Delerium
Delerium is a band from Vancouver , Canada , formed in 1987 as a side project of the electronics band Front Line Assembly . The group experiments with a wide range of musical styles: from the gloomy, spherical ambient sound of the early phase to instrumental sound collages based on Kraftwerk to Enigma- comfortable ethno-pop.
Members / history
Delerium have always been a duo, but Bill Leeb is the only constant member of the band. Leeb was a guest musician and one of the early supporters of the industrial pioneers Skinny Puppy , which he left in 1984 to form Front Line Assembly with Michael Balch . Delerium later followed as a side project with the first album Faces, Forms & Illusions . After Balch left Front Line Assembly and Delerium, Leeb worked from then on with Rhys Fulber ; The collaboration resulted in a number of albums as both Front Line Assembly and Delerium. During this time there was a gradual change of style from gloomy ambient to more danceable ambient pop. After Fulber quit to pursue his own projects, Bill Leeb teamed up with Chris Peterson for the album Poem . 2003 , there was, however, the reunion of Leeb and Fulber and the release of Chimera and 2006 of Nuages Du Monde , its last album of Delerium.
In contrast to the other projects of Leeb and his colleagues, Delerium has had several guest musicians as singers since the publication of Semantic Spaces . Most of them were female, like Kristy Thirsk , Sarah McLachlan , Leigh Nash (from Sixpence None the Richer ), Lisa Gerrard from Dead Can Dance (only as a sample), Jaël (from the Swiss band Lunik ), Nerina Pallot , and Jacqui Hunt ( from Single Gun Theory ). The only male singer on a Delerium album other than Bill Leeb himself was pop singer Matthew Sweet .
Although Front Line Assembly enjoys the highest cult status among the projects of Leeb & Co., Delerium was the most commercially successful. Other projects of the Leeb, Fulber, Peterson and Balch group are Conjure One , Equinox , Intermix , Noise Unit , Pro-Tech , Synæsthesia , Will and a few others.
Publications
Until the release of Semantic Spaces , they were relatively unknown in the pop scene. However, the change to Nettwerk was associated with a clear change in style towards a smoother, mainstream-based ethno sound . Since that time, deleriums have also increasingly used singing with the participation of various female singers and choir voices.
Delerium owes its commercial success in no small part to the ethno- pop song Silence with the voice of Sarah McLachlan , with which they reached the top of the UK electronic music charts . The piece was played at the Millennium Celebrations and other official occasions and popularized the sound of delerium.
Discography
Albums
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Compilations
EPs
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Singles
year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks | |||
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DE | AT | CH | UK | |||
1999 | Silence karma |
- | - | - |
UK73 (1 week) UK |
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2000 | Heaven's Earth Karma ( Reissue ) |
- | - | - |
UK44 (2 weeks) UK |
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Silence (Remix) Karma |
DE16 (14 weeks) DE |
AT56 (4 weeks) AT |
CH100 (1 week) CH |
UK3
platinum
(16 weeks)UK |
feat. Sarah McLachlan
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2001 | Innocente (Falling in Love) poem |
DE94 (1 week) DE |
- | - |
UK32 (3 weeks) UK |
feat. Leigh Nash
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Underwater poem |
- | - | - |
UK33 (2 weeks) UK |
feat. Rani
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2003 | After all chimera |
- | - | - |
UK46 (2 weeks) UK |
feat. Jaël
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2004 | Truly Chimera |
- | - | - |
UK54 (2 weeks) UK |
feat. Nerina Pallot
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Silence 2004 The Best Of |
- | - | - |
UK38 (8 weeks) UK |
feat. Sarah McLachlan
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More singles
- 1994: Flowers Become Screens
- 1994: Incantation
- 1997: Duende
- 1997: Euphoria (Firefly) Rabbit in the Moon Mixes
- 2003: Run for It
- 2003: Above the Clouds (with Shelley Harland)
- 2006: Angelicus
- 2007: Lost and Found
- 2009: Dust in Gravity (feat.Kreesha Turner)
- 2012: Monarch (feat. Nadine Zarifeh)
- 2012: Days Turn into Nights
- 2016: Ritual (feat.Phildel)
Video albums
- 2010: Epiphany
Awards
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Dance Music Award
- 2000: in the category "Critics Choice Track" (Silence)
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Web links
- Nettwerk official delerium website
- Delerium at Allmusic (English)
- Delerium at Discogs (English)
- Website about Delerium, Front Line Assembly, Conjure One, Decree and other projects
- Unofficial, extensive website (Flash player + popups required)