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Delerium > History
Delerium started out as a sideproject around 1987 where Bill and Rhys (on the debut Faces Forms and Illusions it was Bill and Michael Balch) could let loose their other side of music. Very ethereal, tribal, dark and beautiful. Later transformed into a somewhat lighter, spacey sound with the two "Spheres" albums, and again transformed into today's "etheral-pop-music" sound.
Since "Semantic Spaces" (1994), Delerium have been joined by female singers. Kristy Thirsk was the only singer on "Semantic Spaces", on "Karma" (1997) she got accompanied by Sarah McLachlan, Camille Henderson and Jacqui Hunt. After Sematic Spaces had become quite successful in Canada, "Karma" went into various album charts worldwide, and in the fall of 2000, the "Silence" single charted into many single top tens around the globe, this got crowned when it was played on BBC1 at 23.55 h on December 31st, 2000. Anyway, Rhys had left the camp, and so Bill did the songwriting on "Poem" (2000) alone, assisted by Chris as programmer though. "Poem" featured a large number of different vocalists, among them Leigh Nash of Sixpence None The Richer, Rani Kamal, The Mediaeval Baebes, Johanna Stevens, and Matthew Sweet, the first male vocalist to guest Delerium.
In 2002 Rhys returned, and the 2003 album "Chimera", once more featuring former vocalists Leigh Nash, Rani and Kristy Thirsk as well as newbies like Jael, Sultana, Zoe Johnston, Margaret Far, Rachel Fuller, Nerina Pallot, Julee Cruise and Emily Haines, followed the direction of the previous albums. In the autumn of 2003, Delerium absolved their first tour ever, a north american tour with Conjure One as support. A new song "Above The Clouds" featuring tour vocalist Shelley Harland, was released at the end of 2003 via iTunes. After all, Delerium has become and remained the most successful project in terms of commercial success now.
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Last updated 2008-06-08 10:32:48 by: epidemic27.
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