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The album's repertoire spans seven years, from 1988 to 1995, featuring some of her material not worked into Dead Can Dance albums. Gerrard noted, "There is usually a surplus of work that overlaps the continuous nature of a Dead Can Dance record. Some of these pieces, which were not realized for
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Gerrard explained the album title: "If you read about African music, they believe that during the process of making this music that you come into contact with spirits from another plane. They say that this place is like a mirror of the world we live in, With the best music, you don't find the
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reason of continuity, have been collected together in the form of largely orchestral-based works and pieces written primarily for 'voice' music."
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there's this weird thing that takes place, thinking about procreation, sex, and death -- you get very morbid just before you have a baby.
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John Bonnar – orchestra conductor/arranger (1-4, 7, 10, 12-13), arranger (11), keyboards (9, 11), vocals (5, 12)
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Music by Lisa Gerrard, except 3 (traditional, arranged by Gerrard), 4 (Gerrard, Andrew Claxton), 9 (
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Jacek Tuschewski – engineer (5-6, 8-9, 11, 14-16) at Gerrard Studio (Gippsland, Australia)
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The tracks "La Bas (Song of the Drowned)", "Celon" and "Gloradin" were used for the 1995
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Ken Bogle, October 19, 1995: "Dancing Alone: Lisa Gerrard talks about her new album",
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Garry Havrillay – engineer (woodwind 10, 12-13) at ABC Studios (Melbourne, Australia)
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composer or the musicians within the work, you find yourself, your own feelings."
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Robin Gray – engineer (orchestra 1-4, 7) at Eaton Studio (Melbourne, Australia)
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Philharmonic Orchestra – full orchestra (1-4, 7), woodwind section (10, 12-13)
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Index


Studio album
Lisa Gerrard
Melbourne
Gippsland
Genre
World fusion
baroque orchestral
Label
4AD
Producer
Lisa Gerrard
Lisa Gerrard
Duality
Singles
Sanvean (I Am Your Shadow)
AllMusic
Lisa Gerrard
4AD
Spiritchaser
Dead Can Dance
Pieter Bourke
Duality
Joris-Karl Huysmans
Là-bas
Ys
Oedipus Rex
Shiraz
Iran
Toward the Within

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