Dead Can Dance is to be listened by your spirit. Their music takes you to a space trip and tears your soul apart from your body... they are here to fill our hears with good feelings.
Brendan and Lisa have composed beautiful songs in which they add their extraordinary voices. I believe Lisa has really the most wonderful and beautiful female voice in this world. She's a classicaly trained singer and what she dares to do with her voice is not common, singing in many different languages, sometimes creating her own language, as you can see in the last song of Spiritchaser. I myself can't believe there can be a owner of such a voice in this earth, a voice that brings the feeling of sacred things and its strentgh mesmerizes you as if it was begging to be listened. Lisa's a Goddess....
Multi instrumentalist Brendan Perry got a virtuous and sensual voice. Brendan has another style of singing and it's easy to notice that when they sing the songs apart, but when they do it together, they're just the perfect couple of voices. He sings in some folk, gothic and other styles.
Their music is a mix of rhythms from many different cultures, but we can always recognize DCD way of playing in any piece of their songs, among Arabian, Hindus, Medieval, Gothic and classical music.
Lisa and Brendan first met in Melbourne, Australia, in '80. Their first album, named Dead Can Dance, was released in 1984. DCD is going to be 2 decades soon. In all these years they've contributed songs to 4AD compilations as This Mortal Coil, and Lonely is an Eyesore, Baraka soundtrack, other compilations, Hector Zazou's Sahara Blue....
· The Split: about 20th of November, 1998, it began to run rumors on the www that DCD would have split, but no one knew it for sure. NOW IT'S OFFICIAL: they really split.
For whom has had loyal ears to their music through all these years it's no new at all to say their solos are, in fact, a DCD album without the other part. Maybe it's due to them composing songs indenpendently, as Lisa lives in Aussieland and Brendan in Northern Ireland. On Duality, for instance, you feel you're listening to an DCD album without Brendan. So as a comfort, both magnific Brendan and Lisa are still signing to their very same as ever 4AD label (they sign to it since 1984!!).
The worst part and our great loss is that unless this couple decide to have a participation on one another's solo album, we won't ever have such marvelous masterpieces as The Song Of The Sybil, Rakim, Toward The Within, The Snake And The Moon anymore.
•The Insider movie (Al Pacino, Russel Crowe) soundtrack was composed by Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke. This track brought them the Golden Globe.
• The GLADIATOR movie (starring Russel Crowe) soundtrack was composed by Lisa Gerrard and Hans Zimmer.
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I have listened to some pieces of these bands bellow and I put them here because I think they do something similar to DCD music.
I have been on this site and found myself listening to a great piece of Come Closer on their frontpage... then I started to navigate through this site and found some more good songs... Check it out!!
*** And thank you Christopher, for the information on Come Closer.
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Do You Wish to Follow or Be a Force of Nature? - Sja I'M'Orteaux
Like Dead Can Dance, Come Closer
expands the A Cybernetic tribalistic
Blood ritual for a decaying world |
| On October 15th, 2000 I received this great gift from Christopher, and bellow is my review on his work, or at least 80% of it (Ha! Ha! ;o)) |
| I still remember the amazing feeling I had when I first entered the Come Closer homepage playing that background music... I got mesmerized... My first impression when I listened to this album was the very same I had years ago, when I had a DCD album for the first time on my hands: an invitation for a travel you can't resist. Now I've listened to WNP during three weeks almost 10 hours a day, I am prepared for writing a review. I consider of great importance the fact I never saw any pictures of Come Closer members and neither yours, Christopher. So my thoughts here haven't been distorted by images yet and have connection only to music itself. This album is complex... sounds sweet, powerful, aggressive and saturnine at the same time. The more I listen to it, the more I like it and it's impossible for me to choose the best song. In the beginning, "Nokturne", "Between Love & Lucidity" and "Concubine Crush Factor 8" were the ones which caught my attention the most, but now, all of them. "Nokturne" is over 17 minutes but seems to be divided in movements. Its melody changes and changes and yes, it's even possible you have a travel!!! The child's voice calling "Orfeu" fits perfectly... DCD's Indus percussion in "Between Love & Lucidity" gives a spiritual feeling to it I can't describe just like the VAS percussion in "Concubine...", like if the songs were completely recreated, and got nothing to do with the songs which they were originated from. Creativity must be over 100% to do such things... I would write much more things about all tracks - and my enchantment for these beautiful melodies - but the male vocals were the greatest reason for my falling in love with this album. Sensual vocals appear on "Wakeuplove"... delightful ones on "Waiting for Pussywillow", powerful ones on "Not There Anymore" (such a terrific sensation comes to my mind when I listen to it)... "Fall Into It" and "Un Joi" are so sweet. I admit I am not into Eletronica stuff and rarely things like that take place in my collection. Anyhow, I couldn't close my eyes (I mean ears) to a masterpiece, fullfilled with inspiration and love like WNP... It's me who must say "thanx" to you, Christopher. |
This one is much similar to DCD when it concerns to the classical and ancient
kind of music, since Arcana doesn't sound that "tribal" or middle-east as DCD
ofenly does. Sometimes Arcana reminds of Within the Realm of a Dying Sun...
The vocals are of a tenor and a soprano with
a ethereal voice.
Vas is more middle-east based, since their vocalist is from Iran and was raised in India, she
is got a lot of influences from these places (plus an beautiful voice) and she plays
dulcimer on the songs. The partner on the band plays a lot of percussion instruments.
On the SUNYATA they focused on the primitive human musical instruments, which are voice and
percussion. This is a beautiful work. Their following album, Offerings, is great too.
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Karl Jenkins and South African singer Miriam Stockley are
the powerful souls behind ADIEMUS. Most reviews I have
read (and I read a lot) tell about a "mind
travel" when listening to their music.
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Also, Miram has release her debut solo album, with lyrics. Some say there is a lot of Adiemus influences on her album.
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