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Delerium — A Poem for Byzantium
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d-don
(Oregon)
Posted: Apr 09, 2013 - 14:12
 
 What beautiful vocals. Terrific song.
cShaggy
Posted: Mar 09, 2013 - 02:27
 
..i'll take poetry like this (both lyrically & melodically) any day..a 9er on first hearing..
citybiker
(Chicago)
Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 08:05
 
 Businessgypsy wrote:
MadPercolator wrote:
Man, I thought this album was the cat's ass ... then I burned some of the tracks for friends and became immediately aware of how pretentious everything on this album sounds... still, an interesting and noble attempt.
Maybe, but it's just the tonic needed on a Saturday morning when you're pretty sure you can see a dim light at the end of the tunnel formed by the breakup of a long and stormy relationship. Too autobiographical? Okay, so I'm all depressed - but at least I'm not up in my room building an interocitor.

 

This song bored me, so i had to look up what an interocitor was. Not boring! I might have to build one (as long as it gets RP signal, of course)

kingart
(Brooklyn NY)
Posted: Oct 03, 2012 - 08:01
 
Lovely melody and production. Thought provoking, and quite different for this musical genre. Soothing and not tiresome. Would bear up to repeated listens. Sexy too. 
 

rabaak
Posted: Apr 28, 2012 - 06:46
 
This is the second Delerium song I have heard recently that has caught my attention. I will have to check them out. 

tmarko
(Ohio)
Posted: Apr 06, 2011 - 09:31
 
There are so many things about this song i like; the melancholy, the percussion, the bass line, the vocal accompaniment.

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 09:19
 
 mandolin wrote:
...for just a moment i thought we were going to hear the chorale rendition of adagio for strings...
 
...hey, i'm consistent!..

mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Mar 14, 2011 - 09:18
 
...shades of the choral arrangement of adagio for strings in the opening soundscape...

Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD)
Posted: Aug 04, 2010 - 20:41
 
 Shimmer wrote:
This does not sound like the version of this song on the Poem CD. Am I misremembering? I think I like this version better.
 
Bumping myself up here. Where does this version come from?


Businessgypsy
(Deepest, Darkest Florida)
Posted: Feb 27, 2010 - 04:45
 
MadPercolator wrote:
Man, I thought this album was the cat's ass ... then I burned some of the tracks for friends and became immediately aware of how pretentious everything on this album sounds... still, an interesting and noble attempt.
Maybe, but it's just the tonic needed on a Saturday morning when you're pretty sure you can see a dim light at the end of the tunnel formed by the breakup of a long and stormy relationship. Too autobiographical? Okay, so I'm all depressed - but at least I'm not up in my room building an interocitor.


MortimerS
Posted: Oct 24, 2009 - 11:46
 
R starcloud wrote:
an all time (7 year) favorite! 
 
Really? Wow. Like, just, wow. You really see this one?!  Wow. I'll try again later.

I admit to being in a rock 'n' roll mood this saturday afternoon which means I ain't gonna judge.


hippiechick
(topsy turvy land)
Posted: Oct 24, 2009 - 11:44
 
Bill, you are playing some real favorites for me today!

starcloud
(Coordinate Update: 35.3592 - 120.8482 you're close enough)
Posted: Jul 21, 2009 - 19:30
 
an all time (7 year) favorite! 

songbirdfemme
(syracuse ny)
Posted: May 19, 2009 - 06:12
 
 songbirdfemme wrote:
anyone ever hear of Solar Twins? Is this the same singer?
  I am here to answer my own question, yes, it is the same singer as Solar Twins... who are famous for their electronic version of the clash's "rock the casbah" (a pretty cool version)


heeb
(Gateshead (Newcastle), United Kingdom)
Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 15:21
 
What an amazing bass sound... wow...

aaoaoo
(Sacramento)
Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 15:20
 
 MrSpaz wrote:
Are you cooking up there? "No!"
Are you building an Interocitor? "No!"
 
This obscure reference made me smile.  Thank you.


pipedreams
Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 15:19
 
I dig.

fuh2
(salmon land)
Posted: Apr 17, 2009 - 15:18
 
Goosebump intro

Isabeau
(on the bridge)
Posted: Nov 10, 2008 - 16:56
 
Thank you BG. needed to hear this.

songbirdfemme
(syracuse ny)
Posted: Jul 07, 2008 - 06:58
 
anyone ever hear of Solar Twins? Is this the same singer?
Shesdifferent
(Just visiting this planet waiting for the ticket home)
Posted: Jun 05, 2008 - 18:37
 
I love these guys....
MsJudi
(Houston, TX)
Posted: May 05, 2008 - 08:12
 
This is one of my favorite songs of theirs, so very poignant.
Ellehcim
(Ottawa, ON,Canada)
Posted: Apr 03, 2008 - 20:16
 
I love this song. Helped me through a rough patch....its beautiful and haunting.
whitenoyse
(PDX Stumptown)
Posted: Jan 31, 2008 - 21:31
 
Yes. I needed just this tonight.
nevar23
(Georgia)
Posted: Jan 31, 2008 - 21:29
 
A very bittersweet and beautiful song. One of my favorite Delerium tracks.
cathenley
(Santa Maria, CA)
Posted: Jan 31, 2008 - 21:29
 
Misterfixit wrote:
I worry about all this hindoo music. Those screeches, when processed in reverse using a special exothermic Interocitor device, reveal possible messages to Large Grey Space Aliens secretly living under the Denver International Airport (symbol DIA .. get it?).

Very relaxing, however ... my eyes are heavy, soooooo heavy ..



What ever he's smoking, I want some!
Shimmer
(Bethesda, MD)
Posted: Dec 31, 2007 - 10:57
 
This does not sound like the version of this song on the Poem CD. Am I misremembering? I think I like this version better.
mandolin
(...drifting...)
Posted: Dec 31, 2007 - 10:34
 
...for just a moment i thought we were going to hear the chorale rendition of adagio for strings...
nigelr
(Coffs Harbour, Australia)
Posted: Nov 30, 2007 - 01:29
 
Lots of nice things happening here!
davin
(Victoria, British Columbia)
Posted: Oct 29, 2007 - 15:08
 
Oh dear.

Misterfixit wrote:
I worry about all this hindoo music. Those screeches, when processed in reverse using a special exothermic Interocitor device, reveal possible messages to Large Grey Space Aliens secretly living under the Denver International Airport (symbol DIA .. get it?).

Very relaxing, however ... my eyes are heavy, soooooo heavy ....


fuji
(Japan)
Posted: Aug 12, 2007 - 02:49
 
I like the singing voice that she loves and Western dramatic development.
felix_the_man
(the shores of Puget Sound)
Posted: Jul 11, 2007 - 14:55
 
I find this song very inspiring........




MadPercolator
Posted: Jul 11, 2007 - 14:40
 
Man, I thought this album was the cat's ass when it was released, at a time when I was into this classical music major in college... then I burned some of the tracks for friends and became immediately aware of how pretentious everything on this album sounds.

... still, an interesting and noble attempt.
MrSpaz
(Orlando, FL)
Posted: Jun 25, 2007 - 22:14
 
Misterfixit wrote:
I worry about all this hindoo music. Those screeches, when processed in reverse using a special exothermic Interocitor device, reveal possible messages to Large Grey Space Aliens secretly living under the Denver International Airport (symbol DIA .. get it?).

Very relaxing, however ... my eyes are heavy, soooooo heavy ....



Are you cooking up there? "No!"
Are you building an Interocitor? "No!"
Misterfixit
(Nashville)
Posted: May 25, 2007 - 13:14
 
I worry about all this hindoo music. Those screeches, when processed in reverse using a special exothermic Interocitor device, reveal possible messages to Large Grey Space Aliens secretly living under the Denver International Airport (symbol DIA .. get it?).

Very relaxing, however ... my eyes are heavy, soooooo heavy ....


mutepoint
Posted: May 25, 2007 - 13:04
 
A fine album end to end. Very yummy.
TexasAggies
(Houston, TX)
Posted: Feb 20, 2007 - 09:37
 
Lyrics are very poignant for me at this moment. Quality song.
mjwstickings
(Toronto)
Posted: Feb 20, 2007 - 09:36
 
One of Delerium's very best.
Alexandra
(The American Riviera--so come visit!!!)
Posted: Feb 20, 2007 - 09:31
 
This song has been with me on many a meditative beachwalk!
artmaven
(A cultural wasteland by the sea . . .)
Posted: Apr 04, 2006 - 23:39
 
Delerium - A Poem For Byzantium

Unbidden shadows of you formed yesterday
I ran away to a room here on the bay
Interrupted life again, another new beginning
Where the silence echoes you're no longer with me

Here and now, i feel that i'm embracing freedom
Even though i may be alone, but that's ok

Through the darkness i would walk in the streets
Confessions never seemed to provide me with a release
Held me down and tried to cure me tried to give me reason
But nothing could separate this burdened mind from me

Here and now, i feel that i'm embracing freedom
Even though i may be alone, but that's ok
And looking out to a different sky will disengage me
Absence is never the answer, i know, but it serves as my shade

I do not seek and do not intend to find
A calmer ocean or a sun that never will rise
My world will never change and time'll bring you to my thoughts,
and
I'll move on and then forget you all over again
Moving on, i can forgive you all over again

Here and now, i feel that i'm embracing freedom
Even though i may be alone, but that's ok
And looking out onto a different sky it seems so easy
Absence is never the answer, i know, but it serves as my shade

algrif
(Slightly west of Zero)
Posted: Mar 21, 2006 - 06:15
 
If only this didn't sound so much like trashy pop musak....It's almost good. But....
DarkPriestess
(Independence, MO)
Posted: Mar 06, 2006 - 13:51
 
Not my favorite off this album, but good nevertheless.
hippiechick
Posted: Mar 06, 2006 - 11:37
 
This album, as well as their earlier albums are really good. Wish their follow-up was as good, but it just doesn't move me.
plutodazed
(Out there on Pluto...)
Posted: Nov 09, 2005 - 14:38
 
Ethereal songs are always awesome!
jah_blessed
(Netherlands)
Posted: Oct 11, 2005 - 08:23
 
MrSpaz wrote:


I don't know about it being "funny." Just a new cultural point of reference. Kinda like people associating music with films. That was probably kinda odd 75 years ago.


SSX3 (snowboarding game) has a terrific soundtrack. I'll always associate the songs with that game, they get kind of burned in your mind after so much playing. (For instance, The Bitter End by Placebo.)
Baby_M
(a 100-year old building in downtown Akron, Ohio)
Posted: Oct 11, 2005 - 08:10
 
This is pretty . . . I am really liking this.
MrSpaz
(Orlando, FL)
Posted: Oct 11, 2005 - 08:08
 
masterhead wrote:
It is so funny when people start to define music through Video Games.
To me ther introduction sounded like Jeam Michel Jarre and the rest of the song sounded..well quite generic.


I don't know about it being "funny." Just a new cultural point of reference. Kinda like people associating music with films. That was probably kinda odd 75 years ago.
Thea
(Sacto)
Posted: Jul 29, 2005 - 11:40
 
Love this song, and love the album. Some songs suffice as good background music, but some are terrific on their own.
timandjuliet
(Colorado, USA)
Posted: Mar 04, 2005 - 07:48
 
Odd little stew. Pretty good, and I get the feeling I'll like it even more next hearing.
Tarindel
Posted: Feb 17, 2005 - 14:40
 
masterhead wrote:
It is so funny when people start to define music through Video Games.
To me ther introduction sounded like Jeam Michel Jarre and the rest of the song sounded..well quite generic.


They do sound like JMJ sometimes, just not quite as minimalist. Poem (the album) is sort of a mixture of JMJ with pop overtones. The two previous albums (Semantic Spaces and Karma) are much better since they don't have the poppy overtones (with a few exceptions, like "Firefly" off of Karma). They're more moody, and I'd highly recommend both of them if you like JMJ.