Spiritchaser

by Dead Can Dance

Spiritchaser cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 3 June 1996
  • Label: 4AD
  • Country: Australia
  • Length: 51:56
  • Community rating: 3.72/5 from 10 ratings

Artists on this release: Peter Ulrich, R贸n谩n 脫 Snodaigh, Robert Perry, Lance Hogan

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Their final album before a long hiatus, 'Spiritchaser' finds Dead Can Dance leaning heavily into hypnotic, deeply rhythmic African and South American percussion. The duo crafts a highly spiritual, soothing, and ethereal new age journey filled with intricate worldbeat textures and tribal ambient warmth.

Genres

Descriptors: aquatic, atmospheric, female vocalist, male-vocalist, repetitive, rhythmic, ritualistic, percussive, ambient, nonlexical-vocables, experimental, choral

Tracklist

  1. Nierika (5:44)
  2. Song of the Stars (10:13)
  3. Indus (9:23)
  4. Song of the Dispossessed (5:00)
  5. Dedicac茅 Out貌 (1:09)
  6. The Snake and the Moon (6:11)
  7. Song of the Nile (8:00)
  8. Devorzhum (6:14)

Credits

  • Dead Can Dance - primary artist
  • Chris Bigg - design, art direction [at v23]
  • Brendan Perry - instruments [all], performer, written-by, recorded by, producer, lyrics by
  • Lisa Gerrard - instruments [all], performer, written-by, recorded by, producer
  • Joscelyn Godwin - liner notes [漏 1987 thames & hudson]
  • Kevin Westenberg - photography by
  • Klaus Vormehr - engineer
  • Lance Hogan - percussion
  • Peter Ulrich - percussion
  • Robert Perry - percussion
  • R贸n谩n 脫 Snodaigh - percussion
  • Renaud Pion - clarinet [turkish]

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