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Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 2:03 am
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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
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Consider me a satellite forever orbiting,
I knew the rules but the rules did not know me, guaranteed." - Eddie Vedder
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 2:04 am
This one is magical and transporting, beautiful and weird, driven by a strange desire. The Carnival is Over on into the Labrynth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtNFQ7RJbaQ
Next two are more primal and potentially good for the bedroom...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZpXPwmbQvc
This one could be particularly fun 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bf00KI2MEGg
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 2:16 am
This last one is perhaps the most pure as it's just a single voice with amazing skill. But be warned, it's an Irish dirge of a militia man who is leaving his lady love to fight for his love of Ireland and she is shot as he is kissing away her tears. It's beautiful and haunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkBQggRBqEY
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 10:19 am
You left out Host of the Seraphim? How could you!?
Lisa G has a lovely voice. I saw DCD at Town Hall, in NYC back in...95? 96? I forget the year, but remember the show. What a great performance!
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 11:29 am
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My stepson turned me on to something by them ages ago. I listened to excerpts of each of these to see if I recognized it but I don't think it's here. It was on disc or cd I don't have anymore. I'll try Host of the Seraphim and see if that's it.
Nope.
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 11:38 am
(October 3, 2016 at 11:29 am)Whateverist Wrote: My stepson turned me on to something by them ages ago. I listened to excerpts of each of these to see if I recognized it but I don't think it's here. It was on disc or cd I don't have anymore. I'll try Host of the Seraphim and see if that's it.
Nope.
Try Cantara. It's another beauty.
I wish I could provide the media, but my work PC sucks.
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 3:38 pm
As requested: Host of the Seraphim on Baraka
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1J6TFHCevg
And If I could sing to the souls of the forlorn, this is what I would fill them with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uNBi5sYcYo
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 3:52 pm
Nominally related: the great national treasure Tom Baker once said (in a DVD commentary track) that due to the magic of film and audio/video recordings, the living are being entertained by the dead.
Happy Hallowe'en...
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 4:21 pm
(October 3, 2016 at 3:52 pm)Stimbo Wrote: Nominally related: the great national treasure Tom Baker once said (in a DVD commentary track) that due to the magic of film and audio/video recordings, the living are being entertained by the dead.
Happy Hallowe'en...
Interesting perspective!
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Makes me wonder how much of culture is a just a haunted house?
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RE: Has anyone ever told you, the Dead Can Dance?
October 3, 2016 at 5:42 pm
I figured that I'd contribute to this thread. Another of my favorites:
“Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangey-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squidgy in the middle. It's got pips inside, too. Oh, and some people have half a one for breakfast.” - Ford Prefect
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