Voyageur (Enigma album)

Voyageur
Studio album by Enigma
Released	30 September 2003
Recorded	A.R.T. Studios, Ibiza, 2003
Genre	Europop, new-age, ambient, electronic music, experimental
Length	47:18
Label	Virgin / EMI
Producer	Michael Cretu
Enigma chronology
Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection (2001)Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection2001 Voyageur (2003) 15 Years After (2005)15 Years After2005

Voyageur is a 2003 music album created by the German new age band Enigma. It is Enigma's fifth album.

Voyageur was considered to be Enigma's most different album ever created, 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 hit "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 hit "Sadeness" buried in the bridge of the song. The "Enigma foghorn" also appears at the opening of the record.

This album has been released with the Copy Control protection system in some regions.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"From East to West"	Michael Cretu	4:11
2.	"Voyageur"	Cretu, Jens Gad	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

• Ruth-Ann Boyle – lead vocals (for songs #5 and #11)
• Michael Cretu – record producer, lead vocals (for songs #3, #6, #7 and #9)
• Sandra Cretu – back vocals (for songs #2, #4, #7)
• Andru Donalds – lead vocals (for song #5 and #8)
• Jens Gad – guitars

Additional personnel

• Johann Zambryski – artwork

Certifications

Country	Certification
Russia	Gold

Charts

Chart	Peak
Europe	12
Billboard Electronic Albums	1
Arabia	1
Greece	3
Portugal	4
Germany	6
Netherlands	13
Italy	17
Austria	19
Argentina	20
Switzerland	29
Hungary	29
Sweden	31
France	32
Finland	34
Czech Republic	39
Belgium	40
UK	46
Denmark	52
Canada	61
Norway	71
Spain	87
USA Billboard Top 200	94

Album editions

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

• A normal version with full paper inserts (which can be harder to find compared to the "special package" edition);
• A "special package" edition with a transparent CD cover, with the album art printed on the inside of the CD case and partly on the CD itself, and a ring-shaped booklet placed under the CD.

Reception

• allmusic link

External links

• Lyrics from EnigmaMusic.com

Please note that the lyrics to some songs may not be entirely correct.