'Karl Jenkins' History:
AdiemusAdiemus (pronounced /ædi'eməs/) is the title of a series of albums by British composer Karl Jenkins. Concept Each Adiemus album is a collection of song-length pieces featuring harmonised vocal melody against an orchestral background. There are no lyrics as such, instead the vocalists sing syllables and 'words' invented by Jenkins. However, rather than creating musical interest from patterns of phonemes as in scat singing, the language of Adiemus is carefully stylised so as not to distract the listener's attention from the pitch and timbre of the voice—for example, as in African languages, syllables ending in consonants are rare. The core concept of Adiemus is that the voice should be allowed to function as nothing more than an instrument, a post-modern approach that has become something of a trend in recent choral writing, for example Vangelis's score for the film 1492: Conquest of Paradise (1992). The word Adiemus itself resembles a Latin word meaning 'We will draw near', though incorrectly formed; Jenkins claims to have been unaware of this. |
Karl Jenkins Discography:
| Release Title and date | |
![]() | Adiemus IV - The Eternal Knot 2001 |
![]() | Adiemus III - Dances of Time 1998 |
![]() | adiemus 2 - cantata mundi 1997 |
![]() | Adiemus - Songs of Sanctuary 1995 |
| ademius ii cantata mundi | |
| adiemus | |
| adiemus | |
| adiemus (remix) | |
| adiemus - maxi cd |
| dance of time special edition | |
| dances of time | |
| diamond music | |
| imagined oceans | |
| karls_first_cuts | |
| kayama | |
| kayama (singlecd) | |
| kayamaremix | |
| palladio | |
| requiem |
| the journey - the best of adiemus | |
| the journey: the best of adiemus | |
| tiep | |
| tintinnabulim | |
| vocalise |






