SIDE ONE
1. MADAME DE LA LUNA
2. WAIFS AND STRAYS
3. THE DESPERATE HOURS
4. TOREADOR IN THE RAIN
5. WIDOW WEEDS
SIDE TWO
1. A LOVER SPURNED
2. DEATH’S DIARY
3. THE SEA STILL SINGS
4. CARNIVAL OF LIFE
5. ORPHEUS IN RED VELVET
SIDE THREE
THE B-SIDES
1. EXOTICA ROSE
2. THE GAMBLER
3. OLD JACK’S CHARMS
4. THE LIBERTINE’S DREAMS
5. CITY OF NIGHTS
SIDE FOUR
THE DEMOS… PLUS
1. THE SEA STILL SINGS (DEMO)
2. MADAME DE LA LUNA (DEMO)
3. DEATH’S DIARY (DEMO)
4. TOREADOR IN THE RAIN (DEMO)
5. ORPHEUS IN RED VELVET (DEMO)
6. THE DESPERATE HOURS (ORCHESTRAL)
Originally released in August 1990, this is the first ever expanded re-issue of Marc Almond’s opulent sixth studio album. “Enchanted” is saturated in Marc’s signature poetic romanticism and contains some of his finest lyric writing in songs as various as the epic ‘Madame De La Luna’, ‘Death’s Diary’ and ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet’. The album’s lush lead single, ‘A Lover Spurned’, is a classic Almond power ballad of unrequited love with an equally thrilling production by Stephen Hague, employing a melodramatically thunderous 48-piece orchestra.
• The album, additional to its pronounced electronic pop production, is very much a journey through the world music influences that Marc was listening to at the time; he explains, “There are Indian bhangra influences on the track ‘Death’s Diary’, Middle Eastern influences on ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet’, Brazilian lambada on ‘Carnival of Life’, Celtic flavourings on ‘The Sea Still Sings’ and Latin drama on ‘A Lover Spurned’....... więcej