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August 24, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Poem: The Arcane

I try not to have too many rules in life, I’ll follow the ones I’m supposed to, not too interested in making up many more. Still, if you can hear Lisa Gerrard singing, you are probably okay. It might not seem like much, but it’s saved my life. More than once.
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Dead Can dance, Lisa Gerrard, Poem, Poem: The Arcane, The Arcane ·

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June 14, 2021 by Simon Sweetman

Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell: Burn

Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell Burn Atlantic Curve / Schubert Music Europe gmbh There is a sound Lisa Gerrard has been mining across some 40 years now – it’s there in solo albums, soundtrack compositions and collaborations and of course most tellingly, it’s been at the heard of Dead Can Dance albums. The sound is […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Burn, Dead Can dance, Jules Maxwell, Lisa Gerrard, Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell, Lisa Gerrard & Jules Maxwell: Burn, Want more? Check out my Substack You can also support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 9, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Lisa Gerrard, Genesis Orchestra & Yordan Kamdzhalov: Górecki – Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs

Lisa Gerrard, Genesis Orchestra & Yordan Kamdzhalov Górecki – Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs Besant Hall Records (part of Air-Edel Records) Henryk Górecki’s Symphony No. 3, Op 36, known as Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, was composed in late 1976. It was premiered the following year in performance and since then there have been […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Classical, Dead Can dance, Genesis Orchestra, Gorecki, Górecki – Symphony No. 3: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Henryk Górecki, Lisa Gerrard, Symphony No. 3, Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, Yordan Kamdzhalov, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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January 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Zbiginew Preisner / Lisa Gerrard / Dominik Wania: Memories of My Youth

Zbiginew Preisner / Lisa Gerrard / Dominik Wania Memories of My Youth Supertrain Records The Polish composer Zbiginew Preisner has worked widely across theatre, dance and film – including orchestrations for David Gilmour and perhaps is best known for a series of film-scores including music for The Secret Garden and the Three Colours series of […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Composer, Dead Can dance, Dominik Wania, Lisa Gerrard, Memories of My Youth, Poland, Polish, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron, Zbiginew Preisner, Zbiginew Preisner / Lisa Gerrard / Dominik Wania: Memories of My Youth ·

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March 16, 2015 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 928

This Mortal Coil, It’ll End In Tears (1984) What is now a cliché but we still (always) seem to say it in a means-well way is this notion of a cover version where the performer makes the song their own – This Mortal Coil isn’t really a band, more a project. But most of the […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1984, 4AD, Covers, Dead Can dance, It'll End In Tears, Ivo Watts-Russell, LP, Record, Song To The Siren, This Mortal Coil, Vinyl ·

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October 8, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Pan & Me: Ocean Noise

Pan & Me Ocean Noise Denovali Records Created as sprawling double-album, Ocean Noise is the work of Christopher Mevel, here under the Pan & Me name, but known also for his jazz-tinged extrapolations with The Dale Cooper Quartet. The Pan & Me work takes more from neo-classical, the widescreen filmic sequences (Nickel Empire) are borne […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged [OST], Album Review, Brian Eno, Christoper Mevel, Dead Can dance, Ocean Noise, Pan & Me, Rhian Sheehan, The Dale Cooper Quartet ·

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August 29, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Lustmord: The Word As Power

Lustmord The Word As Power Blackest Ever Black As Lustmord Brian Williams has created a strain of industrial and dark ambient music that creeps along like a horror soundtrack one minute, then slowly, surely, it opens itself up – unfolding – to reveal the beauty (and still the darkness) of sublime classical music, of minimalism, […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Album Review, Brian Williams, Burial, Dark Ambient, Dead Can dance, Gorecki, Lustmord, Philip Glass, Scott Walker, Swans, The Word As Power, Tool ·

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November 10, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

Dead Can Dance: Anastasis

Dead Can Dance Anastasis Liberation The new Dead Can Dance album, the duo’s first in 16 years is wonderful. I’ve had it on my stereo for weeks – a couple of months now I guess. And it follows me everywhere. I hear it when it’s not playing. Tunes like Kiko and Opium seem to play […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Anastasis, CD Review, Dead Can dance ·

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