Dead Can Dance – Garden of the Arcane Delights + The John Peel Sessions EP (2-LP Vinyl)
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Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry recorded their Peel Sessions at a moment when BBC Radio was one of the few platforms willing to broadcast music this strange and searching, sounds that drew equally from post-punk austerity, medieval choral tradition, and something harder to name. Those sessions capture Dead Can Dance in their rawest early form, before the orchestral ambitions of their later work fully took hold, performing for an audience that trusted John Peel to bring them something they hadn't heard before.
Garden Of The Arcane Delights is the only EP released by Dead Can Dance, coming out in 1984 and acting as a bridge between their first two albums. Its sleeve a sketch by Brendan Perry, depicting “primal man deprived of perception, standing within the confines of a garden containing a fountain and trees laden with fruit... a Blakean universe in which mankind can only redeem itself, can only rid itself of blindness, through the correct interpretation of signs and events that permeate the fabric of nature’s laws.” This new expanded version sees the EP faithfully pressed on to one piece of a vinyl with a second disc being added, compiling both of the band’s sessions for John Peel, recorded in the same time period.
Tracklist
Side A
Side B
Side C
Side D
UPC: 652637362817
Label: 4ad
Release Date: 11.11.16
Format: LP Vinyl