Dead Can Dance – 1981-1998

Issued as a 108 page embossed digibook with credits, photos and lyrics, with each disc in individual plain white sleeves, housed in a plain white textured thick card slipcase.
The shrink wrap has a large sticker on the back with the complete tracklist, catalogue # and barcode.
There are no track durations listed on this release.

After this limited edition boxset had sold out two years later, the audio contents were stripped down to a 2-disc version, as well as the graphical contents of the book down to a booklet of 24 pages and the resulting new set released as the unlimited compilation Wake.

Remastered at Loud
Design & Photography @tomato

{p} 2001 4AD Ltd.
{c} 2001 4AD Ltd.

CD1
1. Frontier {demo}
An early version of the song which was recorded on 4 track in Belgrave, Melbourne in 1981. Later remodelled for the debut album Dead Can Dance, this recording was originally engineered [...] & mixed in November 1986 at Blackwing, London, for inclusion on the album Lonely Is An Eyesore, a compilation of various 4AD artists.
{p}1987 4AD Ltd.

2. Labour Of Love {radio}
3. Ocean {radio}
4. Orion {radio}
5. Threshold {radio}
These songs were recorded on 19 November 1983 for the John Peel show which was broadcast nationally in the UK by the BBC.
[...] Ocean & Threshold were re-recordings of tracks from their debut album while Labour Of Love & Orion are previously unreleased songs. [...] Engineered [...] at BBC Maida Vale studio 4
First broadcast 28 November 1983
{p}1983 BBC
Released by arrangement with BBC Music
Previously unreleased.

6. Carnival Of Light {radio}
A second John Peel session was recorded by the same musicians on 2 June 1984. Again There were four songs; Carnival Of Light & Flowers Of The Sea were re-recordings of songs from a 12" EP, Garden Of The Arcane Delights whilst Penumbra & Panacea were early versions of tracks that would appear with different titles on Dead Can Dance's second album.
[...] Engineered [...] at BBC Maida Vale studio 4
First broadcast 13 June 1984
{p}1984 BBC
Released by arrangement with BBC Music
Previously unreleased.

7. In Power We Entrust The Love Advocated
This was one of the four tracks released on Garden Of The Arcane Delights
Engineered at Vineyard studio
{p}1984 4AD Ltd.

8. De Profundis {Out Of The Depths Of Sorrow}
9. Avatar
10. Enigma Of The Absolute
The second album, Spleen And Ideal, was recorded between September & November 1985 at Woodbine Street studio.
Brendan & Lisa provided most of the instrumentation themselves alongside the featured musicians[...].
{p}1985 4AD Ltd.

11. Summoning Of The Muse
12. Anywhere Out Of This World
13. Windfall
14. Cantara
Recording for the third album, Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun, took place during April & May 1987, again at Woodbine Street studio & again with Brendan & Lisa performing almost all the music except the woodwind & strings.
{p}1987 4AD Ltd.

15. In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-Eyed Are Kings
[...]taken from The Serpent's Egg
{p}1988 4AD Ltd.

16. Bird
Recorded for the compilation album A Passage In Time
{p}1991 4AD Ltd.

17. The Protagonist
Recorded during the session for Within The Realm Of A Dying Sun, this instrumental was also released on the Lonely Is An Eyesore compilation
{p}1987 4AD Ltd.

Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd.

CD2
1. Severance
2. The Host Of Seraphim
3. Song Of Sophia
Sessions for The Serpent's Egg were started at Woodbine Street studio with John A. Rivers but were abandoned, with only four songs {including Song Of Sophia} used on the album.
{p}1988 4AD Ltd.

4. The Arrival & The Reunion
5. Black Sun
6. The Promised Womb
7. Saltarello
8. The Song Of The Sybil
Dead Can Dance's fifth album, Aion, was mostly recorded in Ireland though The Arrival & The Reunion was again recorded at Woodbine Street studio.
{p}1990 4AD Ltd.

9. Spirit
A song specially recorded for A Passage In Time but also released an additional track {alongside Bird} on the vinyl version of Into The Labyrinth.
{p}1991 4AD Ltd.

10. Yulunga
11. The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove
Into The Labyrinth was performed entirely by Brendan & Lisa and produced [...] at Quivvy Church. Freed from the time constraints of a commercial studio, they constructed possibly their most personal & cohesive album to date.
{p}1993 4AD Ltd.

12. Sloth {radio}
On 16 August 1993, during a USA tour, Brendan & Lisa appeared on the Santa Monica Community radio KCRW show 'Morning Becomes Eclectic'. Between playing recordings & discussing their career, they performed two songs apiece, live in the studio. Sloth, entitled Dragging My Feet at the time, was later re-recorded for Brendan's 1999 solo album, Eye Of The Hunter.
{p}1993 4AD Ltd.

13. Bylar
Dead Can Dance's first show on the USA leg of their world tour, on 10 July 1996 at the Keswick Theatre, Philadelphia, was recorded for broadcast on the USA syndicated radio show 'Echoes', presented by John Diliberto.
{p}1996 4AD Ltd.
Previously available on Echoes Living Room Concerts volume 2

14. The Carnival Is Over
15. The Spider's Stratagem
Taken from Into The Labyrinth
{p}1993 4AD Ltd.

16. The Wind That Shakes The Barley {radio}
Another of the recordings performed live at KCRW
{p}1993 4AD Ltd.
Previously unreleased

17. How Fortunate The Man With None
Taken from Into The Labyrinth
{p}1993 4AD Ltd.

Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
The Wind That Shakes The Barley - Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
How Fortunate The Man With None - Published by Momentum Music Ltd./Stefan S. Brecht/ Universal Music Publishing Ltd.

CD3
1. I Can See Now
2. American Dreaming
3. Tristan
4. Sanvean
5. Rakim
6. Gloridean
7. Don't Fade Away
Recorded live at The Mayfair Theater, Santa Monica, CA. on the 1993 tour and released on the album Toward The Within. Gloridean was recorded for the movie but omitted from the record release, though Lisa Gerrard re-recorded the track {as Gloradin} on her first solo album, The Mirror Pool.
{p}1994 4AD Ltd.

8. Nierika
9. Song Of The Nile
10. Sambatiki
11. Indus
12. The Snake & The Moon {edit}
[...] these tracks were released on the 1996 album, Spiritchaser. Tour Program was released exclusively with the Spiritchaser Tour program & The Snake & The Moon is the edited version used for radio promotion in America.
{p}1996 4AD Ltd.

13. The Lotus Eaters
Recorded in 1998, this is the only completed song from the abandoned sessions at Quivvy Church to record a follow-up album to Spiritchaser.
{p}1996 4AD Ltd.
Previously unreleased

Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
Tristan - public domain
Sanvean - Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd./Copyright Control
Indus - reference to 'Within You, Without You' by permission of George Harrison & Northern Songs

DVD
Toward The Within

additional performances

The Host Of Seraphim
Taken from Baraka: a Mark Magidson production/ a Ron Fricke film

Yulunga [Spirit Dance}
Taken from Baraka: a Mark Magidson production/ a Ron Fricke film

Frontier
Directed [...] of 23 Envelope

The Protagonist
Directed [...] of 23 Envelope

Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd.
I Am Stretched On Your Grave - Published by EMIVirgin Music/ Mulligan Music.
Tristan - public domain
Sanvean - Published by Momentum Music Ltd./ Universal Music Publishing Ltd./Copyright Control

Original menu photography [...] courtesy of Paul Kopeikin Gallery, Los Angeles

Track DVD-1 is not mentioned in the tracklist