Dead Can Dance's Into the Labyrinth


Anybody on this one? Just picked it up, after hearing Srajan, from 6moons, talking on Audio Asylum, about this cd he heard at the CES Show in Las Vegas. Actually, what I'm interested in is Dead Can Dance. Other cds. Background. Whatever. thanks in advance. peace, warren
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I can tell you a little bit about them. I have 2 cd's - "Aion", and "Within the Realm of the Dying Sun". Both very good, and interesting, though probably not among my favorite cd's. The one thing I'll say is they are unique.
There are many musicians playing on the cd's, but the primary members are Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. Lisa Gerrard is now solo and has done a lot of movie soundtracks, inclding "Gladiator" and "Whale Rider". I have her cd "Mirror Pool" which is better than either of the DCD cd's I have. One track on it, "Sanvean" is the reason I bought it and was played in a West Wing episode last year. It's a beautiful, haunting piece.
I've only heard sample from "Into the Labarynth", enough to confirm it's pretty similar to their other stuff which I already have.
hope that helps . . .
I've bought no less than 6 new CD's as a result of this thread. All of them good. One of them I picked up is my favorite of the bunch - it's Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy: "Immortal Memory". I picked it up somewhat accidentally while surfing Amazon.com. I spotted the title, and connected it to to the discussion here of "Immortal Coil". I had only a vague recollection at the time, obviously.

If anyone is inteested in another Lisa Gerrard piece - this one is great. It's on the mellow side, and beautiful vocals.