Dead Can Dance "Anastasis"

Anastasis is a 2012 studio album by the British-Australian band Dead Can Dance. It is the eighth studio album by the band and the first after Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard disbanded in 1998. It was officially released on 13 August 2012 by PIAS Recordings, 16 years after the group's last album, Spiritchaser. It is also the band's first album since it left 4AD. "Anastasis" is the Greek word for "resurrection".

To date, Anastasis sold over 150,000 copies worldwide.

In 2014, it was awarded a double gold certification from the Independent Music Companies Association, which indicated sales of at least 150,000 copies throughout Europe.

Anastasis received generally favorable reviews based on 16 critics at Metacritic.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Dead Can Dance (Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard)

1. "Children of the Sun" 7:33
2. "Anabasis" 6:50
3. "Agape" 6:54
4. "Amnesia" 6:36
5. "Kiko" 8:01
6. "Opium" 5:44
7. "Return of the She-King" 7:51
8. "All in Good Time" 6:37

Total length: 56:06

Dead Can Dance "Wake"

Wake is a compilation album by Dead Can Dance, released in 2003. It contains 26 tracks over two discs. It includes the song "The Lotus Eaters" (previously released only on the Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) box set), recorded in 1998 as the last work by the band before their initial breakup.

Track listing:

Disc 1

1. "Frontier" (Demo) – 3:00 – (1981) from the 4AD compilation Lonely Is an Eyesore (1987); completed version was included on Dead Can Dance (1984)
2. "Anywhere Out of the World" – 5:07 – from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
3. "Enigma of the Absolute" – 4:14 – from Spleen and Ideal (1985)
4. "Carnival of Light" – 3:30 – from Garden of the Arcane Delights (1984)
5. "In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated" – 4:10 – from Garden of the Arcane Delights (1984)
6. "Summoning of the Muse" – 4:57 – from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
7. "Windfall" – 3:31 – from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
8. "In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-Eyed Are Kings" – 4:10 – from The Serpent's Egg (1988)
9. "The Host of Seraphim" – 6:17 – from The Serpent's Egg (1988)
10. "Bird" – 5:00 – from A Passage in Time (1991)
11. "Cantara" – 5:58 – from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)
12. "Severance" – 3:21 – from The Serpent's Egg (1988)
13. "Saltarello" – 2:36 – from Aion (1990)
14. "Black Sun" – 4:56 – from Aion (1990)

Disc 2

1. "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)" – 6:57 – from Into the Labyrinth (1993)
2. "The Carnival Is Over" – 5:42 – from Into the Labyrinth (1993)
3. "The Lotus Eaters" – 6:42 – (1998) from Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) (2001)
4. "Rakim" – 5:38 – from Toward the Within (1994)
5. "The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove" – 6:14 – from Into the Labyrinth (1993)
6. "Sanvean" – 3:46 – from Toward the Within (1994)
7. "Song of the Nile" – 8:00 – from Spiritchaser (1996)
8. "The Spider's Stratagem" – 6:41 – from Into the Labyrinth (1993)
9. "I Can See Now" – 2:56 – from Toward the Within (1994)
10. "American Dreaming" – 4:30 – from Toward the Within (1994)
11. "Nierika" – 5:45 – from Spiritchaser (1996)
12. "How Fortunate the Man with None" – 9:09 – from Into the Labyrinth (1993)

The tracks from Toward the Within are live tracks, but with crowd noise removed to make them sound like studio versions. They previously appeared in this form on the Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) box set.

Dead Can Dance "Spiritchaser"

Spiritchaser is the seventh studio album by Dead Can Dance, and the last before Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard went their separate ways. It expands on its exploration of world music, and like Into the Labyrinth, was recorded at Quivvy Church, Perry's personal studio in Ireland.

The album was dedicated to Lisa Gerrard's deceased brother, Mark Gerrard.

The track "Indus" contains a melody that is very similar to that of "Within You Without You", a Beatles song that George Harrison wrote and recorded with Indian musicians in 1967. Although not deliberate, Perry and Gerrard were asked to contact Harrison for his permission to use it; he granted it, but the record company insisted that they give him partial songwriting credit on "Indus".

Track listing

1. "Nierika" 5:44
2. "Song of the Stars" 10:13
3. "Indus" 9:23
4. "Song of the Dispossessed" 4:55
5. "Dedicacé Outò" 1:14
6. "The Snake and the Moon" 6:11
7. "Song of the Nile" 8:00
8. "Devorzhum" 6:13