Toward the Within
by Dead Can Dance
- Type: Album
- Released: 24 October 1994
- Label: 4AD
- Country: Australia
- Length: 1:07:51
- Community rating: 4.24/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Brendan Perry, John Bonnar, Lance Hogan, Andrew Claxton, R贸n谩n 脫 Snodaigh, Lisa Gerrard
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Recorded at the Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica, this performance captures the duo's transition into a more global and spiritual soundscape. The set features mostly unreleased material that blends medieval, West Asian, and Celtic folk influences with neoclassical darkwave, showcasing the ethereal vocal interplay between Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry in an intimate setting.
Genres
Descriptors: medieval, atmospheric, expansive, droning, textured
Tracklist
- Rakim (6:25)
- Persian Love Song (2:56)
- Desert Song (4:21)
- Yulunga (Spirit Dance) (7:11)
- Piece for Solo Flute (3:34)
- The Wind That Shakes the Barley (3:11)
- I Am Stretched on Your Grave (4:38)
- I Can See Now (2:57)
- American Dreaming (4:54)
- Cantara (5:16)
- Oman (5:49)
- The Song of the Sibyl (4:31)
- Tristan (1:48)
- Sanvean (3:58)
- Don't Fade Away (6:15)
Credits
- Dead Can Dance - primary artist, arranged by [trad. arr.]
- Lance Hogan - bass guitar, guitar [6 string], percussion, voice
- Andrew Claxton - keyboards, written-by
- John Bonnar - keyboards, voice, percussion
- R贸n谩n 脫 Snodaigh - percussion, voice
- Robert Perry - uilleann pipes [uillean pipes], bouzouki [irish], low whistle [d], percussion, written-by
- Brendan Perry - voice, twelve-string guitar, percussion, bouzouki [irish], whistle [d], written-by
- Lisa Gerrard - voice, yang t'chin [yang ch'in], percussion, written-by, arranged by [trad. arr.]