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’.”
The original album is replicated on the first disc of this deluxe 3-disc set alongside all six B-Sides that originally featured across the various formats of the album’s three singles. The second CD presents a selection of the original album demos evidencing a more acoustic intimacy that frames Almond’s superior song-writing craft in a counterpoint tradition of the deft and immediate story-telling thrust of the very best of European chanson. This disc also showcases the various commercially released spin-off extended versions and dance remixes of the album’s singles; ‘A Lover Spurned’, ‘The Desperate Hours’ and ‘Waifs and Strays’, the last of which was remixed by Soft Cell partner Dave Ball in his guise as one half of electronic dance act The Grid. The three more instrumental leaning remixes, very much products of their time, have been placed at the end of the second disc as an interesting coda to this most definitive of expanded editions.
We are delighted to re-instate “Enchanted” to Marc Almond’s lustrous back catalogue. It really is serious pop at its best, taking the listener chronologically on a journey from the alluring enticements of ‘Madame De La Luna’ with gold in her veins, to the underworld torments of ‘Orpheus In Red Velvet,’ with all the rich enjoyment of the celebratory myriad of virtues and vices that are sung about in between.
Tracklist:
1. Madame De La Luna (04:46)
2. Waifs and Strays (05:10)
3. The Desperate Hours (04:27)
4. Toreador In the Rain (02:53)
5. Widow Weeds (05:40)
6. A Lover Spurned (Full Length Version) (05:39)
7. Death’s Diary (04:01)
8. The Sea Still Sings (03:48)
9. Carnival of Life (04:39)
10. Orpheus In Red Velvet (05:08)
11. Exotica Rose (03:47)
12. The Gambler (05:26)
13. Old Jack’s Charm (03:50)
14. The Libertine’s Dream (03:27)
15. City of Nights (06:00)
16. The Desperate Hours (Orchestral Version) (03:58)
17. A Lover Spurned (12″ Version) [Remix] (07:18)
18. The Desperate Hours (Extended Flamenco Mix) (07:57)
19. Waifs and Strays (The Grid Mix) (04:35)
20. A Lover Spurned (Radio Version) (04:36)
21. The Desperate Hours (12″ Vocal Remix / The Justin Strauss Remix) (07:52)
22. Waifs and Strays (12″ Grid Mix) (07:28)
23. The Sea Still Sings (Demo Version) (03:34)
24. Madame De La Luna (Demo Version) (04:30)
25. Death’s Diary (Demo Version) (03:49)
26. Toreador In the Rain (Demo Version) (02:37)
27. Orpheus In Red Velvet (Demo Version) (04:48)
28. The Desperate Hours (Alternate Mix) (06:24)
29. Waifs and Strays (Grid Twilight Mix) (06:39)
30. The Desperate Hours (12″ Dub Mix) (06:12)
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