Duality

Lisa Gerrard, Pieter Bourke - Duality

Duality
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Artist: Lisa Gerrard, Pieter Bourke
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 1998-04-14
Music Label: 4ad / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Shadow Magnet
  2. Tempest
  3. Forest Veil
  4. The Comforter
  5. The Unfolding
  6. Pilgrimage Of Lost Children
  7. The Human Game
  8. The Circulation Of Shadows
  9. Sacrifice
  10. Nadir (Synchronicity)

Music reviews of Duality

Music Review: I listen to this and weep...
Rating: 3 Stars

I weep for the loss of the grandeur and majesty that were Dead Can Dance. I weep for the mighty have fallen. That, in essence, is the emotion caused by this cd.

In an effort to fend off what I am certain will be backlashes of the devout Lisa Gerrard followers, let me say this: I absolutely adore Lisa Gerrard and the material she has produced since parting ways with Brendan Perry. However, it is with a degree of adoration that is far below that which I felt (and CONTINUE to feel) for DCD. I know, to an extent, DCD have forever gone and I should just get over it. Even Brendan is sounding more like Tim Buckley than Brendan Perry. And, even Brendan's stuff with Elijah's Mantle is far inferior to even DCD material.

But, I cannot forget what once was and anytime I play either of the three best recordings ever made (DCD's, "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun," "Serpent's Egg" and "Aeon," respectively), I am transported back to what DCD were(and, truthfully, is) all about.

This recording is more similar to anything you'd find being played on NPR or some "Pure Moods" variant. It has a few moments of clarity and resolve, but beyond those, it falls flat on its face. This is a terribly crushing thing for me to have to admit too. So, I say it with every ounce of respect and sense of defeat. Lisa...you are so much better than this and capable of such far greater work.

But, and the big "but," Brendan always was the Yin to Lisa's Yang. They need(ed) each other and balance each other and apart....apart they will never amount to the totality they achieved.

This is wordy, verbose and probably quite obtuse in terms of a "review" of this cd. Please forgive me though. I have just listened to "Within the Realm..." in its entirety and have a tremendous sense of longing and bereft-ness (ok, I made up a word). You may notice that most of the ecstatic reviewers are new-comers to the whole DCD family (and its descendant variants). That comes as a result of having no point of reference by which to judge the present work. If it is the first you have heard of this, I can see how one would do cartwheels over this. If however, you spent the better part of the 80's and 90's shelling out top-dollar for 4-AD import prices (long before Ivo sold out to Warner Brothers), you know what I mean.

I give this three stars solely because it is Lisa Gerrard and, hey, that counts for something.

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Description of Duality

Duality is at once sacred and playful. It is both dark and light, organic and refined, masculine and feminine. Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard partners with Pieter Bourke, formerly of Aussie band Eden, to create this compositional dance of partnership that is classical, ancient, and thoroughly modern. Gerrard's voice is multitracked at times, conjuring a cathedral choir and the droning chants of monks. Drums and synth snake from desert to brilliant stormy sky to shaking earth and the bodies that inhabit those spaces. There are lush multiple layers of strings, bagpipe drone, and, quite literally, the laughter of children. The vocals sans "real" words and multicultural instrumentation will be familiar to Dead Can Dance listeners. Yet there is something more exclusive, more womblike about the music of Bourke and Gerrard; rather than two distinct bodies making music, like mother and in utero child sharing blood and breath, they are mutually dependent. --Paige La Grone

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