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

1988: Faces, Forms and Illusions
1989: Morpheus
1990: Syrophenikan
1991: Stone Tower
1991: Spiritual Archives
1994: Spheres II
1994: Semantic Spaces
1994: Spheres
1997: Karma
2000: Poem
2003: Chimera
2006: Nuages du monde
2010: Voice: An Acoustic Collection
2012: Music Box Opera
2016: Mythology

Compilations

1995: Reflections I
1995: Reflections II
2001: Odyssey - The Remix Collection
2001: Archives Vol. 1
2001: Archives Vol. 2
2003: 2 Originals of Delerium: Semantic Spaces + Karma
2003: Reflections
2004: The Best Of
2005: Silence - The Masterpieces
2008: Chillout Friends (mp3 album)
2010: Remixed: The Definitive Collection

EPs

1991: Euphoric
2010: Voice EP

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)				Remarks
year	Title album	DE	AT	CH	UK	Remarks
1999	Silence karma	-	-	-	UK73 (1 week) UK
2000	Heaven's Earth Karma ( Reissue )	-	-	-	UK44 (2 weeks) UK
2000	Silence (Remix) Karma	DE16 (14 weeks) DE	AT56 (4 weeks) AT	CH100 (1 week) CH	UK3 platinum (16 weeks)UK	feat. Sarah McLachlan
2001	Innocente (Falling in Love) poem	DE94 (1 week) DE	-	-	UK32 (3 weeks) UK	feat. Leigh Nash
2001	Underwater poem	-	-	-	UK33 (2 weeks) UK	feat. Rani
2003	After all chimera	-	-	-	UK46 (2 weeks) UK	feat. Jaël
2004	Truly Chimera	-	-	-	UK54 (2 weeks) UK	feat. Nerina Pallot
2004	Silence 2004 The Best Of	-	-	-	UK38 (8 weeks) UK	feat. Sarah McLachlan