Dead Can Dance resurrects themselves to the top of the the Echoes Top 25 for September with their album, Anastasis. Anastasis means resurrection and it was the Echoes CD of the Month for September. Sounds from the Ground returns with a surprising showing at number two with their album, Widerworld and a couple of albums…
Tag: Dead Can Dance
CD of the Month, Interview Podcast
Dead Can Dance-CD of the Month.
[Hear Dead Can Dance’s Anastasis featured tonight on Echoes.] Anastasis is Greek for “resurrection” and that’s what happens here with Dead Can Dance, the gothic rock band who took deep atmospheres, ritual songs and supralingua dialects to ecstatic, transcendent heights in the 1980s and 90s. There hasn’t been any new music from the band since founders…
Reviews & Commentary
DEAD CAN DANCE Return from the Grave.
It seemed like they’d never get together again. Even their 2005 reunion tour ended in acrimony, despite selling out every venue they played. But Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry are getting together again as Dead Can Dance. They’ve been recording new music since the middle of last year and are threatening an album, and have…
Reviews & Commentary
Two Essential Lisa Gerrard CDs (+3)
Lisa Gerrard – The Sound of the Spirit: One of 20 Icons of Echoes. Lisa Gerard was the possessed vocalist with Dead Can Dance, the enigmatic group that channeled a world of sound through their electro-ethnic arrangements and the incantatory voice of Gerrard. Gerrard sings in a hybrid supralingua that sounds like a real language,…
Reviews & Commentary
Dead Can Dance: 5 Steps To Ecstasy
#10 of 20 Icons of Echoes: Dead Can Dance 5 Essential Dead Can Dance Albums Tonight on Echoes we’ll be featuring an extended feature on Dead Can Dance as we look back on the career of this influential band who listeners voted as #10 among 20 Icons of Echoes for our 20th Anniversary. Dead Can…
Best Of
The Best Echoes Songs Ever? O Superman? Music for 18 Musicians?
Being from the pre-digital generation, I still organize music in terms of artists and albums. I thought of this recently as our local Echoes affiliate, WXPN in Philadelphia, has been pumping their latest poll, The Top 885 Essential XPN Songs.
Reviews & Commentary
A Meeting of Icons: Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard
It’s difficult when you fall out of love with an artist. We all have musicians whose work has been central to our lives, who we’ve followed from the beginning of their careers and absorbed everything they’ve released as if it were a gift from heaven. Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard are like that for me.…