Ingmar? Who knows? Be specific? Thank you. First of all! I like music very much.

Enigma, a band from great Germany, has attracted countless fans with its mysterious style. The theme of mysticism is expressed by modern electronic music, which gives people a wonderful feeling of staggered time and space. The voice is also beautiful: the female voice is beautiful and moving, as sweet as a nightingale; The male voice is deep and weak, which is fascinating. The band's music is also very extensive, coming from all over the world. It stands for "New Age Music".

About Enigma) Enigma! Mysterious music ...

Mystery! An indescribable voice ... mystery! Bring charming artistic conception and melody ...

NewAge music lovers should be very familiar with the iconic music brand "Enigma", but for most listeners, it is difficult to simply summarize or define Enigma's music. Maybe there are other friends who don't know who Enigma is or their style, but once the familiar melody belongs to Enigma, you will definitely feel deja vu.

Enigma originated from Greek, which is interpreted as a "mysterious and incredible thing" in English, so many domestic audiences and even the media call Enigma "Enigma Orchestra" or "Enigma Orchestra". In fact, this title is not exact. Enigma is just a "project studio", not an orchestra composed of several regular singers. But this project studio has a unique core-Michael Cretu, the behind-the-scenes producer of the Enigma series. So to understand Ingmar, we must first understand Michael Cretu.

Michael Cretu was originally from Romania and lived in Germany, so he was regarded as a German musician. He was born in Bucharest, Romania on May 1957. From 65438 to 0965, Michael Cretu entered a local music school "LYZEUM No.2" which specialized in training young musicians, and his major was piano. From 65438 to 0968, Michael Cretu went to Paris to study piano for five months. From 65438 to 0975, Michael Cretu and his family immigrated to Hamburg in the former West Germany and were admitted to the Frankfurt Conservatory of Music. 1978 After graduation, I started working in a music studio. 1979 released the first album "Moon, Light and Flowers" under Polaroid. Thanks to his efforts, he won the first prize of 1980, which is a good achievement in his producer career. 1983 released the album Knights of the Legion under Virgin Records, which pushed Michael Cretu to the position of creator and producer. He produced Sandra's first international single Maria Magdalena and another solo album The Chinese Wall. Some albums released later, such as Hollow Man and The Chinese Wall, are similar to this, but only have English songs. From 65438 to 0985, he worked as a producer with Moti Special and Tisch. 1987 met Mike Oldfield through Sylvie Watan, and helped Mike Oldfield to produce the album Islands. Encouraged by Mike Oldfield, Michael Cretu began to write more music. This experience is very important to him. The study in the Conservatory of Music gave him a complete experience of classical academic baptism, and made him understand various basic knowledge such as music theory, chorus, counterpoint and musical form, which laid a solid foundation for his later arrangement. Since then, Michael Cretu has gradually started his career as a "project studio", integrating sound sampling, recording engineering and music production.

They like to use modern electronic music to express the theme of mysticism, which is a natural American hymn and an echo of distant African tribes or serious religions expressed through the rhythm of western pop music.

Michael Cretu's wife, Sandra Lauer, met and fell in love in the process of making music, and officially got married on February 7th. 1988. And his wife, Sandra, is another important part of Ingmar, and many female voices in Ingmar's album are interpreted by her. Sandra Raul was born in May 1962. 12 years old, released a solo single "Andy, Mein Freund (Andy, my friend)". /kloc-When she was 0/6 years old, she and two girls formed the "Arabic Style" singing group, which was very popular in Japan at that time. 1985, Sandra started her solo career and released the album Long Play under Virgin. 1987 released her first edited album "Ten to One" and began to cooperate with Cretu to release the album "Eternal Love" in the United States and Canada. 1988, she released a new studio album "Into the Secret Land". Before 1990, Ingmar released her first album, she also released the hit album Yellow Painting. In fact, Sandra Raul is not in Enigma's plan. When making the first record of Enigma, she just needed a female voice who could sing French. At the suggestion of the record company boss, Sandra was decided to play the role. After Enigma became popular, Sandra released three albums with the help of her husband, but the influence was not as good as Enigma. * * Shortly after their marriage, Michael Cretu and Sandra Raul went to Ibiza (an island in the Mediterranean) to live. They have an old farm and a recording studio there. Michael Cretu also specially set up a hotel in the basement of his old house so that he often invited friends to visit him. He lived happily there. 1989, he began to grow up in his home recording studio, and Michael Cretu began to make his own ideal music! This isolated life lasted for nearly ten years, and Ingmar's singles and albums were born in this background and environment. * * What kind of music is Ingmar? Although we are used to and generally classify it as a "new era", it is difficult to describe the unique characteristics of Enigma. Producer Michael Cretu once explained this mystery. In fact, Michael Cretu has always wanted to get rid of the shackles of traditional European pop music. His favorite music styles tend to be Pink Floyd and Yes, but this non-mainstream music type has become more and more difficult to hear in the increasingly commercialized market. Michael Cretu began to walk towards his ideal kingdom and began to write by himself. In many of his works, he used two very strange and unknown voices-the Peruvian-style flute and the melody similar to Gregorian hymns sung by monks. The arrangement was lined with free and easy disco rhythm, which constituted the basic framework of Ingmar's character. Therefore, in the unique music world created by Michael Cretu, we can vaguely feel the shadow of classical serious music and directly feel the popular electronic orchestration; You can hear the free and long songs of the farthest minority tribes, and you can enjoy the solemn and grand harmony of the church choir. Because of this, Michael Cretu rejected applause and honor and others' definition of Ingmar's "customized" style. * * In the past ten years, Enigma has released five albums, two special limited editions, a new song+selection, a remix selection and countless single records (remixes with a large number of tracks).

Album track: 0 1. chapter two

02. The Eye of Truth

03. Return to innocence

04. I love you, and I will kill you. Silent warrior

06. Dolphin Dream

07. Lonely Times (Karis Song)

08. From the depths

09. The crossroads of change