Best Of Lisa Gerrard on CD

Description

It's a cinematic cliché that when a character faces any kind of loss a yearning female vocal wreathed in sonorous strings singing an Eastern scale will rise from the surround-sound to earnestly tug your heart-strings. The chances are that'll be the voice of Lisa Gerrard. As Dead Can Dance (along with Brendan Perry), she established a gothic chill-out zone of diaphanous beauty and implicit spirituality that offered a dreamy haven from the materialistic 80s. Now a noted film composer, this release is an introductory showreel for those left wanting more of the same at the end of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. Her wordless invocations, borrowed folk melodies and psuedo-ethnic instrumental settings are woven into an undeniably attractive soft-focus mix that's nevertheless curiously hollow on close inspection. Fans regard her music as a place of refuge though they should get out more often if they're looking for something of real substance. 2007 collection of tracks by the Australian artist best known as the stunning vocalist in Dead Can Dance. Features a total of 15 tracks taken from her solo releases for the 4AD label as well as cuts from the Dead Can Dance back catalog and her various soundtrack work. Gerrard gained fame with DCD, who formed in 1981. She continued to record as one half of this dark duo up until their final album in 1996. During her last years with the band, she began working on her debut solo album, which was released in 1995. Since then, she's released a series of critically-acclaimed albums and soundtracks (including Whale Rider). Includes 'Cantara', 'Persephone', 'See the Sun', 'Elysium', 'Sacrifice' and more. 4AD.

Tracks

The Wheat 1.06
Elysium 2.42
Sacrifice 7.46
Ariadne 1.51
Sanvean 3.58
The Host of Seraphim 6.21
Cantara 6.00
Swans 5.48
The Promised Womb 3.25
Yulunga (Spirit Dance) 6.56
Indus 9.25
Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers) 6.36
Go Forward 5.53
See the Sun 3.27
Now We Are Free 4.14