DEAD CAN DANCE - SPLEEN & IDEAL - CD NEW

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Spleen & Ideal - CD *NEW Format: CD Artist: Dead Can Dance Runtime: n/a Retail Price: $16.95 SALE PRICE: $10.42 TRACKS Disc 1 1. De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow) 2. Ascension 3. Circumradiant Dawn 4. Cardinal Sin, The 5. Mesmerism 6. Enigma of the Absolute 7. Advent 8. Avatar 9. Indoctrination (A Design For Living) Personnel: Lisa Gerrard, Brendan Perry (vocals); Martin McCarrick, Gus Ferguson (cello); Simon Hogg, Richard Avison (trombone); James Pinker, Tony Ayres (timpani).Audio Remasterer: John A. Rivers.SPLEEN AND IDEAL is a profoundly different sounding record than its self-titled predecessor. It seems to have been recorded in a completely different time, perhaps by the 14th century ancestors of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard, if they had access to electric guitars and synthesizers. The tracks are all stately, muted affairs that actually managed to evoke the images that their titles suggest--the best example of this is the brittle, gorgeous "Circumradiant Dawn," which sounds like a hymn written to accompany Earth's very first sunrise.Among the standouts are "De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)," w Lisa Gerrard's voice soars above the haunting, sustained chords of the music; "Ascension," with its moody trombones and a cavernous echo so deep you can feel the space around you expanding and contracting; and "Avatar, read more