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Dead Can Dance is a band that comprises Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.
Formed in Melbourne in 1981 and initially based in Australia, they disbanded
temporarily in 1998 and have reunited for a world tour in 2005.
After being relatively unsuccessful in Australia, they moved to London where
after one year they signed up to alternative rock label 4AD, a legendary
label on the alternative music scene, where they became one of the most
important bands on the label.
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They continued to work closely together, until later in the 1990s when they
started to grow apart. Lisa Gerrard returned to Australia, while Brendan
Perry moved to Ireland, where he bought an old church, Quivy Church, where
he lives and works. It is speculated that the distance between the members
was an influence in their eventual break-up, although Perry himself said
that distance helped in maintaining a certain individual freedom in
creativity.
Assigning a musical genre to Dead Can Dance is difficult, as their style was
particularly eclectic. However, their early work could be considered "darkwave."
In their later work, after The Serpent's Egg, Dead Can Dance would take as
sources ancient or foreign music from around the world, with Gerrard singing
glossolalia, giving them a very distinctive style (world music). As a result
their later albums sound quite different from the first three. They're
considered to be ethereal goth and/or dark world music.
The name "Dead Can Dance" is often misleading. Although this group is quite
popular among the gothic sub-culture, the name simply means putting life
back into something that is dead, or no longer in use. The instruments that
are used are either ancient, forgotten or no longer desirable to most
musicians. Says Perry:
"Dead Can Dance" cover, 1984The album artwork [of their self titled first
album], a ritual mask from New Guinea, attempted to provide a visual
reintrepretation of the meaning of the name "Dead Can Dance." The mask,
though once a living part of a tree is dead; nevertheless it has, through
the artistry of its maker, been imbued with a life force of its own. To
understand why we chose the name, think of the transformation of inanimacy
to animacy.... Think of the processes concerning life from death and death
into life. So many people mised the inherent symbolism, and assumed that we
must be "morbid gothic types," a mistake we deplored and deplore... |
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