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27/10/2012

Duration:
3 hours
First broadcast:
Saturday 27 October 2012

Tom is joined by Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance, who reformed last year and released the album Anastasis. They are currently on tour.

They formed as a 4 piece in Melbourne Australia in 1981. Perry and Gerard moved together to London the following year and reformed the band as a 5 piece. They released their self titled debut album in 1984.

By the time of the 2nd album Spleen and Ideal in 1985 the band had stripped down to the core duo, with other parts added by session musicians, which was the model for subsequent albums. The duo performed everything themselves for their 6th album Into The Labyrinth, released in 1993, which sold 500,000 copies worldwide, making them the 4AD labels biggest selling act.

The follow up, Spiritchaser, released in 1996, was to be their last. They united to work on the follow up in 1998, but split before completing the project. They reformed in 2005 for a series of live performances, before recording together last year, the fruits of which, Anastasis, came out earlier this year.

Music Played

32 items
  • Image for Talking Heads

    Talking Heads Crosseyed And Painless

    Sire

  • Image for Pepe Deluxé

    Pepe Deluxé My Flaming Thirst

  • Image for The Shallows

    The Shallows Honestly

  • Image for Patrick Wolf

    Patrick Wolf Overture

    Bloody Chamber Music

  • Image for Bobby Womack

    Bobby Womack Nobody Knows When You're Down & Out

  • Image for Prince Rama

    Prince Rama So Destroyed (Channelled By Rage Peace)

  • Image for Dead Can Dance

    Dead Can Dance American Dreaming

  • Image for Dead Can Dance

    Dead Can Dance The Snake And The Moon

  • Image for Dead Can Dance

    Dead Can Dance Amnesia

    Anastasis, pias

  • Image for Dead Can Dance

    Dead Can Dance Opium

  • Image for Injured Birds

    Injured Birds Hey Now

    white

  • Image for Ultraísta

    Ultraísta Gold Dayzz

  • Death At Sea Drag

  • Image for The Hysterical Injury

    The Hysterical Injury Cycle One

  • Racing Glaciers South

  • Image for Rob Marr

    Rob Marr Fat and Happy

  • Image for Kosheen

    Kosheen Addict

    kosheen recordings

  • Image for The Beloved

    The Beloved A Hundred Words

  • Kamau Lyon Little Dragonfly

  • Natasha Haws Stranger

  • Image for Fever Fever

    Fever Fever Pins

  • Image for Metallica

    Metallica Until It Sleeps

    Vertigo

  • Image for Psapp

    Psapp Calm Down

  • A. P. A.t.T Liverwart

  • Image for Benjamin Brunel

    Benjamin Brunel Rufus! Rufus! Rufus!

  • Image for Martha Wainwright

    Martha Wainwright Prospepina

  • The Skunk-Boy Project Fourth On My List Of Loveable Evil Dictators

  • Johnny5thWheel&thecowards In My Laboratory

  • Image for A Sea With 3 Stars

    A Sea With 3 Stars Hit Me Harder

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  • Image for Dels

    Dels Bird Milk.

    Big Dada

  • Image for Miles Davis

    Miles Davis Solea

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