiful. I have listened to it many times along the years. I have cried today on listening again to this masterpiece. The images in the video are very well selected to deliver a powerful message. Wonderful! I wasn't expecting to react myself in this way after dropping by your channel. I am glad you really like the song and has touched your heart.
I used to play this song over and over back in the day. Love it 🙂
Practically wore out my cassette single!!!
This is one of my favorite songs. It affects me deeply each time I listen to it, it's so beautiful.
I absolutely love Enigma!! They have some really awesome music in their catalog, and yes, the music is very relaxing and soothing.
This artist, along with Thievery Corporation and Massive Attack are usually classified as Trip Hop. Enjoy the ride. I cook in my kitchen every night to this genre. Check out Stephane Pompougnac too. Great music to have playing in the background.
What a great song and video this is!! Just positivity. Since we are sort of on this genre I would recommend anything by Enya or Loreena Mckenitt
Lorena Mckenzie for sure
Enigma was formed in Germany by a guy called Michael Cretu, a Romanian musician who loved Gregorian chants and ancient tribal music. He incorporated both of these in his music, creating some of the most original songs ever. The guy is a genius. The personnel in the band varied according to what he was working on at the time, the only other constant member was his German wife, Sandra, who provided the vocals on many of the bands tracks.
I completely forgot about this song...wow flashbacks and a soothing tune 👍❤️
Enigma is my go to calming music ♥ Glad to see someone react to it :D
I just had to watch your face and feel it in my soul like you did, its such an amazing track Enigma music honestly kept me strong when I was in a very dark place xxxx