Track Listing

1. Enchanted
2. Duende
3. Twilight
4. Silence
5. Forgotten Worlds
6. Lamentation
7. Euphoria (Firefly)
8. Remembrance
9. Wisdom
10. Window to Your Soul
11. 'Till the End of Time

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15598 in Music
• Released on: 1997-04-22
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.com
The novelty was stripmined from ethnobeat pop long ago, and this skin-deep confection is surprising only in its lack of edge and invention. On the plus side, the melodies are textured and lush, the beats entrancing, and a parade of gifted singers--Kristy Thirsk, Jacqui Hunt, and Sarah McLachlan included--bill and coo impressively. Lead single "Euphoria (Firefly)" has spark and spirit, while "Enchanted" and "Duende" are strong vehicles for Thirsk and Camille Henderson respectively. --Jeff Bateman

Customer Reviews

mystically delicious
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.

Good album for your average listener. But to the ears of an electronic musician. It gets poor at times.
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.

Karma 4 Karma
Karma, to be honest I didn't know what to expect out of it, being a fan of their older works. I actually found Karma really enjoyable, it is definitely a mix of the two Delerium worlds (New & Old molded together). I still prefer the old, but this seems to be their best when it comes to bridging the gap of the old & new. I found Semantic Spaces to be a step in this direction, but I also found it lacking in many areas, though good in the beginning, it slowly starts to become repetitive and dull, and unlike enigma, I found what lyrics it did have to be whims of nothing, but very catchy, where Karma really stands out as a complete accomplishment on what Semantic Spaces was trying to do, strong all the way through, and it keeps you in its grips, no dullness whatsoever, with great melodies/tones/lyrics/vocals ect... Definitely fitting the bill. I give it a strong 5, and that's from a fan of their older works.