Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within - 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. With Dead Can Dance now firmly centered round the core of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, they released their third album Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun in the Summer of 1987, showing both a continued maturity in their sound and rise in their popularity. Recorded during an intense period of musical and personal growth for the band, the album's eight songs are split equally between the duo with the first half being sung by Brendan and the second Lisa. At the time, Q Magazine described the album as combining Inchsuperb voice, ethereal church choirs, sweeping strings and a brochure of ethnic music Middle Eastern, Indian, Moorish, anywhere but London's East End where the couple resided.Inch The album's cover only adds to the album's aura of mystery with a haunting photograph of the family grave at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris of famed French biologist François-Vincent Raspail. Album Tracks 1. Anywhere Out of the World (Remastered) 2. Windfall (Remastered) 3. In the Wake of Adversity (Remastered) 4. Xavier (Remastered) 1. Dawn of the Iconoclast (Remastered) 2. Cantara (Remastered) 3. Summoning of the Muse (Remastered) 4. Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers) (Remastered)

Vinyl LP pressing. The Serpent's Egg (1988), Aion (1990) and Spiritchaser (1996) complete the vinyl re- series. Dead Can Dance's fourth album, The Serpent's Egg came during a prolific period for the band, being released just four years after their debut. It was also the first they made at their own studio which, according to Perry, allowed them to continue to grow in their own self-proclaimed direction. A minimal yet rather grandiose record which includes fan favorites InchThe Host Of SeraphimInch and InchUllyses,Inch The Serpent's Egg is a triumph and perhaps the finest example of where Brendan and Lisa's diametrically different influences were overcome to form a new, almost synaesthetic whole.