«This otherworldly, ethereal sonic and vocal experience could fit into many categories — world music, ambient, new age, even classical. An accomplished cellist and composer, Pook earned broad critical acclaim for her eclectic fusion of classicism and unorthodoxy (also her stock in trade as a string player and arranger for Peter Gabriel, PJ Harvey, Morrissey, and Siouxsie Sioux) in the music for Stanley Kubricks Eyes Wide Shut. This hypnotic disc is above all else a unique creative vision, mixing obscure medieval instruments with strings, talking drums, and casual everyday sounds like birdsongs and childrens playground chatter. „Dionysus“ features a heartbeat-like synth groove behind a soaring wordless vocal and chant; the result is an ambient tranquility, which is slighty disrupted by the exotic wailing behind the gentler chanting and laid-back harp melody of „Red Song.“ „Yellow Fever Song“ features an easier-to-handle chant vocal over a dramatic wall of strings, while „Hell Fire and Damnation“ broods along darkly with a distant mandolin sound over its percussive chamber sound. „The Last Day“ comes across like a cello elegy — dark and haunting classical chamber music. Pooks wild blends of seemingly everything under the sun may not be everybodys cup of tea, but its bound to grab a lot of attention because nothing else in popular music comes close to approaching its thought-provoking oddness.»
— Jonathan Widran
01 — Dionysus
02 — Red Song 5:00
03 — Upon This Rock 9:08
04 — Yellow Fever Psalm 14:23
05 — Hell, Fire And Damnation 19:24
06 — Take Off Your Veil 24:44
07 — The Last Day 29:40
08 — Saints And Sinners 34:38 (cds scratches at 35:21 during 12 sec, sorry)
09 — Butterfly Song 38:50
10 — Calls, Cries And Clamours 42:29
11 — Saffron 45:58
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The Host of Seraphim (Remastered) · Dead Can Dance
The Serpents Egg
℗ 2007 4AD Ltd
Released on: 2008-06-02
Associated Performer: Brendan Perry
Associated Performer: David Navarro Sust
Associated Performer: Lisa Gerrard
Composer Lyricist: Brendan Perry
Composer Lyricist: Lisa Gerrard
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