Music Calms The Savage Beast

[xraytheenforcer]

Film: clip from Baraka
Music: Dead Can Dance; Yulunga

Comments

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

I clicked only because I got broqdband today, and I saw dead can dance.

Bien m'en a pris!!!!! This is amazing. Lorrena McKennit used that type of arabic music a lot for her folk music and gods I used up the CD's. Soufi, is it? Or whatever.

Your title is just spot on. I feel like a snake that has been tin whistled at the minute.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I feel like a snake that has been tin whistled

that is an amazing phrase. I will have to use it in the future.

If you're into sufi music, you might want to check out Nusrat (there's a thread in Entertainment, now buried, discussing his music). As for DCD -- they do some amazing takes on traditional folk music, and they also mine the European tradition (saltarello, for example) with aplomb. Harpsichord, anyone?

[knightofredempt.livejournal.com]

I know Brendon Perry quiet well, he lives near here We were in a band together for a while..I also beat him in a local talent contest..how do you like them onions ;-)

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

those are some mighty onions. :p

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I also seem to remember that Perry settled somewhere in Eire and lives in a converted church (or maybe he just turned one into a recording studio?)

Please tell me you were in a polka band together.

[knightofredempt.livejournal.com]

He turned it into a studio, but lived there while renovating and extending his cottage.
You are quite close with the polka idea..I'll say no more.

[niamhotoole.livejournal.com]

Use away..... I'm quite astonished I came up with it myself ;)

I'll check Nusrat.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

There is another singer whose name I am forgetting which is closer to the DCD music. I am going to have to harass Bryce (The Stranger) about it.

[fenryng.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I consider the vocal parts to be similar to listening to the Chant cd I have, of the Benedictine Monks.

I haven't listened to enough Loreena McKinnit to have picked out anything similar in her works, however.

Is this typical of DCD, or do they tend to sing more often?

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Hard to say, as DCD always experimented. On the whole, I'd say "yes," although there are plenty of their songs with understandable words, and not Lisa Gerrard's signature glossolalia.

[fenryng.livejournal.com]

Is there a particular album that you would suggest starting with for these folks? :-)

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

Hrmmmm. This track is from Into the Labyrinth, which is a great album, but is not wholly representative of DCD in that it is much more "pared down."

I'd suggest trying Into The Labyrinth, Serpent's Egg, and maybe Aion. Another possibility is one of the compilations: I'd try "Wake."

[fenryng.livejournal.com]

Thanks!