Sunday, February 7, 2010

Dead Can Dance and Lisa Gerrard Rarities

I searched for a video for the song "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book" and came up without one, but without empty hands, too. I found this:



And this:



Neither seems remotely "official." They're fan-made videos, as far as I can tell. The former is an unreleased DCD song from the late 1980s, and the latter song comes from Gerrard's under-distributed, quite beautiful album "The Silver Tree."

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It is not difficult to imagine that Lisa Gerrard has the most beautiful voice not only on the planet but in the whole of the universe.

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I also found this live version of "Space Weaver," from Milan, in 2007, and I can assure you there is nothing transcendentally beautiful here, nothing that promises the world can be a warm and safe and loving place, nothing whatsoever worth wasting your precisous time. The camera hardly zooms in at all. And the recording sounds a bit tinny and muffled.

So, never you mind. It's Super Bowl Sunday, our nation's greatest religious holiday. Kickoff is mere hours away.

OK, OK, hush now.



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And I found this long, long list of rarities, B-sides, soundtrack cuts, and lost songs from Dead Can Dance and Lisa Gerrard. (Deep sigh.) Now I've got some scavenging to do.

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But I should work now. Shouldn't I? Yes, yes, yes, I should.

I should.

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