Voyageur (Enigma album)

Voyageur
Studio album by
Released8 September 2003
Recorded2003
StudioA.R.T. (Ibiza, Spain)
Genre
Length47:18
LabelVirgin
ProducerMichael Cretu
Enigma chronology
Love Sensuality Devotion: The Remix Collection
(2001)
Voyageur
(2003)
15 Years After
(2005)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]

Voyageur is the fifth studio album by the German musical project Enigma, released on 8 September 2003 by Virgin Records.

Voyageur was considered to be Enigma's most distinctive album to date, 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 "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 single "Sadeness" buried in the bridge of the song. The "Enigma foghorn" also appears at the opening of the record.

  1. ^ Latham, Aaron. "Voyageur – Enigma". AllMusic. Retrieved 3 April 2022.