35-536: Dead Can Dance are an Australian world music and darkwave band from Melbourne . Currently composed of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry , the group formed in 1981. They relocated to London the following year. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms , Gaelic folk , Gregorian chant , Middle Eastern music , mantras , and art rock ." Having temporarily disbanded in 1998, they reunited in 2005 for
70-489: A melody that is very similar to that of " Within You Without You ", a Beatles song that George Harrison wrote and recorded with Indian musicians in 1967. Although their use of a similar melody was not deliberate, Perry and Gerrard were asked to contact Harrison for his permission to use it; he granted it, but the record company insisted that they give him partial songwriting credit on "Indus". In 2020, Spiritchaser
105-607: A couple who met as members of Melbourne's Little Band scene . Dead Can Dance soon became headliners at Melbourne's main post-punk venue, the Crystal Ballroom in St Kilda , and played an Australian farewell show there in May 1982 before moving to London, England, where they signed with alternative music label 4AD. With the duo, the initial United Kingdom line-up were Paul Erikson and Peter Ulrich . The group's debut album, Dead Can Dance ,
140-520: A follow-up album to Spiritchaser , which was due to be released in early 1999 followed by a planned world tour. However, they separated before it was completed and canceled the tour. One song from the recording sessions, "The Lotus Eaters", was eventually released on the box set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) and on the two-disc compilation Wake (2003). Gerrard teamed with Pieter Bourke ( Snog , Soma) to issue Duality in April 1998. Perry released Eye of
175-985: A new album and then embark on two-month world tour. The band made a formal announcement about its world tour and new album, Anastasis , for a release date of 13 August 2012. In late 2011, the band announced a reunion world tour, including 12 US cities, to be accompanied by the release of a live album on a new label. The tour was scheduled to begin on 9 August 2012 in Canada and continue until 19 September 2012 in Turkey , 21 and 23 September in Greece , 13 October in Russia , then 28 October 2012 in Ireland , then Mexico and South America and then in Lebanon and finally Australia in February 2013. On 15 November 2012 it
210-565: A new album influenced by Indian music and new arrangements and rehearsals for an upcoming Tour. A 2022 European tour did take place, and a second European leg was scheduled for the later in the year as well as a North American leg for 2023. However, in September 2022 the band announced the cancellation of both the second European leg as well as the North American dates citing unspecified health reasons. Darkwave Dark wave , or darkwave ,
245-557: A world tour, and again in 2011 to release and tour the album Anastasis . They released their most recent album, Dionysus , in 2018, and toured Europe in 2022. Dead Can Dance were formed in Melbourne , Australia, in August 1981 with Paul Erikson on bass guitar, Lisa Gerrard (ex-Microfilm) on vocals and percussion, Simon Monroe ( Marching Girls ) on drums and Brendan Perry (also of Marching Girls) on vocals and guitar. Gerrard and Perry were
280-487: Is a music genre that emerged from the new wave and post-punk movement of the late 1970s. Dark wave compositions are largely based on minor key tonality and introspective lyrics and have been perceived as being dark, romantic and bleak, with an undertone of sorrow. Common features include the use of chordophones such as electric and acoustic guitar, violin and piano, as well as electronic instruments such as synthesizer, sampler and drum machine. Like new wave, dark wave
315-448: Is not considered an "unified genre but rather an umbrella term" that encompasses a variety of musical styles, including cold wave , ethereal wave , gothic rock , neoclassical dark wave and neofolk . In the 1980s, a subculture developed primarily in Europe alongside dark wave music, whose followers were called "wavers" or "dark wavers". In some countries, most notably Germany,
350-451: Is often referred to as ethereal dark wave . Projekt Records has also had a long association with Attrition , who appeared on the label's earliest compilations. Another American record label in this vein was Tess Records, which featured This Ascension , Faith and the Muse , and the reunited Clan of Xymox . Joshua Gunn, a professor of communication studies at Louisiana University, described
385-510: Is the seventh studio album by Dead Can Dance , and would prove to be the last before the duo reunited fourteen years later for Anastasis . It expands on its exploration of world music , and like Into the Labyrinth , was recorded at Quivvy Church, Brendan Perry 's personal studio in Ireland. The album was dedicated to Lisa Gerrard 's deceased brother, Mark Gerrard. The track "Indus" contains
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#1732891276147420-689: The 1980s. Other bands such as Malaria! and the Vyllies added elements of chanson and cabaret music. This sort of dark wave music became known as cabaret noir (or "dark cabaret", a term popularized by U.S. dark wave label Projekt Records ). German dark wave bands were partially associated with the Neue Deutsche Welle (i.e. German new wave), and included Xmal Deutschland , Mask For, Asmodi Bizarr, II. Invasion, Unlimited Systems, Moloko †, Maerchenbraut, Cyan Revue, Leningrad Sandwich, Stimmen der Stille, Belfegore, and Pink Turns Blue . After
455-575: The 2010s, as part of the post-punk revival , a new generation of bands rekindled several sonic characteristics of early dark wave music for a new generation of fans. Some prominent acts include She Wants Revenge , the Soft Moon , She Past Away , Drab Majesty , Twin Tribes , Selofan and Boy Harsher . Substance is an annual Darkwave and Industrial music festival occurring in Los Angeles which began in
490-584: The 2010s. Meanwhile, Verboden is an annual Darkwave festival in Vancouver, British Columbia. The Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig , Germany, established in 1992, is considered one of the world's largest festivals for "dark" music and culture , taking place at Pentecost annually throughout the city. It attracts around 20,000 visitors from all over the world. [REDACTED] Media related to Dark wave at Wikimedia Commons Spiritchaser Spiritchaser
525-572: The Arcane Delights in August. AllMusic described their early work as "as goth as it gets" (despite the group themselves rejecting the label), while the EP saw them "plunging into a wider range of music and style". For their second album, Spleen and Ideal , the group comprised the core duo of Gerrard and Perry with cello, trombone and tympani added in by session musicians. Released in November 1985, it
560-848: The Cure , Siouxsie and the Banshees , the Sisters of Mercy , Anne Clark , Depeche Mode , Gary Numan and the Chameleons . The term darkwave originated in the 1980s as an indicator of the dark counterpart of new wave. Bands such as Cocteau Twins, Soft Cell , and Depeche Mode are exponents of this first generation of darkwave. Darkwave... employs relatively slower tempos, lower pitches, and more minor keys in its musical settings of melancholy texts than new wave. The movement spread internationally, developing such strands as ethereal wave , with bands such as Cocteau Twins , and neoclassical dark wave , initiated by
595-533: The French Corpus Delicti also evolved from this movement and became the leading artists of the west Romanesque dark wave scene. These bands followed a path based on the new wave and post-punk music of the 1980s. In the 1990s, a second generation of darkwave bands became popular, including Diary of Dreams, Deine Lakaien, and the Frozen Autumn... The German band Deine Lakaien ... is audibly influenced by
630-669: The Hunter in October 1999. Dead Can Dance reunited in 2005 and released limited-edition recordings of thirteen shows from its European tour and eight recordings from the subsequent North American tour, as well as a compilation titled Selections from Europe 2005 . These concerts were recorded and released on The Show record label. In 2005, the song "Nierika" became part of the opening titles for Mexican television station TV Azteca 's soap opera La Chacala . On 12 May 2011, Brendan Perry announced on his official web forum that Dead Can Dance would record
665-683: The Labyrinth , was issued in September 1993 and dispensed with guest musicians entirely; it sold 500,000 copies worldwide and appeared in the Billboard 200 . The band became 4AD's highest-selling act. They followed with a world tour in 1994 and recorded a live performance in California which was released as Toward the Within , with video versions on Laserdisc and VHS (later on DVD). Many unofficial bootlegs of concerts spanning its career exist, containing several rare songs that were only performed live. Toward
700-548: The U.S. type of dark wave music as: ...an expansion of the rather limited gothic repertoire into electronica and, in a way, the US answer to the " ethereal " subgenre that developed in Europe (e.g. Dead Can Dance). Anchored by Sam Rosenthal's now New York-based label Projekt, dark wave music is less rock and more roll, supporting bands who tend to emphasize folk songcraft, hushed vocals, ambient experimentation, and synthesized sounds [...] Projekt bands like Love Spirals Downwards and Lycia are
735-542: The United States the term dark wave (as the one-word variant "darkwave") became associated with the Projekt Records label, because it was adopted by label founder Sam Rosenthal after leafing through the pages of German music magazines such as Zillo , and has been used to promote and market artists from German label Hyperium Records in the U.S., e.g. Chandeen and Love Is Colder Than Death . I first became aware of
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#1732891276147770-610: The Within is the duo's first official live album , which reached the Billboard 200 and was followed by In Concert 19 years later. Gerrard released her debut solo recording, The Mirror Pool , and reunited with Perry on the Dead Can Dance studio album Spiritchaser in 1996. The album also charted on Billboard 200 and reached No. 1 on the Top World Music Albums Chart. In 1998, Dead Can Dance began recording
805-528: The dark synthesizer sounds of Depeche Mode. At the same time, a number of German artists, including Das Ich , Goethes Erben , Relatives Menschsein , and Endraum , developed a more theatrical style, interspersed with German poetic, metaphorical lyrics, called Neue Deutsche Todeskunst (literally New German Death Art ). Other bands, such as Silke Bischoff, In My Rosary , Engelsstaub , and Impressions of Winter combined synthesizers with elements of neofolk and neoclassical dark wave. After 1993, in
840-541: The future of Dead Can Dance, Perry responded on the band's official Facebook page that the band has relocated to France and that they are in the process of fabricating a new recording and rehearsal studio. On 21 April 2018, Perry announced mastering of a new album would be commencing at Abbey Road Studios. The new album, Dionysus , was released on 2 November 2018. In September 2018, their website announced "A Celebration – Life & Works 1980-2019" tour with dates in Europe in May and June 2019. In contrast to previous tours,
875-535: The most popular of this subgenre. Neoclassical dark wave is a subgenre of dark wave music that is characterized by incorporating elements of classical music to create an ethereal, dramatic or melancholy atmosphere. Neoclassical dark wave makes extensive use of orchestral components; many bands utilize modern production equipment (orchestra-derived synthesizer samples ), while others make use of chamber orchestras and acoustic instruments (e.g. string and brass instruments and orchestral percussion ). Vocals in
910-472: The movement also included fans of gothic rock (so-called "trad-goths"). Since the 1980s, the term has been used in Europe to describe the gloomy and melancholy variant of new wave and post-punk music. At that time, the term "goth" was inseparably connected with gothic rock, whereas "dark wave" acquired a broader meaning, embracing music artists that were associated with gothic rock and synthesizer-based new wave music, such as Bauhaus , Joy Division ,
945-819: The music of Dead Can Dance and In the Nursery . French cold wave groups such as Clair Obscur and Opera Multi Steel have also been associated with the dark wave scene; Rémy Lozowski, guitarist of French cold wave band Excès Nocturne, described his music as new wave noire ("dark new wave"). Simultaneously, different substyles associated with the new wave and dark wave movements started to merge and influence each other, e.g. synth-wave (a kind of new wave with synthesizers, also referred to as "electro-wave" ) with gothic rock, or began to borrow elements of post-industrial music . Attrition , Die Form (France), Pink Industry (UK), Psyche (Canada), Kirlian Camera (Italy) and Clan of Xymox (Netherlands) performed this music in
980-463: The new wave and post-punk movements faded in the mid-1980s, dark wave was renewed as an underground movement by German bands such as Girls Under Glass , Deine Lakaien , Love Like Blood , Love Is Colder Than Death , Diary of Dreams , the Eternal Afflict , and Wolfsheim , as well as Project Pitchfork and its offshoot Aurora Sutra . Ataraxia and the Frozen Autumn from Italy, and
1015-556: The setlist drew heavily from the band's older catalogue, featuring some songs the band had never before played live. In October 2019, the band announced a second leg of the tour with dates in North America, Mexico and South America. However, the tour was postponed to 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . The 2021 tour as well as rescheduled dates for later in the year were also cancelled citing COVID-19. In March 2022, Perry anticipated plans for
1050-602: The subgenre can vary; female voices predominate. In the second half of the 1980s, former post-punk bands such as Dead Can Dance ( Within the Realm of a Dying Sun , 1987 ) and In the Nursery ( Stormhorse , 1987 ) released influential albums which essentially laid the foundations of the genre. Other artists include Arcana , Ataraxia , Autumn Tears , Camerata Mediolanense , Dargaard , Dark Sanctuary Impressions of Winter, Ophelia's Dream, Les Secrets de Morphée, Love Is Colder Than Death , Stoa, and WeltenBrand . In
1085-457: The term "Dark Wave" back in 1992. It appeared in German magazines – such as Zillo – describing a style of European music that followed other "waves" such as New Wave ... I found those two words ("dark" and "wave") quite interesting. This was something underground, submerged, obscure... which swept over you, immersed you, surrounded you. It was a poetic phrase that could describe many different sounds. At
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1120-407: The time, I was looking for a name for my little mail-order company. I wanted something that would encompass the variety of music available in my catalog. Projekt featured bands such as Lycia , Black Tape for a Blue Girl , and Love Spirals Downwards , some of these characterized by atmospheric guitar and synth-sounds and female vocals. This style took cues from 1980s bands like Cocteau Twins and
1155-647: Was announced that the band would be returning to Europe to continue its tour, starting on 28 May 2013 in Portugal . The final show of the Anastasis World Tour was in Santiago, Chile, on 13 July 2013. On 17 October 2014, the band announced that plans for an upcoming European tour for Spring 2015 had been cancelled "due to unforeseen circumstances". On 8 September 2015, the band announced the sale of Brendan Perry's Quivvy Church Studio. When asked what this decision meant for
1190-539: Was co-produced by the duo and John A. Rivers. Raggett describes it as "a consciously medieval European sound [...] like it was recorded in an immense cathedral". The group built a following in Europe, and the album reached No. 2 on the UK indie charts. In 1989, Gerrard and Perry separated domestically – Gerrard moved to Barcelona before returning to Australia and Perry moved to Ireland – but still wrote, recorded and performed as Dead Can Dance. The duo's sixth studio album, Into
1225-428: Was released in February 1984. The artwork, which depicts a ritual mask from New Guinea , "provide[s] a visual reinterpretation of the meaning of the name Dead Can Dance", set in a faux Greek typeface. The album featured "drum-driven, ambient guitar music with chanting, singing and howling", and fit in with the ethereal wave style of label mates Cocteau Twins . They followed with a four-track extended play, Garden of
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