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Dead Can Dance — Radharc
Album: Aion
Avg rating:
6.5

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Total ratings: 914









Released: 1990
Length: 2:47
Plays (last 30 days): 0
(Instrumental)
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 hayduke2 wrote:

love this!  appropriately cool cover art too




The cover is an excerpt from a large painting by Hieronymus Bosch (1450 - 1516)

Grace Slick never sounded better - didn't know she was Egyptian.
 hayduke2 wrote:
Superb sound!  Thank You for this additional DCD piece Your Holiness!!!  May we each some day have access to those delicious dark lips of hers, ayemen!
 
Thank you, hayduke2!  I hope you are having a blast these days...  everybody in my elevators loves this song, and this entire album is incredible...  Lisa Gerrard has the voice of an angel...  we be dancing like happy hippies...  love sex, drugs, and Dead Can Dance...
Brilliant and Inspired 
love this!  appropriately cool cover art too
Perfect ! 
DCD rocks.
{#Notworthy} 
What are they doing now? 
Brilliant band! This is classic.
I love DCD! {#Bananasplit}
 Lazarus wrote:

marvelous...  love it...

Lisa often just makes up words to match the mood of her melody, which is what she does here...  there are no actual words to this song, in any true language...  this deliberately makes the song esoteric and idiosyncratic— absolutely original and unique...

this song sounds truly supernatural...
 

 
Thanks
Love this band. Their performances are transcendent.
{#Daisy} love, love, love {#Daisy}
 (former member) wrote:


This song is fantastic, and this whole album is seminal...

one day I am going to have to upload my favorite Dead Can Dance song, which is also on Aion and is called, "As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins"...  Lisa also speaks in tongues on that song, and she melts me...

one day...  oh, yes...  one day...



 



 
Superb sound!  Thank You for this additional DCD piece Your Holiness!!!  May we each some day have access to those delicious dark lips of hers, ayemen!


i have to mute for 3 minutes. {#Fire}

Everybody in my mushrooming multitude of churches loves this song...
 

marvelous...  love it...

Lisa often just makes up words to match the mood of her melody, which is what she does here...  there are no actual words to this song, in any true language...  this deliberately makes the song esoteric and idiosyncratic— absolutely original and unique...

this song 
sounds truly supernatural...
 
 Stingray wrote:
The same remains as well that Americans ..., eeeeh..., dislike Muslim music

(I follow this closely. Nearly all "Muslim-music" gets lower votings). This song is

an adaptation of EGYPTIAN (aka Muslims) sounds, what explains the unusual number of 1's. 


Not all Arabs are Muslims, and not all Muslims are Arabs. I've had this album since it came out and I still don't know if this track is Arabian or not, or just plain Middle Eastern. The All Music page on the album sheds a bit of light on it but not on this track, though it does make plain (as any listener to the album would know) that the influences are medieval, with many of the songs from centuries-old material. DCD were truly eclectic.

Never dreamed a radio station would be this good...

love this song, and this incredible album...
 
 chaecker wrote:
I love how this tune polarizes the ratings. Love it or hate it, very little in between. Check out the distribution of votes. Cool!

 

Sorry, have to disagree!

Voting remains the same. The avarage 7's, for the most part.

The same remains as well that Americans ..., eeeeh..., dislike Muslim music

(I follow this closely. Nearly all "Muslim-music" gets lower votings). This song is

an adaptation of EGYPTIAN (aka Muslims) sounds, what explains the unusual number of 1's. 

Business as usual!!


I can see where alot of people would not like this. I think if you have a bit of gypsy blood like myself...you can't help but love it!
VERY VERY EGYPTIAN!!
Wonderful tune from an even more amazing band. A spiritual experience to see them live- highly recommended, and I know they are touring now!
my favourite dead can dance song is"nierika"
yeeeaaaahhh, it´s GREAT, although the spring here in germany is rainy:)


has that Friday I'm in Love kinda feel to it..
Dramatic, enchanting and exotic, as always.
i must admit that although i like the genre sometimes i find dead can dance a little boring. this one, however, is really good!
 shutter wrote:
What an abject waste of a Hieronymous Bosch painting
 
Thanks for the art education — though I can't understand, why do you think it's an "abject waste"?  The guy died in 1516, it's not like his works suffer from overexposure.....  {#Stupid}
 shutter wrote:
What an abject waste of a Hieronymous Bosch painting
 
I went a bit of Bosch pilgrimage last year..........wish I'd had this song along. Especially for the tryptich.

I love how this tune polarizes the ratings. Love it or hate it, very little in between. Check out the distribution of votes. Cool!

What an abject waste of a Hieronymous Bosch painting
 revolver wrote:
Horrible
 
{#Yes}..yup,shoot them again !

Horrible
OH DEAR is this annoying. BBIAF...
DCD - unique and wonderful! A treat to hear.
I can hear them beating that poor can to death!  Quite a workout.  Actually a fairly good song.  I like the portion of the Heironymous Bosch triptych used for the cover.

iscoot4peace wrote:
Sounds like Edith Piaf grgling on her vacation in Marakesh.
Funny! I'll take an aural vacation in Marrakesh any way I can, great song.

If you guys like DCD, look up more artists from "4AD".
Great Band these and I love a bit of Folk music thrown in be it wherever its roots ...

Thanks for the Arabic percussion fix!{#Dancingbanana}


Dead Can Dance... always a welcome listen at any time of day!
that's two really annoying tunes within a hour...just one more and it's over to SOMA for the rest of the day for me
Must....turn....off....speakers...
Sounds like Edith Piaf grgling on her vacation in Marakesh.
 superfido wrote:
Well, most at least. The first alb is a bit weak, even to a die hard dcd fan like me. And the two last alblums taper off in their mystic appeal. IMO of course
 
I loved the first album, which when I first heard it in my student digs in 1986 made the hairs on my arms stand on end it was so scary and different. I'd never heard anything like it, and even now 20 years after DCDs heyday I don't know of any other group that comes near to their eclecticism, and few singers who match Lisa Gerrard's versatility and range.

 xc_para_puravida wrote:
Anything by DCD is automatically a 10!
 

Well, most at least. The first alb is a bit weak, even to a die hard dcd fan like me. And the two last alblums taper off in their mystic appeal. IMO of course
may sound weird but this is some of the music I do my best painting with

Had already given this a 1 ... can't hear any reason at all to change it.
 drtjdel wrote:


OK, students, name ONE OTHER work by H. Bosch.
 

The Magician,  The Temptation of St. Anthony,  all those other tryptichs on heaven and hell, ( he did love his tryptichs..)
Hannio wrote:
Yeah, normally I would be interested in this, but I just can't get past that awful voice. Besides, I'd rather hear something authentic.



(shrug) Lisa Gerrard's voice is very distinctive, right enough, but also very versatile with a wide range, such that she's been called upon for a few film scores, including that of Ridley Scott's Gladiator. You may not like her, but an awful lot of others do - sorry. This is one of my all-time fave albums, and it did hurt when I heard that she and Brendan Perry had broken up and Dead Can Dance were no more.

Anything by DCD is automatically a 10!
perfectly dark
Perfect.
...wow, i haven't heard this in, gosh, fifteen years or so!..
THANKS BIll for some interesting sound, not your typical talking heads or other AM Radio music
ok, that's quite enough...bye
BEAUTIFUL
Yes! More D-Can-D please.
huebdoo wrote:
Too much wobble in her voice Sounds like someone is playing motor boat and pounding on her back as she sings or that thing where you wobble your hand up and down on your throat while you talk good asia minor kinda groove though
Yeah, normally I would be interested in this, but I just can't get past that awful voice. Besides, I'd rather hear something authentic.
MM_Prague wrote:
It is. The Garden of Earthly Delights.
OK, students, name ONE OTHER work by H. Bosch.
dead can dance me to my grave groovin' love every note they eva play'd!
From now on I am only rating very GOOD or BAD,this one started that thought,it's a two!
jablan wrote:
It looks more like Hieronymus Bosch to me... BTW, is this Hebrew?
No, apparently (and this is from Lisa Gerrard herself) they're mostly made-up words...
sounds greeaaaat !
Kregg wrote:
the cover art is taken from a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
celadonstone wrote:
That cover looks like a clip of Hieronymous Bosch painting...
It looks more like Hieronymus Bosch to me... BTW, is this Hebrew?
celadonstone wrote:
I agree. That cover looks like a clip of Hieronymous Bosch painting...
It is. The Garden of Earthly Delights.
hippiechick wrote:
belly dancing music!
I agree. That cover looks like a clip of Hieronymous Bosch painting...
belly dancing music!
Thank you!!! More DCD please!!!
I love them very very much!!!!!!!
Saw DCD in Washington DC recently, rather perfunctory performance I thought.
Love these guys!!!!
All hail the DCD!!!
lunar1963 wrote:
Dead Can Dance never goes wrong... Gorgeous sleeve too!
great cd, the cover art is taken from a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
that was good , haven't heard thep in ages, an interesting change.
That was great! Very groovy! Haven't listened to Dead Can Dance for years!
Wonderfully original!
Too much wobble in her voice Sounds like someone is playing motor boat and pounding on her back as she sings or that thing where you wobble your hand up and down on your throat while you talk good asia minor kinda groove though
I've been a fan of Dead Can Dance for years. It is nice to hear them getting a bit of air time again.
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Dead Can Dance never goes wrong... Gorgeous sleeve too!