Something big has appeared ...

Something truly great is because: the grandiose live recording of the acclaimed Dead Can Dance Tour from last year. Twenty years after their last live CD "Toward the Within" (which today sets standards) have two exceptional artists Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard on the occasion of its reunion tour pulled out all the stops to attract the lovers of this distinctive sounds in the spell.

In short, the project is completely managed !!! In a double-CD you will find all tracks on the album "Anastasis", five selected classics (Rakim, Sanvean, Nierika, The Host of Seraphim and The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove) and three new titles - at least as Dead Can Dance Cds regards - ( Lamma Bada, Dreams Made Flesh and Song to the Siren). Given the many classics of the band can be worthy of debate about these choices - I find them perfectly!

The whole thing is not so easy to describe. It seems to me so, as though Dead Can Dance has arrived at a destination and have a "quiet perfection" found. About the title of "Anastasis" everything relevant is described elsewhere - here, the present compilation I find perfect because classics and new titles have been almost fitted into this sound. The differences to date present live or studio versions are small but very subtle in its effect - you eighth example, "Nierika", which receives a rather tidy quiet character in the live version. "Rakim" however, in this version sounds like the classic "Yulunga" in the studio version (Dead Can Dance fans will understand what I mean). That in the studio version sung by Lisa Gerrard only religious drama "The Host of Seraphim" is demystified skillfully, in the Brendan Perry contributes his voice and the band made the song rather quiet. The calm has returned in "Sanvean" which Lisa Gerrard recites almost clarified. This is the audience before so like having a soprano weaned their breakneck Kolloraturen. In "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove" the differences are then minimal.

These interpretations convince me down the line and give a round total image with the titles of "Anastasis". The three new songs are a bit different: "Dreams Made Flesh" would have found on Lisa Gerrard's superb solo albums "The Mirror Pool" or "Duality" space. "Lamma Bada" is a quiet rhythmic idea of ​​Brendan Perry with slight Latino impact while "Song to the Siren" a piano ballad of Brendan Perry and one of his most beautiful title.

Sonically this double CD is almost Dead Can Dance-typical almost perfectly, albeit with slightly different characteristics than their first live album, which the live feel was dynamic already. "In Concert" live atmosphere cuts almost completely - the recording equipment of exceptional songs you came but most likely as describe spärisch. The sound is not very bright, which titles consistently comes in its basic characteristics to Good.

My conclusion: For me, already one of the albums of 2013. I deeply regret that I have not seen Dead Can Dance on their tour ...