When I first heard Karma I was disapointed. I had just heard the first two songs on the track and thought "what on earth-it sounds like a canibalism ritual". I was even about to return the item for some credit. But then after listening every song through, I became addicted to the music. Even today I look forward to listening to every one of the 11 tracks of Karma. The music is unlike anything I've heard over the radio. It's relaxing and soothing to the mind. The way the songs have been arranged is ingenious-It flows very well. If you enjoy gregorian and space like music than Karma is worth your time. I think I'll try the album Semantic Spaces one of these days. But for the time being, Karma keeps my appetite satisfied.

I first heard Delerium's "Karma" sometime at the end of the year 2000; the world, of which, was an entirely different place. Or maybe it was the fact that I was but 19 years old at the time and looked at every new experience with the widest eyes ...

Anyway, I fell in love with Delerium, and for that matter, electronic music right then and there. I found out sometime later that Gregorian chants and all the "New Age" had actually died with the 1990s, but to this day I am NOT dismayed in the least. And everytime I listen to this album (to me it still holds up today), I look back in wonder and amazement, with real nostalgia for that world that existed before this "Age of Terrorism."

As I mentioned earlier, the musical elements contained within "Karma" are electronic beeps, swoops and mysteriousness; Gregorian chants and tribal voices and rhythms; and sultry female vocals. "Silence," featuring guest-vocals by Sarah McLachlan, was a big hit from this album, albeit in any part of the English-speaking world aside from the United States. "Twilight" and "Remembrance" also stand as electronic masterpieces. Electronic music, in fact, was supposed to be the "sound of the 21st Century," but ... somehow we got stuck with hip-hop instead.

But if you're in the mood for that 1990s sound, then Delerium's "Karma" is one of your best bets. Another good choice would "Le Roi est Mort" by Enigma, circa 1996.

If you ask me.... no question. This album released in 1997 by the two boys of Delerium (Bill Leeb/Rhys Fulber) still sounds as innovative, inspiring and amazing as it did when I first heard it 8 years ago.

No single album in my collection (of over 300 CD's) of different types of music (from trance to hard rock to pop) has blown away people like Karma. For example, I travelled Europe in 2000 and during one of my many stops in the beautiful Swiss town of Gryon I played Karma in the "lounge" room of our hostel. Approximately 6 songs in, I had two women who looked absolutely astonished and mesmermized! The one finally asked, "Who is this.....? I have to know..... this is the most beautiful music I have ever heard!"

That is the kind of effect Delerium has. If you are reading this review in hopes of finding ethereal, ambient, mood, eclectic style music with a little dance thrown in, look no further. Karma will make your life better, simple as that.

Also grab Semantic Spaces which is a close second behind Karma.