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Dead Can Dance - A Passage in Time Audio CD

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Dead Can Dance Band: Dead Can Dance
Title: A Passage in Time
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Release Date: 1998-07-07
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Saltarello 2: Song of Sophia 3: Ullyses 4: Cantara 5: Garden of Zephirus 6: Enigma of the Absolute 7: Wilderness 8: Host of Seraphim 9: Anywhere Out of the World 10: Writing on My Father's Hand 11: Severance 12: Song of the Sibyl 13: Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book 14: In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed Are Kings 15: Bird 16: Spirit

Dead Can Dance : Passage In Time
A great sampling of the many superb works by this band. Excellent CD with many titles that are from previous releases and a few that are new.


A fantastic Collection
The wide variety of music is more than 'background music'. This CD is one of the best to introduce your friends and family to Dead Can Dance. The pieces grab hold of you for the first time and you become so moved by the music. This CD got me hooked on Dead Can Dance and I have searched for so many of their other pieces to add to my collection. .


Alternative? New age? Folk?
Nevertheless, this is a unique collection that takes traditional sounds and expands on them to include different instrumentation, a really exotic voice, and a feel to take you to alternate realities. Your pick.

The music is not consistent from one track to the next but it is all in the umbrella of Dead Can Dance. To extract what you really want you may need to buy a few of the albums and do a little ripping.

If you are going to buy one album, I would suggest starting with this one. Although I found most track intriguing my favorites are two (Song of Sophia), 12 (The Song of the Sybil) and eight (The Host of Seraphim). The only problem with Song of Sophia is that it is too short.

Track seven (Wilderness) had the sound and feel of a Gregorian chant.

I guess I am a sucker for Lisa Gerrard I am thinking of purchasing "The Mirror Pool". For the most part Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard play off one another and picked up most of their multicultural sounds while working in Melbourne.
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From a first listen...
While this disk isn't one I would be likely to choose for driving tunes, when I got it home and could listen to it more carefully, I discovered a rich sound full of movement and color for the imagination. My daughter brought the CD on a recent road trip, hoping I would like it as much as she does.

The mixture of music types flows from culture to culture, touching on legends and myths allowing us to sample places and times we may otherwise miss. As soon as I return her CD, I will be making a purchase (or two) and start my own collection of Dead Can Dance.


Before Enigma/Deep Forest/Delerium there was... DCD!!
I've always loved exotic, ambient and meditative music and Dead Can Dance are unlike anything else I've heard. Took me a while to really get into Dead Can Dance but now I can't imagine not having them in my CD collection. This compilation consists of a rich mixture of tribal, choir, medievil gothic, world and ambient soundscape. I don't feel it's fair to categorise DCD as merely 'new age' or 'gothic' when it is both and a whole lot more. I've hunted for music like this for so long before I was even aware of DCD and it's all here. Very raw, minimal, sensual and soothing without being ruined by added layered synths and electronica. Stripped down and peaceful. One of the best CDs I own.


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