Spring 1970, grade 3: Edi sings "In the Long Prairie" and "Home on the Range" in cowboy improvised outfit at school's festivities...Fall 1970, grade 4. On a field trip to a memorial house/literature museum, Edi had with him a translated version of the lyrics to Beatles's "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" that he had scribbled down from a booklet. He and some of his class mates were singing it on their way. Next day, in class, a girl reported them to the class master, as if they'd been doing an offence and needed punishment: "M'aaam, yesterday, during our field trip, Edi and some others had the lyrics to 'Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da' with them and were singing it, M'aaam"...Spring 1977, grade 10: Tired of their choirboys' status, Edi and one of his class mates open up the classroom's piano during recessions and practice. Unbeknownst to them, they basically do what Peter Gabriel and Tony Banks once did at the Charterhouse Public School in Surrey, UK, more than 10 years before them. The duo performs at an intergrade artistic gathering. The class splits during the summer and so does the duo, all former mates going their ways...Fall 1978: Edi tries to form a band with two of his new class mates. At the only rehearsal, he tries to play bass on a borrowed acoustic guitar. The other two play melodica and percussion on tennis ball tube-boxes, respectively. The high-school and undergraduate admission exams seem more important, though...Fall 1982: Somehow, Edi finds himself playing a whistle. Which he'll do on various occasions from then on...December 1997: In Montreal, Edi finally gets his first bass guitar and also takes a startup lesson with Hansford "Hanny" Rowe of Gong/Gongzilla fame...December 2005: Edi finally has the idea of putting a band up again. It will take him two more years, though...
June 2006: Edi takes a startup lesson with drummer Dena Tauriello of Antigone Rising in Rockaway, NJ...At about the same time, Mihai, who played in a band before coming to Canada, and his wife, a former class mate of Edi, settle in Oakville. Come 2008, they discuss the possibility of playing together...
Enigel is the triumph of the spiritual over the material world, as can be seen from the poem "Riga Crypto si lapona Enigel" ("King Crypto and Enigel-the-Lapp-Lass") by Romanian 20th century mathematician Dan Barbilian, who became the very ...cryptic, hermetic poet Ion Barbu. This poem is part of the "Uvedenrode" cycle of poems.
