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Track Listings
| 1. Nierika |
| 2. Song Of The Stars |
| 3. Indus |
| 4. Song Of The Dispossessed |
| 5. Dedicacé Outò |
| 6. The Snake And The Moon |
| 7. Song Of The Nile |
| 8. Devorzhum |
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Listening to Dead Can Dance is a transcendental experience. Enriched with dedications to the living Gaia, their creations subsist in natural and other worldly realms. Initially crafting songs which augmented their Australian roots with Gothic and Renaissance traditions, the group have since grown to encompass a hybrid of global sounds. On Spiritchaser the enchanted souls of founding members Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard shine in this, their most ethereal LP to date. Whereas earlier endeavors succumbed to genres grounded in eras of the past and non-Western present, it's immediately apparent that this album has loftier aspirations. Hypnotically threaded with traditional and electronic instruments, the exorcism of each song touches upon the universal essence beyond. While Gerrard's heavenly vocals are used primarily for instrumental effect, Perry's fertile lyricism both compliments her efforts and expresses the spiritual associations related to the album's title and meaning. Intrinsically delivered with shamanistic connectivity, the sensations ritualize the modern mortal. --Lucas Hilbert
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SACD/Hybrid Stereo Remastered CD of the1996 Spiritchaser album by Dead Can Dance, a band comprising of Lisa Gerrard on contralto and Brendan Perry on baritone, which formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1981 and initially based there. The duo disbanded in 1998 but reunited temporarily for a world tour in 2005. Spiritchaser was the last studio album of Dead Can Dance before Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard went their separate ways. It expands on their exploration of world music and like Into the Labyrinth, Spiritchaser was recorded at Quivvy Church, Perry's personal studio in Ireland. 6 tracks.
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By Pierre Coach
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
That's only my opinion, music like any other form of art is a matter of taste. I'm a fan of DCD and I find that this album is quite different from the others. I only listened to it twice though, so I'll give it a bit more time, although I must point out that it was ''love at first listen'' for most of their other albums. Again my two cents.
By Tim Brough
Format:Audio CD
Blending a seamless mix of Native American and African styles of music into their synthetic brew, the final album from Dead Can Dance is also their must fully actualized. Not for casual background listening or mentally agitated states, "Spiritchaser" has filled my days at times when I've needed to sit back (or lay down) and reconnect with life and a more peaceful point of consciousness.
"Spiritchaser" is also a very earthy, sexual CD for me. As the liner notes state, there is a belief that organic instruments, made from living creatures, then contain part of the soul of the creature and make each instrument the voice of the soul from which it was created. That kind of reverence permeates the eight songs on "Spiritchaser," where the sounds and the voices seem to manage to seep into the listener's essence, touching hearts as gently as they touch minds. (Although you have to smile as the song "Indus" gracefully references George Harrison's "Within You Without You.") To close, "Spiritchaser" is the kind of CD you listen to when you wish to have an environment that surrounds and envelops you.
PS. I will heartily recommend this CD to fans of Delerium, Deep Forest and earlier Enigma, even though they are only marginally related.
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1.0 out of 5 stars
Not big deal...just noise
YES, the voice of Lisa Gerrard is beautiful BUT can't be appreciated in this boring disc. Some sounds and nice, but the way in which they mixed them.....It's just noise. Read more
Published on Mar 10 2004 by Luis Ortiz
5.0 out of 5 stars
Spirit bringer
Dead can dance always knew how to make specific dark music coming straight out of the darkest parts of the mind. Read more
Published on Jan 29 2004 by Mike Chadwick
5.0 out of 5 stars
Spirit
I really love this album, I have all DCD albums, except the Box Set. From all the albums of DCD I think this one is quite moodly, my favourite songs are: Song of the Stars,... Read more
Published on Oct 17 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars
Vastly underrated, and in retrospect a fitting swan song
The truth about Spiritchaser is that is the album after the live Toward the Within, which captured the band in their most ideal settings. Read more
Published on Jun 15 2003 by "unused_nickname"
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