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Dead Can Dance
1981-1998

Compil. UK 2001 on 4AD label
(Modern Classical, Ethereal, Medieval, Folk)

Remastered at Loud Design & Photography @tomato {p} 2001 4AD Ltd. {c} 2001 4AD Ltd. CD1 1. Frontier {demo} An early version of the song which was recorded on 4 track in Belgrave, Melbourne in 1981. Later remodelled for the debut album Dead Can Dance, this recording was originally engineered [...] & mixed in November 1986 at Blackwing, London, for inclusion on the album Lonely Is An Eyesore, a compilation of various 4AD artists. {p]1987 4AD Ltd. 2. Labour Of Love {radio} 3. Ocean {radio} 4. Orion {radio} 5. Threshold {radio} These songs were recorded on 19 November 1983 for the John Peel show which was broadcast nationally in the UK by the BBC. [...] Ocean & Threshold were re-recordings of tracks from their debut album while Labour Of Love & Orion are previously unreleased songs. [...] Engineered [...] at BBC Maida Vale studio 4 First broadcast 28 November 1983 {p}1983 BBC Released by arrangement with BBC Music Previously unreleased. 6. Carnival Of Light {radio} A second John Peel session was recorded by the same musicians on 2 June 1984. Again There were four songs; Carnival Of Light & Flowers Of The Sea were re-recordings of songs from a 12" EP, Garden Of The Arcane Delights whilst Penumbra & Panacea were early versions of tracks that would appear with different titles on Dead Can Dance's second album. [...] Engineered [...] at BBC Maida Vale studio 4 First broadcast 13 June 1984 {p}1984 BBC Released by arrangement with BBC Music Previously unreleased. 7. In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated This was one of the four tracks released on Garden Of The Arcane Delights Engineered at Vineyard studio {p}1984 4AD Ltd. 8. De Profundis {Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow} 9. Avatar 10. Enigma Of The Absolute The second album, Spleen And Ideal, was recorded between September & November 1985 at Woodbine Street studio. Brendan & Lisa provided most of the instrumentation themselves alongside the featured musicians[...]. {p}1985 4AD Ltd. 11. Summoning Of The Muse 12. Anywhere Out Of This World 13. Windfall 14. Cantara Recording for the third album, Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun, took place during April & May 1987, again at Woodbine Street studio & again with Brendan & Lisa performing almost all the music except the woodwind & strings. {p}1987 4AD Ltd. 15. In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-Eyed Are Kings [...]taken from The Serpent's Egg {p}1988 4AD Ltd. 16. Bird Recorded for the compilation album A Passage In Time {p}1991 4AD Ltd. 17. The Protagonist Recorded during the session for Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun, this instrumental was also released on the Lonely Is An Eyesore compilation {p}1987 4AD Ltd. Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd. CD2 1. Severance 2. The Host Of Seraphim 3. Song Of Sophia Sessions for The Serpent's Egg were started at Woodbine Street studio with John A. Rivers but were abandoned, with only four songs {including Song Of Sophia} used on the album. {p}1988 4AD Ltd. 4. The Arrival & The Reunion 5. Black Sun 6. The Promised Womb 7. Saltarello 8. The Song Of The Sybil Dead Can Dance's fifth album, Aion, was mostly recorded in Ireland though The Arrival & The Reunion was again recorded at Woodbine Street studio. {p}1990 4AD Ltd. 9. Spirit A song specially recorded for A Passage In Time but also released an additional track {alongside Bird} on the vinyl version of Into The Labyrinth. {p}1991 4AD Ltd. 10. Yulunga 11. The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove Into The Labyrinth was performed entirely by Brendan & Lisa and produced [...] at Quivvy Church. Freed from the time constraints of a commercial studio, they constructed possibly their most personal & cohesive album to date. {p}1993 4AD Ltd. 12. Sloth {radio} On 16 August 1993, during a USA tour, Brendan & Lisa appeared on the Santa Monica Community radio KCRW show 'Morning Becomes Eclectic'. Between playing recordings & discussing their career, they performed two songs apiece, live in the studio. Sloth, entitled Dragging My Feet at the time, was later re-recorded for Brendan's 1999 solo album, Eye Of The Hunter. {p}1993 4AD Ltd. 13. Bylar Dead Can Dance's first show on the USA leg of their world tour, on 10 July 1996 at the Keswick Theatre, Philadelphia, was recorded for broadcast on the USA syndicated radio show 'Echoes', presented by John Diliberto. {p}1996 4AD Ltd. Previously available on Echoes Living Room Concerts volume 2 14. The Carnival Is Over 15. The Spider's Stratagem Taken from Into The Labyrinth {p}1993 4AD Ltd. 16. The Wind That Shakes The Barley {radio} Another of the recordings performed live at KCRW {p}1993 4AD Ltd. Previously unreleased 17. How Fortunate The Man With None Taken from Into The Labyrinth {p}1993 4AD Ltd. Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd. The Wind That Shakes The Barley - Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd. How Fortunate The Man With None - Published by Momentum Music Ltd./Stefan S. Brecht/ Universal Music Publishing Ltd. CD3 1. I Can See Now 2. American Dreaming 3. Tristan 4. Sanvean 5. Rakim 6. Gloridean 7. Don't Fade Away Recorded live at The Mayfair Theater, Santa Monica, CA. on the 1993 tour and released on the album Toward The Within. Gloridean was recorded for the movie but omitted from the record release, though Lisa Gerrard re-recorded the track {as Gloradin} on her first solo album, The Mirror Pool. {p}1994 4AD Ltd. 8. Nierika 9. Song Of The Nile 10. Sambatiki 11. Indus 12. The Snake & The Moon {edit} [...] these tracks were released on the 1996 album, Spiritchaser. Sambatiki was released exclusively with the Spiritchaser Tour program & The Snake & The Moon is the edited version used for radio promotion in America. {p}1996 4AD Ltd. 13. The Lotus Eaters Recorded in 1998, this is the only completed song from the abandoned sessions at Quivvy Church to record a follow-up album to Spiritchaser. {p}1996 4AD Ltd. Previously unreleased Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd. Tristan - public domain Sanvean - Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd./Copyright Control Indus - reference to 'Within You, Without You' by permission of George Harrison & Northern Songs DVD Toward The Within additional performances The Host Of Seraphim Taken from Baraka: a Mark Magidson production/ a Ron Fricke film Yulunga [Spirit Dance} Taken from Baraka: a Mark Magidson production/ a Ron Fricke film Frontier Directed [...] of 23 Envelope The Protagonist Directed [...] of 23 Envelope Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd. I Am Stretched On Your Grave - Published by EMIVirgin Music/ Mulligan Music. Tristan - public domain Sanvean - Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd./Copyright Control Original menu photography [...] courtesy of Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles ____________________________________ Track DVD-1 is not mentioned in the tracklist Box Set retrospective of the work of Dead Can Dance, containing a few previously unreleased tracks. 108 page digibook with credits, photos and lyrics. Housed in outer cardboard slipcase.

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	Dead Can Dance , 1981-1998 AU album by, arranged by, music by
	Chris Bigg , GB art direction, original, dvd
	Art-O-Matic artwork, packaging
	Sacha Austin graphics, dvd
	Brendan Perry voc, *1959 IE interviewee, book, composed by, vocals, guitar, percussion, instruments, hurdy gurdy, performer, written by, voice, twelve-string guitar, percussion, producer, performer
	Ivo Watts-Russell key, *1954 interviewee, book
	Lisa Gerrard voc, *1961 AU interviewee, book, composed by, vocals, instruments, performer, written by, voice, percussion, yang t'chin, yang ch'in, producer, performer
	Dimitri Ehrlich , interviewer, book
	Linda Connor , *1944 US photography by, original menu photography by, dvd
	Scott Rodger b, eb, GB bass
	Peter Ulrich perc, dr, *1958 GB drums, timpani, snare, military, percussion
	James Pinker perc, dr, NZ percussion, timpani
	Gus Ferguson perc, vc, cello
	Martin McCarrick vc, key, *1962 GB cello
	Andrew Hutton voc, AU soprano vocals
	Tony Ayres , timpani
	Richard Avison tb, *1958 GB trombone
	Simon Hogg tb, *1958 trombone
	Carolyn Costin , violin
	Andrew Claxton tu, bass trombone, tuba, keyboards, written by
	Tony Gamage vc, cello, cello, violoncello
	Ruth Watson ob, oboe
	John Singleton tb, trombone
	Mark Gerrard , trumpet
	Piero Gasparini , viola
	Alison Harling vn, violin
	Emlyn Singleton vn, GB violin
	Andrew Beesley , viola
	Sarah Buckley vl, viola
	Rebecca Jackson vn, violin
	David Navarro Sust , voice, vocals
	Andy Robinson tb, GB viol, bass
	Anne Robinson , viol, bass
	Honor Carmody , viol, tenor
	Lucy Robinson , viol, tenor
	John Bonnar , arranged by, co-arrangement, keyboards, voice, keyboards, percussion
	Lance Hogan , IE guitar, bass guitar, percussion, guitar, six string
	Paskaal Japhet , percussion
	Nigel Flegg perc, cng, bgo, percussion, drums
	Pieter Bourke key, sampler, AU percussion, keyboards
	Rónán Ó Snodaigh , *1970 IE percussion, voice
	Robert Perry perc, woodwind, percussion, percussion, bouzouki, irish, uilleann pipes, uillean pipes
	Robert Dwyer Joyce , 1830-1883 IE words by, music by
	John Willett , 1917-2002 GB translated by, translation by
	Bertolt Brecht voc, 1898-1956 DE words by
	Renaud Pion cl, GB clarinet, turkish
	George Harrison voc, g, 1943-2001 GB written by, reference to 'within you, without you'
	Traditional , composed by, 16th century catalan version

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