Voyageur (Enigma album)


Voyageur is the fifth studio album by the German musical project Enigma and released in 2003.
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 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

Personnel

;Additional personnel

Charts

Album editions

Voyageur was released on the CD and cassette formats, while the CD cover art has two different versions:
In May of 2018, the album got its first vinyl release as part of The Colours of Enigma series of reissues, which includes all other Enigma studio albums.

Reception