Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?

[Arkilogue]

Some things speak to us underneath our conscious minds and quite beyond our belief or disbelief. Rhythms awaken genetic memory and whisper through times unexperienced, tugging from places deeper than our individual lives, propelling us beyond our temporary selves. This first section is a selection of moving music from one of my favorite groups the Dead Can Dance. I hope you enjoy it as much or more than I do.

And please share what speaks to and moves you. Life is an art!  


This first one is Song of the Stars on Spirit Chaser. It combines Aboriginal dig with a great driving Native American beat and tells the story: "We are the star which sing, we sing with our light. We are the birds of fire that fly over the sky. Our light is a voice. We make a road for the spirit to pass over."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0L5RFspwyE

Here is one of the first I heard of their work and still one of my favorites. Love the art. American Dreaming on Into the Labyrinth. Beautiful and tragic. "I need my conscience to keep watch over me. To protect me from myself. So I can wear honesty like a crown on my head. When I walk into the promised land. We've been too long American dreaming and I think we all lost the way. Forlorn somnambulistic maniacal in the dark"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7VYIVboWNA

This next one is my newest favorite, Don't fade away on Toward the Within. "And we'll dance through our isolation, seeking solace in the wisdom we bestow. Turning thoughts to the here and ever after, consuming fears in our fiery halos. Say what you mean, mean what you say. I've heard that innocence, has led us all astray."

"Don't bring me down now, let me stay here for a while. You know life's too short, let me bathe here in your smile.
I'm transcending the fall from the garden"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Venq67tPA70