Karma (Delerium album)

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Karma
Delerium - karma.png
Studio album by
ReleasedApril 22, 1997
RecordedVarious locations
Genre Electronic, worldbeat, ambient
Length72:48
Label Nettwerk
Producer Bill Leeb, Rhys Fulber
Delerium chronology
Spheres 2
(1994)
Karma
(1997)
Poem
(2000)
Singles from Karma
  1. "Euphoria (Firefly)"
    Released: April 22, 1997
  2. "Duende"
    Released: September 23, 1997
  3. "Silence"
    Released: June 14, 1999
  4. "Heaven's Earth"
    Released: December 10, 1999

Karma is the ninth studio album by Canadian industrial/electronic music group Delerium.

Contents

Guest musicians on the album include Sarah McLachlan ("Silence"), Lisa Gerrard ("Forgotten Worlds"), Kristy Thirsk ("Enchanted", "Lamentation", "Wisdom", "'Til The End Of Time"), Jacqui Hunt ("Euphoria (Firefly)"), Greg Reely, and Camille Henderson ("Duende").

The album took around a year to record and assemble. [1] Gregorian chants were recorded especially for the project; according to Bill Leeb, it was less expensive to hire a 30-piece choir, rent a West-Vancouver church, move the equipment and record the chants live than to pay for the rights to sample existing recordings. [1] The duo's collaboration with McLachlan, "Silence", became the band's biggest hit single. The song "Window to Your Soul" is featured in season four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer in episode 13 "The I in Team". The song "Remembrance" is featured in the beginning of the episode "Love Kills". In season 3 of the show "The sentinel".

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [2]
Ennui8.5/10 [3]
OutburnFavourable [4]
RPM Favourable [5]
Satan Stole My TeddybearFavourable [6]
SputnikmusicStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [7]

According to John Chedsey of Satan Stole My Teddybear, the electronic sounds on Karma are "airy, slightly cosmic and soothing", the vocals are light and soaring, and the album is "a very pleasant, unobtrusive listen". [6] Octavia of magazine Outburn called the album "an impressive combination of technological manipulation and human touch that will bring you a moody and complex energy". [4]

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Enchanted" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 8:30
  2. "Duende" (feat. Camille Henderson) – 5:22
  3. "Twilight" – 6:05
  4. "Silence" (feat. Sarah McLachlan) – 6:33
  5. "Forgotten Worlds" (feat. Lisa Gerrard) – 7:32
  6. "Lamentation" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 8:33
  7. "Euphoria (Firefly)" (feat. Jacqui Hunt) – 5:27
  8. "Remembrance" – 7:28
  9. "Wisdom" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 4:48
  10. "Koran" – 10:04 (due to sample clearance issues, replaced with "Window to Your Soul") – 9:25
  11. "'Til the End of Time" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 4:36

The track "'Til the End of Time" contains a sample of Tori Amos' "Caught a Lite Sneeze".

Disc two (US release)

  1. "Heaven's Earth" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 8:11
  2. "Window to Your Soul" – 9:55

(Enhanced CD with pictures and videos as well as the CD audio tracks.)

Disc two (Australian release)

  1. "Silence (Sanctuary Mix)" (feat. Sarah McLachlan) – 11:12
  2. "Euphoria (Firefly) (Rabbit in the Moon's Divine Gothic Disco Mix)" (feat. Jacqui Hunt) – 9:16
  3. "Flowers Become Screens (Frequency Modulation Mix)" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 7:57
  4. "Incantation (12" Mix Edit)" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 8:55
  5. "Duende (Bleak Desolation mix)" (feat. Camille Henderson) – 7:54
  6. "Heaven's Earth" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 8:09

Charts

Chart (1999)Peak
position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts) [8] 56

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