Artist.......: Lisa Gerrard with Klaus Schulze
Album........: Come Quietly
Label........: Sony Music
Genre........: Ambient
Catnr........: GD02
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2010-04-07
Str.date.....: 2009-00-00
Quality......: 179kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.lisagerrard.com
track title time
1. Come Quietly 4:02
2. Balaarat (Meeting Place) 2:17
3. Tribes unrealized 7:28
4. Unity 1:39
5. Whisper 0:47
6. Circular 3:50
7. Surrender to Silence 8:57
Runtime 29:00
Size 37.77
Release Notes:
"Music is a Place to take Refuge. It's a Sanctuary from
Mediocrity and Boredom. It's Innocent and it's a Place you
can loose yourself in Thoughts, Memories and
Intricacies..." Lisa Gerrard.
Over a career that takes in almost two decades with Dead
Can Dance, award-winning movie soundtracks and a series of
acclaimed solo and collaborative albums, Lisa Gerrard has
established herself as one of Australia's most
ground-breaking and in-demand artists. Singer, composer
and actress in El Nino de la Luna (a film which she also
scored), Lisa brings a vision that is both precise and
all-embracing to everything she does.
It is a musical journey that began in the early 1980s when
she and fellow Australian Brendan Perry formed Dead Can
Dance, one of the world's most original bands whose proud
boast is that they never fitted into any neatly
manufactured genre or predefined pigeonhole.
With Lisa's otherworldly voice counter-poised by Brendon's
mellifluous tones, from the outset, they thought nothing
of setting discordant electric guitars and dark, rolling
bass lines against cellos, trombones and timpani.
Over nine albums between 1984 and 1995, the duo's musical
canvas expanded with every release to take in a timeless
mix of world music influences, medieval chants, folk
ballads, baroque stylings, Celtic flavours, electronics,
samples and anything else that took their fancy.
This mosaic of musical influences is perhaps less
surprising in the light of Lisa's childhood in Melbourne,
where she recalls Greek, Turkish and Irish melodies
"oozing into the streets" of her neighbourhood.
Since then she lived in London, Spain and Ireland before
returning to the Snowy Mountains of Australia.
In 1995 came her first solo album, The Mirror Pool on
which she was accompanied by the Victoria Philharmonic
Orchestra. Again, it's an album that defies
categorisation, causing one impressed but perplexed
reviewer to describe it as "ambient, orchestral, folk and
new age all at the same time."
Duality, a collaboration with Pieter Bourke followed in
1998 and again transcended musical eras and genres. Next
came the stunningly beautiful Immortal Memory, a
collaboration with the Irish composer, Patrick Cassidy
which further explores the boundaries of Lisa's musical
ambition.
Her recent album, The Silver Tree, again shifted into new
territory; an album in every way sentient and ethereal.
In recent years Lisa has also become a much sought-after
composer of soundtracks. In many ways this has been a
logical progression.
Much of the work of Dead Can Dance had a cinematic quality
that led to the group's music being used in the cult movie
Baraka, TV commercials and even a car chase scene in Miami
Vice.
Among the many films and documentaries she has scored or
contributed to are Gladiator, Insider, Whale Rider, Black
Hawk Down, Heat, Ali, King Arthur, Tears Of The Sun, The
Mist, Salem's Lot, A Thousand Roads, Ashes & Snow, Layer
Cake, El Nino de la Luna, Balibo, Henry Poole Is Here,
Solo, Playing For Charlie & Ichi.
Lisa has recieved Golden Globe nominations for Insider and
Ali and Oscar Nominations for Gladiator and 4
International awards for Whale Rider.
In 2009, she founded her own record label, Gerrard
Records, with the intent to empower and support unsigned,
unrecognised artists the world over.
Breaking from the typical record label mold, Gerrard
Records will seek to give artists the tools and resources
to manage themselves, as well as acting to safeguard the
rights and intellectual property of the artists it serves.
Lisa's new studio album, The Black Opal, is set to be the
label's first release.