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Dead Can Dance - Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun

Label:
Catalog#:
CAD 705 CD, CAD 705 C D
Format:
CD, Album
Country:
UK
Released:
Jul 1987
Genre:
Electronic
Style:
Dark Ambient, Modern Classical

Tracklist

1   Anywhere Out Of The World 5:07 X
2   Windfall 3:30 X
3   In The Wake Of Adversity 4:14 X
4   Xavier 6:16 X
5   Dawn Of The Iconoclast 2:06 X
6   Cantara 5:58 X
7   Summoning Of The Muse 4:55 X
8   Persephone (The Gathering Of Flowers) 6:35 X

Credits

Cello - Gus Ferguson , Tony Gamage
Engineer - Francisco Cabeza , John A. Rivers*
Instruments [All Other Instruments], Voice - Lisa Gerrard
Instruments [All Other Instruments], Voice, Artwork By [Design] - Brendan Perry
Oboe - Ruth Watson
Photography - Bernard Oudin
Producer - Dead Can Dance , John A. Rivers*
Timpani, Percussion [Military Snare] - Peter Ulrich
Trombone - John Singleton , Richard Avison
Trombone [Bass], Tuba - Andrew Claxton
Trumpet - Mark Gerrard
Viola - Piero Gasparini
Violin - Alison Harling , Emlyn Singleton
Written-By - Brendan Perry , Lisa Gerrard

Notes

Recorded / mixed: Woodbine Street Recording Studios April/May 1987.

Published by Beggars Banquet Music Ltd./Momentum Music Ltd.
℗ & © 1987 4•A•D.
Barcode: 5 014436 705021
Catalogue number (on spine & CD): CAD 705 C D
Catalogue number (on rear artwork): CAD 705 CD
Made In England.

Comes in a standard jewel case with paper insert.

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Rated 5/5
Review by Tb-303 Aug 09, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
Very moody and etherial album. Amazingly takes you away to another world if you close your eyes and drift away with the opening track. Each song delivers a feeling of deep emotions and is a must have classic that stands out as one of Dead Can Dances finest albums.
Review by Numanoid May 05, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)
A good album, but it hasn't aged to well. The production leaves a lot to be desired, it's mared by overuse of mid-80's preset-synths. Had instead real instruments been applied this album could have been a timeless classic.

Future Sound Of London lifted the vocal sample they used on "Papua New Guinea" from the track "Dawn of the iconoclast".