Artist Lounge: Dead Can Dance
Moggers' favorites by Dead Can Dance
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We all have at least one… that’s another beautiful thing about MOGgers. In fact, I am sure in many cases – as in mine, we have more than one. But for me, my second was my most precious & the laundry list of what he gave me is the standard by which all others are compared. Jeff Bevan. He was the second music junkie I met & it was in college where that fateful meeting took place. This kid put everyone else I had ever known to shame & I am certain he could hold... MORE
In 1994, Dead Can Dance released Toward the Within, and I knew their popularity was sealed because mainstream bookstores like mine at Rizzoli in downtown Chicago were selling it to people who had never twisted a dial to college radio. On the record, DCD did a recording of one of the most famous Irish folk ballads of all time: The Wind That Shakes the Barley. Robert Joyce is one of Ireland's best-loved balladeers, and lived for a time in Boston, Massachusetts before returni... MORE
Ah this is the most gorgeous thing. Put on your headphones, this is the most amazing vocal control. Her voice alway slays me. Her name is Lisa Gerard. Her relationship with her art is a beautiful thing. She says in an interview that her relationship to her voice is a very simple thing, and evolving. The quartet of voices that begins midway through the piece shows an amazing synergy withthe group, in all of their live performances, they seem to feel each other in the... MORE
We are the stars which sing; we sing with our light.
We are the birds of fire, we fly over the sky.
Our light is a voice; we make a road for the spirit to pass over.. And so I sat at home waiting for the mail. I knew the painful bardo was soon to come upon me. The bardo of dying. I read again the words of Padmasambhava from the cycle of The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Now when the bardo of dying dawns upon me,I will abandon all grasping, yearning, and the attachment,E... MORE
Ancient music brought forward. What joy, what sounds. We often forget, to our great loss, the great music of the ancient world.
Ominous is the word that comes to mind when thinking of this song. Dead Can Dance are an incredible group even to this day. This song just struck me as I was listening to it, with it's sheer magnitude in aural delights. There's church bells chiming, a vast choir of gorgeous female voices, majestic horns, my goddess it causes me to envision amazing otherwordly vistas. It just blows my mind! I just recently acquired this album and am so enjoying it in all it's world goth b... MORE
It might seem pretty morbid, but Dead Can Dance's The Host of Seraphim is a good choice for my song to die by. Face it, we're all gonna go at some point in our lives. Wonderful inventions like the portable mp3 player have made going out with your choice of songs much easier. Life is good. Now watch the partially depressing video below showcasing this epic song.







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