Dead Can Dance - Garden Of The Arcane Delight + Peel Sessions - VINYL LP

Double vinyl LP pressing. 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. They shared vocal responsibilities, and while Perry was certainly capable of haunting subtleties and real sonority as a singer, it was more often Gerrard's rhapsodic vocalizing that drew the attention of critics and fans. In a sense, Gerrard didn't simply sing for Dead Can Dance she made sounds with her voice, and turned that experience into something much larger and more far-ranging than mere singing. 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 group members continually interchanging instruments, only the vocals of Gerrard and Perry remain as a constant focus. Album Tracks 1. The Fatal Impact 2. The Trial 3. Frontier 4. Fortune 5. Ocean 6. East of Eden 7. Threshold 8. A Passage in Time 9. Wild in the Woods 10. Musica Eternal

Vinyl LP pressing. 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. They shared vocal responsibilities, and while Perry was certainly capable of haunting subtleties and real sonority as a singer, it was more often Gerrard's rhapsodic vocalizing that drew the attention of critics and fans. In a sense, Gerrard didn't simply sing for Dead Can Dance she made sounds with her voice, and turned that experience into something much larger and more far-ranging than mere singing. Dead Can Dance's second album, Spleen And Ideal (1985), saw them experiment more with instrumentation, abandoning guitars in favor of cello, trombone and timpani. Widely acclaimed, there was now a richness of unification between voice and music, lyrics and structure, showing they had a concrete sense of the aural ideal they were striving towards. It's title was taken from Spleen et Idéal, a collection of poems by 18th century French poet Charles Baudelaire. Album Tracks 1. De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow) 2. Ascension 3. Circumradiant Dawn 4. The Cardinal Sin 5. Mesmerism 1. Enigma of the Absolute 2. Advent 3. Avatar 4. Indoctrination (A Design for Living)

Double vinyl LP pressing. Originally released in October 1994 and out of print on vinyl ever since, Toward The Within was an audio and video document of the 1993 sell-out Dead Can Dance World tour. Recorded at the Mayfair Theater in Santa Monica, California, it marked one of the final performances at the historic theatre as it later suffered major structural damage in an earthquake in 1994. Despite being a live recording, Toward The Within includes twelve previously unrecorded tracks as well as material from their six previous studio albums. Album Tracks 1. Rakim (Live Remastered) 2. Persian Love Song (Live Remastered) 3. Desert Song (Live Remastered) 4. Yulunga (Spirit Dance) (Live Remastered) 1. Piece for Solo Flute (Live Remastered) 2. The Wing That Shakes the Barley (Live Remastered) 3. I Am Stretched on Your Grave (Live Remastered) 1. I Can See Now (Live Remastered) 2. American Dreaming (Live Remastered) 3. Cantara (Live Remastered) 4. Oman (Live Remastered) 1. The Song of the Sibyl (Live Remastered) 2. Tristan (Live Remastered) 3. Sanvean (Live Remastered) 4. Don't Fade Away (Live Remastered)