Enigma: Remember the Future (2001)

Enigma: Remember the Future is an impressive Eurofusion music/video collection. It presents 11 music videos from Michael and Sandra Cretu's four albums that are probing and avant-garde yet spiritual and calming. It's visual and verbal poetry so it's meant to suggest concepts that are new and not always comfortable or agreeable -- but how else do you grow (unless you know everything already)? I suggest (as does the disc) that you turn off the lights, take a deep breath, and relax while listening to this music and watching these videos. The first track, Sadeness Part 1, begins with a composer who sets the stage by dreaming, ethereal Gregorian chants in authentic liturgical Latin, the ruins of a church, a monk figure who explores a portal (into hell from the iconography), and a woman who questions in French (the Marquis de) Sade's motives, arguing he is evil not divine. The other tracks are Mea Culpa, Principles of Lust, Rivers of Belief, Return to Innocence, Eyes of Truth, Carly's Song, Behind the Invisible, TNT for the Brain, Gravity of Love, and Push the Limits. Don't rest your eyes for a second or you'll miss the intellectual, sensual, and spiritual eye candy that contrasts and mixes light and shadow, air and water, society and individuality. There is no nudity but this is intelligent music and imagery for the adult intellect not kids so let's not even go there. Some might equate certain scenes with soft-core porn but Enigma is intellectual and stylized so I wouldn't say it is sexual only sensual or suggestive. You will find Koyaanisqatsi-like images you are not likely to forget, such as (for me) the aquatic humans, and will probably agree the multiple gold- and platinum-album-winning group's musical syncretism is complex and awesome. You've heard their stuff in La Femme Nikita, Single White Female, Gomorra, and the Matrix. So catch this album! I acquired it through a competing service since it has not been stocked here recently. (See my Bl0ckbuster and Notflix lists for what the competing service has and doesn't have.) 4 stars.