Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance

2016 LP version reissue

Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard are Dead Can Dance. Their music began as collages made from musical lineages, lost tribes and cultures long since forgotten — and by giving new life to so much from the past, they created a genuinely timeless body of work.

On their eponymous debut album, originally released in 1984, Dead Can Dance successfully harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds, layering grinding guitars and even a dulcimer-like yang chin over a taut wash of percussion. If the range of the group is staggering, then so too is their disciplined economy, no song lasting more than four minutes or degenerating into formless cacophony. With the ve group members continually interchanging instruments, only the vocals of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry remain as a constant focus.

The 2016 LP version is a repress of the original release.

 

Side 1

The Fatal Impact

The Trial

Frontier

Fortune

Ocean

Side 2

East Of Eden

Threshold

A Passage In Time

Wild In The Woods

Musica Eterna

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