Aion
by Dead Can Dance
- Type: Album
- Released: 11 June 1990
- Label: 4AD
- Country: Australia
- Length: 36:11
- Community rating: 4.02/5 from 10 ratings
Artists on this release: Luis De G贸ngora, Anne Robinson, Robert Perry, David Navarro Sust, Andrew Robinson
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Aion' finds Dead Can Dance plunging entirely into the authentic instrumentation and aesthetics of Renaissance and medieval classical music. The duo weaves Gregorian chants, hurdy-gurdies, and highly ethereal vocal performances into a deeply spiritual, pastoral, and religious neoclassical darkwave masterpiece.
Genres
Descriptors: medieval, folklore, atmospheric, choral, female-vocals, male-vocals, ambient
Tracklist
- The Arrival and the Reunion (1:38)
- Saltarello (2:34)
- Mephisto (0:53)
- The Song of the Sibyl (3:45)
- Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book (6:03)
- As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins (5:16)
- The End of Words (2:06)
- Black Sun (4:56)
- Wilderness (1:24)
- The Promised Womb (3:23)
- The Garden of Zephirus (1:18)
- Radharc (2:49)
Credits
- Dead Can Dance - primary artist, producer, written-by
- Brendan Perry - design [cover design], instruments [all other], voice
- Lisa Gerrard - instruments [all other], voice
- Stuart Hawkes - lacquer cut by
- Hieronymus Bosch - painting [detail]
- David Navarro Sust - vocals
- John Bonnar - arranged by [co-arrangements], keyboards
- Anonymous - composed by
- Traditional - composed by
- Luis De G贸ngora - words by
- Robert Perry - bagpipes
- Andrew Robinson - bass viol
- Anne Robinson - bass viol
- Honor Carmody - tenor viol
- Lucy Robinson - tenor viol