''Karma'' is the ninth studio album by Canadian industrial/

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group

Delerium Delerium is a Canadian new-age ambient electronic musical duo that formed in 1987, originally as a side project of the influential industrial music act Front Line Assembly. Throughout the band's history, their musical style has encompassed a ...

. Guest musicians on the album include

Sarah McLachlan Sarah Ann McLachlan (born January 28, 1968) is a Canadian singer-songwriter. As of 2015, she had sold over 40 million albums worldwide. McLachlan's best-selling album to date is ''Surfacing (album), Surfacing'' (1997), for which she won two G ...

("Silence"), Lisa Gerrard ("Forgotten Worlds"), Kristy Thirsk ("Enchanted", "Lamentation", "Wisdom", "'Til The End Of Time"), Jacqui Hunt ("Euphoria (Firefly)"),

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, and Camille Henderson ("Duende"). The album took around a year to record and assemble.

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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.

Release

The duo's collaboration with McLachlan, "

Silence Silence is the absence of ambient hearing, audible sound, the emission of sounds of such low sound intensity, intensity that they do not draw attention to themselves, or the state of having ceased to produce sounds; this latter sense can be exten ...

", became the band's biggest hit single. The song "Window to Your Soul" is featured in season four of ''

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'' 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". The single "Duende", featuring singer Camille Henderson, was released on September 23, 1997. It wasn't included on Delerium's ''

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'' collection. The chants heard in the song were sampled from the album ''Heart of the Forest'' performed by The Baka Forest Pygmies and taken from the CD ''Ritual Music of the Kayapo-Xirin, Brazil''. The remixes of the song were done by Emily and Dreamlogic, while the music video was made and directed by William Morrison.

Critical reception

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". 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".

Track listing

Disc one

#"Enchanted" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 8:30 #"Duende" (feat. Camille Henderson) – 5:22 #"Twilight" – 6:05 #"

" (feat. Sarah McLachlan) – 6:33 #"Forgotten Worlds" (feat. Lisa Gerrard) – 7:32 #"Lamentation" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 8:33 #"Euphoria (Firefly)" (feat. Jacqui Hunt) – 5:27 #"Remembrance" – 7:28 #"Wisdom" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 4:48 #"Koran" – 10:04 (due to sample clearance issues, replaced with "Window to Your Soul") – 9:25 #"'Til the End of Time" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 4:36 The track "'Til the End of Time" contains a sample of

Tori Amos Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos; August 22, 1963) is an American singer-songwriter and pianist. She is a classically trained musician with a mezzo-soprano vocal range. Having already begun composing instrumental pieces on piano, Amos won a full ...

' " Caught a Lite Sneeze".

Disc two (US release)

# " Heaven's Earth" (feat. Kristy Thirsk) – 8:11 # "Window to Your Soul" – 9:55 (Enhanced CD with pictures and videos as well as the CD audio tracks.)

Disc two (Australian release)

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

Charts

References

{{Authority control Delerium albums 1997 albums Nettwerk Records albums Albums produced by Rhys Fulber