Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
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Artist: Dead Can DanceEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Soundtracks:
- Anywhere out of the World
- Windfall
- In the Wake of Adversity
- Xavier
- Dawn of the Iconoclast
- Cantara
- Summoning of the Muse
- Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)
Music reviews of Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Music Review: soundtrack to my farewell
Rating: 5 Stars
Within The Realm Of The Dying Sun is to me the most extraordinary album of Dead Can Dance. It was created in 1987 following by 2 years their excellent second album, Spleen And Ideal. All of their albums were great and whenever they decided they had nothing more significant to say together any more, they had parted their ways. I have to say honestly that at that point or any moment prior to it I had no idea how the balance of force of creation looked on the inside but from where I am standing today in 2009 I will only say that Lisa Gerard is a musical genius. Both, Whalerider and The Insider prove it. Coming back to Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun, it would make a great soundtrack to a movie about us at a funeral (Anywhere Out Of This World starts playing as our movie starts). We are all standing there, one by one coming over to a casket dropped into the ground to throw our handful of soil over it so the story can be shortly over. All of the sudden the most amazing cloud of light starts appearing out of nowhere directly over our heads and it is intensifying it's glow to the point that it shines brighter and much lighter than the sun. We realize that we are looking directly at it and are not blinded by it at all (In The Wake Of Adversity starts playing now). And we are looking at one another, no, not with shock nor fear nor doubt, but with the infectious love, with total unconditional love, because this is exactly what radiates towards us out of this amazing light we now see (as we start hearing Xavier). All of the sudden standing there in the midst of some incredible super-consciousness we realize that we all have seen this light and felt this love before, we know it, many times over the ages. Was it in our earthly lives or in between, during days or in our sleep? Search and you will find, ask and it will be given....Are these the laws of this supernatural state we are in now? These seconds seem to last forever and now we remember seeing angels surrounding us on earth reflecting similar but much dimmer light around us so often centuries ago. Is that why we had painted and sculpted so many of them over our history, because they were one of the realities of our distant lives? Why have we lost connection with the spiritual side of our world? This question is replacing the great disappearing brightness joined by a dim tiny light form of our deceased (Cantara is playing now). And now we realize that we are not watching any movie at all but we are still overpowered by the spirituality of Dead Can Dance and their music and at least I know for sure what music would be the most appropriate soundtrack to my farewell... No, I am not a big fan of cemeteries... Please let the wind spread my ashes under golden gate bridge...as you lay down your sails...And...go ahead and play the 2 last songs i have not mentioned yet, Summoning Of The Muse and Persephone.
Description of Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Out of print in the U.S.! Import pressing of this classic 1987 album from one of the 4AD label's most popular and influential bands. At the core of Dead Can Dance is guitarist Brendan Perry and vocalist Lisa Gerard, who created a body of work that remains invigorating and uniquely their own. Eight tracks. 4AD.Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry actually manage to out-shimmer the Cocteau Twins on this 1987 release, which finds their beautiful minimalism adorned with increasingly developed compositional genius. The cascading melodies that grace "Summoning of the Muse" and "Persephone" are tailor-made for that next Christmas or Winter Solstice celebration, while more conventional (albeit somewhat somber) pop tracks like "Xavier" and "Anywhere Out of the World" keep the going from getting too arcane. All in all, more fun than a barrel of goths. --Billy Grenier
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