The Part about being Conjured into Delerium...

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woah...i've spent a motherload on money these past few months due to being 'drugged' by super music. It all started when i bought a chill out in ibiza 3 album. most of you reading this know i have a 'thing' for chill-out/ambient music. Whereupon i heard a track called Silence and it was from a group or artiste called Delerium. The track featured Sarah McLachlan whom some of you out there may or may not know...Delerium is actually a duo consisting of Rhys Fulber and Bill Leeb. Fulber eventually spinned off from Deleriium to set up his own solo project called Conjure One-but more on that a little later.

anyway...when I heard Silence then i knew that it was simply a mindblowing track. Silence was pure aural genius. simply breathtakingly beautiful and haunting. I kept listening to it when i was in Brunei on my 2nd detachment. When I came back, I chanced upon the 'Best Of Delerium' album-which was essentially the best music/tracks/songs which Delerium thought they had written/composed. Somehow or rather fate led me to it. Since I bought that album and assimilated it to my MP3 player, I searched out for the remaining earlier albums and bought them since that day. Semantic Spaces, Karma, Chimera and Poem. Geniuses created these beautiful haunting ethereal pieces of heaven. All with just the right amount of middle eastern percussion, gregorian chants, and electro-pop-ambinet-chill out constructions. (not all in the the same amounts). I jus realised that I'd been ignoring my other MP3s!

I've enquired other ppl about it and apparently obody around here listens or heards of Delerium before! Except of course save perhaps the Lush 99.5 crew to some extent. The only other person who may have heard about it was my cousin Sharon, who shares a similar music interests as I do. Oh BTW, for those of you who enjoyed Canto alla Vita in Josh Groban's (which he sang with The Corrs [my all time fave irish group] ) album-u might find it interesting to note that Rhys Fulber did the producing for that track...

Conjure one is Fulber's attempt to write songs similar to those he had done for Delerium in the albums of Poem and Chimera. The initial album is great too..though maybe not with the lush ethereal sounds...but the definate eletronica groove worthy of being savoured in a wine bar or with a cup of earl grey on a sunset beach front is still evident.