Dead Can Dance formed in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1981 with Paul Erikson on bass guitar, Lisa Gerrard (ex-Microfilm) on vocals, Simon Monroe (Marching Girls) on drums and Brendan Perry (Marching Girls) on vocals and guitar. Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry were also a domestic couple and they left Monroe in Australia when they and Paul Erikson moved to London in May 1982, where they signed with alternative rock label 4AD Records. With the duo, the initial United Kingdom line-up were James Pinker, Paul Erikson and Peter Ulrich.

DEAD CAN DANCE

Dead Can Dance - The Carnival Is Over

Body frozen, mind spins
Breath stolen, eyes wide
Fear grips, darkness reigns

Heartbeat slows, unsure
Breathless, fading fast
Is this it?

Mind unravels, thoughts collide
Lost in endless night
Is it real?
Is it real?

Muscles tense then release
Breath halts and chest tightens
Vision blurs as darkness creeps
Limbs grow heavy while numbness spreads
Heartbeat fades and slows fast
Body lies still as silence rings

Panic grips, mind races
A switch flips, reset

A jolt

Panic grips, mind races
A switch flips, reset

Eyes open, dazed, confused
Gasping, grasping for breath
What the fuck?

Mind awakens in a tangled web
Breath steadies as heart pounds
Vision sharpens while chaos surrounds
Memories surge in relentless tides
Thoughts align as fragments collide
Awareness dawns and reality hums

Heart in Hand

Paralysis

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11 - Dead Can Dance - The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove

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Dead Can Dance Tribute were:

Carla Corsi: Female Voice, Keyboards, Sagat
Davide Caresta: Piano & Keyboards / Pc Programming
Mr. Dual Centrino: Percussions & EFX

Dead Can Dance Tribute - 09. Cantara

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Dead Can Dance - Ocean

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DEAD CAN DANCE
NEW ALBUM ‘ANASTASIS’ OUT 13th AUGUST
FIRST RECORD IN 16 YEARS
ROYAL ALBERT HALL 26th OCTOBER
SHOW SELLS-OUT IN UNDER 48 HOURS

Dead Can Dance will release their new album ‘Anastasis’ through [PIAS] Recordings on 13th August. Available on CD, double LP and download, the album is their first since 1996’s ‘Spiritchaser’. The band, who embark on a world tour in August, have confirmed a show at the Royal Albert Hall on 26th October. Tickets for the show sold-out within 48 hours of going onsale. 

‘Anastasis’ track listing
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 

On the cover of ‘Anastasis’, Dead Can Dance’s first album in 16 years: a field of sunflowers, ripened, and then blackened, by the sun, standing with sad, slightly crowned heads. Less dead than dormant, the heads and stems will one day be chopped, but then via the roots, will return. For ‘Anastasis’ is the Greek word for ‘resurrection’ and the seemingly dead will dance again. 

“I thought ‘Anastasis’ was a good title given our reunion,” explains Brendan Perry, who, with Lisa Gerrard, formed the band in Melbourne, Australia in 1981, releasing seven studio albums, and one live album, before going their own ways after 1996’s ‘Spiritchaser’. “’Anastasis’ also means ‘in between two stages’,” he adds. “Regeneration comes with the next season.”

‘Anastasis’ is perfectly apt given how the album is an astonishing regeneration of the legendary beauty, power and spellbinding nature of the duo’s unique sound and vision. Age hasn’t withered DCD, not the passing of the years; if anything, the album sounds bolder, stronger, more confident in its vision.. 

A Greek word to represent the album is equally derived from the music’s origins. While Perry can hear echoes of DCD past, “from right across our catalogue,” he reckons the core of Anastasis can be found, “slap bang” in the near-Eastern Mediterranean, from Greece and Turkey across to North Africa. “The music I listen to and research becomes both unconsciously and consciously part of a new project, and for this album, I’ve been fascinated by the classic immutable elements of Greek culture, the depth of their music and their love for song that you don’t get as much in the west; the way they combine philosophy and love songs, and throw a bit of science in there too. I love the eastern influence that comes from being a crossroads between east and west, the kaleidoscopic mosaic of those fused cultures, while the further west you go, the more it’s a mono-cultural society.

Perry says the duo have been talking about another album since Dead Can Dance’s world tour of 2005. But that extensive tour was exhausting, and the incentive was lacking, so it was put on the backburner until calendars could again be synchronised – not so easy since Perry lives in the centre of Ireland (the land of his ancestors), where ‘Anastasis’ was recorded (at Perry’s converted church studio Quivvy) and Gerrard lives in Southern Australia. Once upon a time, they left Melbourne for London, settling many floors up in a council block on the Isle of Dogs, putting whatever pittance they had into their music. 

Signed by 4AD and releasing their first album in 1984, the duo drew rapturous reviews for albums that spanned neo-classical and folk across time and geography, each album selling to a progressively larger audience, the emotional drama of their coming to the attention of the San Francisco ballet, Hermes Perfume and a documentary on Hitler and Stalin; likewise motion pictures such as Heat, The Crossing Guard and Baraka. Gerrard developed her own solo film soundtracks - The Gladiator and The Insider, for example – while Perry worked on solo albums such as 1999’s ‘Eye Of the Hunter’ and 2008’s ‘Ark’. The pair dissolved their physical relationship in the early ‘ 90s but something keeps them together – a bond of deep friendship and musical compatibility and understanding, and so Anastasis is born, and Dead Can Dance regenerated. 


Anastasis

Dead Can Dance - Amnesia (Radio Edit)

From the upcoming album, 'Anastasis,' out 8/13 (int'l) and 8/14 (US). Pre-order available now at iTunes: http://bit.ly/dcdpreorder. 

Amnesia (Radio Edit)

Opium is available for free download from: http://t.opsp.in/k0BqK

Dead Can Dance have announced details of the release of a new single, Opium, through [PIAS] Recordings on 29th October 2012.

The single is taken from their recently released album, Anastasis, which came out in August. The album was their first since 1996’s Spiritchaser. 

The band also recently announced an extensive European tour, including a show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, tickets for which sold-out within 48 hours of going onsale. 

The full list of European dates are as follows:

SEPTEMBER
16th		Beirut				Zouk
19th		Istanbul			        HCTAT
21st		Thessaloniki			Earth Theatre
23rd		Athens				Lycabetus
25th		Utrecht		         	MCV
27th		Paris				Grand Rex
29th		Brussels			Cirque Royal

OCTOBER
1st			Frankfurt			Alte Oper
3rd			Berlin				Tempodrom
5th			Hamburg			CCH
7th			Munich			         Philharmonie
8th			Cologne			         Philharmonie
10th		Prague				KCP
12th		St. Petersburg		 Ice Palace
13th		Moscow			        Crocus City Hall
15th		Warsaw			         Sala Kongresowa
17th		Budapest			Papp Laszlo Arena
19th		Milan				Teatro Degli Arcimboldi
20th		Geneva			        Batiment Des Forces Motrices
22nd		Barcelona			Auditori
24th		Porto				Casa Da Musica
26th		London			         Royal Albert Hall
28th		Dublin				Grand Canal Theatre

Signed by 4AD and releasing their first album in 1984, the duo drew rapturous reviews for albums that spanned neo-classical and folk across time and geography, each album selling to a progressively larger audience, the emotional drama of their coming to the attention of the San Francisco ballet, Hermes Perfume and a documentary on Hitler and Stalin; likewise motion pictures such as Heat, The Crossing Guard and Baraka. Gerrard developed her own solo film soundtracks - The Gladiator and The Insider, for example – while Perry worked on solo albums such as 1999’s ‘Eye Of the Hunter’ and 2008’s ‘Ark’.

Dead Can Dance - Opium

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Out to all the supporters and fans, this ones to celebrate 10,000 Facebook likes, can't thank you guys enough!

The vocals on this are by Lisa Gerrard, the same vocalist on the 'Now We Are Free' track I remixed from the film Gladiator.

Also out to Dead Can Dance on some truly amazing music!

Dead Can Dance - The Host Of Seraphim (ENiGMA Dubz Mix) [10k FB Likes FREE DOWNLOAD]

Lisa Gerrard - Dead Can Dance - Host of seraphim

Dead Can Dance - Children Of The Sun

03 Dead Can Dance - How Fortunate The Man With None

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