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Duality
by Lisa Gerrard & Pieter Bourke
Product Group: Music
Studio: 4ad / Wea
ISBN: B0000062VG
EAN: 0093624685425
UPC: 093624685425
Audio CD
Original Release Date: 1998-04-14
Release Date: 1998-04-14
SKU: 08090026
Condition: Very Good Very Good
Comments: Audio CD in very good plus condition with one tiny scratch. Very nice jewel case with like new art and labels. CDs always shipped first class.
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Editorial Reviews
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Amazon.com
Duality is at once sacred and playful. It is both dark and light, organic and refined, masculine and feminine. Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard partners with Pieter Bourke, formerly of Aussie band Eden, to create this compositional dance of partnership that is classical, ancient, and thoroughly modern. Gerrard's voice is multitracked at times, conjuring a cathedral choir and the droning chants of monks. Drums and synth snake from desert to brilliant stormy sky to shaking earth and the bodies that inhabit those spaces. There are lush multiple layers of strings, bagpipe drone, and, quite literally, the laughter of children. The vocals sans "real" words and multicultural instrumentation will be familiar to Dead Can Dance listeners. Yet there is something more exclusive, more womblike about the music of Bourke and Gerrard; rather than two distinct bodies making music, like mother and in utero child sharing blood and breath, they are mutually dependent. --Paige La Grone
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Customer Reviews
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The best
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-11-28
On this record Lisa Gerrard gives one of the best female vocal performances i have ever heard. There is a reason why she is the "go to person" for many film scores. This is a good example of how a song can be very soft and mellow, and still be extremly emotional and powerful at the same time. "the unfolding" is a great example
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A Beautiful Dancing of Tastes
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-03-28
This is a wonderful album for people with synaesthesia (I have unusual synaesthesia, mine exhibits as smells having colors and music having tastes).
I should also add that I Autistic, and play this particular album for children with Autism frequently. About 90% really respond to it, most find it calming. I had one primarily non-verbal child who started to imitate the sounds Lisa Gerrard was singing - a very exciting experience, since this particular child does not usually exhibit echolalia. Another stopped having his meltdown and started spinning slowly and calmly in place, and etc.
A roommate who was also on the spectrum and I kept this album in the CD player for several months, and played it several times a night when we got home. Absolutely the most universally relaxing album for people on the Autism Spectrum that I've ever found.
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Fantastic
Rating (5)
Date: 2007-01-08
This music is a great CD for anyone who is a diehard fan of Dead Can Dance. The songs have a very diverse number of styles. There are a few fast songs and the song "The Human Game" sounds like it could be a soundtrack from a movie.
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Yes it is that good
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-09-30
3 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
I came across some fairly brutal reviews for this album. Ah well, every man to his own. This work is impossibly subtle, daydream for a second and you miss a mindblowing transisition. If you think I'm joking try finding the twenty-something transistions my midi program detected on track 2. The theme is middle easternish which is the perfect atmosphere for Gerrard's impossible voice. What I like most about this album, and the reason I am writing this review is becasue of the way each track ends. No seriously, even if you don't like the track in question, you have to admit.... I mean I haven't seen such stunning fade offs since Tony Gonzalez's "Unrecorded"
Highly recommended for electronica, ambience lovers and aphex twin fanatics.
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Hauntingly beautiful, soothingly mystical, fulfillingly Eastern sound
Rating (5)
Date: 2006-01-14
11 out of 11 customers found this reveiw helpful
I was never a fan of 'Dead can Dance' only because I'd never heard them. But a friend of mine saw that I liked Caroline Lavelle and said: "I think you'll like this album." Let me just say, I've never put this album away and had to replace it twice (once was worn and broken, once a boyfriend stole my copy.) I think I have yet to find someone I know who will listen to it and it doesn't move them somewhat.
This album is incredibly atmospheric. It's one of those beautiful and lovely CDs that you can put on at night in the summer with the windows open and light lots of candles -- actually it's what we did and just had a bottle of wine talking with this in the background thoroughly enjoying the music of Duality.
It is a combination of Eastern, tribal and classical music in my opinion. Specific songs in particular to really revel in would be: Shadow Magnet, Forest Veil, the Human Game, and the Unfolding is very VERY moving if you listen at a louder volume.
I adore this album and have yet to find another like it. For those of you who are Dead Can Dance fans, I don't know what to tell you but I like her solo work. For those out there who are Loreena, Enya or Caroline Lavelle fans, check out Lisa Gerrard and enjoy. This music is good for atmosphere, meditation and something different. Highly recommended.
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