Dead Can Dance - Toward the Within
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I started to listen to Dead Can Dance a few years ago, and I’ve also followed the solo work of Lisa Gerrard—one half of the band—after Dead Can Dance split up. I’ve been trying to think how to describe their music to you, and I have to say it’s pretty difficult. Their image is goth, but their music encompasses medieval, Middle Eastern, Irish folk, Native American and trance music. The thing that holds this whole melange together—in my opinion—is Lisa Gerrard’s incredible voice. Lisa is the female equivalent of a counter-tenor; her voice is unusually deep, and if you didn’t know what sex she was, “male? female?” would be flicking back and forth across your mind, like an auditory version of that vase-face visual illusion.
