''Dead Can Dance (1981–1998)'' (2001) is a four-disc

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, containing three CDs of music spanning Dead Can Dance's career and a DVD of their 1994 video release ''

Toward the Within Toward () is a village near Dunoon, west of Scotland, in the south of the Cowal Peninsula. During World War II, the Toward area was a training centre called HMS ''Brontosaurus'' also known as the No 2 Combined Training Centre (CTC), based at ...

''. While most of the tracks are taken from previously released albums, this set also contains a large number of rarities. "Frontier" (Demo) and "The Protagonist" were originally released on the 1987 4AD compilation ''

Lonely Is an Eyesore ''Lonely Is an Eyesore'' is a compilation on the 4AD label. Released in June 1987, it features artists signed to the label at the time. The tracks were recorded between 1985 and 1987 with the exception of "Frontier" by Dead Can Dance, which was a ...

''. "Labour of Love", "Ocean", "Orion", and "Threshold" were recorded for the John Peel Show in 1983. In 1984, a follow-up

Peel Session John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), better known as John Peel, was an English radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original disc jockeys on BBC Radio 1, broadcasting regularly from ...

produced the version of "Carnival of Light" contained in this set. "Sloth" (Radio) was recorded for radio and a studio version was later released on Brendan Perry's solo album ''

Eye of the Hunter ''Eye of the Hunter'' is the debut solo album by Brendan Perry, previously the male half of the band Dead Can Dance. The album was released by 4AD on 4 October 1999 in the UK and a day later in the US. Overview The album's title is found in the l ...

''. "Bylar", a

Lisa Gerrard Lisa Germaine Gerrard ( ; born 12 April 1961) is an Australian musician, singer and composer and member of the group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. She is known for her unique singing style technique (glossolalia). She has a ...

and Robert Perry (Brendan's brother) composition, was taken from a live performance recorded on 10 July 1996 at the

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for the Echoes public radio show. It was originally released in 1996 on ''The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 2''. “Gloridean” was previously only available on the Towards The Within video but didn’t appear on the CD version. "Sambatiki" was previously released as an accompanying track on the ''

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 (album), Anastasis''. It expands on its exploration of world music, and like ''Into the ...

'' tour programme. "The Lotus Eaters" is a previously unreleased track, from the sessions for the band's aborted eighth album.

Track listing

All tracks by

Dead Can Dance Dead Can Dance are a British-Australian band founded in Melbourne in 1981 by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, before relocating to London the following year. The Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "const ...

Disc 1

# "Frontier" (Demo) – 3:01 – 1981 # "Labour of Love" (Radio) – 3:56 – 1983 # "Ocean" (Radio) – 3:38 – 1983 # "Orion" (Radio) – 3:28 – 1983 # "Threshold" (Radio) – 4:10 – 1983 # "Carnival of Light" (Radio) – 3:18 – 1984 # "In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated" – 4:07 – 1984 # "De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)" – 3:59 – 1985 # "Avatar" – 4:35 – 1985 # "Enigma of the Absolute" – 4:15 – 1985 # "Summoning of the Muse" – 4:58 – 1987 # "Anywhere Out of the World" – 5:08 – 1987 # "Windfall" – 3:32 – 1987 # "Cantara" – 5:58 – 1987 # "In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed Are Kings" – 4:12 – 1988 # "Bird" – 5:00 – 1991 # "The Protagonist" – 8:54 – 1984

Disc 2

# "Severance" – 3:23 – 1988 # "The Host of Seraphim" – 6:19 – 1988 # "Song of Sophia" – 1:28 – 1988 # "The Arrival and the Reunion" – 1:41 – 1990 # "Black Sun" – 4:58 – 1990 # "The Promised Womb" – 3:26 – 1990 # "Saltarello" – 2:37 – 1990 # "The Song of the Sibyl" – 3:46 – 1990 # "Spirit" – 5:01 – 1991 # "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)" – 6:56 – 1993 # "The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove" (Radio) – 4:35 – 1993 # "Sloth" (Radio) – 2:40 – 1993 # "Bylar" – 6:42 – 1996 # "The Carnival Is Over" – 5:45 – 1993 # "The Spider's Stratagem" – 6:42 – 1993 # "

The Wind That Shakes the Barley "The Wind That Shakes the Barley" is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836–1883), a Limerick-born poet and professor of English literature. The song is written from the perspective of a doomed young Wexford rebel who is about to ...

" (Radio) – 2:32 – 1993 # "How Fortunate the Man with None" – 9:09 – 1993

Disc 3

# "I Can See Now" – 2:56 – 1994 # "American Dreaming" – 4:30 – 1994 # "Tristan" – 1:48 – 1994 # "Sanvean" – 3:46 – 1994 # "Rakim" – 5:39 – 1994 # "Gloridean" – 5:51 – 1994 # "Don't Fade Away" – 5:10 – 1994 # "Nierika" – 5:45 – 1996 # "Song of the Nile" – 8:01 – 1996 # "Sambatiki" – 7:31 – 1996 # "Indus" – 9:24 – 1996 # "The Snake and the Moon" (Edit) – 4:13 – 1996 # "The Lotus Eaters" – 6:42 – 1998

Disc 4

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Personnel

*Richard Avison – Trombone *Tony Ayres – Tympani impani*John Bonnar – percussion, arranger, keyboards, vocals, Viol *Charlie Bouis – assistant engineer *Pieter Bourke – percussion, keyboards *Sarah Buckley – Viola *Guy Charbonneau – engineer, mixing *Andrew Claxton – Tuba, Keyboards, Trombone (Bass) *Martin Colley – engineer *Carolyn Costin – Violin *Dead Can Dance – arranger, producer *John Dent – Mastering *Paul Erikson -Bass *Dimitri Ehrlich – Interviewer *Gus Ferguson – Cello *Tony Gamage – Cello, Violoncello *Piero Gasparini – Viola *Lisa Gerrard – percussion, vocals, Instrumentation, Yang Chin *Joe Gillingham – engineer *Dale Buffin Griffin – producer *Alison Harling – Violin *Lance Hogan – guitar, percussion, guitar (Bass) *Simon Hogg – Trombone *Andrew Hutton – Soprano (Vocal) *Rebecca Jackson – Violin *Paskaal Japhet – percussion *Kenny Jones – engineer *Martin McGarrick – Cello *Jason Mitchell – Mastering *Rónán Ó Snodaigh – percussion, vocals *Brendan Perry – guitar, percussion, vocals, Hurdygurdy, Instrumentation *Robert C. Perry – Bouzouki, Percussion, Woodwind, Uilleann pipes *James Pinker – percussion, Tympani impani*Renaud Pion – Turkish Clarinet *John A. Rivers – producer, Mastering *Andrew Robinson – Violin *Anne Robinson – Violin *Emlyn Singleton – Violin *John Singleton – Trombone *Peter Ulrich – percussion, drums, Tympani impani Drums (Snare) *Ruth Watson – Oboe *Scott Rodger - Bass *John Willet – Translation *Graham Wood – design, Photography

References

External links

Dead Can Dance (1981–1998)
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