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"Persian Love Song" is a traditional piece from Shiraz in southern Iran, arranged by Gerrard. It was previously performed in concerts by Dead Can Dance and eventually included on their 1994 live album Toward the Within. "Sanvean" and "Gloradin" (under the name "Gloridean") were written in September 1993.
The CD lacks "Gloridean" as well as the song played over the ending credits of the video, while the video lacks "Persian Love Song" and concert footage of "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)". In 2001, Toward the Within was re-released on DVD and included in the box set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) .
The group's debut album, Dead Can Dance, was released in February 1984. [5] The artwork, which depicts a ritual mask from New Guinea, "provide[s] a visual reinterpretation of the meaning of the name Dead Can Dance", [6] [7] set in a faux Greek typeface.
Dead Can Dance is an ambient, world music band which has released nine studio albums so far, two live albums, four compilation albums, one video album, one extended play and nine singles. [1] The band formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1981 but relocated to London, United Kingdom in 1982 and signed with 4AD Records where they disbanded in 1998.
Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) (2001) is a four-disc box set, containing three CDs of music spanning Dead Can Dance's career and a DVD of their 1994 video release Toward the Within. While most of the tracks are taken from previously released albums, this set also contains a large number of rarities.
The album was recorded at Blackwing Studios. The musicians who performed on the album were Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, Paul Erikson, James Pinker and Peter Ulrich.. The instrumentation consisted of guitars, bass guitar and drums, with added percussion and the very distinct sound of the yangqin, as played by Gerrard.
Anastasis is a 2012 studio album by the British-Australian band Dead Can Dance. [11] It is the eighth studio album by the band and the first after Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard disbanded in 1998. It was officially released on 13 August 2012 by PIAS Recordings , 16 years after the group's last album, Spiritchaser .
By this time, Dead Can Dance were predominantly a duo of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, along with Peter Ulrich, after the departure of Scott Rodger and James Pinker in 1987. [citation needed] On the sound of the album, the group commented, "We realised we had been limiting our musical visions [before], relying around guitar, bass and drums.