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Dead Can Dance: Spleen And Ideal

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On November 25, 1985, “4AD” label released “Spleen and Ideal”, the second Dead Can Dance studio album. It was recorded September – November 1985, at “Woodbine” in Warwickshire, England, and was produced by John A. Rivers, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.

Personnel:

  • Lisa Gerrard – vocals, all other instruments
  • Brendan Perry – vocals, all other instruments, art direction
  • Richard Avison – trombone
  • Simon Hogg – trombone
  • Carolyn Costin – violin
  • Gus Ferguson – cello
  • Martin McCarrick – cello
  • James Pinker – timpani
  • Tony Ayres – timpani
  • Andrew Hutton – soprano vocals
  • John A. Rivers – engineer
  • Jonathan Dee – engineer
  • Colin Gray – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.

  1. De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)
  2. Ascension
  3. Circumradiant Dawn
  4. The Cardinal Sin
  5. Mesmerism
  6. Enigma of the Absolute
  7. Advent
  8. Avatar
  9. Indoctrination (A Design for Living)

Dead Can Dance: Anastasis

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On August 13, 2012, “PIAS Recordings” label released “Anastasis”, the eight Dead Can Dance album. It was recorded in 2012, at “Quivvy Studios” in Cavan, Ireland, and was produced by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.

Personnel:

  • Brendan Perry
  • Lisa Gerrard
  • David Kuckhermann – daf, pantam
  • Aidan Foley – mastering
  • Zsolt Zsigmond – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard.

  1. Children of the Sun
  2. Anabasis
  3. Agape
  4. Amnesia
  5. Kiko
  6. Opium
  7. Return of the She-King
  8. All in Good Time

Dead Can Dance: Aion

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On June 11, 1990, “4AD” label released “Aion”, the fifth Dead Can Dance studio album. It was recorded 1989 – 1990, at Brendan Perry’s estate in “Quivvy Church” in Ireland “Woodbine Street Recording Studios” in Leamington Spa, England, and was produced by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The album cover shows a detail from the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch’s triptych “The Garden of Earthly Delights”.

Personnel:

  • Lisa Gerrard – vocals, instrumentation
  • Brendan Perry – vocals, instrumentation, design
  • David Navarro Sust – vocals
  • John Bonnar – keyboards, co-arrangements 
  • Robert Perry – bagpipes
  • Andrew Robinson – bass viol
  • Anne Robinson – bass viol
  • Honor Carmody – tenor viol
  • Lucy Robinson – tenor viol 

Track listing:

  1. The Arrival and the Reunion
  2. Saltarello
  3. Mephisto
  4. The Song of the Sibyl!
  5. Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book
  6. As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins
  7. The End of Words
  8. Black Sun
  9. Wilderness
  10. The Promised Womb
  11. The Garden of Zephirus
  12. Radharc

Dead Can Dance: Spiritchaser

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On June 3, 1996, “4AD” label released “Spiritchaser”, the seventh Dead Can Dance studio album. It was recorded in 1996, at “Quivvy Church” in Ireland, and was produced by Brendan Perry.

Personnel:

  • Lisa Gerrard – vocals, instrumentation
  • Brendan Perry – vocals, instrumentation
  • Robert Perry – percussion
  • Lance Hogan – percussion
  • Peter Ulrich – percussion
  • Rónán Ó Snodaigh – percussion
  • Renaud Pion – Turkish clarinet
  • Klaus Vormehr – engineer

Track listing:

All tracks by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.

  1. Nierika
  2. Song of the Stars
  3. Indus
  4. Song of the Dispossessed
  5. Dedicacé Outò
  6. The Snake and the Moon
  7. Song of the Nile
  8. Devorzhum

Dead Can Dance: Dionysus

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On November 2, 2018, “PIAS Recordings” label released “Dionysus”, the ninth Dead Can Dance studio album. It was recorded in 2018, at “Ker Landelle Studios” in Brittany, France.

Personnel:

  • Brendan Perry – vocals, instrumentation, design, photography
  • Lisa Gerrard – vocals, instrumentation
  • Geoff Pesche – mastering
  • DLT – layout

Track listing:

All tracks by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard.

  1. Act I – Sea Borne
  2. Act I – Liberator of Minds
  3. Act I – Dance of the Bacchantes
  4. Act II – The Mountain
  5. Act II – The Invocation
  6. Act II – The Forest
  7. Act II – Psychopomp

Brendan Perry: Eye of the Hunter

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On October 4, 1999, “4AD” label released “Eye of the Hunter”, the debut Brendan Perry album. It was recorded in 1999, at “Quivvy Church” in Cavan, Ireland, and was produced by Brendan Perry.

Personnel:

  • Brendan Perry – vocals, 12-string and electric guitar, mandolin, keyboards, art direction
  • Martin Quinn – pedal steel guitar
  • Glen Garrett – electric bass guitar, upright bass guitar
  • Liam Bradley – drums
  • Michael Brunnock – backing vocals
  • Walter Coelho – mastering
  • Chris Bigg – design
  • Dennis Di Cicco – back cover photography
  • Vaughan Oliver – textures

Track listing:

All tracks by Brendan Perry, except where noted.

  1. Saturday’s Child
  2. Voyage of Brain
  3. Medusa
  4. Sloth
  5. I Must Have Been Blind – Tim Buckley
  6. The Captive Heart
  7. Death Will Be My Bride
  8. Archangel

Brendan Perry: Ark

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On June 7, 2010, “Cooking Vinyl” label released “Ark”, the second Brendan Perry album. It was recorded in 2009, at Ouivvy Studios” in Belturber, Ireland, and was produced by Brendan Perry.

Personnel:

  • Brendan Perry – performer
  • Aidan Foley – mastering
  • Graham Wood – design
  • Dan Van Winkle – front cover photography
  • Sophia Wood – inner cover photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Brendan Perry.

  1. Babylon
  2. The Bogus Man
  3. Wintersun
  4. Utopia
  5. Inferno
  6. This Boy
  7. The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea
  8. Crescent

Dead Can Dance: Into the Labyrinth

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On September 13, 1993, “4AD” label released “Into the Labyrinth”, the sixth Dead Can Dance album. It was recorded in 1993, and was produced by Brendan Perry.

Personnel:

  • Lisa Gerrard– vocals
  • Brendan Perry– vocals, percussions, sound samples, engineer
  • Touhami Ennadre – front cover image
  • John Sherwin – inside image
  • Ken Kavanagh – all other inside images
  • Chris Bigg – design

Track listing:

All tracks by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry), except where noted.

  1. Yulunga (Spirit Dance)
  2. The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove
  3. The Wind That Shakes the Barley – Dr. Robert Dwyer Joyce
  4. The Carnival Is Over
  5. Ariadne
  6. Saldek
  7. Towards the Within
  8. Tell Me About the Forest (You Once Called Home)
  9. The Spider’s Stratagem
  10. Emmeleia
  11. How Fortunate the Man With None – lyrics by Bertold Brecht, Engilsh translation by John Willett

Dead Can Dance: Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun

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On July 27, 1987, “4AD” label released “Within the Realm of a Dying Sun”, the third Dead Can Dance studio album. It was recorded April – May 1987, at “Woodbine Studios” in Warwickshire, England, and was produced by Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard and John A. Rivers. The album cover photograph was taken in Paris, at the family grave of François-Vincent Raspail at Père-Lachaise cemetery.

Personnel:

  • Lisa Gerrard– vocals, various instruments
  • Brendan Perry– vocals, various instruments, design
  • Peter Ulrich– timpani, military snare
  • Ruth Watson – oboe
  • Mark Gerrard – trumpet
  • John Singleton – trombone
  • Richard Avison – trombone
  • Andrew Claxton – bass trombone, tuba
  • Alison Harling – violin
  • Emlyn Singleton – violin
  • Piero Gasparini – viola
  • Gus Ferguson – cello
  • Tony Gamage – cello
  • John A. Rivers – engineer
  • Francisco Cabeza – engineer
  • Bernard Oudin – photography

Track listing:

All tracks by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.

  1. Anywhere Out of the World
  2. Windfall
  3. In the Wake of Adversity
  4. Xavier
  5. Dawn of the Iconoclast
  6. Cantara
  7. Summoning of the Muse
  8. Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)

Dead Can Dance: Same

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On February 27, 1984, “4AD” label released the self-titled, debut Dead Can Dance album. It was recorded in 1983, and was produced by Lisa Gerard, Brendan Perry, James Parker, Scott Roger and Peter Ulrich.

Personnel:

  • Lisa Gerrard – vocals
  • Brendan Perry – vocals, guitar
  • James Pinker – timpani, percussion
  • Scott Roger
  • Peter Ulrich – drums, percussion
  • Richard Avison, Simon Hogg – trombone
  • Tony Ayers – timpani
  • Carolyn Costin – violin
  • Gus Ferguson, Martin McCarrick – cello

Track listing:

  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