Early Delerium at their best

This is Delerium at its best. Ambient, sometimes dark beats fused with industrialised gregorian chants make this album a must for any hardcore Delerium fan. There are 6 tracks on the first volume all over 5 mins in lenth. It is a album that is probably meant for 100 years in the future. Leeb and Fulber got the mix right and the CD cover is perfect, the back showing our moon and the front Saturn and its splendid rings.



Any of these tracks would feature rightly so on any sci fic movie, they have a dark ambience about them. This album was released after Morpheus in 1994 and showed Delerium moving onwards from its early developement stage into its mature stage where the Spheres proves that with age the music of delerium is universal.

Excellent ambient disc.

This is my favorite Delerium album. It's by far the most spacey and minimalist. I almost didn't give it a fair shake because the samples of HAL from 2001 in the beginning of the first track are so obvious and silly that they make me laugh, but the other five tracks are really top-notch stuff, especially track 6 which is a very beautiful ambient piece a la Brian Eno's "Apollo" or early Tangerine Dream (but with better production). "Spheres" is not at all like later Delerium releases - e.g. Semantic Spaces, Karma, Poem, etc., when they got more danceable and added the female vocalist(s). Those more dancey albums aren't my bag - I hate the vocals and the tame, predictable beats don't do much for me. Chances are, if you like those later albums a lot, you probably won't like this.

Excellent disc!

This is Delerium for those who are worried about buying something too structured. Excellent CD, but only for fans of ambient and ethereal...fans of Karma, Poem, and Chimera may be disappointed. But buy it anyway! Expand your horizons!