Dead Can Dance (1983)

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Title: Dead Can Dance
Artist: Dead Can Dance
Genre: World/Ethnic
Released: 1983

Tracks:
1 - The Fatal Impact - 3:21
2 - The Trial - 3:43
3 - Frontier - 3:13
4 - Fortune - 3:47
5 - Ocean - 3:21
6 - East of Eden - 3:23
7 - Threshold - 3:34
8 - A Passage in Time - 4:03
9 - Wild in the Woods - 3:46
10 - Musica Eternal - 3:51
11 - Carnival of Light - 3:32
12 - In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated - 4:11
13 - The Arcane - 3:49
14 - Flowers of the Sea - 3:28

Overview:
Background
Dead Can Dance commented on their official website regarding the name of the band and album:

To understand why we chose the name, think of the transformation of inanimacy to animacy. Think of the processes concerning life from death and death into life. So many people missed the inherent symbolic intention of the work, and assumed that we must be "morbid gothic types".



Production
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.

Musical style
AllMusic commented on the album's sound: "Bearing much more resemblance to the similarly gripping, dark early work of bands like the Cocteau Twins and the Cure than to the later fusions of music that would come to characterize the duo's sound, Dead Can Dance is as goth as it gets in many places".

Album cover
The album cover includes a photo of a piece of artwork from Papua New Guinea on the left side, and on the right, the characters "ΔΞΛΔ CΛΝ ΔΛΝCΞ", which aimed to visually resemble the title "DEAD CAN DANCE".

Release
The album was released by 4AD on 27 February 1984. Some editions included Dead Can Dance's next release, the EP Garden of the Arcane Delights, added onto the end of the album.
Music information in first post provided by The AudioDB
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