Dead Can Dance - A Passage In Time
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Free Music Review: A fantastic Collection
Hit: 5 Stars
This CD is one of the best to introduce your friends and family to Dead Can Dance. The wide variety of music is more than 'background music'. The pieces grab hold of you for the first time and you become so moved by the music. This CD got me hooked on Dead Can Dance and I have searched for so many of their other pieces to add to my collection.Free Music Review: The journey inward begins here
Hit: 5 Stars
This is an excellent choice for those interested in time-travel. I suggest turning off the lights, lighting a candle and let your body and heart relax as the music takes you to another world and time. Excellent! Enya is soothing, but this group is way beyond anything Enya or other new-age groups have produced.Free Music Review: Why does everyone assume a compilation is a "best of"?
Hit: 4 Stars
I find it curious and ironic to see reviews of this album that focus and criticize on the aspect of the album missing "this track" or lacking "that transition" in the band's career. One reviewer even goes as far as giving this album a two-star rating, and I think to myself "Has he actually listened to the disc?". Allow me to explain. This album was in fact the first Dead Can Dance album I ever heard. It was recommended to me by a friend of a friend .... One's perspective can not be more unbiased than a first impression of an album and group. No previous albums to compare to, no chronology to gauge the music to.On its own, A Passage In Time is exceptional. There is a stylistic theme to the album that eludes many compilations. For those who have yet to listen to Dead Can Dance, this album would almost give one the sensation of attending an ancient Byzantine court, or traversing the Aegean sea in a Phoenican trading ship. The music feels antiquital, but it is very refreshing. Classical, yet modern, New Age yet rooted in traditional styles of ancient music. In this era where so much music is repetitive, the DCD duo has been able to honor the past by giving rebirth to the old instead of mimicing it.
Two star rating? No. That comes from listeners not finding what they want and expect. What you will find in this album is an excellent sample of a moment in DCD's career. It is only a passage to explore, a glimpse, not the treasure chamber of DCD that comprises of their entire career.
Free Music Review: Anywhere Out of The World
Hit: 4 Stars
Dead Can Dance puts out some of the most beautiful music I have ever heard. Their music is a blend of middle eastern, new age, and goth music. The only other DCD album I own is "Towards the Within". The album didn't really set fire to my ears but I still wanted to hear more from this now defunct group. I found a copy of "A Passage In Time" on one of my recent excursions to my favorite record store. I really wanted to hear it when a buddy of mine on a message board I post on mentioned "Ulysses", and my curiousity was piqued almost immediately. The song itself is an enchanting haunting song that sends chills down my spine every time I listen to Brendan Perry sing. I really dug the first two tracks "Saltarello" and "Song of Sophia". What really resonates with me is the production work. Whenever I listen to Dead Can Dance, I feel like I am listening to them perform live. Just amazing. The one flaw with this album is that towards the end of the album, the music starts to sound repetitive and my mind drift towards other matter. Maybe I just shouldn't listen to it at the office and towards the end of the day when I start getting restless and bored. Nevertheless, excellent album. I definitely will have to look further into DCD's catalog.Free Music Review: A sampler with the normal dependency on selector
Hit: 4 Stars
This is a sampler drawn from other albums as follows: from Spleen and Ideal (1985) comes the Enigma of the Absolute; from Within the Realm of a Dying Song (1987) comes Cantara and Anywhere Out of the World; from The Serpent's Egg (1994) come Song of Sophia, Ullyses, The Host of Seraphim, The Writing on my Fathers Hand, Severance and In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-eyes are Kings; from Aion (1990) come Saltarello, The Garden of Zepharus, Wilderness, The Song of the Sybil, and Fortune Presents Gifts not According to the Book; only Bird and Spirit are recorded specifically for this album.I would not have made the same choices of cuts from the album. However, in this selection, I found myself paying closer attention to the lyrics which for Enigma of the Absolute are excellent. The selection leans towards the more electronic and less traditional, Medieval sounds. This includes the Middle Eastern flavor being less pronounced. Nonetheless, the album is a good introduction although I, personally, would recommend Aion to my friends first.