DEAD CAN DANCE – MOSAIC (EARLY DEMOS) (Ltd. Ed. Promo Only Import)

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Format: Vinyl, LP, Compilation, Limited Edition, Promo Only, Import
Country: UK
Released: 2014
Genre: Rock
Style: Neoclassical dark wave, world, art rock, avant-garde, gothic rock, post-punk

Early Demos of Dead Can Dance (Demo recordings for their first album and before).

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Dead Can Dance is an Australian music duo from Melbourne, Victoria, composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band formed in 1981 and relocated to London the following year.
Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance’s style as “constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern music, mantras, and art rock.”
Having disbanded in 1998, they reunited briefly in 2005 for a world tour and reformed in 2011 when they released and toured a new album, Anastasis.
They released a new album in 2018 called Dionysus and are touring again as of mid-2019.

Success, disbandment and reunions:
Dead Can Dance’s albums were not widely available until the early 1990s, when 4AD made a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records. Later, 4AD allied itself with the Beggars Banquet Records Group, which included that eponymous label and XL Recordings in the US, but the band’s recordings remained distributed through Warner Bros. Subsequent releases, however, were licensed to Rhino/Atlantic Records, a sister label within Warner Music. Its 1991 compilation A Passage in Time remains with 4AD independently of the Rhino and Warner Bros. deals; it was initially only released in the US. The duo’s sixth studio album, Into the Labyrinth, was issued in September 1993 and dispensed with guest musicians entirely; it sold 500,000 copies worldwide and appeared in the Billboard 200. The band became 4AD’s highest-selling act. They followed with a world tour in 1994 and recorded a live performance in California which was released as Toward the Within, with video versions on Laserdisc and VHS (later on DVD). Many unofficial bootlegs of concerts spanning its career exist, containing several rare songs that were only performed live. Toward the Within is the duo’s first official live album, which reached the Billboard 200 and was followed by In Concert 19 years later. Gerrard released her debut solo recording, The Mirror Pool, and reunited with Perry on the Dead Can Dance studio album Spiritchaser in 1996. The album also charted on Billboard 200 and reached No. 1 on the Top World Music Albums Chart.

In 1998, Dead Can Dance began recording a follow-up album to Spiritchaser, which was due to be released in early 1999 followed by a planned world tour. However, they separated before it was completed and canceled the tour. One song from the recording sessions, “The Lotus Eaters”, was eventually released on the box set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) and on the two-disc compilation Wake (2003). Gerrard teamed with Pieter Bourke (Snog, Soma) to issue Duality in April 1998. Perry released Eye of the Hunter in October 1999.
An ensemble are performing on-stage, three musicians are seated at extreme left behind musical instruments. Lisa Gerrard is behind a lectern near mid-stage with a microphone. At the right is Brendan Perry holding a microphone with his left hand. His right hand is alongside his thigh and holding an instrument. The background includes a long stage curtain with another musician seated at rear right, who is obscured behind a keyboard. Dead Can Dance reunited in 2005 and released limited-edition recordings of thirteen shows from its European tour and eight recordings from the subsequent North American tour, as well as a compilation titled Selections from Europe 2005. These concerts were recorded and released on The Show record label. In 2005, the song “Nierika” became part of the opening titles for Mexican television station TV Azteca’s soap opera La Chacala. On 28 March 2010, in an interview for Bulgaria’s Katehizis.com online music magazine, Perry revealed the possibility of a future Dead Can Dance reunion: “Yes, I’ve been talking about it with Lisa Gerrard. Maybe in the end of next year we’ll start work again. We’ve been talking about doing something like taking a small chamber orchestra – 10 or 15 people – and tour with them. And we have to write songs. We have to write new material – totally new – so the whole, entire set will be a new album. Then we’ll go into the studio after the tour, record, produce and release a record as well.”
This was confirmed in Brendan Perry’s official web forum on 12 May 2011: “I have been talking with Lisa Gerrard this past week with regard to recording a new DCD album this coming winter. We hope to complete the album by the summer of 2012 and then embark on an extensive two month world tour in late 2012.” The band made a formal announcement about its world tour and new album, Anastasis, for a release date of 13 August. On 30 September 2011, Dead Can Dance announced the release of a four track EP entitled Live Happenings – Part 1 available for free download from their website. Since December, the EP Live Happenings – Part 2 replaced the first EP. Both EPs contain songs from their 2005 Tour. Since January 31, 2012, the EP available was Live Happenings – Part 3, to be replaced by Live Happenings – Part IV on March 20, 2012.

In late 2011, the band announced a reunion world tour, including 12 US cities, to be accompanied by the release of a new album on a new label. The tour was scheduled to begin on 9 August 2012 in Canada and continue until 19 September 2012 in Turkey, 21 and 23 September in Greece, 13 October in Russia, then 28 October 2012 in Ireland, then Mexico and South America and then in Lebanon and finally Australia in February 2013. On 15 November 2012 it was announced that the band would be returning to Europe to continue its tour, starting on 28 May 2013 in Portugal. The final show of the Anastasis World Tour was in Santiago, Chile, on July 13, 2013. On 8 September 2015, the band announced the sale of Brendan Perry’s Quivvy Church Studio. When asked what this decision meant for the future of Dead Can Dance, Perry responded on the band’s official Facebook page that the band has relocated to France and that they are in the process of fabricating a new recording and rehearsal studio. Dead Can Dance at Cemil Topuzlu Open-Air Theatre, Istanbul, 19 September 2012
On 21 April 2018, Perry announced mastering of a new album would be commencing at Abbey Road Studios. The new album, Dionysus, was released on 2 November 2018.
In September 2018, their website announced “A Celebration — Life & Works 1980-2019” tour with dates in Europe in May and June 2019. In contrast to previous tours, the set-list drew heavily from the band’s older catalog, featuring some songs the band had never before played live. In October 2019, the band announced a second leg of the tour with dates in North America, Mexico, and South America. However, the tour was postponed to Spring 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tracklist
A1   Frontier
A2   Mosaic
A3   Inner Life
A4   Daylight
A5   The Fatal Impact
A6   Summerhouse
B1   Flowers Of The Sea
B2   Avatar
B3   In Power We Trust The Love Advocated
B4   Carnival Of Light
B5   A Poison Tree
B6   Our Kingdom

Members
Lisa Gerrard
Brendan Perry

Dead Can Dance discography (Studio albums):
Dead Can Dance (1984)
Spleen and Ideal (1985)
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
The Serpent’s Egg (1988)
Aion (1990)
Into the Labyrinth (1993)
Spiritchaser (1996)
Anastasis (2012)
Dionysus (2018)

Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry.
In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer).
Since her career began in 1980, Gerrard has been involved in a wide range of projects. She received a Golden Globe Award for the music score to the 2000 film Gladiator, on which she collaborated with Hans Zimmer. She recalled growing up with “Mediterranean music blaring out of the houses” and said that this influenced her music, particularly on later Dead Can Dance albums and in her solo and collaborative works.
Gerrard first began forming bands and creating original music as a member of Melbourne’s little band scene, an experimental post-punk scene which flourished from 1978 until 1981.
It was in this scene that she first met Dead Can Dance co-founder Brendan Perry. Perry recalls, “It never occurred to me that we would one day collaborate musically together because at the time I thought her music was too avant-garde.
I particularly remember one song that she sang about finding a man in the park and asking her mother if she could bring him home to keep in her wardrobe as she attacked this chinese dulcimer with two bamboo sticks”.
Around this time, Gerrard became the lead vocalist of Microfilm, which released “Window”, and one single, “Centrefold”, in 1980, via Unforgettable Music label.
The group issued a third song, “Summer House”, on Ron Rude’s From Belgrave With Love compilation, which was released by Cleopatra Records in 1981.

Lisa Gerrard discography
The Mirror Pool (1995)
The Silver Tree (2006)
The Black Opal (2009)
Twilight Kingdom (2014)
BooCheeMish, collaboration;
with the Mystery of Bulgarian Voices (2018)
Hiraeth, Lisa Gerrard & David Kuckhermann (2018)
Górecki Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs;
with Genesis Orchestra & Yordan Kamdzhalov (2020)

Lisa Gerrard Filmography
1989 – Moon Child
1994 – Toward the Within
1999 – The Insider
2000 – Gladiator
2000 – Mission: Impossible 2
2001 – Ali
2002 – Whale Rider
2004 – Man on Fire
2006 – Sanctuary
2011 – InSight
2015 – Tanna
2017 – 2:22

Associated acts
The Scavengers
The Marching Girls
Junk Logic
Microfilm
Heavenly Bodies
Pieter Bourke

Brendan Michael Perry is a British singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as half of the duo Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard.

Solo career (Perry)
In 1999, Perry released his solo album Eye of the Hunter on 4AD Records. The album contained songs written by Perry and a cover of Tim Buckley’s song “I Must Have Been Blind.” Perry would eventually cover more Tim Buckley songs: “Happy Time”, “Chase the Blues Away”, “Dream Letter” and “Song to the Siren”.
Around 2001, Perry did the music for a 10-minute film (Mushin) made by Graham Wood, who designed the artwork of the box set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) and the album Wake.
Perry announced his departure from 4AD in September 2008, and promised a new album titled Ark in early 2009. According to a reply Perry made to a comment on his MySpace blog, the new album would be very different from Eye of the Hunter, notably because it would feature rhythm machines and electric guitars. “Utopia”, a demo version of a song from the album, was made available on his MySpace blog. Ark was eventually released on 7 June 2010.
In March 2016 it was announced that he would collaborate with French musician Olivier Mellano and the Breton traditional band Bagad Cesson on a project titled No Land.

Brendan Michael Perry Discography (Solo albums)
Eye of the Hunter (1999)
Ark (2010)