He's managed to find something that works, and goes for it with gusto.
While the sound Crétu employs is now familiar, perhaps listeners should be thankful for it. One has to believe that if the folks in Tangerine Dream would have started in the 1990s instead of the 1960s, they'd sound something like this, as many of Crétu's pulsing textures are reminiscent of Tangerine Dream's Stratosfear and Tangram years. The more obvious trance and house beats are a near constant. But Crétu has always been able to weave together the spiritual and the carnal, and it's his trademark. Are they prayers? Are they amorous songs? Unless you can understand Latin or Italian, there's no way of knowing. Once more, the songs of Enlightenment composers such as Gesualdo and Monteverdi are sampled in the tranced-out mix. Michael Crétu does almost everything here save for a couple of recitations. In Italian, A Posteriori means anything from "what comes after" to "behind." Dedicated to "all visionaries of human race" (sic), The album, like previous Enigma albums, is beautiful in its sonics, textures, and grooves.
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