Dead Can Dance – Dead Can Dance (LP Vinyl)
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Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry arrived in London from Melbourne in the early 1980s and found their footing in the post-punk underground before rapidly transcending it. Their debut announced a project with no real genre home, drawing on medieval European music, Middle Eastern tonalities, and gothic atmosphere in ways that would quietly reshape what adventurous listeners expected from independent music across the decade.
The uncompromising eponymous debut, Dead Can Dance (1984), harnessed a bewitching barrage of sounds (including the distinct sound of the yangqin) with the then five-piece interchanging instruments to leave the vocals of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry as the only constant. The album’s cover was important as an introduction too, a Papua New Guinean mask that some believe when worn, a life force can be put into the inanimate wood - the dead can dance. The 2016 LP version is a repress of the original release.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
UPC: 652637362213
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 7.8.16
Format: LP Vinyl