Into the Labyrinth
by Dead Can Dance
- Type: Album
- Released: 13 September 1993
- Label: 4AD
- Country: Australia
- Length: 55:32
- Community rating: 3.86/5 from 9 ratings
Artists on this release: Robert Dwyer Joyce, Lisa Gerrard, Bertolt Brecht, Brendan Perry
Album Notes & Community Reviews
'Into the Labyrinth' finds Dead Can Dance transitioning from dense orchestral arrangements towards highly eclectic world music and tribal rhythms. Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry utilize Byzantine and Arabic classical influences to construct a spiritual, deeply atmospheric, and somber neoclassical darkwave exploration of medieval folklore.
Genres
Descriptors: folklore, medieval, mythology, atmospheric, orchestral, ritualistic, traditional, percussive, ambient, choral
Tracklist
- Yulunga (Spirit Dance) (6:55)
- The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove (6:17)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2:51)
- The Carnival Is Over (5:28)
- Ariadne (1:54)
- Saldek (1:09)
- Towards the Within (7:07)
- Tell Me About the Forest (You Once Called Home) (5:42)
- The Spider's Stratagem (6:43)
- Emmeleia (2:07)
- How Fortunate the Man With None (9:14)
Credits
- Dead Can Dance - primary artist, written-by, arranged by [traditional arrangement], music by
- Brendan Perry - design, engineer, producer, performer
- Chris Bigg - design
- Miles Showell - lacquer cut by
- Lisa Gerrard - performer
- Touhami Ennadre - photography by [front cover image]
- Ken Kavanagh - photography by [inside images]
- John Sherwin - set designer [stage set]
- Robert Dwyer Joyce - words by, music by
- John Willett - translated by [words]
- Bertolt Brecht - words by