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Dead Can Dance is an Australian musical project formed in 1981 in Melbourne by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London, England, in May 1982. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance's style as "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chant, Middle Eastern mantras and art rock." Having disbanded in 1998, they reunited briefly in 2005 for a world tour and reformed in 2011, releasing a new album (''Anastasis'') and embarking on several tours. == Formation and early years == Dead Can Dance formed in Melbourne, Australia in August 1981 with Paul Erikson on bass guitar, Lisa Gerrard (ex-Microfilm) on vocals, Simon Monroe (Marching Girls) on drums and Brendan Perry (also of Marching Girls) on vocals and guitar.〔 Gerrard and Perry were a domestic couple. In May 1982, the band left Monroe in Australia and moved to London, England, where they signed with alternative rock label 4AD. With the duo, the initial United Kingdom line-up were Paul Erikson and Peter Ulrich.〔 The group's debut album, ''Dead Can Dance'', was released in February 1984. The artwork (''see pictured''), which depicts a ritual mask from New Guinea, "provide() a visual reinterpretation of the meaning of the name Dead Can Dance",〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=dead-can-dance.com )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dead Can Dance Within – Lisa Gerrard, Brendan Perry, 4AD Records )〕 set in a faux Greek typeface. The album featured "drum-driven, ambient guitar music with chanting, singing and howling",〔 and fit in with the ethereal wave style of label mates Cocteau Twins. They followed with a four-track extended play, ''Garden of the Arcane Delights'' in August.〔 AllMusic described their early work as "as goth as it gets" (despite the group themselves rejecting the label〔), while the EP saw them "plunging into a wider range of music and style". For their second album, ''Spleen and Ideal'', the group comprised the core duo of Gerrard and Perry with cello, trombone and tympani added in by session musicians.〔 Released in November 1985, it was co-produced by the duo and John A. Rivers.〔 Raggett describes it as "a consciously medieval European sound () like it was recorded in an immense cathedral". The group built a following in Europe, and the album reached No. 2 on the UK indie charts. By 1989, Gerrard and Perry had separated domestically – Gerrard returned to Australia and Perry moved to Ireland – but they still wrote, recorded and performed together as Dead Can Dance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dead Can Dance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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