I have many interests, such as, my family, friends, long directionless drives on unapproved dirt roads, the earth and all it's beauty, raccoons, buffalos, rocks, Eagles, trees, moss, sick & twisted humor, music, the colors yellow and black, my dogs, the sky and storms and and and...
MICHAEL CRETU!
Enigma is a musical project started by Michael Cretu (Romanian musician) in 1990. He is both the composer and the producer; different guest singers often provide vocals on Enigma tracks.After some solo projects, Cretu started to produce the first Enigma record “MCMXC a.D.†in 1990 using the nickname “Curly MCâ€. Until today, with seven albums out, Seven Lives Many Faces being the latest one (released on September 19, 2008), 35 million CDs sold worldwide, 50 number one hits, 90 platinum discs, and songs appearing on more than 1,000 compilation albums, Enigma is the most successful German music project of all times.With the 1990 hit “Sadeness Part I,†Enigma brought the new age fascination with Gregorian chants and old-world culture to the world and clubs; the resulting single was both unique and irresistible.
On his second album, 1993’s “Cross of Changesâ€, some of the old-world elements remained, but the new age angle came to the forefront in a set of slick, radio-friendly pop. The well-known “Return to Innocence†was born.Enigma 3: Le Roi Est Mort, Vive le Roi followed in 1996 - a musical summary of the previous concepts.
The fourth Enigma record, “The Screen Behind the Mirrorâ€, followed in early 2000, and in 2003 “Voyageur†came out. Three years later, “A Posteriori†(2006) was released. The result is an intergalactic sound trip to the universe and back to earth based on a more electronic/trance sound.
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About ulrich schnaussUlrich Schnauss was born in northern Germany fishing port Kiel in 1977, during his formative years he grew a love for a broad spectrum of music ranging from my bloody valentine to tangerine dream, chapterhouse to early bleep & breakbeat tracks. There was not much opportunity to see some of his musical heroes in Kiel, so the inevitable pull of the big city meant a move to Berlin in 1996.By which time Ulrich's musical output had already become prolific with a variety of pseudonyms (most notably View to the Future and Ethereal 77) veering from ambient to drum and bass via electronica. These earlier works were soon, catching the eye of Berlin electronica label CCO who took up the story:"It came a bit of a regular thing, those anonymous packages sent to us from Berlin with a single CDR, a biro scrawl revealing at closer inspection the simple stamp 'Ethereal 77'. Ulrich had been making music for years, producing, touring, piecing together that BIG sound. And yet each of these CDR instalments revealed something a little more personal."Soon these submissions to CCO developed into Ulrichs first album under his own name entitled Far away Trains Passing By which as it slowly seeped into peoples consciousness became an electronic classic. Listeners were taken with the lush instrumentation and the emotion of the elegant, simple and beautiful music.Yet nothing was to prepare his growing army of supporters for this next record A Strangely Isolated Place which slowly came together during 2001 into a record that really showed some of Ulrichs youthful indie influences. His debut album under his real name established his pedigree as an outstanding electronic composer, but somehow he managed to take it further by developing his interest in songwriting for electronic music, born of his love for such giants of the independent world as My Bloody Valentines Kevin Shields and Cocteau Twins Robin Guthrie. From this humble conception, comes forth a record of surprisingly rare emotional power.A Strangely Isolated Place has become one of those extraordinary and rare occurrences; a genuinely word-of-mouth record slowly growing in stature by virtue of its over-riding ability to deliver more than the usual arid and academic treatises on the state of the synthesizer, or solipsistic bedsit meanderings.Ulrich's third album, Goodbye, is the end of a chapter in his sound. "I see these three albums as moving closer to something I wanted to do right from the beginning but didn't quite manage," he says. "Merging songwriting and indie elements with electronic music. I've tried to take all the ideas to the maximum."So the ambient tracks are more spacious, the songs more memorable, the multi-layered, guitar-heavy tracks more ragingly psychedelic. Just listen to the obliterating rush of Medusa, or the cloudbusting dream-pop of Stars (performed by long-time collaborator Judith Beck). Like its predecessors, Goodbye constructs its own world, vast and vivid. This is the album he's been moving towards for over a decade: a sonic tour de force, an alternative reality, a life-changer.
One flew over the cokoo's nest, The Shipping News, The original version of The Hills Have Eyes, The Shining, Bambie, The Wizard of Oz, Gone with the Wind, Old Shirley Temple movies
Anything about food! I'm a total Food Channel Network and Travel Channel addict! I don't watch too many series type shows, but I love The King of Queens, Sienfeld and old Rosanne reruns.
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