Delerium

Delerium is a group of Vancouver (Colombia-British, Canada), formed in 1987 as a project with share of the group Front Line Assembly. During the existence of the group, the musical style evolved/moved constantly, energy of the ambient dark to the industrialist, while passing by pop electronics.

History

Delerium is at the base a project carried out by two people, but the only constant member of the group since his creation is Bill Leeb. Leeb was one of the first supporters group of dance industrial Skinny Puppy, but after its departure in 1986, it decided to create Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch. Little time after, the 2 comparses worked on the Delerium project, thus leaving their first album Faces, Forms, & Illusions .

After the departure of Balch at the same time of Face Line Assembly and Delerium, Leeb started to work with Rhys Fulber, with which it carried out some albums for Delerium. These years saw a varied musical style of the dark ambient with a sound a little more dance . After the exit of Karma , Fulber left in its turn the project to continue other interests. Thus Leeb joined Chris Peterson to produce Poem . However, in 2003, Leeb and Fulber met for the production of Chimera , which is the last album of Delerium to date.

With the difference in the other projects of Leeb and its collaborators, Delerium included many vocal artists since leaving it Semantic Spaces . These voices mainly were of the women, such as Kristy Thirsk, Sarah McLachlan, Leigh Nash (of Sixpence None the Richer), LISA Gerrard (samplé), Jaël (of the group Suisse Lunik), Camille Henderson, Nerina Pallot, Emily Haines (of Metric), and Jacqui Hunt (of Single Gun Theory). The only man, except for Leeb, whose voice can be heard is the pop singer Matthew Sweet, on the piece Daylight (album Poem ).

Although Front Line Assembly has a statute plus worship among all the projects of Leeb, Delerium is that which was greatest success on a financial plan. Apart from these 2 principal projects, Leeb, Fulber, Peterson and Balch worked on Equinox, Intermix, Noise Unit, Pro-Tech and Synæsthesia inter alia. Moreover, in February 2006, Leeb and Fulber announced on the occasion to collaborate with Leigh Nash on a project baptized Fauxliage.

June 6th, 2006, Leeb and Fulber also announced that the next album of Delerium would be present in the vats in October 2006. This album does not have a name yet and will contain the voices of Kristy Thirsk, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Jael, Medieval Baebes as well as Isabel Bayrakdarian.

Music

Of all the albums of Delerium, Karma is that which unquestionably met greatest success. The majority of people know Delerium only by their albums produces under the label Nettwerk, being rather little known on the scene pop before the exit of Semantic Spaces .

The business success of Delerium came mainly thanks to individual the Silence , which contained the voice of Sarah McLachlan. In 2000, that is to say three years after the exit of Karma , a certain number of Remix of Silence , are produced by DJ Tiësto, Airscape, Fade inter alia were massively diffused in the clubs, thus propelling the individual one in the 3rd place of the English charts.

A big step for the group was also the round organized in 2003 (what contrasts with Front Line Assembly, which was in a permanent way in round). The voices were ensured there by Kristy Thirsk and Shelley Harland. In January 2005, Delerium was present at the humane concert One World in Vancouver, in order to help the victims of the Asian tsunami of 2004. Silence was played there into live for the first time with Sarah MLcLahan.

Discography

Albums/EPs

Faces, Forms & Illusions (File, 1987), LP/CD
Morpheus (File, 1989), LP/CD
Syrophenikan (File, 1990), LP/CD
Stone Tower (File, 1991), LP/CD
Euphoric (Third Mind, 1991), EP/CD
Negro spiritual Files (File, 1991), LP/CD
Spheres (File, 1994), LP/CD
Spheres 2 (File, 1994), LP/CD
Semantic Spaces (Nettwerk, 1994), CD
Karma (Nettwerk, 1997), CD
Karma (W/no-claims bonus disc) (Nettwerk, 1997,1999,2000), 2CD
Poem (Nettwerk, 2000), CD
Poem (W/no-claims bonus disc) (Nettwerk, 2000), 2CD
Chimera (Nettwerk, 2003), CD
Chimera (W/no-claims bonus disc) (Nettwerk, 2003), 2CD
Clouds Of the World (Nettwerk, 2006), CD (Forecast of exit: 10/2006)

Individual

Flowers Become Screens (Nettwerk, 1994), CDS
Incantation (Nettwerk, 1994), 12"
Euphoria (Firefly) " (Nettwerk, 1997), CDS
Duende (Nettwerk, 1997), CDS
Silence (Nettwerk, 1999,2000), CDS
Heaven' S Earth (Nettwerk, 2000), Innocent CDS
(Nettwerk, 2001), CDS
Underwater (Nettwerk, 2002), CDS
After All (Nettwerk, 2003), CDS
Run For It (Nettwerk, 2003), CDS
Truly (Nettwerk, 2004), CDS
Silence 2004 (Nettwerk, 2004), CDS

Compilations

Reflections I (File, 1995), CD
Reflections II (File, 1995), CD
Files I (Nettwerk, 2002), 2CD
Files II (Nettwerk, 2002), 2CD
Odyssey: The Remix Collection (Nettwerk, 2002), 2CD
The Best Off (Nettwerk, 2004), CD

In line exclusiveness

Above the Clouds (2003), a piece available only on iTunes Music Store and other platforms of remote loadings

Remixes

Speedy J - " Over" sweater; (1997)
Tared MacLean - " Divided" (2000)
Sasha Lazard - " Awakening" (2002)
Clint Mansell - " Requiem For has Dream Soundtrack - Deluxed" (2002)
Lunik - " Waiting" (2003)

Compilations including of the pieces of Delerium

The Crow: Stairway to Heaven, 1998. The piece Silence can be heard in an episode.
Brokedown De luxe hotel Soundtrack (Island, 1999), CD
Original soundtrack of Tomb Raider (Elektra/Wea, 2001), CD
Best off Mystera (Polys, 2000), 2CD

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