Dead Can Dance – Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

With Dead Can Dance now firmly centred round the core of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, they released their third album Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun in the Summer of 1987, showing both a continued maturity in their sound and rise in their popularity. Recorded during an intense period of musical and personal growth for the band, the albums eight songs are split equally between the duo with the first half being sung by Brendan and the second Lisa. At the time, Q Magazine described the album as combining “superb voice, ethereal church choirs, sweeping strings and a brochure of ethnic music: Middle Eastern, Indian, Moorish, anywhere but Londons East End where the couple resided.” The albums cover only adds to the albums aura of mystery with a haunting photograph of the family grave at the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris of famed French biologist Francois-Vincent Raspail.

01. ANYWHERE OUT OF THE WORLD
02. WINDFALL
03. IN THE WAKE OF ADVERSITY
04. XAVIER
05. DAWN OF THE ICONOCLAST
06. CANTARA
07. SUMMONING OF THE MUSE
08. PERSEPHONE (THE GATHERING OF FLOWERS)