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Long before No Doubt brought back ska and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy resurrected swing, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry were making music that recalled an earlier time. How early? Try the Renaissance. Everything old--really old--is new again on Aion, the band's fifth and arguably finest album
Long before No Doubt brought back ska and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy resurrected swing, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry were making music that recalled an earlier time. How early? Try the Renaissance. Everything old--really old--is new again on Aion, the band's fifth and arguably finest album. Like DCD's other discs, Aion revolves around the interplay between Gerrard's soaring glossolalia and Perry's baritone crooning. A range of styles are explored, from the polyphonic choral heights of "The Arrival and the Reunion" to the smooth balladry of "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book" to the Middle Eastern sensuality of "Radharc". Other standout tracks include the playful "Saltarello", a traditional 14th-century instrumental dance piece, and "As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins", a strikingly melodic song carried by bagpipes and Gerrard's angelic voice. --Steve Landau (Review copyright Amazon.co.uk)
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Track listing1. Arrival And The Reunion 2. Mephisto 3. Fortune Presents Gifts Not According 4. End Of Words 5. Wilderness 6. Garden Of Zephirus 7. Saltarello 8. Song Of Sibyl 9. As The Bell Rings The Maypole Sign 10. Black Sun 11. Promised Womb 12. Radharc
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