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 .
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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...
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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 ju...
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i'm often asked about my influences and that conversation can sometimes take hours. one of the most essential is Dead Can Dance. so imagine how pleased i was to see this blog on their MySpace page... "A Rare Dead Can Dance track is now available for free download at http://brendan-perry.com/ to all subscribers. 'A Means of Escape' was the first professional studio recording by Dead Can Dance fe...
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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...
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Two words:Sublimely Beautiful.
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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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With a nostalgic tear in my eye I offer you a complete (and hopefully accurate) translation of one of my older blogs. Yes, nowadays many of its thoughts make me shake my head in disillusion and just wonder how I could let the form beat the content with such an ease, but it's my personal favourite, moreover, written with the greatest passion - and that's a good way to start my MOG life I thin...
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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 witht...
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Ancient music brought forward. What joy, what sounds. We often forget, to our great loss, the great music of the ancient world.
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Fair Roseanna your vagrancy's a familiar taleFraught with danger the lives you led were judged profaneHatred enfolds usInculcates the minds with it's heresyLaymen enfold usClemency arrives to set you freeFaithAlthough Xavier has prayedThat life-giving waters may rainDown on the souls of manTo cure them of their waysThese were the sins of Xavier's pastHung like jewels in the forest of veilsDeep ...
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Steven kINGS THE MIST tHIS SONG HOST OF SERAPHIM IS THE BEST AND MAKES THE FILM END THE BEST
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This is just some dead can dance i got off skreemr.com Sincerely, CJ Snow
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