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Lisa Gerrard

Profile:Over a career that takes in almost two decades with Dead Can Dance, award-winning movie soundtracks and a series of acclaimed solo and collaborative albums, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of Australia’s most ground-breaking and in-demand artists.
Singer, composer and actress in El Nino de la Luna (a film which, of course, she also scored), Lisa brings a vision that is both precise and all-embracing to everything she does.
It is a musical journey that began in the early 1980s when she and fellow Australian Brendan Perry formed Dead Can Dance, one of the world’s most extraordinary bands whose proud boast is that they never fitted into any neatly manufactured genre or lazy pigeonhole. With Lisa’s otherworldly voice counterpoised by Brendon’s mellifluous tones, from the outset, they thought nothing of setting discordant electric guitars and dark, rolling bass lines against cellos, trombones and timpani.
Over nine albums between 1984 and 1995, the duo’s musical canvas expanded with every release to take in a timeless mix of world music influences, mediaeval chants, folk ballads, baroque stylings, Celtic flavours, electronics, samples and anything else that took their fancy.
The extraordinary mosaic of musical influences is perhaps less surprising in the light of Lisa’s childhood in Melbourne, where she recalls Greek, Turkish and Irish melodies “oozing into the streets” of her neighbourhood. Since then she lived in London, Spain and Ireland before returning to the Snowy Mountains of Australia.
By the mid-90s, even the ambition of Dead Can Dance was no longer broad enough to encompass Lisa’s musical vision. In 1995 came her first solo album, The Mirror Pool on which her stunning voice was accompanied by the Victoria Philharmonic Orchestra. Again, it’s an album that defies categorisation, causing one impressed but perplexed reviewer to describe it as “ambient, orchestral, folk and new age all at the same time.”
Duality, a collaboration with Pieter Bourke followed in 1998 and again transcended musical eras and genres. Now comes the stunningly beautiful Immortal Memory, a collaboration with the Irish composer, Patrick Cassidy which further explores the boundaries of Lisa’s musical ambition.
In recent years Lisa has also become a much sought-after composer of soundtracks. In many ways this has been a logical progression. Much of the work of Dead Can Dance had a cinematic quality that led to the group’s music being used in the cult movie Baraka, TV commercials and even a car chase scene in Miami Vice.
Among the films she has scored or contributed to are Gladiator, Insider, Ali, Whale Rider, Heat, Baraka, Mission Impossible 2, Black Hawk Down, Tears of The Sun, Nadro, One Perfect Day, Man on Fire, Layer Cake and El Nino de la Luna. Lisa received Golden Globe nominations for Insider and Ali, Grammy and Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe award for the score of Gladiator and four international awards for Whale Rider. She also wrote music for the mini-TV series Salem’s Lot and the San Francisco Ballet has performed to her work.
URLs:http://www.lisagerrard.com
Aliases:Angela Silverman
In Groups:Dead Can Dance, Microfilm (3)
Name Variations: All | Lisa Gerrard | Gerard | Gerrard | L. Gerrard | Lisa | Lisa Gerard | Lisa Germain Gerrard | Liza Gerrard
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Releases:
Deux Titres "Live" (1994) (CD, Maxi, Promo)   Virgin France S.A. 1995
Sanvean (I Am Your Shadow) (CD, Maxi)   Virgin France S.A. 1995
The Mirror Pool (Album) ◄ (11 versions)   4AD ... 1995
Duality (Album, Single) ◄ (13 versions)   4AD ... 1998
The Human Game (Maxi) ◄ (4 versions)   Rough Trade Germany ... 1998
The Insider (Music From The Motion Picture) (CD, Comp)   Columbia, Sony Music Soundtrax 1999
Gladiator: Music From The Motion Picture (Album) ◄ (6 versions)   Decca ... 2000
Abwoon (Our Father) (CD, Maxi, Ltd)   4AD 2003
Immortal Memory - Film Music (CD, Promo)   4AD 2003
Whale Rider - Original Soundtrack (Album) ◄ (4 versions)   4AD ... 2003
Immortal Memory (Album) ◄ (4 versions)   4AD ... 2004
Salem's Lot (CD)   Varèse Sarabande 2004
A Thousand Roads - Original Soundtrack To The Film ◄ (2 versions)   Reincarnate Music 2005
The Silver Tree (Album) ◄ (6 versions)   Storm Creation ... 2006
Lisa Gerrard (Comp, Album) ◄ (4 versions)   4AD ... 2007
Sanctuary ◄ (2 versions)   Storm Creation ... 2007
Farscape (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Synthetic Symphony 2008
Rheingold - Live At The Loreley (Album) ◄ (2 versions)   Synthetic Symphony 2008
Dziękuję Bardzo - Vielen Dank (3xCD, Album)   Synthetic Symphony 2009
Dziękuję Bardzo - Warsaw 25 Years Later (DVD-V, PAL)   Synthetic Symphony 2009
Production:
Lonely Is An Eyesore (Album, Comp) ◄ (8 versions) Frontier 4AD ... 1987
The Snake And The Moon (CD, Maxi, Promo)   Warner Bros. Records 1996
Ali - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD, Comp) See The Sun Interscope Records 2001
SACD Box Set (Box, Ltd + 8xSACD, Album, RM + SACD, EP, RM)   4AD 2008
Appears On:
From Belgrave With Love (LP, Comp) Mosaic, Mosaic, Summer... Cleopatra Records (Australia) 1981
Dreams And Desires (Cass) The Arcane (Demo) Pleasantly Surprised 1984
It'll End In Tears (Album) ◄ (17 versions) Waves Become Wings, Ba... 4AD ... 1984
Spleen And Ideal (Album) ◄ (14 versions)   4AD ... 1985
Lonely Is An Eyesore (Album, Comp) ◄ (7 versions) Frontier 4AD ... 1987
Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun (Album) ◄ (12 versions)   4AD ... 1987
The Serpent's Egg (Album) ◄ (15 versions)   4AD ... 1988
Aion (Album) ◄ (11 versions)   4AD ... 1990
Romantic Sound Sampler - Indie Classics Volume III (LP) The Host Of Seraphim Zillo 1991
Sahara Blue (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Youth, Black Stream TriStar Music ... 1992
Into The Labyrinth (Album) ◄ (11 versions)   4AD ... 1993
The Carnival Is Over (CD, Single, Promo)   Warner Bros. Records 1993
All Virgos Are Mad (Album) ◄ (2 versions) Rakim 4AD ... 1994
Flowermouth (Album) ◄ (3 versions)   One Little Indian ... 1994
Toward The Within (Album) ◄ (13 versions) Persian Love Song 4AD ... 1994
...Think I'm Getting The Hang Of It (CD, Smplr, Promo) Sanvean Warner Bros. Records 1995
Abramelin (CD, Album) Cantara Thrust 1995
Abramelin (2xCD, w /) Cantara Thrust 1995
Facing The Wrong Way (CD, Album, Promo, Dig) Sanvean 4AD 1995
Heat (Music From The Motion Picture) (CD, Comp) La Bas (Edited Version... Warner Bros. Records 1995
A Delicate Dependency: Music For Vampires (CD, Comp) In The Kingdom Of The ... Mercury 1996
Sambatiki (CD, Maxi)   4AD 1996
Secrets Of The World (2xCD, Comp) Nierika EVA 1996
Spiritchaser (Album) ◄ (13 versions)   4AD ... 1996
The Snake And The Moon (CD, Single)   PIAS Benelux 1996
Abramelin (CD) Cantara Repulse Records 1997
Don't Work (CD, Maxi) Don't Work, Don't Work... ZYX Music 1997
Dr. Martens Shoe Pie (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) The Snake And The Moon... 4AD 1997
Musiques De Nuit (CD) Windfall Labels 1997
Musiques De Nuit Vol. 2 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Sanvean I Am Your Shadow Labels 1997
Bizarre / Child Of The Universe (Sanvean) (Maxi) ◄ (2 versions)   What's Up ?! ... 1999
Child Of The Universe (Sanvean) / Bizarre ◄ (3 versions) Child Of The Universe ... Additive ... 1999
Clubfood (CD) Child Of The Universe BKB Dance Department 1999
Cryptichon (2xCD, Comp) The Unfolding Oblivion (2), SPV GmbH 1999
Musiques De Nuit Vol. 4 (CD) Sacrifice Labels 1999
The 5th HardtranceMania (CD) Child Of The Universe ... H&G Records 1999
Zillion 4 (2xCD, Comp + CD-ROM) Child Of The Universe ... Lightning Records, Lightning Records 1999
Ambient Meditations 3 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Indus Return To The Source 2000
Irvi (CD) Gortoz A Ran, Gortoz A... Barclay 2000
Perfecto Presents Another World (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) The Host Of The Seraph... Sire Records Company 2000
1981-1998 ◄ (2 versions)   4AD ... 2001
Ebbe & Flut (2xCD) Child Of The Universe ... Zeitgeist 2001
Geosonic Grooves (CD, Comp) Forgotten Words Nutone 2001
Gladiator (12")   ADN Sound 2001
Now We Are Free (Maxi) ◄ (2 versions)   Edel 2001
Now We Are Free (The Gladiator Theme) - The Remixes (12")   Zeitgeist 2001
Now We Are Free (Theme From Gladiator) (12")   B.I.G. 2001
Now We Are Free (Theme From Gladiator) (Single) ◄ (2 versions)   Tommy Boy Silver Label 2001
The Heady Wine Of Praise (CD, Album, Dig)   Holy Records 2001
Universo Deejays (4xCD, Comp, Mixed) Theme From Gladiator Film Vale Music 2001
Black Hawk Down (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (CD) Gortoz A Ran - J'Attends Decca 2002
Dark Awakening Vol. 2 (2xCD, Comp) Season Of The Witch COP International 2002
Elegy - Numéro 20 (CD, Smplr) Frontier (Demo Version) Elegy 2002
Jump Leads (CD, Album)   Twentythree 2002
CD Side 16 (CD, Smplr) Biking Home D-Side 2003
Elegy Sampler 31 (CD, Smplr) Elegy Elegy 2003
Love Rules - The Loveparade Compilation 2003 (CD, Comp) Don't Work (Sassot Remix) Blanco Y Negro (2) 2003
Tears Of The Sun (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (CD, Album) Yekeleni Part I / Mia'... Varèse Sarabande 2003
Acid Pants (12") One Perfect Sunrise (P... ATO Records 2004
Best Of Chillout Hits Volume 1 (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Elysium UBL Recordings 2004
Blue Album (Album) ◄ (4 versions) One Perfect Sunrise Orbital Music ... 2004
Blue Radio Sampler (CD, Promo, Smplr) One Perfect Sunrise (R... Orbital Music 2004
CD Side 20 (CD, Smplr) I Asked For Love D-Side 2004
Entspannt Einschlafen ...Fit Aufwachen (2xCD, Comp) Now We Are Free (Sound... Deutsche Grammophon 2004
Hybrid Present: Y4K (CD, Mixed, Comp) One Perfect Sunrise (S... Distinct'ive Breaks Records 2004
Hybrid Present: Y4K (Part Three) (12") One Perfect Sunrise (S... Distinct'ive Breaks Records 2004
Man On Fire (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Album) ◄ (2 versions) The End, Man On Fire (... Varèse Sarabande ... 2004
One Perfect Day O.S.T (2xCD) One Perfect Sunrise, T... Universal Music (Australia) 2004
One Perfect Sunrise (Single) ◄ (5 versions) One Perfect Sunrise (P... Orbital Music 2004
CD Side 26 (CD, Smplr) Gloridean (Live) D-Side 2005
DCD 2005 - 10th March - Ireland - Dublin (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 - 12th March - Holland - The Hague (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 - 18th September - USA - Seattle (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 - 21st March - Spain - Madrid (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 - 22nd March - Spain - Barçelona (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 - 24th March - Italy - Milan (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 - 26th March - Germany - Cologne (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 - 27th March - Germany - Munich - Philharmonie Im Gasteig München (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 - Selections From Europe 2005 (2xCD, Ltd, Comp)   The Show 2005
DCD 2005 2nd October Canada: Montreal (2xCD, Ltd)   The Show 2005
Le Voyage Abstrait (CD, Mixed, Comp, Dig) Biking Home Abstrait Music 2005
Memento: The Very Best Of Dead Can Dance (CD)   Rhino Entertainment Company 2005
Stars Die: The Delerium Years 1991 - 1997 (2xCD, Comp, RE, RM)   Kscope 2005
Warszawa (CD, RE, Dig) Voyage 34 Snapper Music 2005
CD Side 37 (CD, Smplr) Towards The Tower D-Side 2006
DCD 2005 - Selections From North America 2005 (2xCD)   The Show 2006
Nuages Du Monde (CD, Album) Tectonic Shift Nettwerk 2006
Elegy Sampler 47 (CD, Smplr) Come Tenderness Elegy 2007
The Mist (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (Album) ◄ (2 versions) The Host Of Seraphim (... Varèse Sarabande 2007
Vexille - The Soundtrack - Deluxe Edition (2xCD) Host Of Seraphim Miya Records 2007
We Are One (CD, Album) Now We Are Free Razor & Tie 2007
CD Side 47 (CD, Smplr) Liquid Coincidence 2 (... D-Side 2008
SACD Box Set (Box, Ltd + 8xSACD, Album, RM + SACD, EP, RM) Persian Love Song 4AD 2008
Soundsystem_01 (2xCD, Mixed) Man On Fire Hope Recordings 2008
A Means Of Escape (File, MP3, 320)   Not On Label (Brendan Perry Self-released) 2009
Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 90 | Jahresrückblick 2008 (DVD, Comp) Loreley (Live Edit) Sonic Seducer 2009
Tracks Appear On:
From Belgrave With Love (LP, Comp) Mosaic Cleopatra Records (Australia) 1981
...Think I'm Getting The Hang Of It (CD, Smplr, Promo) Sanvean Warner Bros. Records 1995
Facing The Wrong Way (CD, Album, Promo, Dig) Sanvean 4AD 1995
Heat (Music From The Motion Picture) (Comp) ◄ (3 versions) La Bas (Edited Version... Warner Bros. Records 1995
Listen Now! (CD, Comp, Promo, Smplr) Sanvean Labels 1995
Listen Now! - Volume 2 (CD, Comp, Promo, Smplr) Sanvean Labels 1995
New Voices Vol. 2 (CD, Comp, Car) Sanvean Rolling Stone (Germany) 1995
Warner/Reprise In-Store Sampler (CD, Comp, Promo) Sanvean Warner Bros. Records, Reprise Records 1995
Atmosphere Les Musiques D'une Nouvelle Ere (CD) Sanvean Virgin France S.A. 1996
The Echoes Living Room Concerts Volume 2 (CD, Album) Bylar Echodiscs 1996
These Wings Without Feathers (CD) Untitled, Untitled De Nova Da Capo 1996
Musiques De Nuit Vol. 2 (CD, Comp, Mixed) Sanvean I Am Your Shadow Labels 1997
Anakin (Album, Comp) ◄ (4 versions) Sacrifice 4AD ... 1998
Cryptichon (2xCD, Comp) The Unfolding Oblivion (2), SPV GmbH 1999
GComm:2: Living In Jamnation (CD) The Unfolding Gulp Communications 1999
Musiques De Nuit Vol. 4 (CD) Sacrifice Labels 1999
The Insider (Music From The Motion Picture) (CD) Tempest, Dawn Of The T... Sony Music Soundtrax 1999
Perfecto Presents Another World (Comp) ◄ (2 versions) Sacrifice Sire Records Company ... 2000
Ali - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD, Comp) See The Sun Interscope Records 2001
Breakdown - The Very Best Euphoric Chillout Mixes (2xCD, Mixed) The Wheat (Theme From ... Telstar TV 2001
Breakdown - The Very Best Euphoric Chillout Mixes (2xCD) Elysium (From Gladiator) Telstar TV 2001
Black Hawk Down (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (CD) Gortoz A Ran - J'Attends Decca 2002
CD Side 16 (CD, Smplr) Biking Home D-Side 2003
Da Vinci Mood - A Musical Experience (CD, Comp, Dig) Now We Are Free CCM 2003
Elegy Sampler 31 (CD, Smplr) Elegy Elegy 2003
Best Of Chillout Hits Volume 1 (2xCD, Comp, Mixed) Elysium UBL Recordings 2004
CD Side 20 (CD, Smplr) I Asked For Love D-Side 2004
Entspannt Einschlafen ...Fit Aufwachen (2xCD, Comp) Now We Are Free (Sound... Deutsche Grammophon 2004
Le Voyage Abstrait (CD, Mixed, Comp, Dig) Biking Home Abstrait Music 2005
Made With Love (File, MP3, Comp, Mixed, 192) Elysium Not On Label (Blu Mar Ten Self-released) 2005
The Ultimate Movie Collection (3xCD) Now We Are Free, Progeny USM 2005
CD Side 37 (CD, Smplr) Towards The Tower D-Side 2006
Dimitris Papaspyropoulos Presents "Silent Wonder" (2xCD, Comp) Space Weaver Sony BMG Music Entertainment (Greece) 2007
Elegy Sampler 47 (CD, Smplr) Come Tenderness Elegy 2007
CD Side 47 (CD, Smplr) Liquid Coincidence 2 (... D-Side 2008
Metawuffmischfelge (CD, Comp, Mixed) Come Tenderness Freude Am Tanzen 2008
Sehnsucht Live (2xCD, Album) Liquid Coincidence Par... Universal Music Domestic Division, Island Records 2008
Soundsystem_01 ◄ (3 versions) Man On Fire Hope Recordings ... 2008
Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 90 | Jahresrückblick 2008 (DVD, Comp) Loreley (Live Edit) Sonic Seducer 2009
Sonic Seducer Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 96 (CD, Comp) Bazylika NSJ (Edit) Sonic Seducer 2009
Stress Live Performance DVD (DVD, Promo, Not) The Battle Not On Label  
Unofficial Releases:
Mystical Rain (CD) Solo Venus Music 1994
Dead Can Dance (2) (Unreleased Tracks, Live & B.Perry Solo) (CD-ROM, Comp) Sahara Blue Out-Take 1 Домашняя Коллекция 2004
Buried In Music (CD) The Human Game, Untitl... Not On Label  
Toward The Within (CD, Album) Persian Love Song Landy Star Music  
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