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Wake (Dead Can Dance Album)
''Wake'' is a compilation album by Dead Can Dance, released in 2003. It contains 26 tracks over two discs. It includes the song "The Lotus Eaters" (previously released only on the ''Dead Can Dance (1981–1998)'' box set), recorded in 1998 as the last work by the band before their initial breakup. Track listing Disc 1 # "Frontier" (Demo) – 3:00 – (1981) from the 4AD compilation ''Lonely Is an Eyesore'' (1987); completed version was included on '' Dead Can Dance'' (1984) # "Anywhere Out of the World" – 5:07 – from '' Within the Realm of a Dying Sun'' (1987) # "Enigma of the Absolute" – 4:14 – from ''Spleen and Ideal'' (1985) # "Carnival of Light" – 3:30 – from ''Garden of the Arcane Delights'' (1984) # "In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated" – 4:10 – from ''Garden of the Arcane Delights'' (1984) # "Summoning of the Muse" – 4:57 – from ''Within the Realm of a Dying Sun'' (1987) # "Windfall" – 3:31 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Can Dance
Dead Can Dance are an Australian music duo first established in Melbourne. Currently composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, the group formed in 1981. They relocated to London the following year. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern music, mantras, and art rock." Having disbanded in 1998, they reunited briefly in 2005 for a world tour and reformed in 2011 when they released and toured a new album, '' Anastasis''. They released a new album in 2018 called ''Dionysus'' and toured Europe in 2022. Career Formation and early years Dead Can Dance was formed in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1981 with Paul Erikson on bass guitar, Lisa Gerrard (ex-Microfilm) on vocals and percussion, Simon Monroe (Marching Girls) on drums and Brendan Perry (also of Marching Girls) on vocals and guitar. Gerrard and Perry were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spleen And Ideal
''Spleen and Ideal'' is the second studio album by Australian band Dead Can Dance. It was released on 25 November 1985 by 4AD. The album spearheaded the group's sonic transition from their post-punk and gothic rock-influenced roots towards a neoclassical dark wave style. Background The band's official website stated that the album title was taken "from 19th Century symbolist ideals". The title is directly taken from "Spleen et Idéal", a collection of poems by French poet Charles Baudelaire which form a section of his magnum opus ''Les Fleurs du mal''. Discussing the album's musical style, AllMusic commented that with ''Spleen and Ideal'', Dead Can Dance "fully took the plunge into the heady mix of musical traditions that would come to define its sound and style for the remainder of its career. The straightforward goth affectations are exchanged for a sonic palette and range of imagination". The cover image shows the partial demolition of Grain Elevator No. 2 at Salford Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Can Dance Albums
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Spiritchaser
''Spiritchaser'' is the seventh studio album by Dead Can Dance, and would prove to be the last before the duo reunited fourteen years later for '' Anastasis''. It expands on its exploration of world music, and like '' Into the Labyrinth'', was recorded at Quivvy Church, Perry's personal studio in Ireland. The album was dedicated to Lisa Gerrard's deceased brother, Mark Gerrard. The track "Indus" contains a melody that is very similar to that of "Within You Without You", a Beatles song that George Harrison wrote and recorded with Indian Indian or Indians may refer to: Peoples South Asia * Indian people, people of Indian nationality, or people who have an Indian ancestor ** Non-resident Indian, a citizen of India who has temporarily emigrated to another country * South Asia ... musicians in 1967. Although their use of a similar melody was not deliberate, Perry and Gerrard were asked to contact Harrison for his permission to use it; he granted it, but the record company ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toward The Within
''Toward the Within'' (1994) is the first official live album of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard's group Dead Can Dance. It contains 15 songs, of which only four appeared on their previous albums, and two of which were later re-recorded and included on Lisa Gerrard's first solo album, ''The Mirror Pool''. The others previously existed only in live performances and unofficial bootlegs, but were not officially released until ''Toward the Within''. Along with Perry and Gerrard were a number of musicians who had performed with them on other occasions. Overview ''Toward the Within'' was recorded in one take in November 1993 at the Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica, California and was released by 4AD as an album and a video ( VHS and LaserDisc) a year later. It was the last major event to take place in the Mayfair Theatre before it was severely damaged in the Northridge earthquake in January 1994 and had to be closed indefinitely. The video was filmed by producer Mark Magidson, kno ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into The Labyrinth (Dead Can Dance Album)
''Into the Labyrinth'' is the sixth studio album by Australian band Dead Can Dance, released on 13 September 1993, by 4AD. It marked a strong shift from their previous albums, putting ethnic music influences at the forefront, as would be the case in the later albums. It was their first album completed on their own without the aid of guest musicians, and their first album to have a major-label release in the US, thanks to a distribution deal that 4AD had with Warner Bros. Records. It featured the single "The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove". ''Into the Labyrinth'' was a major success, selling more than 500,000 copies worldwide. Overview ''Into the Labyrinth'' was a marked change on many fronts from the previous album '' Aion'', released three years earlier. Perry and Gerrard were now living far apart and writing music independently (Perry was living on an island in the middle of a river in Ireland, while Gerrard lived in Australia with her husband and daughter). For the album, Gerrard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aion (Dead Can Dance Album)
''Aion'' is the fifth studio album by the Australian band Dead Can Dance, released on 11 June 1990 by 4AD. The first album Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry wrote after the end of their romantic partnership, it was recorded at Perry's new estate, Quivvy Church in Ireland, with additional recording on "The Arrival and the Reunion" and "The End of Words" taking place at Woodbine Street Recording Studios in Leamington Spa. On this album, Dead Can Dance explored early music to a greater degree, including medieval music and Renaissance music, as Perry noted, "synonymous with the Bosch period"; this included pieces like the 14th-century Italian dance instrumental ("Saltarello") and 16th-century Catalan ballad ("The Song of the Sibyl"), lyrics from 17th-century Spanish baroque poet Luis de Góngora ("Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book"), and instrumentation such as hurdy-gurdy and viols. The male soprano David Navarro Sust contributed vocals to tracks 1 and 7. The album co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Passage In Time (Dead Can Dance Album)
''A Passage in Time'' is a compilation album by Australian musical act Dead Can Dance. It was originally released only in North America on 20 October 1991 by Rykodisc, and was later remastered and given a global release in 1998. The album was titled after the song "A Passage in Time", which originally appeared on the group's eponymous debut album in 1984 but was not included in the collection. Overview As the title suggests, this album was "a passage in time" to enable the U.S. audience catch up with the band's previous albums, via selected songs. The content of the compilation was predominantly taken from the band's most recent works at the time, their fourth ('' The Serpent's Egg'') and fifth ('' Aion'') albums. It also featured two songs from their third album ('' Within the Realm of a Dying Sun'') and one from their second (''Spleen and Ideal''), but no selections from their debut or the ''Garden of the Arcane Delights ''Garden of the Arcane Delights'' is the first ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Serpent's Egg (album)
''The Serpent's Egg'' is the fourth studio album by the Australian band Dead Can Dance, released on 24 October 1988 by record label 4AD. Background The album was the last produced while Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard were a romantic couple. A majority of the album was recorded in a multi-storey apartment block in the Isle of Dogs, London. Perry discussed the album's title: "In a lot of aerial photographs of the Earth, if you look upon it as a giant organism—a macrocosmos—you can see that the nature of the life force, water, travels in a serpentine way". Track listing Reception In a retrospective review, AllMusic said, "Perry and Gerrard continued to experiment and improve with ''The Serpent's Egg'', as much a leap forward as ''Spleen and Ideal'' was some years previously", heaping particular praise on the album opener "The Host of Seraphim", which it called "so jaw-droppingly good that almost the only reaction is sheer awe". Legacy * Electronic music duo The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garden Of The Arcane Delights
''Garden of the Arcane Delights'' is the first extended play, EP by Australian band Dead Can Dance. It was released in August 1984 on record label 4AD. The tracks were later added to Dead Can Dance (album), Dead Can Dance's self-titled debut album when it was re-released on Compact Disc, CD. Background The cover art is a sketch done by Brendan Perry and represents the themes of the song "The Arcane". As Perry explains: The naked blindfolded figure, representing primal man deprived of perception, stands, within the confines of a garden (the world) containing a fountain and trees laden with fruit. His left arm stretches out – the grasping for knowledge – towards a fruit bearing tree, its trunk encircled by a snake. In the garden wall – the wall between freedom and confinement – are two gateways: the dualistic notion of choice. It is a William Blake, Blakean universe in which mankind can only redeem itself, can only rid itself of blindness, through the correct interpreta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun
''Within the Realm of a Dying Sun'' is the third studio album by Australian band Dead Can Dance. It was released on 27 July 1987 by 4AD. Background By this time, Dead Can Dance were predominantly a duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, along with Peter Ulrich, after the departure of Scott Rodger and James Pinker in 1987. On the sound of the album, the group commented, "We realised we had been limiting our musical visions efore relying around guitar, bass and drums. These instruments weren't adequate to express a lot of the things we were hearing". On the making of the album, 4AD label owner Ivo Watts-Russell commented, "I think the relationship between them and roducerJohn Rivers was at its peak with 'Within the Realm of a Dying Sun'' It's probably my favourite record of theirs". Gerrard's vocals featured prominently on the second half of the album, and her singing style often had mellifluous, mystical overtones, especially on "Cantara". The cover's photograph was take ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dark Wave
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