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
- Lumenis
- Fleeting Instant
- Sister Sojourn Ghost
- Lost And Found
- Apparition
Music reviews of Nuages Du Monde
Music Review: Not a return to Delerum more a something else...
Rating: 2 Stars
I am so glad I can listen to these online before buying. I have been a fan of Delerium since Sematic Spaces and they have really changed the sound on this one. I think Chimera is a much better album and I wrote a horrible review for that one. If you liked Chimera then maybe this album is for you... but then again its different than Chimera. I like some songs on this album don't get me wrong, but if you are expecting anything like Conjure One or Deliriums Karma album this will really disappoint you. I still think out of all the projects Rhys Fulber's done his best by far to me was the first album of Conjure One.
Track 1
It starts with opera (no joke) and tries to mix it with techno, which can be good, but the music doesn't mix with the voice on several passages. However its still a decent song and probably one of the better ones on the album.
Track 2
This is a very electronic sounding song, with some airy vocals. Normally I am a huge fan of this sound however they just did it wrong... and I find myself wanting to change to a different track. However if you hang on it does get better.
Track 3
This has some piano in it which I love, but the singing starts so depressing that you want to shoot yourself in the head. Make it stop already... But again it gets better if you just hand on. ;-)
Track 4
What a start its so awesome that you want to crank it up, then somehow the vocals just mess it up. I am not sure what it is but something is wrong. However if the whole album sounded more like the background in this I would rate the album a 4, 4.5. The vocals come in right when you are relaxed with a shrill sound that makes you want to change the track yet again.
Track 5
This song is okay, the voice is a little odd which in this song adds to it. The song is more popish but still one of the best on the Album.
Track 6
Again a great start for a song... This is more like the roots of Delerium then they mess it up again with some odd voice in the middle of the song.
To me its like they are trying to hard to sound different than anything they have done so they throw this odd sound into it in random spots. Yeah that will fix it and make it sound like something new. All these extra sounds they throw in make me why did you do that?
Track 7
There are some good sounds in this song. Another decent song, again they throw in some electronics and voice where it doesn't really fit.
Track 8
This sounds like song, yet I don't like parts of it. Still one of the better ones on the album.
Track 9
Very dark and has some highs, a great song. This is Delerium at its finest, smooth transitions between sounds. Love it, can you make an album like this again? If you do it will sit in my car cd player for months at a time and never get old.
Track 10
Good song again. This one is vocal but it has smooth transitions.
Track 11
Very good song. This is why I love Delerium right here. Now what happened on the rest of this album? This song makes me want to rate this whole album higher and play it again. However I can't stand the first tracks.
Its like they tried to hard on this album to make a new sound. In a lot of the tracks they went back to the roots and then throw in a new sound so it sounds like something new. Unfortunately none of the new sounds mix well with the old on the entire album.
If you really like the older Sematic Spaces sound of Delerium check out Ameythestium. If you like the popish check out Mysteria, Lesiem, Frou Frou, Vargo, 4-Strings, Hooverphonic, Kristy Hawkshaw, and if you like dark music check out Lunascape. Bottom line go elsewhere on this one.
Description of Nuages Du Monde
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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