From: owner-vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org (vicious-thorn-digest) To: vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org Subject: vicious-thorn-digest V7 #58 Reply-To: vicious-thorn@smoe.org Sender: owner-vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk vicious-thorn-digest Tuesday, September 9 2003 Volume 07 : Number 058 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [Vicious Thorn] News: "Vancouver DJs Delerium take chill-out bea ts to the clubs in first tour" ["Nogueira, John] [Vicious Thorn] News: "Delerium finally showing their faces" ["Nogueira,] RE: Delerium - Vancouver show photos ["Nogueira, John" Subject: [Vicious Thorn] News: "Vancouver DJs Delerium take chill-out bea ts to the clubs in first tour" Source: http://www3.cjad.com/content/cjad_news/article.asp?id=e090437A J o h n N o g u e i r a G u e l p h O n t a r i o C a n a d a Vancouver DJs Delerium take chill-out beats to the clubs in first tour VANCOUVER (CP) - After exploding out of the 1997 underground and mesmerizing the international rave scene, the darkly mysterious chill-out duo Delerium is stepping out of the shadows on its first tour. Main man Bill Leeb said taking haunting, down-tempo sounds to the stage is a big experiment but at the very least he will be able to meet some of the people who have been buying his albums. "We're hoping to create a bit of an event, make a scene out of this whole thing. Maybe Enigma will go out next," he joked. He was inspired to try a live Delerium show after seeing Zero 7, the London DJs whose debut was dubbed the "babymaker" album of the year. Their tracks are full with melodic bass lines, string arrangements and ballads. They remix Marvin Gaye-style crooners and even melancholy Radiohead songs. "The whole night was completely down tempo," Leeb said. "It was quiet - it might as well have been a lounge. People just chilled out and sort of grabbed the person next to them and gently swayed back and forth. And it worked." Leeb's wife edited a film to play during the Delerium show, to set the mood. The piece is made of eerie, black-and-white images of Venice, shot underwater from the depths of the canals and swirls to images of deserts and the Middle East. "It looks like the music sounds. I think it's what people would expect. There's no breakdancing." At their packed debut show at the Commodore Ballroom on Wednesday, a full band and a pair of medievally gorgeous women sung life and layers into the tracks. "People always worry about this kind of music not going over well live unless you do a massive production with dancers and flames, all tiki tiki and a 25-piece band." "Like a Yanni show!" moaned Rhys Fulber, Leeb's partner. The boys admitted they aren't really sure who Delerium fans are and whether they'd want to listen to the music outside their bedrooms. The duo is listed on Billboard's New Age chart as well as Dance and Electronic. At the Vancouver show, everyone from senior citizens to club kids and veteran ravers in their 30s lazed around the club. The gay party circuit crowd mixed with goths in trench coats with spiked hair. "Some people from the dance, DJ culture know who we are from the club mixes and we have goth fans who know us from our previous industrial band, Frontline," said Leeb. "My dentist loves it and I know people in heavy metal bands who listen to Delerium." The tour is a big experiment, but Fulber and Leeb say it's a better investment than shooting a video, which is hard to get into any kind of meaningful rotation. And in an electronic music era where anyone with a computer can put out a CD - - and they do - Leeb said DJs have to do more than just put their album on the shelves to get attention. The album is more radio-friendly than past efforts and has been getting generous air time. "This is the tightest record we've made as far as songs go," said Leeb. "Before, we'd have a lot of long pieces, this time we get to the point a lot faster on the tracks." There are touches of old Delerium's love for chilled out world beats and ethereal female vocals. Chimera also incorporates jazzy sounds and samples of renaissance choirs. The duo are hoping it will help them claw back some of the momentum they had going five years ago when Fulber decided to work on other projects. He and Leeb had been touring for 10 years with their first band, industrial outfit Frontline Assembly, building a huge cult following in the gothic crowd. By 1997, Frontline was selling out U.S. and European tours and Delerium's Karma album was becoming an underground hit. The single, Silence, featuring Sarah McLachlan, occupied the top spot in five countries and earned the duo an invitation to appear on the British big-leagues show Top of the Pops. Leeb is still surprised by its popularity. Most shocking was listening to Judge Jules, the eminent BBC Radio One DJ, chose Silence as the song to ring in the New Year. At the time, the show was the hottest, mainstream dance music program in the UK and broadcast worldwide on the Internet. The pair say this new tour is all about rolling the dice to see if they can make that happen again. ) The Canadian Press, 2003 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 10:45:34 -0400 From: "Nogueira, John" Subject: [Vicious Thorn] News: "Delerium finally showing their faces" Source: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=A452FC07-B4EF-4712 - -80D1-9DE92F0058BF J o h n N o g u e i r a G u e l p h O n t a r i o C a n a d a Delerium finally showing their faces Vancouver's electronic dance hitmakers play the Commodore on Wednesday as part of tour Kerry Gold Vancouver Sun Tuesday, September 02, 2003 After a decade and more than one million albums sold, the two members of Vancouver's electronic dance outfit Delerium are finally coming out of the shadows and showing their faces. It took a lot of planning, but Vancouver's Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, who relocated to Los Angeles, will play for the first time as Delerium Wednesday at the Commodore, as part of a tour to promote their recent Chimera release. The album features the usual bevy of ethereal-voiced females, including Leigh Nash from Sixpence None the Richer, Julee Cruise, Kristy Thirsk and Jael of Lunik. It also comes with videos of Sarah McLachlan, who featured on the duo's biggest hit, Silence, Thirsk and England's Mediaeval Baebes. Delerium has sold more than 200,000 albums in Canada, and released two breakthrough dance singles, including Silence (a No. 1 hit in the U.K.) and Innocente, with Nash supplying vocals. For fans, a tour is long overdue. "I wanted to do this for a long time," says Fulber. "It is a big undertaking financially and just to get [their label] Nettwerk and everyone on board, is not an easy process. We needed the notoriety of Delerium to springboard this project, and even that is difficult because we hadn't performed before. It was just a lot of logistical things." Although it is a Delerium first, it won't be the first time that Fulber and Leeb have performed together. Fulber and Leeb initially collaborated on Front Line Assembly, the popular veteran industrial dance outfit from Vancouver. And before their many side projects and collaborations, Leeb had belonged to Vancouver's legendary Skinny Puppy. Fulber, who is also a producer, branched out even further last year with yet another alter ego, called Conjure One, which released an album that included Sinead O'Connor, Israel's Chemda, and Poe on vocals. The result is two hit songs on the U.K. club charts for Fulber (Tears from the Moon, Sleep), which has caused a bit of a stir among trance and house fans who feel Fulber does his best work solo. With three guest musicians, Conjure One will open for Delerium, and unlike Delerium's heavenly sound, it is Fulber's outlet for his exotic rock roots. (The Conjure One album contains live drums provided by McLachlan's musical collaborator and spouse Ash Sood, and vocals and guitar by Tea Party's Jeff Martin). Fulber figures he owes it to himself to get back to what he knows best. "When I write by myself, I write differently than when I write with Bill," says Fulber. "I have another record halfway written, and it's very different from that stuff. Heavier. Not ethereal electronic stuff, but a little more rocking maybe. When I made my first Conjure One record I think I was inhibited somehow, worried about what the label and what people who liked Delerium would think. I had neglected a whole world of rock... and I don't want to separate that stuff anymore." Delerium's new album leans toward the pop side of the vaguely defined electronic genre to which they belong. Many of the tracks are lush productions, with sweeping strings and acoustic guitar, soft beats, echo harmonies and female vocals that wobble between folksy, new agey and Kate Bush otherworldly. It's as if Fulber and Rees set out to find common ground for Enya and Natacha Atlas fans, and the effect is a blissed out cool. One of the best tracks is Cruise's Magic, which takes the essence of rap, electronica, and pop and melts it all into a subtle wash of sound. Leeb and Fulber like to use words such as elegant and classy to describe their performance, and it is reflected in their immaculate, clean production style. Fulber's producer talents have led him to a collaboration with David Foster's emerging protege Josh Groban, which is, at least from an outsider's perspective, a huge swing of the pendulum from the club scene. "I don't look at it that way," says Fulber. "To me it is just music. When I started initially I started thinking about it the Josh project and I got really confused. I was a bit like, 'What is this guy gonna like? I don't know what to do.' And I just did what I liked, and it worked the best. When we ended up doing the album tracks I did what it thought sounded good, and to me, it is just music. It is just elements. It sounds corny, but I don't look at it too differently. Whatever people have to say about the guy, he is really talented. People aren't in that position by accident... I watch what the old pros do and assimilate that into my approach somehow." Whether there is another Silence or Innocente hit single on board Delerium's new album is a question that Fulber would rather not ask himself. "You can't think that way, it doesn't work," says Fulber. "Stuff like [Silence] is accidental. Otherwise, you end up coming up with something watered down, and you can't think about that. I am sure the record company thinks about it. But you just have to be thankful in the first place. "I think I got into that a bit when I made my [Conjure One] record, Tears from the Moon, stuff like that. I am not going to do that again. If something takes off, it is meant to be that way." ) Copyright 2003 Vancouver Sun ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:00:04 -0400 From: "Nogueira, John" Subject: RE: Delerium - Vancouver show photos Lawrence wrote: > Posted on the Delerium forum... > > http://groups.msn.com/FleshKandie/delerium.msnw?Page=1 Thanks for passing along that link Lawrence. Isn't she cute? Regarding this pic here -> http://groups.msn.com/FleshKandie/delerium.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=101 I don't want to start any nasty rumours; but, do I detect a little circular something on her ring finger? J o h n N o g u e i r a G u e l p h O n t a r i o C a n a d a ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:06:25 -0400 From: "Nogueira, John" Subject: [Vicious Thorn] News: "Delerium finally showing their faces" Sorry if this story is double-posted. The first post doesn't look like it made it. Source: http://www.canada.com/vancouver/vancouversun/story.asp?id=A452FC07-B4EF-4712 - -80D1-9DE92F0058BF J o h n N o g u e i r a G u e l p h O n t a r i o C a n a d a Delerium finally showing their faces Vancouver's electronic dance hitmakers play the Commodore on Wednesday as part of tour Kerry Gold Vancouver Sun Tuesday, September 02, 2003 After a decade and more than one million albums sold, the two members of Vancouver's electronic dance outfit Delerium are finally coming out of the shadows and showing their faces. It took a lot of planning, but Vancouver's Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, who relocated to Los Angeles, will play for the first time as Delerium Wednesday at the Commodore, as part of a tour to promote their recent Chimera release. The album features the usual bevy of ethereal-voiced females, including Leigh Nash from Sixpence None the Richer, Julee Cruise, Kristy Thirsk and Jael of Lunik. It also comes with videos of Sarah McLachlan, who featured on the duo's biggest hit, Silence, Thirsk and England's Mediaeval Baebes. Delerium has sold more than 200,000 albums in Canada, and released two breakthrough dance singles, including Silence (a No. 1 hit in the U.K.) and Innocente, with Nash supplying vocals. For fans, a tour is long overdue. "I wanted to do this for a long time," says Fulber. "It is a big undertaking financially and just to get [their label] Nettwerk and everyone on board, is not an easy process. We needed the notoriety of Delerium to springboard this project, and even that is difficult because we hadn't performed before. It was just a lot of logistical things." Although it is a Delerium first, it won't be the first time that Fulber and Leeb have performed together. Fulber and Leeb initially collaborated on Front Line Assembly, the popular veteran industrial dance outfit from Vancouver. And before their many side projects and collaborations, Leeb had belonged to Vancouver's legendary Skinny Puppy. Fulber, who is also a producer, branched out even further last year with yet another alter ego, called Conjure One, which released an album that included Sinead O'Connor, Israel's Chemda, and Poe on vocals. The result is two hit songs on the U.K. club charts for Fulber (Tears from the Moon, Sleep), which has caused a bit of a stir among trance and house fans who feel Fulber does his best work solo. With three guest musicians, Conjure One will open for Delerium, and unlike Delerium's heavenly sound, it is Fulber's outlet for his exotic rock roots. (The Conjure One album contains live drums provided by McLachlan's musical collaborator and spouse Ash Sood, and vocals and guitar by Tea Party's Jeff Martin). Fulber figures he owes it to himself to get back to what he knows best. "When I write by myself, I write differently than when I write with Bill," says Fulber. "I have another record halfway written, and it's very different from that stuff. Heavier. Not ethereal electronic stuff, but a little more rocking maybe. When I made my first Conjure One record I think I was inhibited somehow, worried about what the label and what people who liked Delerium would think. I had neglected a whole world of rock... and I don't want to separate that stuff anymore." Delerium's new album leans toward the pop side of the vaguely defined electronic genre to which they belong. Many of the tracks are lush productions, with sweeping strings and acoustic guitar, soft beats, echo harmonies and female vocals that wobble between folksy, new agey and Kate Bush otherworldly. It's as if Fulber and Rees set out to find common ground for Enya and Natacha Atlas fans, and the effect is a blissed out cool. One of the best tracks is Cruise's Magic, which takes the essence of rap, electronica, and pop and melts it all into a subtle wash of sound. Leeb and Fulber like to use words such as elegant and classy to describe their performance, and it is reflected in their immaculate, clean production style. Fulber's producer talents have led him to a collaboration with David Foster's emerging protege Josh Groban, which is, at least from an outsider's perspective, a huge swing of the pendulum from the club scene. "I don't look at it that way," says Fulber. "To me it is just music. When I started initially I started thinking about it the Josh project and I got really confused. I was a bit like, 'What is this guy gonna like? I don't know what to do.' And I just did what I liked, and it worked the best. When we ended up doing the album tracks I did what it thought sounded good, and to me, it is just music. It is just elements. It sounds corny, but I don't look at it too differently. Whatever people have to say about the guy, he is really talented. People aren't in that position by accident... I watch what the old pros do and assimilate that into my approach somehow." Whether there is another Silence or Innocente hit single on board Delerium's new album is a question that Fulber would rather not ask himself. "You can't think that way, it doesn't work," says Fulber. "Stuff like [Silence] is accidental. Otherwise, you end up coming up with something watered down, and you can't think about that. I am sure the record company thinks about it. But you just have to be thankful in the first place. "I think I got into that a bit when I made my [Conjure One] record, Tears from the Moon, stuff like that. I am not going to do that again. If something takes off, it is meant to be that way." (c) Copyright 2003 Vancouver Sun ------------------------------ End of vicious-thorn-digest V7 #58 **********************************