Adiemus

Adiemus is a music project by the Welsh composer Karl Jenkins . Moreover, it is Adiemus also the title of a song that Jenkins 1994 for a commercial of the American airline Delta Air Lines composed. It is featured on the Songs of Sanctuary album .

Music genre

Karl Jenkins combines harmonious choral singing and orchestra in an ethnic way, similar to Enigma . The "language" that is used is an invention of Jenkins and consists of made up syllables and words, whereby the language becomes meaningless and the voice can come to the fore as an instrument. Often words appear that are very similar to Latin or African languages. Often times , Adiemus is viewed as Celtic music or New Age . The exception is the album Adiemus V , whose songs are rather jazzy .

Musician

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Songs of Sanctuary   DE 8th  gold 05/22/1995 (35 weeks)   AT 15th  gold 06/04/1995 (16 weeks)   CH 13  gold 05/21/1995 (18 weeks)   UK 35  gold 07/01/1995 (12 weeks) Adiemus II Cantata Mundi   UK 15th  gold 03/01/1997 (9 weeks) Adiemus III Dances of Time   UK 58 October 24, 1998 (1 week)

Singles

Adiemus   DE 6th  gold 02/20/1995 (26 weeks)   AT 7th 05/14/1995 (15 weeks)   CH 4th 03/26/1995 (22 weeks)   UK 48 10/14/1995 (2 weeks) Kayama   DE 66 06/26/1995 (7 weeks) Proximus ( Mauro Picotto with Adiemus)   DE 18th 12/18/2000 (9 weeks)   AT 19th 12/10/2000 (11 weeks)   CH 32 12/10/2000 (11 weeks)

Miriam Stockley sang on the first four albums . Mary Carewe , who was involved in the first two albums and the fourth, was called in as an additional voice . On the third album, Dances of Time , a group of Finnish singers participated, who also participated in Vocalise again.

On the first three albums, the music was recorded by the London Philharmonic Orchestra (LPO). Karl Jenkins later founded an Adiemus orchestra for the album The Eternal Knot , which was also the soundtrack for a six-part documentary about the Celts (produced by Welsh broadcaster S4C, broadcast in Germany by Phoenix ). For Vocalise , however, he hired the LPO again.

2000 Adiemus from Techno - DJ Mauro Picotto gecovert (Title: Proximus (medley with Adiemus)). In 2008 the Chameleons Vocal Ensemble released the title Adiemus as a mixed choir on CD on the album Merry Xmas - Merry Christmas (GESA Musikproduktion, CD40263, 2008).

Discography

Albums

• Adiemus: Songs of Sanctuary (1995)
• Adiemus II: Cantata Mundi (1997)
• Adiemus III: Dances of Time (1998)
• Adiemus IV: The Eternal Knot (2000)
• Adiemus V: Vocalise (2003)
• Adiemus Colores (2013)
• Symphonic Adiemus (2017)

Compilations

• The Journey: The Best of Adiemus (2000)
• Adiemus Live (2002)
• Adiemus New Best & Live (2002)
• The Essential Adiemus (2003)

Awards for music sales

Golden record  Netherlands 1995: for the album Songs of Sanctuary  Spain 1996: for the album Songs of Sanctuary 2 × gold record  France 1998: for the album Songs of Sanctuary

Platinum record  Finland 1996: for the album Songs of Sanctuary

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region	gold	platinum	Sales	swell
Awards for music sales (country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI)	2 × gold2	-	500,000	musikindustrie.de
Finland (IFPI)	-	platinum1	66,759	ifpi.fi
France (SNEP)	2 × gold2	-	200,000	infodisc.fr snepmusique.com
Netherlands (NVPI)	gold1	-	50,000	nvpi.nl
Austria (IFPI)	gold1	-	25,000	ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI)	gold1	-	25,000	hitparade.ch
Spain (Promusicae)	gold1	-	50,000	Sólo éxitos: año año, 1959-2002
United Kingdom (BPI)	2 × gold2	-	200,000	bpi.co.uk
All in all	10 × gold10	platinum1

literature

• Peter Wulff: A comprehensive, linked lexicon of pop and rock music. Basic information in 3000 drawers. epubli GmbH, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8442-9013-4 .

Web links

• Official website of Karl Jenkins (English)
• Unofficial Adiemus Homepage (English)
• Adiemus at last.fm
• Adiemus at NDR.de
• Adiemus at SoundCloud

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Charts DE Charts AT Charts CH Charts UK