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Toward the Within (1994) is the only official live album of Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard's Dead Can Dance. A live album &ndash commonly contrasted with a Studio album &ndash is a recording consisting of material (usually music recorded during stage performances Dead Can Dance is a band comprising Lisa Gerrard ( Contralto) and Brendan Perry ( Baritone) Events 1147 - The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a Year 1994 ( MCMXCIV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display full 1994 Gregorian calendar) A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other This article is about the musical style of gothic rock For the goth scene in general see Goth subculture. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music In the Music industry, a record producer or music producer has many roles among them controlling the recording sessions coaching and guiding the musicians organizing allmusic (previously All Music Guide) is a Metadata database about music owned by All Media Guide. Dead Can Dance is a band comprising Lisa Gerrard ( Contralto) and Brendan Perry ( Baritone) Into the Labyrinth (1993 is the sixth album recorded by the Dead Can Dance duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. Spiritchaser (1996 was the last studio album of Dead Can Dance before Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard went their separate ways Brendan Perry (born June 30, 1959 in Whitechapel, London) is a Singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as the Lisa Gerrard (born April 12, 1961) is an Australian Musician, Singer and Composer who rose to prominence as part of Dead Can Dance is a band comprising Lisa Gerrard ( Contralto) and Brendan Perry ( Baritone) It contains 15 songs, of which only four appeared on their previous albums, and two of which were later re-recorded and included on Lisa Gerrard's first solo album, The Mirror Pool. The Mirror Pool was Lisa Gerrard 's first solo album released in 1995 (one year before the release of Spiritchaser, the last work The others previously existed only in live performances and unofficial bootlegs, but were not officially released until Toward the Within. Along with Perry and Gerrard were a number of musicians who had performed with them on other occasions.

Overview

Toward the Within was recorded in one take in November 1993 in the Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica, California and was released by 4AD as an album and a video a year later. California ( is a US state on the West Coast of the United States, along the Pacific Ocean. It was the last major event to take place in the Mayfair Theatre before it was severely damaged in the earthquake in January 1994 and had to be closed indefinitely. The video was filmed by Mark Magidson and contains interviews with Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, as well a music video for "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)", composed of clips from the film Baraka. Baraka ( 1992) is a Todd-AO ( 70 mm) non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke, cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi

While the CD functions as the soundtrack to the video, neither contain the entire show in itself. The CD lacks "Gloridean", as well as the song played over the ending credits of the video, and the video lacks "Persian Love Song" and concert footage of "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)".

In 2001, Toward the Within was re-released on DVD and included in the box-set Dead Can Dance (1981-1998). In addition to the original content, the DVD release contains a few extras: a discography, music videos for "Frontier", "The Protagonist", and "The Carnival Is Over", as well as a chapter from Baraka entitled "Calcutta Foragers/Homeless", which is set to Dead Can Dance's "The Host of Seraphim". Baraka ( 1992) is a Todd-AO ( 70 mm) non-narrative film directed by Ron Fricke, cinematographer for Koyaanisqatsi In 2004, the DVD was released in a stand-alone package.

Track listing

"Rakim" - 6:25
"Persian Love Song" - 2:56
"Desert Song" - 4:20
"Yulunga (Spirit Dance)" (from Into the Labyrinth) - 7:12
"Piece for Solo Flute" - 3:34
"The Wind That Shakes the Barley" (from Into the Labyrinth)) - 3:12
"I Am Stretched on Your Grave" - 4:38
"I Can See Now" - 2:56
"American Dreaming" - 4:55
"Cantara" (from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun) - 5:15
"Oman" - 5:49
"The Song of the Sybil" (from Aion) - 4:31
"Tristan" - 1:48
"Sanvean" - 4:05
"Don't Fade Away" - 6:12

Note: "I Am Stretched on Your Grave" is based on an anonymous 17th century poem, and is separate from Sinéad O'Connor's own rendition on I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got. Into the Labyrinth (1993 is the sixth album recorded by the Dead Can Dance duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The Wind That Shakes the Barley is an Irish ballad written by Robert Dwyer Joyce (1836-1883 a Limerick -born poet and professor of English literature Into the Labyrinth (1993 is the sixth album recorded by the Dead Can Dance duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. " I Am Stretched on Your Grave " is an anonymous 17th century Irish poem titled " Táim shínte ar do h'uaigh " and further translated Within the Realm of a Dying Sun is the third album recorded by the Dead Can Dance duo Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, in 1987 I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got is the second album by Sinéad O'Connor released in 1990 on Chrysalis Records.

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