From: owner-vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org (vicious-thorn-digest) To: vicious-thorn-digest@smoe.org Subject: vicious-thorn-digest V7 #66 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 Saturday, September 20 2003 Volume 07 : Number 066 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: delerium in toronto... [] Article: "Delerium's 'Chimera' takes flights of fancy" ["Nogueira, John" ] Re: delerium in toronto... [LidiaEliz@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 06:30:58 -0600 From: Subject: Re: delerium in toronto... The other vocalist for Delerium is Shelly Harland (www.harlandmusic.com). I believe she actually doesn't have a track on any Delerium album. The vocalist for Conjure One is Chemda. Leah Randi (Abandoned Pools) - bass Sean Ashby (Sarah McLachlan) - guitar Adrian White (Front Line Assembly) - drums - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julian C. Dunn" To: Sent: Thursday, 18 September, 2003 22:44 Subject: delerium in toronto... > Just returned from the Delerium show here in Toronto -- it was > fantastic. Kristy of course was amazing but the whole thing was put > together so neatly and professionally I was in awe. I have not been > keeping up to date with Delerium-related things so aside from Kristy, I > don't know who the vocalists were. Can anyone tell me? I'm supposed to > be writing an article for a paper about it, so it's kind of important > that I get it right :-) > > - Julian > > -- > [ Julian C. Dunn * ] > [ WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/staff/julian/ * PGP: 0xFDC205B9 ] > [ "sometimes you win, sometimes you lose / and most times ] > [ you choose between the two" - carole king, "sweet seasons" ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 08:43:05 -0400 From: "Nogueira, John" Subject: Article: "Delerium's 'Chimera' takes flights of fancy" I've attached a recent article from The Boston Globe. Enjoy! Source: http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2003/09/19/deleriums_chimer a_takes_flights_of_fancy/ 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 [attach] Delerium's 'Chimera' takes flights of fancy By Ken Capobianco, Globe Correspondent, 9/19/2003 With unrest in the Middle East, the United States mired in Iraq, and other problems plaguing the world, Delerium's Bill Leeb believes that he needs to make positive music that enriches listeners' lives and gives them a bit of a lift. He's not after insipid, Pollyanna-ish pop, but a swirling mix of influences that draws from all points on the musical spectrum. He wants the band to transcend standard three-chord rock, and he does that with style on Delerium's fourth record, the sweeping "Chimera," a bold blend of world pop, electronica, New Age, and old-fashioned acoustic pop. "When I started Delerium, I wanted it to enhance your surroundings and be part of the spiritual side of your life," Leeb says from his home in Vancouver. "I remember the band Renaissance and they had an ability to thrill. Well, I wanted to take that a step further and add choirs, classical influences and other things that you don't expect from basic pop music. This is not trend-driven or part of what is fashionable. You have to use your imagination and immerse yourself in the music." Delerium's fourth record follows an extended break. The band had a huge international hit with "Silence" in 2000, which featured the soaring vocals of Sarah McLachlan. Leeb and his partner, Rhys Fulber, parted ways as Fulber pursued a solo career and side projects. The collaborators were the masterminds behind the influential industrial band Front Line Assembly in the 1980s. "A partnership is like a marriage," Leeb says. "We worked together for 12 years and Rhys moved to California a few years ago and decided to work with various artists . . . We grew apart for awhile but it was not a falling out, just a separation. Once we started talking again, it all seemed to click and we thought to add to our experience together, we should tour, and that is what we are going to do for the first time as Delerium." Fulber says he and Leeb are always looking to come up with ideas that will add different flavors to their music. "Bill and I started Delerium 13 years ago as an alternative to the industrial sound that we were doing at the time. After experiencing different things on our own, we came back with new perspectives for `Chimera.' With the new record we challenged ourselves to make the record more song-based, which for us was more of a challenge than taking the soundscape approach we had in the past." Among the most compelling aspects of "Chimera" are the various vocalists who appear on the record. Most prominent are Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer, who appears on two tracks, Julee Cruise, who expands her range on the enchanting "Magic," Zoe Johnston, Jael of the band Lunik, Rachel Fuller, and Delerium veteran Kristy Thirsk. All bring a rich color to the musical tracks as they leap and dance around the mystical beats. "What I am always looking for is an angelic quality," Leeb says. "That's what I would call the Delerium voice. When we hooked up with Sarah and had such a big hit with `Silence,' that certainly made it a lot easier for us to hunt out who we wanted to work with." Leeb and Fulber send the vocalists the tracks and the singers contribute the lyrics, almost all dealing with love's sweet melodies and life's lilting moments. "We want to make it a true collaboration, so we want the vocalists to be fully involved, and by writing the lyrics they embody the song when they perform it," Leeb says. Fans of Front Line Assembly will surely dub Delerium's sound as New Age Pablum. But Leeb is not worried. "We've done many things and I'm sure that we will do many more different kinds of sounds before we're done," he says. "Does it bother me that people call us New Age? No way. We were on the New Age charts for six months right behind Enya, but it's just a label." "People need to figure out a way to define something," Leeb adds. "But with all of our dance remixes, we know we have alternative people who like what we do and we tap into the electronic chill-out movement as well. But again, those are just labels, they don't mean a thing. Listen to the music and decide." Delerium plays Axis on Sunday at 8 p.m. Call 617-262-2437. (c) Copyright 2003 Globe Newspaper Company. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 20:50:10 EDT From: LidiaEliz@aol.com Subject: Re: delerium in toronto... I was there too! I loved it. I just wish there wasn't so much bass in the mix because I had a hard time hearing the vocals really well, except when they were singing loud. Plus I've gotten so used to smoke-free venues that all the cigarette smoke nearly made me sick. And I could've used a chair during those 4-5 hours. But it was a great show, huge crowd too. (since someone else already posted the musicians in reply to you, I won't say them again.) The songs I recognized were After All, Silence, Flowers Become Screens, Incantation, Innocence, and two of the instrumentals from Karma but I'm not sure of the titles (Chemda sang in one of them- it doesn't have words though). I don't have Chimera, and I don't know Poem well enough to know what else was from it. Kristy sang the lead in After All, FBS and Incantation, and some of the ones I didn't know. Harland sang lead in Silence and Innocence. The only Conjure One song I knew was Sleep. I drove over three hours to finally see Kristy sing live and it was totally worth it. Lauren In a message dated 9/19/03 12:45:32 AM Eastern Daylight Time, jdunn@aquezada.com writes: > Just returned from the Delerium show here in Toronto -- it was > fantastic. Kristy of course was amazing but the whole thing was put > together so neatly and professionally I was in awe. I have not been > keeping up to date with Delerium-related things so aside from Kristy, I > don't know who the vocalists were. Can anyone tell me? I'm supposed to > be writing an article for a paper about it, so it's kind of important > that I get it right :-) > > - Julian ------------------------------ End of vicious-thorn-digest V7 #66 **********************************