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After Enigma

The Nu Ambient Music Guide

About Me

After Enigma is a site dedicated to helping fans of Enigma and similar artists find new music, and to that end, defining the "Nu Ambient" genre (it's a fusion of New Age and Downtempo Electronica, frequently with some international flavor). Predominantly, After Enigma is a source of album reviews, which can be found at the main After Enigma site (follow the "Band Website" link to the left). MySpace blogs and bulletins are used to anounce updates, but the actual reviews are all at www.afterenigma.com - if you love the music of Enigma, Delerium, Deep Forest and the like, please have a look and let me know what you think!
The songs playing on this page are used with the explicit permission of the artists - special thanks to:
*Jay of Black Ether - "Ascension" is from the album "Tendrils of a Memory", copyright 2006 PVM Records
*Bob of Mythos - "Purity" is from the album "Purity", copyright 2006 Adagio/Pacific
*Øystein of Amethystium - "Shadow to Light" is from the album "Aphelion", copyright 2003 Neurodisc Records
*Justin of Sleepthief - "You Did a Good Thing" is from the album "The Dawnseeker", copyright 2006 and owned by Echotone Records, LLC

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/22/2007
Band Website: afterenigma.com/
Influences: Layout Created @ FreeCodeSource.com
Sounds Like:
These artists are already part of the guide:
Achillea
Afro Celt Sound System
Amethyste
Amethystium
Balligomingo
Banco de Gaia
Black Ether
Blue Stone
Ceredwen
Conjure One
Deep Forest
Delerium
Enigma
Era
Euphoria
Ikarus
Lesiëm
Loreena McKennitt
Magna Canta
Megatone
Moya
Mythos
Neodrone
Riccardo Eberspacher
Sacred Spirit
Sleepthief
Spirit Nation
State of Grace
The Paul Schwartz Project
TYA
Waterbone

...And these artists have been recommended by you, my Friends - many will be formally incorporated into the guide over time:
Ainsoph
Aleah
Alquimia
Animus Mundi
Arcana
Asura
Natasha Atlas
Azam Ali
Arcanta
Diane Arkenstone
Astral Travel
Bella Sonus
Catya Mare'
Chocolate Tannoy
Creation
Cusco
Cybo3
Dargaard
Dragon Ritual Drummers
Catherine Duc
Edgen
Lisa Gerrard
Ghostfriend
Grains of Sound
The Gregorians
Rene Gruss
The Holoscene
Ian Neal
I Awake
Identity 4
Idiom of Sad
Inga
Le'rue Delashay
Leftfield
Lostjonny
Lunabee
Numina
Metisse
Mike Oldfield
Obliteral
One Blue Flame
Orobai
Narsilion
Nelson Ortiz
Eric Scott Porter
Project Paradise
Psicodreamics
Schiller
Shahram Shiva
Shamanavi
Shinji
Soulwire
Nijole Sparkis
Spatial Distortion
Omar Faruk Tekbilek
Tara Devi
Torsion Nine
Triniti
Vargo
Viba
Welkin Ring
Windmill
Nikos Xilouris
Yogini
Record Label: various
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Review: Mythos’ "Purity"

Another artists' complete discography is now complete. The review ofMythos' Purity is up, and I'm glad to say that their page now ends on a very high note....
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:52:00 PST

Azam Ali’s "Elysium for the Brave"

I'm happy to move Azam Ali from the "recommended" to the "reviewed" list. I recently picked up her most recent solo album, and its a great mix of dark Nu Ambient with Eastern influences. Read the r...
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 10:16:00 PST

Review: Mythos "Eternity"

Being the horrible host that I am, I haven't updated this blog for a few weeks, even though I've been posting reviews on time. For the sake of consistency, and keeping track of things myself, I'm ret...
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:44:00 PST

Review: Mythos "The Reality of a Dreamer"

Mythos' sophomore effort is much like their debut, but that's not a bad thing. Review.
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:43:00 PST

Review: Catherine Ducs "Visions and Dreams"

Read about independent New Age instrumentalist Catherine Duc's debut.
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 30 Aug 2007 09:42:00 PST

Review: Loreena McKennitts "Parallel Dreams"

This week, I'm covering more of Loreena McKennitt's background, with a review of her second (well, kind of) solo album, Parallel Dreams....
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:23:00 PST

Review: Synaesthesia's "Ephemeral"

Established Delerium fans will already know that Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber have produced albums under many pseudonyms over the years. This week, I'm introducing another of their side projects to the ...
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:15:00 PST

Review: Kopas' "A Fragment of a Confession"

Ivan Kopas has been producing for years, but just recently made his debut as a recording artist. Elegant production is the corner-stone of his mostly-instrumental Nu Ambient debut, A Fragment of a Co...
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:20:00 PST

Review: Black Ether's "Oneness"

Continuing to look back at artists' origins, here's a review of Black Ether's debut. Black Ether is a primarily instrumental, Dark Ambient artist, of whom I'm very fond. I'm afraid you'll have to be...
Posted by After Enigma on Mon, 23 Jul 2007 10:55:00 PST

Review: Loreena McKennitt "Elemental"

Sorry for the delay!  I was actually going to review Loreena McKennitt's "The Mask and the Mirror" this week, but while listening to her earlier work to research that review, I decided to start from t...
Posted by After Enigma on Thu, 12 Jul 2007 07:19:00 PST