__NOTOC__ ''Karma'' is the ninth studio album by Canadian

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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 Order of Canada, OC Order of British Columbia, OBC (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 ( ...

("Silence"),

Lisa Gerrard Lisa Germaine Gerrard (; born 12 April 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. She is known for her unique singing style technique ( ...

("Forgotten Worlds"),

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 re ...

("Enchanted", "Lamentation", "Wisdom", "'Til The End Of Time"),

Jacqui Hunt Single Gun Theory was an Australian electronic dance music band formed in 1986. Founding mainstay members were Jacqui Hunt on lead vocals; Kath Power on vocal melodies and synthesiser; and Peter Rivett-Carnac on guitar, synthesiser and samplin ...

("Euphoria (Firefly)"),

Greg Reely Greg Reely is a Canadian record producer, engineer, and mixer who has worked with acts such as Sarah McLachlan, Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Machine Head, Coldplay, The Tea Party, Spirit of the West and others. Credits *BAG - ''BAG'', ''I ...

, and

Camille Henderson Camille Henderson is a Canadian pop singer. She played the role of Shirley in Sandy Wilson's 1985 Canadian film ''My American Cousin''. She went on to become part of the Vancouver-based pop group West End Girls from 1991 to 1993. Following her ...

("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 Wilhelm Anton "Bill" Leeb (born 21 September 1966, in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian-Canadian electronic musician and record producer. He is best known for being a founding member of the industrial music group Front Line Assembly. Additionally ...

, 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. The duo's collaboration with McLachlan, "

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

", 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 "

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". The song "Remembrance" is featured in the beginning of the episode "Love Kills". In

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of the show " The sentinel".

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 #"

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" (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 ...

' "

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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