Delirium

Amazon.com Delirium is Cirque du Soleil's idea of a greatest-hits package. Accompanying a show that's more music-driven than usual, the album is based on past Cirque songs--but unlike in Le Best Of, they're updated with new lyrics by Robbie Dillon and retooled by producer Francis Collard. The first song, "Cold Flame," is pretty typical, sounding both modern and traditional, a mix embodied by Elie Haroun's often Sting-like vocals. The most interesting tracks are the one that best embody Cirque's East-meets-West, everything-old-is-new-again ethos: "Too High," with its propulsive dance beat and Middle Eastern accents; "A Walk on Water" with its French-language rap; "La Nova Alegría," layering Brazilian-flavored guitars and a regular, pounding thump. Overall the more thoughtful songs, which often threaten to devolve into sap ("Let Me Fall"), don't work as well as the danciest ones ("One Love" is a real corker that sounds like it'd be a classic in European discothèques). Biggest missed opportunity: Britain's Nitin Sawhney contributes only a brief spoken interlude to "Lifeline." --Elisabeth Vincentelli Product Description . Review "...magical and hypnotic..." -- New Pittsburgh Courier "...pure pleasure - beautiful, gutsy, nearly classical in lyricism and performed to perfection... nothing less than unprecendented." -- Billboard Magazine "...whoever made the 15 choices was shear music genius." -- Queens Times Delirium can keep the listener wrapped into its sounds and make them wish it lasted longer than one hour. -- New Pittsburgh Courier
ASIN: B000G2YD1O
VSKU: DBV.B000G2YD1O.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Cirque du Soleil
Binding: Audio cd
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