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Epicurus.com - Karma
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List Price: $15.98
Our Price: $15.98
Availability: N/A
Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0067003011327
Label: Nettwerk Records
Manufacturer: Nettwerk Records
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Nettwerk Records
Release Date: 1997-04-22
Studio: Nettwerk Records
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Editorial Reviews:
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Recorded for the recent reissue of the best known Delerium album, Karma, this new mix of their 2000 hit single collaboration with Sarah McLachlan has already been no 1 in the German Dance Charts and once again looks set to take Ibiza by storm this summer. Promoted to UK clubs in late July and August, it will be given a 12" release in its own right in September. The older mixes of Silence sold 13K on download in 2007, and over 11K already in 2008. The track has been selling 500+ downloads per week consistently since April. Delerium albums for Nettwerk include Semantic Spaces (1995), their breakthrough album Karma (1997), Poem (2001), Chimera (2003) and Nuages Du Monde (2006). The band have sold over a million albums in North America alone, but are also known for a string of successful singles, including the worldwide dance smash Silence (featuring the vocal talents of Canadian superstar Sarah McLachlan), which has sold close to 400,000 copies in the UK alone. Other hits have included After All, Innocente (Falling In Love), Underwater and Heaven's Earth.
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: new world karma
Comment: I am not a music expert, but I've heard similar music under the New Age or New World category. If it is part of it, I have to say this group has a very spiritual and flowing feeling. Great combination of soft trance with vocalized sounds. I love this CD and Nuages de Monde-incredible type of music I haven't been exposed to yet and I love its mysterious feeling!
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Summary: Among the best along with early Enigma, not a single weak track
Comment: Yes, it's true most of the tracks stretch far beyond the 3-4 min. length of a typical radio hit, but every single one takes the early Enigma/Deep Forest formula and branches it off (imagine this not unlike an open source fork) to form a unique identity: jubilant tribes chants rest comfortably above propulsive drumming, providing good music for mostly meditation -- at times, the mood gets rather soaring, but it ebbs & flows deliciously.
Delerium's Karma is one of the signature landmarks which many derivatives were spawned from -- I know earlier tracks like "Metamorphosis" touched on (and were even more blatantly ripped off from Enigma), but they really hit their mature stride here. While future albums would count more on female vocalists than samples fresh from the forests/jungles/churches, Karma has been here to enjoy.
It's hard to believe it's been over a decade, but I remember popping into my local music store, putting on headphones, and nodding my head to the exotic delights within -- exotic not just because the source sounds came from a foreign country, but because of how Rhys & Fulber arranged such a meticulous collage into a cohesive vision.
Some weird feeling tells me some of these songs would work beautifully in a Stephanie Meyer! There's a mildly gothic vibe in places, oh yes...
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Summary: Delerious
Comment: This was Delerium's move towards the pop mainstream. Having tasted some success with Semantic Spaces, Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb polished out the chill/electronic dance to a slick shine, recruited Sarah McLachlan and recorded "Silence." It became their best known song and - once remixed - a dance club smash.
However, this album loses some of the more ethereal qualities that made the previous Delerium CD's stand out. The Enigma chant/old-world hybrid had already been played out by now; some ten years later it seems a bit dated. There's still plenty of dreamy ambience to be had here ("Euphoria"), as Delerium always had a terrific way with female vocalists (and "Silence" is a fantastic song). However, this is not their best work. You can check out either Semantic Spaces, Morpheus or the The Best of Delerium first.
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Summary: mystically delicious
Comment: very musical trance/ethereal style. 2nd CD gives multiple mixes of the same 2-3 tunes; it could seem boring to hear the same song on those cds, but it's quite nice to see the different ways they could release the same song and make it sound good.
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Summary: Good album for your average listener. But to the ears of an electronic musician. It gets poor at times.
Comment: Ive always wanted to like Delerium. And on this album, there are a few songs that i think deserve alot of credit. But I have to criticize what these guys are actually doing to produce the music they do. These guys get way, way too carried away with sampling. I feel like albums like this honestly do give electronic music the bad reputation that it has of only being a venue for people to rip off other peoples music, alter it and call it their own.
Now there is alot of vocal talent being used here. The structure of the songs holds up really well. For most listeners, they wont care about my gripes. But I actually get angry when i listen to it.
The drum mixes are randomly thrown together. Drum breaks that work rhythmically but sounds very very lazy as far as letting the drums work in the mix of the song. Every synth sounds very similar. Either arpeggio stabs or moog style leads for every sound. Not nearly being as creative in synth programming as alot of albums i hear that dont get nearly the credit this one does. Though the melodies are really good.
But by far, the absolute worst sin committed on this album. Is that the entire album is very focused on ethnic/world type music. But yet, I cant hear one single time where any of these instruments are actually being played. Everytime... its sampled. Who does a thing like that? I cant think of any other band who writes an entire album like this without once ever inviting an actual musician into the studio to record them. Thats seriously lazy. And thats why i feel this album is grossly overrated.
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