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  2. Dead Can Dance - Wikipedia

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    Dead Can Dance soon became headliners at Melbourne's main post-punk venue, the Crystal Ballroom in St Kilda, and played an Australian farewell show there in May 1982 before moving to London, England, where they signed with alternative music label 4AD. [4]

  3. Crystal Ballroom (Melbourne) - Wikipedia

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    The Ballroom was a staging ground for Melbourne bands the Birthday Party, [11] Dead Can Dance, [12] Hunters & Collectors, [11] Crime and the City Solution, Models, [11] the Moodists, [12] the Wreckery, [13] TISM, Paul Kelly and the Dots, Cosmic Psychos [13] and Venom P. Stinger.

  4. Lisa Gerrard - Wikipedia

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    Lisa Gerrard was born in Melbourne to Irish immigrant parents, and grew up in Prahran, an inner suburb with a substantial Greek population.She recalled growing up with "Mediterranean music blaring out of the houses" and said that this influenced her music, particularly on later Dead Can Dance albums and in her solo and collaborative works.

  5. Dead Can Dance discography - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Brendan Perry - Wikipedia

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    Perry and Lisa Gerrard during a concert of Dead Can Dance in Paris, June 2013. Dead Can Dance was originally formed as a quartet in 1981 in Melbourne, with Perry, drummer Simon Monroe, bass player Paul Erikson, and, last to join the band, Lisa Gerrard. In 1982, Dead Can Dance moved to London leaving Simon Monroe in Australia.

  7. Music of Melbourne - Wikipedia

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    One act from Melbourne, Dead Can Dance, a duo, mixed Dark Wave with classical music, thus founding the genre Neoclassical Dark Wave. Other notable independent artists from Melbourne include: Cut Copy, The Drones, TISM, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, Rowland S. Howard, Dirty Three, The Avalanches and The Great Elevator. [5]

  8. The Mirror Pool - Wikipedia

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    Both were previously performed in concerts by Dead Can Dance and eventually included on Toward the Within. "Largo" is the opening aria from Handel 's opera Serse (Xerxes) , a popular composition titled " Ombra mai fu " but usually nicknamed "Largo" (despite being larghetto).

  9. Dead Can Dance (album) - Wikipedia

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    Dead Can Dance is the debut studio album by Australian musical act Dead Can Dance. It was released on 27 February 1984 on the 4AD label. Background