Delerium
Encyclopedia
Delerium is a band from Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 act, Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...

. Throughout the band’s history, their musical style has encompassed a broad range, including dark ethereal ambient trance
Trance music
Trance is a genre of electronic dance music that developed in the 1990s.:251 It is generally characterized by a tempo of between 125 and 150 bpm,:252 repeating melodic synthesizer phrases, and a musical form that builds up and breaks down throughout a track...

, voiceless industrial soundscapes, and electronic pop music.

Members and history

Delerium has traditionally been a two-person project, but the only constant member throughout its history has been Bill Leeb
Bill Leeb
Bill Leeb is an electronic musician.He moved to Kitimat, British Columbia, Canada with his family when he was 13...

. Leeb was a guest musician and early supporter of industrial dance pioneers Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy
Skinny Puppy is a Canadian industrial musical group, formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 1982. The group is widely considered to be the founders of the electro-industrial genre....

, but after he left in 1986 he went on to create his own project, Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly
Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...

 with collaborator Michael Balch. Later, the two worked on the side project Delerium and released their first album, Faces, Forms & Illusions
Faces, Forms & Illusions
Faces, Forms & Illusions is an album by the Canadian ambient/electronic music group Delerium that was released on January 6, 1989 on the Dossier label. . The album was re-issued in 1997 on Cleopatra Records with the bonus track "Dark Star" added and "Hidden Mask" removed...

. After Balch left both Front Line Assembly and Delerium, Leeb worked with Rhys Fulber
Rhys Fulber
Nowell Rhys Fulber is a Canadian electronic musician and producer. He was a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium along with Bill Leeb, and now records on his own under the name Conjure One.- Biography :...

, and the two released several albums under the Delerium moniker; these years saw a gradual stylistic change from darker ambient to a more danceable sound. After the release of Karma, Fulber left to pursue other interests, and Leeb teamed up with producer Chris Peterson
Chris Peterson (producer)
Chris Peterson is a Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada based producer and keyboard player and works for Front Line Assembly, Noise Unit and Decree...

 to release Poem
Poem (album)
-Track listing:All songs written by Bill Leeb and all lyrics written by respective vocalists unless otherwise noted.There is also a misprinted European edition with the US tracklist. Only a few thousand albums were published this way...

. 2003, however, saw the reunion of Leeb and Fulber for the release of Chimera, followed by Nuages du Monde
Nuages du Monde (album)
Nuages du Monde is an album by Canadian new age/electronic music group Delerium in 2006 .The title is French, and translates to "Clouds of the World".-Track listing:#"Angelicus" – 5:10...

in 2006.

In contrast to Leeb and collaborators' other projects, Delerium has included several guest vocalists since the release of Semantic Spaces
Semantic Spaces
Semantic Spaces is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1994 . Guest musicians on the album include Greg Reely and Kristy Thirsk....

. These have included mostly women, such as Kristy Thirsk
Kristy Thirsk
Kristy Thirsk is a platinum selling Canadian singer-songwriter best known for her work with Delerium.-Rose Chronicles:She was the singer and a co-writer for the band Rose Chronicles, which was signed to Nettwerk in the 1990s. Rose Chronicles released two full-length albums: Shiver , which won a...

, Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

, Leigh Nash (of Sixpence None the Richer
Sixpence None the Richer
Sixpence None the Richer is an American rock/pop band that formed in New Braunfels, Texas, eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee. They are best known for their songs "Kiss Me" and "Breathe Your Name" and their covers of "Don't Dream It's Over" and "There She Goes". The name of the band is...

), Elsieanne Caplette (of Elsiane
Elsiane
Elsiane is the name of the musical duo that is composed of singer/songwriter Elsieanne Caplette and Stephane Sotto. Elsiane is a combination of both musicians' names and reflects the pair's collaborative approach to their artistic process. Their music is influenced by a wide range of styles that...

), Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry....

 (sampled only), Jaël
Jaël
Jaël, , is a singer-songwriter from the band Lunik. She also co-wrote and sang with Delerium on the song After All on their album Chimera, and the song Lost and Found on their album Nuages du Monde. She is both internationally famous in the Trance music community as well as domestically famous from...

 (of Swiss band Lunik
Lunik
Lunik is a band from Switzerland. There are currently four members.Lunik started in 1997 with Adi Amstutz, Luk Zimmermann, Mats Marti, Walo Müller and Anton Höglhammer. Singer Jaël joined the band in 1998 and Anton Höglhammer left the line-up. 1999 saw the release of their debut album Rumour,...

), Camille Henderson
Camille Henderson
Camille Henderson , is a Canadian pop singer.She played the role of Shirley in the classic Canadian movie My American Cousin in 1985, and then went on to become part of the Vancouver-based pop group West End Girls from 1991 to 1993...

, Nerina Pallot
Nerina Pallot
Nerina Pallot is a platinum selling, BRIT Award and Ivor Novello Award nominated British singer and songwriter. Although born in London, Pallot was brought up in Jersey to a half-French father and mother from Allahabad, India.-Early life:Pallot played piano as a child and wrote her first song...

, Emily Haines
Emily Haines
Emily Haines is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. She is the lead singer and keyboardist of the band Metric and a member of Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she performed with her own name and under the alias Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton...

 (of Metric
Metric (band)
Metric is a Canadian indie rock and New Wave band founded in 1998 in Toronto. The band has also at various times been based in Montreal, London, New York City and Los Angeles...

), Jacqui Hunt (of Single Gun Theory
Single Gun Theory
Single Gun Theory is an Australian band made up of Jacqui Hunt , Pete Rivett-Carnac and Kath Power , recording on the Canadian label Nettwerk. Their music combines elements of downtempo electronic dance music with introspective, ethereal vocals and samples of dialogue...

), Isabel Bayrakdarian
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Isabel Bayrakdarian is a Grammy Award-nominated Armenian Canadian opera singer.-Early life:Born in Lebanon in 1974, she moved to Canada as a teenager. Bayrakdarian graduated in 1997 from the University of Toronto with an honours B.A.Sc...

 and Shelley Harland. Other than Leeb, only two males have contributed vocals to a Delerium album: Matthew Sweet
Matthew Sweet
Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s...

 ("Daylight", on Poem) and Greg Froese ("Apparition", on Nuages du Monde); in addition, the noted griot
Griot
A griot or jeli is a West African storyteller. The griot delivers history as a poet, praise singer, and wandering musician. The griot is a repository of oral tradition. As such, they are sometimes also called bards...

 Baaba Maal
Baaba Maal
Baaba Maal is a Senegalese singer and guitarist born in Podor, on the Senegal River. In addition to acoustic guitar, he also plays percussion. He has released several albums, both for independent and major labels. In July 2003, he was made a UNDP Youth Emissary.-Biography:Born 12 November 1953...

 was sampled ("Awakenings, on "Spiritual Archives
Spiritual Archives
Spiritual Archives is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1991 .-Track listing:#"Drama" – 7:37#"Rise Above" – 6:46#"Aftermath" – 7:34#"Ephemeral Passage" – 6:28#"Barren Ground" – 7:30...

").

The Mediæval Bæbes
Mediæval Bæbes
The Mediæval Bæbes are a British ensemble of female musicians founded in the 1990s by Katharine Blake and included some of her colleagues from the band Miranda Sex Garden, as well as other friends who share her love of mediaeval music...

 provided the vocal track for, and starred in the video of, Aria; the vocals are an adapted version of the vocals from "All Turns to Yesterday" on the Bæbes' Worldes Blysse
Worldes Blysse
-Track listing:# Kinderly# All Turns to Yesterday# Love Me Broughte# Beatrice# Ecci Mundi Gaudium# Waylaway# Alba# When Thy Turf Is Thy Tour# Erthe Upon Erthe# Passing Thus Alone# La Volta# Pearl# Swete Sone # So spricht das Leben # C'est la fin...

album. They are also featured on two tracks from Delerium's 2006 album, Nuages du Monde.

Although it may be argued that Front Line Assembly has the largest cult following of all Leeb and associates projects, Delerium is undoubtedly the most financially successful. In addition to these two mainstays, related projects of the Leeb, Fulber, Peterson, Balch family include Equinox
Equinox (electro-industrial band)
Equinox is the name of an electro-industrial/drum'n'bass musical project, featuring Bill Leeb and Chris Peterson of Front Line Assembly.Equinox released one album, Holon, in 1998.-External links:*...

, Intermix
Intermix (band)
Intermix was a musical band in the 1990s, made of Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber.Unlike their other projects , Intermix showed somewhat more of a techno music influence, while Delerium was more mellow like ambient music, and FLA had a very industrial music style.On the first two albums Intermix sounded...

, Noise Unit
Noise Unit
Noise Unit is a musical band, a side-project of the prolific Bill Leeb and Rhys Fulber, of Front Line Assembly. Its members have included Marc Verhaeghen and Chris Peterson...

, Pro-Tech, and Synæsthesia, among others. In addition, in 2007 Leeb and Fulber collaborated with Leigh Nash under the name Fauxliage
Fauxliage
Fauxliage is a musical project made by members of the Canadian electronic music group Delerium and Leigh Nash in 2007. The vocals are performed exclusively with Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer.-Track listing:...

, also Rhys Fulber maintains his solo project Conjure One
Conjure One
Conjure One is a Canadian electronic music project, headed by Rhys Fulber, better known as a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium, as well as other musical groups alongside Bill Leeb.-History:...

 since his temporary exit from Delerium.

Music

Of Delerium's albums, Karma has garnered the most commercial success. Most listeners only know of Delerium from their work produced on the Nettwerk
Nettwerk
The Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Management, Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk One Publishing, Nutone Records, and Artwerk. With over 150 employees, the Vancouver-based company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Nashville, and Hamburg...

 label, as they were relatively unknown in the pop-music scene before the release of Semantic Spaces.

Delerium's commercial success has hinged largely on the single entitled "Silence
Silence (song)
"Silence" is a song by the Canadian electronic music group Delerium. It was co-written by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, who is featured as the vocalist on the track....

", which featured vocals by Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

. In 2000, three years after the original release of source album Karma, a number of remix
Remix
A remix is an alternative version of a recorded song, made from an original version. This term is also used for any alterations of media other than song ....

es of "Silence", produced by DJs DJ Tiësto
Tiësto
Tijs Michiel Verwest, , known as Tiësto , is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto...

, Airscape, Fade and others, proliferated throughout dance clubs
Nightclub
A nightclub is an entertainment venue which usually operates late into the night...

; the interest generated took the single to #3 on the UK charts and gained considerable radio airplay
Airplay (song)
Airplay is a term used in the radio broadcasting industry to state how frequently a song is being played on over-the-air radio stations. For example, a song which is being played several times every day would be classed as receiving a large amount of airplay...

 for the song.

A milestone for the group came when they toured
Concert
A concert is a live performance before an audience. The performance may be by a single musician, sometimes then called a recital, or by a musical ensemble, such as an orchestra, a choir, or a musical band...

 for the first time in 2003 (in contrast with Front Line Assembly, which has toured consistently throughout its career). Vocals were provided by Kristy Thirsk
Kristy Thirsk
Kristy Thirsk is a platinum selling Canadian singer-songwriter best known for her work with Delerium.-Rose Chronicles:She was the singer and a co-writer for the band Rose Chronicles, which was signed to Nettwerk in the 1990s. Rose Chronicles released two full-length albums: Shiver , which won a...

 and Shelley Harland during that tour. In January 2005, Delerium performed at the One World benefit concert
Benefit concert
A benefit concert or charity concert is a concert, show or gala featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate humanitarian crisis. Such events raise both funds and public awareness to address the cause at...

 in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

 for the 2004 Asian tsunami, where "Silence" was performed live for the first time with Sarah McLachlan, who was also performing at the benefit.

Albums / EPs

  • Faces, Forms & Illusions
    Faces, Forms & Illusions
    Faces, Forms & Illusions is an album by the Canadian ambient/electronic music group Delerium that was released on January 6, 1989 on the Dossier label. . The album was re-issued in 1997 on Cleopatra Records with the bonus track "Dark Star" added and "Hidden Mask" removed...

    (Dossier, 1989), LP / CD
  • Morpheus
    Morpheus (album)
    Morpheus is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1989 .-Track listing:#"Gaza" – 5.08#"Requiem" – 5.07#"Morpheus" – 4.54#"Faith" – 4.42#"Coup De Tat" – 4.40#"Veracity" – 3.54#"Temple of Light" – 5.36...

    (Dossier, 1989), LP / CD
  • Syrophenikan
    Syrophenikan
    Syrophenikan is an album by Canadian ambient/electronic music group Delerium in 1990 .-Track listing:#"Embodying" – 5:06#"Shroud" – 4:44#"Of the Tribe" – 5:10#"Fallen Idols" – 5:13#"Mythos" – 6:19#"Prophecy" – 5:17...

    (Dossier, 1990), LP / CD
  • Stone Tower
    Stone Tower (album)
    Stone Tower is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1991 .-Track listing:# "Lost Passion"# "Bleeding"# "Stone Tower"# "Aftermath" # "Tundra"# "Spirit"# "Embryo"# "Red Hill"# "Sphere"...

    (Dossier, 1991), LP / CD
  • Euphoric
    Euphoric (album)
    Euphoric is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1991 .-Samples:Euphoric features a few vocal samples from the movie "From Beyond" as well as a brief sample of the track "The Mission" from The Mission....

    (Third Mind, 1991), EP / CD
  • Spiritual Archives
    Spiritual Archives
    Spiritual Archives is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1991 .-Track listing:#"Drama" – 7:37#"Rise Above" – 6:46#"Aftermath" – 7:34#"Ephemeral Passage" – 6:28#"Barren Ground" – 7:30...

    (Dossier, 1991), CD
  • Spheres
    Spheres (Delerium album)
    Spheres is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1994 .-Track listing:#"Monolith" – 10:03#"Transmitter" – 13:36#"Wavelength" – 13:22#"Colony" – 12:06#"Dark Matter" – 7:30#"Cloud Barrier" – 6:42...

    (Dossier, 1994), CD
  • Spheres 2
    Spheres 2
    Spheres 2 is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1994 .-Track listing:#"Morphology" – 9:28#"TransHumanist" – 10:11#"Shockwave" – 8:33#"Dimensional Space" – 5:27#"Hypoxia" – 8:50#"Otherworld" – 4:49...

    (Dossier, 1994), CD
  • Semantic Spaces
    Semantic Spaces
    Semantic Spaces is an album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium in 1994 . Guest musicians on the album include Greg Reely and Kristy Thirsk....

    (Nettwerk, 1994), CD
  • Karma (Nettwerk, 1997), CD
  • Karma (w / bonus disc) (Nettwerk, 1997, 1999, 2000), 2CD
  • Poem
    Poem (album)
    -Track listing:All songs written by Bill Leeb and all lyrics written by respective vocalists unless otherwise noted.There is also a misprinted European edition with the US tracklist. Only a few thousand albums were published this way...

    (Nettwerk, 2000), LP / CD
  • Poem (w / bonus disc) (Nettwerk, 2000), 2CD
  • Chimera (Nettwerk, 2003), CD
  • Chimera (w / bonus disc) (Nettwerk, 2003), 2CD
  • Nuages du Monde
    Nuages du Monde (album)
    Nuages du Monde is an album by Canadian new age/electronic music group Delerium in 2006 .The title is French, and translates to "Clouds of the World".-Track listing:#"Angelicus" – 5:10...

    (Nettwerk, 2006), CD (October 3)

Singles

Year Single Peak chart positions Album
AUS
ARIA Charts
The ARIA charts are the main Australian music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling singles and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA commenced compiling its own charts in-house from the week ending 26 June...


AUT
BE (FL)
Ultratop 50
Ultratop 50 singles, often just Ultratop 50, is the weekly chart of fifty best-selling singles in Flanders, Belgium, and is produced and published by the Ultratop organization. The chart has existed since March 31, 1995...


BE (WA)
Ultratop 40
Ultratop 40 singles, often just Ultratop 40, is the weekly chart of best-selling singles in Wallonia and Brussels Capital Region, the french-speaking parts of Belgium. Its equivalent covering the Flanders region is Ultratop 50. Both charts are produced and published by the Ultratop organization...


CAN
Canadian Singles Chart
The Canadian Singles Chart is currently compiled by the U.S.-based music sales tracking company, Nielsen SoundScan . The chart is compiled every Wednesday, and is published by Jam! Canoe on Thursdays....


FIN
GER
Media Control Charts
The official music charts in Germany are gathered and published by the company Media Control GfK International on behalf of Bundesverband Musikindustrie...


IRE
Irish Singles Chart
The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...


NOR
VG-lista
VG-listen is a Norwegian record chart. It is weekly presented in the newspaper VG and the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation program Topp 20. It is considered the primary Norwegian record chart, charting albums and singles from countries and continent around the world. The data is collected by...


NLD
NZD
SWI
UK
UK Singles Chart
The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...


US Adult
US Dance
1994 "Flowers Become Screens" Semantic Spaces
"Incantation"
1997 "Euphoria (Firefly)" feat. Jacqui Hunt Karma
"Duende"
1999 "Silence
Silence (song)
"Silence" is a song by the Canadian electronic music group Delerium. It was co-written by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, who is featured as the vocalist on the track....

" feat. Sarah McLachlan
Sarah McLachlan
Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

6 1 73
2000 "Heaven's Earth" 21 44 20
"Silence" (reissue) feat. Sarah McLachlan 56 5 2 5 16 6 15 7 17 100 3 25 6
2001 "Innocente (Falling in Love)" feat. Leigh Nash 16 32 94 19 33 32 3 Poem
2002 "Underwater
Underwater (song)
"Underwater" is a single by Canadian electronic music group Delerium, featuring Australian singer Rani Kamal on vocals. It was the second single released from the album, Poem, and reached number nine on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart in the U.S.-Song:The album version of the song has a...

" feat. Rani
46 56 48 33 9
2003 "After All
After All (Delerium song)
"After All" is a song by Canadian electronic music group Delerium, with vocals provided by Swiss singer Jaël. It was the first single released from the album Chimera.-Overview:...

" feat. Jaël
Jaël
Jaël, , is a singer-songwriter from the band Lunik. She also co-wrote and sang with Delerium on the song After All on their album Chimera, and the song Lost and Found on their album Nuages du Monde. She is both internationally famous in the Trance music community as well as domestically famous from...

46 9 Chimera
"Run for It" feat. Leigh Nash
2004 "Truly" feat. Nerina Pallot
Nerina Pallot
Nerina Pallot is a platinum selling, BRIT Award and Ivor Novello Award nominated British singer and songwriter. Although born in London, Pallot was brought up in Jersey to a half-French father and mother from Allahabad, India.-Early life:Pallot played piano as a child and wrote her first song...

54 2
2004 "Silence 2004
Silence (song)
"Silence" is a song by the Canadian electronic music group Delerium. It was co-written by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, who is featured as the vocalist on the track....

" feat. Sarah McLachlan
12 27 38 1 The Best of
2007 "Angelicus" feat. Isabel Bayrakdarian
Isabel Bayrakdarian
Isabel Bayrakdarian is a Grammy Award-nominated Armenian Canadian opera singer.-Early life:Born in Lebanon in 1974, she moved to Canada as a teenager. Bayrakdarian graduated in 1997 from the University of Toronto with an honours B.A.Sc...

1 Nuages du Monde
"Lost and Found" feat. Jaël 4
2008 "Silence 2008
Silence (song)
"Silence" is a song by the Canadian electronic music group Delerium. It was co-written by Canadian singer Sarah McLachlan, who is featured as the vocalist on the track....

" feat. Sarah McLachlan
12 9 87 48 127 Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan
Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan
Closer: The Best of Sarah McLachlan is a greatest hits album by Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan, and also contains two new tracks. It was released on 7 October 2008. The album was released in Germany on October 17...

2009 "Dust in Gravity" feat. Kreesha Turner
Kreesha Turner
Kreesha Turner , is a Canadian R&B/pPop recording artist. She cites as her inspirations R&B acts such as Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and D'Angelo, hip-hop acts including A Tribe Called Quest, Andre 3000 and Common and rock acts like the Foo Fighters and Our Lady Peace.-Early life:The oldest of three...

1 Remixed: The Definitive Collection
"—" indicates the single didn't chart or wasn't released in given territory

Compilations

  • Reflections I (Dossier, 1995), CD
  • Reflections II (Dossier, 1995), CD
  • Archives I (Nettwerk, 2002), 2CD
  • Archives II
    Archives II
    Archives, Vol. 2 is a 2001 compilation album by Delerium. It was released on Nettwerk Records shortly after being released in the UK. It brings together tracks form four of their previous albums: Spiritual Archives, Spheres, Spheres 2 and Cryogenic Studio.-Spiritual Archives: "Drama" – 7:36...

    (Nettwerk, 2002), 2CD
  • Odyssey: The Remix Collection
    Odyssey: The Remix Collection
    Odyssey: The Remix Collection is a 2001 compilation of remixes from Delerium's past single releases.- Disc one :# "Silence" – 11:32# "Underwater" – 7:39...

    (Nettwerk, 2001), 2CD
  • The Best Of
    The Best Of (Delerium album)
    The Best Of is a compilation album by Delerium, released on Nettwerk in 2004. The album collects most of the band's singles up to this point...

    (Nettwerk, 2004), CD
  • Remixed: The Definitive Collection (Nettwerk, 2010), CD
  • Voice: an acoustic collection (Nettwerk, 5 Oct. 2010) CD

Online exclusive

  • "Above the Clouds" (2003), a download-only song featuring Shelley Harland available through iTunes Music Store and other online music store
    Online music store
    An online music store is an online business which sells audio files, usually music, on a per-song and/or subscription basis. It may be differentiated from music streaming services in that the music store offers the actual music file, while streaming services offer partial or full listening without...

    s

Music videos

  • "Flowers Become Screens" (1994)
  • "Incantation" (1994)
  • "Euphoria (Firefly)" (1997)
  • "Duende" (1997)
  • "Silence" (Airscape Mix) (2000)
  • "Aria" (2000)
  • "Innocente" (Lost Witness Remix) (2001)
  • "Underwater" (Above & Beyond's 21st Century remix) (2002)
  • "After All" (2003)
  • "After All" (Svenson & Gielen edit) (2003)
  • "Angelicus" (2007)
  • "Lost And Found" (2007)
  • "Dust In Gravity" (2009)

Remixes

  • Speedy J
    Speedy J
    Speedy J , is a Dutch electronic music producer based in the city of Rotterdam. His breakthrough came with the release in 1992 of the minimal techno track Pullover...

     – "Pull Over" (1997)
  • Tara MacLean
    Tara MacLean
    Tara MacLean is a Canadian singer and songwriter...

     – "Divided" (2000)
  • Deep Dish
    Deep Dish
    Deep Dish is a duo of DJs and house-music producers consisting of Iranian-American members Ali "Dubfire" Shirazinia and Sharam Tayebi. Based in Washington, D.C., Shirazinia and Tayebi are well known for providing house or dance remixes of tracks of famous stars such as Madonna, Cher and Gabrielle,...

     – "Innocente" (2001)
  • DJ Tiesto
    Tiësto
    Tijs Michiel Verwest, , known as Tiësto , is a Dutch musician, DJ and record producer of electronic dance music. Although he has used many aliases in the past, he is best known for his work as DJ Tiësto...

     – "Innocente" (2001); Silence
  • Sasha Lazard
    Sasha Lazard
    Dominique "Sasha" Lazard is an American classical crossover singer.Lazard was born in New York and grew up in Paris. She attended Bennington College and the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, studying opera, but after graduation pursued a more electronic-influenced sound inspired by the local...

     – "Awakening" (2002)
  • Clint Mansell
    Clint Mansell
    Clinton Darryl "Clint" Mansell, is an English musician, composer, and former lead singer and guitarist of the band Pop Will Eat Itself....

     – "Requiem for a Dream Soundtrack - Deluxed" (2002)
  • Lunik
    Lunik
    Lunik is a band from Switzerland. There are currently four members.Lunik started in 1997 with Adi Amstutz, Luk Zimmermann, Mats Marti, Walo Müller and Anton Höglhammer. Singer Jaël joined the band in 1998 and Anton Höglhammer left the line-up. 1999 saw the release of their debut album Rumour,...

     – "Waiting" (2003)

Third-party compilations that include Delerium

  • Space Daze: The history & mystery of electronic ambient space rock (Cleopatra, 1994), 2CD. Featured the song "Dark Matter" from the album Spheres.
  • The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
    The Crow: Stairway to Heaven
    The Crow: Stairway to Heaven was a 1998 Canadian television series created by Bryce Zabel based on The Crow comic by James O'Barr starring Mark Dacascos in the lead role as Eric Draven, reprising the role originally played by Brandon Lee in the 1994 film The Crow...

    , 1998. Featured the song "Silence" in one episode.
  • Brokedown Palace
    Brokedown Palace
    Brokedown Palace is an American film directed by Jonathan Kaplan, and starring Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale. It deals with two American friends imprisoned in Thailand for drug smuggling. Because it presents a critical view of the Thai legal system, most scenes were filmed in the Philippines;...

    Soundtrack (Island, 1999), CD Prominently featured "Silence".
  • Tomb Raider
    Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
    Lara Croft: Tomb Raider is a 2001 adventure thriller film adapted from the Tomb Raider video game series. Directed by Simon West and starring Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, it was released in U.S. theaters on June 15, 2001. The film was a commercial success...

    Soundtrack (Elektra / Wea, 2001), CD. Featured a slightly modified version of "Terra Firma"
  • Best of Mystera
    Mystera
    Mystera is a series of compilation albums produced by the label Polystar in Germany. The Mystera compilations include a variety of genres, including ambient, celtic, classical, electronica, industrial, new age, and world music. The Mystera albums have been primarily marketed in Europe.-Mystera...

    (Polys, 2000), 2CD
  • Doctor Death's Volume IV: The Marvels of Insect Life (C'est la Mort, 1990) CD. Featured the song "A Certain Trust."
  • Faeries: A Musical Companion to the Art of Brian Froud (RCA, 2002) CD. Featured the song "Nature's Kingdom."

Guest artists / vocalists

  • Camille Henderson
    Camille Henderson
    Camille Henderson , is a Canadian pop singer.She played the role of Shirley in the classic Canadian movie My American Cousin in 1985, and then went on to become part of the Vancouver-based pop group West End Girls from 1991 to 1993...

    Karma: "Duende"
  • Emily Haines
    Emily Haines
    Emily Haines is a Canadian indie rock singer-songwriter. She is the lead singer and keyboardist of the band Metric and a member of Broken Social Scene. As a solo artist, she performed with her own name and under the alias Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton...

    Chimera: "Stopwatch Hearts"
    Co-founder and singer/keyboardist of Toronto-based electronic band Metric
    Metric (band)
    Metric is a Canadian indie rock and New Wave band founded in 1998 in Toronto. The band has also at various times been based in Montreal, London, New York City and Los Angeles...

    .
  • Isabel Bayrakdarian
    Isabel Bayrakdarian
    Isabel Bayrakdarian is a Grammy Award-nominated Armenian Canadian opera singer.-Early life:Born in Lebanon in 1974, she moved to Canada as a teenager. Bayrakdarian graduated in 1997 from the University of Toronto with an honours B.A.Sc...

    Nuages Du Monde : "Angelicus", "Lumenis"
  • Jacqui Hunt
    Karma: "Euphoria (Firefly)"
    Lead vocalist from Single Gun Theory
    Single Gun Theory
    Single Gun Theory is an Australian band made up of Jacqui Hunt , Pete Rivett-Carnac and Kath Power , recording on the Canadian label Nettwerk. Their music combines elements of downtempo electronic dance music with introspective, ethereal vocals and samples of dialogue...

    .
  • Jaël
    Jaël
    Jaël, , is a singer-songwriter from the band Lunik. She also co-wrote and sang with Delerium on the song After All on their album Chimera, and the song Lost and Found on their album Nuages du Monde. She is both internationally famous in the Trance music community as well as domestically famous from...

    Chimera: "After All"
    Nuages Du Monde: "Lost and Found"
    Of Swiss band Lunik
    Lunik
    Lunik is a band from Switzerland. There are currently four members.Lunik started in 1997 with Adi Amstutz, Luk Zimmermann, Mats Marti, Walo Müller and Anton Höglhammer. Singer Jaël joined the band in 1998 and Anton Höglhammer left the line-up. 1999 saw the release of their debut album Rumour,...

    .
  • Jenifer McLaren
    Poem: "Fallen Icons", "Nature's Kingdom II"
    Canadian-born pop artist. This was her debut with Nettwerk
    Nettwerk
    The Nettwerk Music Group is the umbrella company for Nettwerk Management, Nettwerk Records, Nettwerk One Publishing, Nutone Records, and Artwerk. With over 150 employees, the Vancouver-based company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, London, Boston, Nashville, and Hamburg...

    .
  • Joanna Stevens
    Poem: "Myth", "A Poem for Byzantium"
    One half of Solar Twins
    Solar Twins (band)
    Solar Twins are an English electronica duo with Joanna Stevens and David Norland .Solar Twins were signed by Guy Oseary at Maverick Records after playing at Viper Room. They are known for their version of Rock the Casbah, found on the soundtrack to the movie Brokedown Palace...

    , an electronica group based in Los Angeles; originally from the UK.
  • Julee Cruise
    Julee Cruise
    Julee Cruise is an American singer, and actress.With a distinctive, airy voice, Cruise has recorded three albums, but is probably best known for the lead vocal on "Falling," the theme song for the cult U.S. television series Twin Peaks...

    Chimera: "Magic"
    worked with Angelo Badalamenti
    Angelo Badalamenti
    Angelo Badalamenti is an American composer, known for his movie soundtrack work for director David Lynch, notably Blue Velvet, the Twin Peaks saga and Mulholland Drive...

    , David Lynch
    David Lynch
    David Keith Lynch is an American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor. Known for his surrealist films, he has developed his own unique cinematic style, which has been dubbed "Lynchian", and which is characterized by its dream imagery and meticulous sound...

    , and Moby
    Moby
    Richard Melville Hall , better known by his stage name Moby, is an American musician, DJ, and photographer. He is known mainly for his sample-based electronic music and his outspoken liberal political views, including his support of veganism and animal rights.Moby gained attention in the early...

    .
  • Kiran Ahluwalia
    Kiran Ahluwalia
    Kiran Ahluwalia is an Indo-Canadian singer who publicly performs her own musical arrangements of ancient Persian and Punjabi Ghazals, or poems....

    Nuages du Monde: "Indoctrination"
  • Kirsty Hawkshaw
    Kirsty Hawkshaw
    Kirsty Hawkshaw is a British dance/electronica/house/trance musician and songwriter. She is known for her participation as lead vocalist for the group Opus III, and her collaborative work with other musicians and producers....

    Poem: "Nature's Kingdom", "Inner Sanctum"
    Nuages Du Monde: "Fleeting Instant"
    Singer for a number of bands including Opus III
    Opus III
    Opus III were a techno and house music group from England who had success on the UK Singles Chart and on the U.S. Dance charts. The group consisted of vocalist Kirsty Hawkshaw and producers/musicians Kevin 'The Fly' Dodds, Ian Munro and Nigel 'Spider' Walton...

    , Sleepthief
    Sleepthief
    Sleepthief is an American electronic music recording project formed by producer and composer Justin Elswick. Elswick began writing music for the album ten years prior to its release. The album was mixed, mastered, co-produced, and co-arranged by Israel Curtis...

    , Pulusha, BT
    BT (musician)
    Brian Wayne Transeau is a classically trained and Grammy-nominated American music producer, composer, audio technician, multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter better known by his stage name, BT. He is an artist in the electronic genre...

    , Tiësto, and Mr. Sam. personal website.
  • Kristy Thirsk
    Kristy Thirsk
    Kristy Thirsk is a platinum selling Canadian singer-songwriter best known for her work with Delerium.-Rose Chronicles:She was the singer and a co-writer for the band Rose Chronicles, which was signed to Nettwerk in the 1990s. Rose Chronicles released two full-length albums: Shiver , which won a...

    Chimera: "Returning"
    Nuages Du Monde: "Self-Saboteur" (spelled "Self-Sabateur" on some releases)
    Karma: "Enchanted", "Wisdom", "'Til the End of Time", "Heaven's Earth", "Lamentation"
    Semantic Spaces: "Flowers Become Screens", "Incantation", "Flatlands"
    Kristy also has a solo career and has sung for Sleepthief
    Sleepthief
    Sleepthief is an American electronic music recording project formed by producer and composer Justin Elswick. Elswick began writing music for the album ten years prior to its release. The album was mixed, mastered, co-produced, and co-arranged by Israel Curtis...

    , Balligomingo
    Balligomingo
    Balligomingo is an electronic music project by Garrett Schwarz and Vic Levak. Their music has been compared to that of Delerium, Massive Attack, Mythos, Nitin Sawhney and Enigma. The current Album Under an Endless Sky has been released via the group's website in early August 2009...

    , Front Line Assembly
    Front Line Assembly
    Front Line Assembly is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. Influenced by early Industrial acts such as Cabaret Voltaire, Portion Control, D.A.F., Test Dept, SPK, and Severed Heads, FLA has developed its own unique sound while combining...

    , D:Fuse
    D:Fuse
    D:Fuse is an American producer, remixer and DJ based out of Los Angeles, California.He is the co-owner of Lost Angeles Recordings, along with fellow DJ/producer Mike Hiratzka. The duo’s first release on their label was the D:Fuse & Hiratzka album ‘Skyline Lounge’, which was initially released on...

     & Mike Hiratzka, and Rose Chronicles
    Rose Chronicles
    Rose Chronicles was a Canadian alternative rock band in the 1990s. The band, from Vancouver, consisted of vocalist Kristy Thirsk, guitarist Richard Maranda, bassist Judd Cochrane and drummer Steve van der Woerd.-Career:...

    .
  • Leigh Nash
    Poem: "Innocente"
    Chimera: "Run for It", "Orbit of Me"
    Lead singer of Sixpence None the Richer
    Sixpence None the Richer
    Sixpence None the Richer is an American rock/pop band that formed in New Braunfels, Texas, eventually settling in Nashville, Tennessee. They are best known for their songs "Kiss Me" and "Breathe Your Name" and their covers of "Don't Dream It's Over" and "There She Goes". The name of the band is...

    .
  • Lisa Gerrard
    Lisa Gerrard
    Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer, and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with former music partner Brendan Perry....

    Karma: "Forgotten Worlds"
  • Margaret Far
    Chimera: "Just a Dream"
  • Matthew Sweet
    Matthew Sweet
    Sidney Matthew Sweet is an American alternative rock/power pop musician. He was part of the burgeoning Athens, Georgia music scene in the early and mid-1980s before gaining commercial success during the early 1990s...

    Poem: "Daylight"
    One part of The Thorns
    The Thorns
    The Thorns are an American acoustic rock band formed in 2002 as a project of Matthew Sweet, Pete Droge, and Shawn Mullins.The band toured the United States and Europe throughout 2003, in support of their eponymous debut album.-Discography:...

    ; also has a solo pop career.
  • Mediæval Bæbes, The
    Mediæval Bæbes
    The Mediæval Bæbes are a British ensemble of female musicians founded in the 1990s by Katharine Blake and included some of her colleagues from the band Miranda Sex Garden, as well as other friends who share her love of mediaeval music...

    Poem: "Aria"
    Nuages Du Monde: "Sister Sojourn Ghost", "Extollere"
    A group of young women who sing Mediæval style songs in Latin, etc.
  • Nerina Pallot
    Nerina Pallot
    Nerina Pallot is a platinum selling, BRIT Award and Ivor Novello Award nominated British singer and songwriter. Although born in London, Pallot was brought up in Jersey to a half-French father and mother from Allahabad, India.-Early life:Pallot played piano as a child and wrote her first song...

    Chimera: "Truly"
    Nerina has three albums, Dear Frustrated Superstar
    Dear Frustrated Superstar
    Dear Frustrated Superstar is the debut album by Nerina Pallot. Following its release in August 2001, the album peaked at UK #82, but officially did not chart as the official UK Albums Chart lists only the Top 75 sellers....

    , Fires and The Graduate
    The Graduate (Nerina Pallot album)
    -Background and production:The album was released more than three years after the gold-selling Fires and marks a change in the musical genre for Pallot. According to her biography on her official MySpace page: "The Graduate has piano-driven songs high on happy pills, woozy electronics and beefed up...

    .
  • Rachel Fuller
    Rachel Fuller
    Rachel Fuller is a British musician. She is a successful independent pop music artist, a composer and occasional collaborator with rock musician and partner to Pete Townshend.-Early life:...

    Chimera: "Touched"
    Rachel has worked with Pete Townshend
    Pete Townshend
    Peter Dennis Blandford "Pete" Townshend is an English rock guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and author, known principally as the guitarist and songwriter for the rock group The Who, as well as for his own solo career...

     (of The Who
    The Who
    The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964 by Roger Daltrey , Pete Townshend , John Entwistle and Keith Moon . They became known for energetic live performances which often included instrument destruction...

    , who also provides guitars on Touched) and she uses orchestras in her music.
  • Rani Kamal (aka Rani Kamalesvaran)
    Poem: "Underwater"
    Chimera: "Fallen"
    Rani has also worked with Conjure One
    Conjure One
    Conjure One is a Canadian electronic music project, headed by Rhys Fulber, better known as a member of Front Line Assembly and Delerium, as well as other musical groups alongside Bill Leeb.-History:...

     (Rhys Fulber's project).
  • Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah McLachlan
    Sarah Ann McLachlan, OC, OBC is a Canadian musician, singer and songwriter. Known for her emotional ballads and mezzo-soprano vocal range, as of 2006, she has sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is Surfacing, for which she won two Grammy Awards and four...

    Karma: "Silence"
    Sarah is an internationally renowned Canadian singer and songwriter.
  • Sultana
    Sultana
    Sultana may refer to:* "Sultâna", is the term used for the mothers of the Ottoman emperors if and only if the aforementioned mother of an ottoman emperor was acquired the title of "Valide Sultân"....

     (aka Songul Akturk)
    Chimera: "Forever After"
    Sultana is a rapper from Turkey.
  • Zoë Johnston
    Zoe Johnston
    Zoë Johnston is a British singer-songwriter , who grew up in Nottinghamshire. Johnston is best known for her vocal contributions to Faithless, Above & Beyond, Bent, and Delerium.-Early career:...

    Chimera: "Love"
    Nuages Du Monde: "The Way You Want It To Be"
    Zoë has previously worked with Bent
    Bent (band)
    Bent are an electronica act from Nottingham in England, consisting of Neil "Nail" Tolliday and Simon Mills. They gained critical acclaim from their debut album Programmed to Love in 2000....

    , Faithless
    Faithless
    Faithless were a British electronica band consisting of Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo. The group is best known for their dance songs . Faithless recorded six albums. During their career they sold over 15 million records worldwide...

     and Above & Beyond
    Above & Beyond (band)
    Above & Beyond are a British trance music group formed in 2000 and consists of the members Jono Grant, Tony McGuinness, and Finnish Paavo Siljamäki. They have their own record label Anjunabeats, which releases trance and progressive music, and they also host their own weekly radio show Trance...

    .

See also

  • Fauxliage
    Fauxliage
    Fauxliage is a musical project made by members of the Canadian electronic music group Delerium and Leigh Nash in 2007. The vocals are performed exclusively with Leigh Nash of Sixpence None the Richer.-Track listing:...

     — a musical project made by members of the Canadian electronic music group Delerium and Leigh Nash in 2007.
  • Influenced by Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma (musical project)
    Enigma is an electronic musical project founded in Germany by Michael Cretu, David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. The Romanian-born Cretu conceived the Enigma project while working in Germany, but has based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain, since the early 1990s until May...

  • List of number-one dance hits (United States)
  • List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
  • Number 1 Singles in Ireland 2000
  • Number 1 Dance Singles in Ireland 2000
    Number 1 Dance Singles in Ireland 2000
    These are the IRMA's number one dance singles in Ireland in 2000.-See also:*2000 in music*List of artists who reached number one in Ireland*List of songs that reached number one on the Irish Singles Chart- References :...


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