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Dead Can Dance – The Serpent's Egg
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg album cover
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Label: 4AD – SAD 2709 CD, 4AD – SAD 2709, 4AD – SAD2709, 4AD – WPCB-10074
Format:
SACD, Hybrid, Stereo, Album, Reissue, Remastered, Audiophile Edition
Country: UK, Europe & US
Released: Jun 2, 2008
Genre: Electronic, Rock, Folk, World, & Country
Style: Modern Classical, Ethereal, Ambient
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1 The Host Of Seraphim 6:18
2 Orbis De Ignis 1:35
3 Severance 3:23
4 The Writing On My Father's Hand 3:50
5 In The Kingdom Of The Blind The One-Eyed Are Kings 4:12
6 Chant Of The Paladin 3:49
7 Song Of Sophia 1:25
8 Echolalia 1:17
9 Mother Tongue 5:17
10 Ullyses 5:10
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Manufactured By – Warner Music Japan Inc.
Distributed By – Warner Music Japan Inc.
Remastered At – Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Published By – Universal Music Publishing
Published By – Momentum 3
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – 4AD
Designed At – v23
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Design [Sleeve, Insert] – Brendan Perry, Vaughan Oliver
Hurdy Gurdy [Hurdy-Gurdy] – Brendan Perry
Mastered By [SACD Mastered By] – Neal Harris
Producer [Produced By] – Dead Can Dance, John A. Rivers (tracks: 1, 2, 7, 10)
Supervised By [Mastering Supervision By] – Shawn R. Britton
Viola – Andrew Beesley, Sarah Buckley
Violin – Alison Harling, Rebecca Jackson
Violoncello – Tony Gamage
Voice – Brendan Perry, David Navarro Sust, Lisa Gerrard
Written-By – Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard
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Hybrid CD / SACD mini-LP replica, including obi-strip, inner sleeve & 8 page booklet.
SACD mastered at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab.
Published by Universal Music Publishing / Momentum 3.
Original recording ℗ 1988 4AD.
℗ 2008 4AD.
Manufactured and distributed by Warner Music Japan Inc., A Warner Music Group Company. Made in Japan.
In loving memory of Susan O'Reilly.
Cat.# is SAD 2709 CD on obi; SAD 2709 on disc, inner sleeve and booklet; SAD2709 on sleeve's spine and back cover.
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The fourth Dead Can Dance album, THE SERPENT'S EGG, continues the band's evolution away from tradition rock/pop song structures. The tracks are instead built on sustained chords, vocal harmonizing, and brittle-sounding string instruments. "Orbis de Ignis" is almost a cappella, the only music being a bell struck between verses, with the ethereal voice of Lisa Gerrard (and others) skittering over the surface. Along with the insistent tribal drumming of "Mother Tongue," which eventually evolves into a wordless chant by Lisa Gerrard, the best tracks here are two featuring Brendan Perry's vocals, "Severance" and "Ullyses." The first opens on an ominous drone as the song's narrative tells of a fading community (or civilization, even). The second features some of Perry's most interesting work with the hurdy-gurdy, which is echoed by a string section. Also of note is the creepy vocal interplay in "Echolalia." For fans of This Mortal Coil, "Song of Sophia" distinctly recalls that band's "Song to the Siren." This is maybe not the best Dead Can Dance record to begin with--it is certainly the group's most insular--but for fans it is another fascinating trip to the dawn of Western music.
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