Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within CD | Alternative & World Music Album | Perfect for Meditation, Yoga & Relaxation
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Amazon.com There are few voices in popular music like that of Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. Perry's is rich and earthy, whereas Gerrard's multi-octave instrument is, at times, downright unearthly. Toward the Within, the audiovisual version of a 1993 concert at Santa Monica's Mayfair Theatre--chosen, no doubt, for its excellent acoustics--is a fine showcase for their unique talents. Joined by five musicians on keyboards, strings, and percussion, Mark Magidson (Baraka) has filmed the proceedings in a straightforward manner, but the music is intricate and exotic enough that no special effects or fancy camera moves are necessary. The songs, which incorporate pop, folk, and world-music influences, are interspersed with interview clips, turning the release into a hybrid between a concert video and a documentary. Highlights include the hypnotic "Rakim" and soaring "American Dreaming." Toward the Within was also issued on CD, sans the interview and video clips. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
I'd heard of them over the years but never actually listened to them until this spring, and something about them grabbed me. This particular concert flick is very well produced, sound quality is great and the performances are mesmerizing. There are similarities to Clannad, Pink Floyd, Loreena McKennitt in the Celtic and Arabic influences, the anthemic nature of many of the songs, in places approaching majestic. Lisa Gerrard's use of the Chinese hammered dulcimer is unique and adds greatly to the mystique of the songs. Her singing is surreal in places, rich, unique and powerful, and a similarity to Sigur Ros is her syllabic singing on some songs vs. actual lyrics, which works for her as well as it does for them. Brendan Perry's singing is magnificent and very effective. The band is smokin' and very tight. This is interesting, very listenable, very intense stuff.
