Voyage
Schiller 喜乐 2001年的专辑《Weltreise 征途》记录了一场激动人心的音乐会,其中很多曲目都已成为 Schiller 喜乐 的经典之作。例如《Ein schöner Tag / A Beautiful Day》,本是歌剧《蝴蝶夫人》中的经典咏叹调《Un Bel Di》,在 Schiller 喜乐 的伴奏下成为了非常漂亮的电子音乐。这首曲子的人声由德国青年女高音 Isgaard 伊思嘉 担任——但凡听过她的专辑《Golden Key 金钥匙》,一定会对这个女高音有不错的印象。《Ein schöner Tag / A Beautiful Day》使得 Isgaard 伊思嘉 一举成名。而这首曲目,日后(也就是2003年)由英国女高音歌唱家 Sarah Brightman 莎拉·布莱曼 翻唱,收录在专辑《Harem 一千零一夜》内。 此外,这场音乐会请来了不少相当优秀的歌手,他们的嗓音都各有特点。除了上面提及的 Isgaard 伊思嘉 外,还包括了日后 Schiller 喜乐 作品的常客:Kim Sanders、Heppner。一年之后的2002年,Schiller 喜乐 发行了《Weltreise 征途》的国际版本《Voyage 征途》。 by Dean Carlson With Voyage, Schiller combines the elation and clarity of Chicane, Banco de Gaia, and German trance with the low-key tenor of major-label new age. The music is largely painted with rich hypercolor, lots of fertile blues and jades, but stacked with vocalists who, like Kim Sanders in the pop-leaning "Dancing With Loneliness," tend to weigh down the plush ideals of the band's not unpleasant energies. When the instrumentals take precedence, Schiller reasserts itself as a self-important electronic act that really should be nothing else. "Solitude," and in fact much of the album, may as well be Enigma's "Sadeness" with island trimmings instead of Gregorian frost.