Delerium - Nuages Du Monde
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Artist: DeleriumEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-03
Music Label: Nettwerk Records
Soundtracks:
- Angelicus
- Extollere
- The Way You Want It to Be
- Indoctrination
- Self Saboteur
- Tectonic Shift
- Lumensis
- Fleeting Instant
- Sister Sojourn Ghost
- Lost and Found
- Apparition
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Free Music Review: Not perfect but a nice return to form
Hit: 5 Stars
I would have given this a 4.5 stars if it was possible but felt 4 was too low.
After a rather uninspiring and pop oriented release with Chimera, Leeb/Fulber re-unite fulltime with the release of Nuages du Monde. Though still holding elements of Chimera's poppier sound at times, overall the sound is much more ethnic and soundscaping then both Chimera and Poem (to some extent). This is mostly due to the introduction of Isabel Bayrakdarian and Kiran Ahluwalia as guest artists. Isabel brings her soprano/operatic voice to the foreground on both Angelicus and Lumenis, easily two highlights on the album. Kiran Ahluwalia lends her voice to a very Bollywood feeling tune with Indoctrination. This combined with your typical Delerium fast beat, bass driven music and it could easily have fit on Karma, arguably Delerium's best work to date.
The Mediaeval Babes provide vocals on an additional two tracks, Extollere and Sister Sojourn Ghost and like Isabel's and Kiran's contributions are less lyrically structured, sounding more like an additional instrument or sample. Extollere is very reminiscent to Aria from Poem where SSG has strong Conjure One (Fulber's solo project) elements, both excellent tracks!
Fans of Chimera will enjoy songs by Zoe Johnston, Kristy Thirsk and Kirsty Hawkshaw who provide more traditional sounding and structured tracks.
Jael, the singer famous for After All, Chimera's big single also provides a very pop oriented tune on the album called Lost and Found. However, unlike the previous three artists tracks which though poppier in nature manage to fit into the realm of what Nuages has created, Lost and Found simply stands out as a Top 40 pop tune that dare I say may be one of their worst tunes ever written.
Delerium's famous instrumentals are also present with the epic Tectonic Shift and choir based Apparition. On both these tracks Delerium has taken their sound and created something not quite heard before. Both have a very cinematic feel, with a lot of strings and synths going hand in hand.
Its clear that Leeb/Fulber are continuing to evolve their sound and take it other places and for that one must respect and appreciate what they have accomplished. Though it works in more areas then it does not, it still lacks something. There is still not a tight cohesiveness and structure that made Karma and Semantic Spaces both original and groundbreaking.
However Nuages is still a strong release from the masters of ambient, electronic music and is a must for any Delerium fan.
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Lush electronic soundscaping with soaring, ethereal female vocals, emotive beats and colourful world elements. Delerium's unique style blossoms once again here in full opulent glory - the undulating synth arrangements, multi-layered and constantly varying are at their richest; strings, pianos and all manner of the global waves and samples fill the air with an exotic scent, the percussive structures inhabit that twilight space somewhere between live and digital, organic ethnic loops deftly entwined. Deep flutes and eastern wires frequently thicken the atmosphere and spacious interludes allow the synths room to evolve and shine - cycling, morphing arpeggios, doleful drones, beautiful shifting melodies. Many of the songs are wordless or sultry, moody affairs that work in smooth conjunction with the sumptuous programming, quirky, catchy themes that hit angelic highs and wistful lows brimming with emotionThere aren't a lot of musicians who actually start a trend, but as Delerium, Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb can take credit for the ethereal-girl genre of dream-pop electronica. From early releases like Karma, which included singer Sarah McLachlan, they've specialized in a mixture of lush, almost romantic electronica coupled with female singers that tend toward the ecstatic. Their latest album, Nuages du Monde, is no exception. Fulber and Leeb bring in a host of singers, from the operatic soprano Isabel Bayrakdarian to Punjabi Bollywood singer Kiran Ahluwalia. Also on board are old favorites the Mediæval Bæbes, whose "Blow Northern Wind" is sampled and adapted with new vocals on "Extoller." Kristy Thrisk, who goes back to the earliest vocal works of Delerium on Semantic Spaces, returns, joined by Kirsty Hawkshaw--a singer who's already been a favorite foil for artists like BT, Orbital, and DJ Tiësto. Along with Jael's "Lost and Found," Hawkshaw's "Fleeting Instant" is among the most likely pop singles from the disc. Like their previous album, Chimera, Nuages du Monde ("Clouds of the World") flirts dangerously with soporifically shlocky arrangements, but they've pulled back considerably, thickening the beats and trading synth strings for real on many tracks. The tribal "Sister Sojourn Ghost," the Bæbes' second appearance on the disc, is one of the few tracks that play with the formula, as an uncharacteristically primal chant from the Bæbes treads a dark, percussive groove. A bit more of that would have lifted Nuages du Monde beyond what seems to be a business-as-usual approach by Delerium. --John Diliberto
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