Artist: Lisa Gerrard
Genre(s):
Indie
ROck: Alternative
Vocal
New Age
Soundtrack
Discography:
Best of Lisa Gerrard
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
Silver Tree
Year: 2006
Tracks: 13
Salem's Lot
Year: 2004
Tracks: 17
Whalerider
Year: 2003
Tracks: 23
Whale Rider (Score)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 15
Shadows
Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
Duality (Bonus CD) - The Human Game
Year: 1998
Tracks: 3
The Mirror Pool
Year: 1995
Tracks: 16
In quislingism with Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard is half of the couple Dead Can Dance, which started cathartic arty goth rock on the 4AD label in the mid-'80s. Gerrard began her solo career with the 1995 button The Mirror Pool, which contained a sight of work that wouldn't conform to well into the DCD body of work. Combining these fragments with music that she composed and arranged digitally earlier reconfiguring them into gobs that could be performed, it also draws on a opus by Handel and traditional Iranian music. Recorded and produced largely at her home in rural Australia, it extends the humanity music inclinations of recent Dead Can Dance albums by featuring bouzouki, tablas, and camel drums; though the sombre, orchestrated gaudery of Dead Can Dance is too confront in her operatic, often mute vocals, and string/woodwind passages (some of which were performed by Australia's Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra). Gerrard released her endorsement album, Wave-particle duality, scripted and performed with Pieter Bourke, in the spring of 1998. Gerrard composed the score for theater director Niki Caro's Whale Rider in 2003, followed by Immortal Memory, a quislingism with Irish composer Patrick Cassidy in 2004. Another quislingism followed in 2005, this meter with composer Jeff Rona for the soundtrack to the Native American drama A Thousand Roads.
