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CDs catalogue:
- Delerium - Signs CD
- Delerium - Mythologie CD
- Delerium - Ritual EP
- Delerium - Music Box Opera CD
- Delerium - Music Box Opera CD Limited Deluxe
- Delerium - Monarch CDS
- Delerium - Voice EP MCD
- Delerium - Epiphany DVD
- Delerium - Voice EP
- Delerium - Lost And Found CDM
- Delerium - Nuages Du Monde CD
- Delerium - Angelicus CDS
- Delerium - Archives Vol 1 2CD
- Delerium - Odyssey 2CD
- Delerium - Silence (2004) CDS
- Delerium - The Best Of CD
- Delerium - Chimera 2CD
- Delerium - Semantic Spaces + Karma 2CD Box Set
- Delerium - After All CDS
- Delerium - Underwater CDS1 CDS
- Delerium - Underwater CDS2 CDS
- Delerium - Innocente CDS
- Delerium - Poem CD
- Delerium - Karma (UK Edition) 2CD
- Delerium - Duende CDS
- Delerium - Euphoria (Firefly) CDS
- Delerium - Incantation / Flowers Become Screens MCD
- Delerium - Flowers Become Screens CDS
- Delerium - Semantic Spaces CD
- Delerium - Spheres II CD
- Delerium - Spheres CD
- Delerium - Flowers Become Screens MCD
- Delerium - Spiritual Archives CD
- Delerium - Stone Tower CD
- Delerium - Euphoric EP
- Delerium - Syrophenikan CD
- Delerium - Morpheus CD
- Delerium - Faces, Forms And Illusions CD
Almost a decade after the great "Karma" Rhys Fulber & Bill Leeb release another album similar to "Chimera" (2003). We're getting less and less of the old Delerium.
"Nuages du monde" is a pleasant listening, being charmingly trance-ambient. But it does not carry you. It lacks the atmosphere that won many fans for Delerium. More and more optimistic popsounds and happy electronica. "The Clouds of the World" are not a cloudy record at all. The major keys and happy voices of guest female vocalists don't allow the listener to brood pessimistically or come into the existential darkness we experienced 10 years ago, when "Karma" filled our players. I am curious - will pop fans enjoy the new Delerium? Will it be a subject in their chats? I dare to doubt.
"Nuages du monde" is musically akin to another project by Delerium's creators - Conjure One. Sweety ambient with six female vocals. We have Kristy Thirsk and Katharine Blake here. Zoë Johnston introduces some anxiety with her voice. There is a hope for the old orthodox dark Delerium. It is clearly audible in instrumental tracks. Unfortunately, "Nuages du monde" brings only two of those: "Tectonic Shift" (the longest album track) and the final "Apparition". Isabel Bayrakdarian's operatic vocals are quite a novelty. "Her" tracks serve as a linchpin of the whole record. An optimistic one. They bring the old Delerium back, not the sweet one, but an uneasy, dark, unobvious although coquettishly luring and peculiarly intriguing. Shamanic. Ideal for any (ravishing) night.
PS. I almost forgot about Kiran! Sound-rich and story-arranged "Indoctrination" is my fave on "Nuages du monde". Exotic. Intriguing. Or maybe indoctrinating?
Tracklist:
01. Angelicus (feat. Isabel Bayrakdarian)
02. Extollere (feat. Katharine Blake and Mediaeval Baebes)
03. The Way You Want It To Be (feat. Zoë Johnston)
04. Indoctrination (feat. Kiran Ahluwalia)
05. Self-Saboteur (feat. Kristy Thirsk)
06. Tectonic Shift
07. Lumenis (feat. Isabel Bayrakdarian)
08. Fleeting Instant (feat. Kristy Hawkshaw)
09. Sister Sojourn Ghost (feat. Katharine Blake and Mediaeval Baebes)
10. Lost and Found (feat. Jaël)
11. Apparition
Other articles:
- Delerium - Karma - 2007-01-20 (Music reviews)
