Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within

Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within
by Mark Magidson

Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within
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Actor: Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard
Director: Mark Magidson
Cinematographer: David Aubrey
Editor: David Aubrey
Editor: Mark Magidson
Producer: Mark Magidson
Producer: Alton Walpole
Producer: Ivo Watts-Russell
Producer: Robin Hurley
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-03-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Strat. Mkt.

DVD Reviews of Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within

DVD Review: I love DCD!
Summary: 5 Stars

If you love Dead Can Dance, you will love this DVD! I owned a couple copies on VHS, and was beyond thrilled when it became available on DVD. The live concert performance is moving, and unforgettable. There are a few snippets from interviews with Brendan and Lisa sprinkled in there.

DVD Review: excellent combination of music and interview
Summary: 5 Stars

excellent product
i enjoyed it tremendously as we can see who are behind the songs

DVD Review: An uneven live performance, but with mostly material never heard elsewhere
Summary: 3 Stars

Over their 14-year career and brief reunion Dead Can Dance, the collaborative effort of Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, had a quite a reputation as a live act. Their concerts featured an ever-growing amount of exotic instrumentation and back-up performers, jams exceeding the shorter formats of their albums, and plenty of live-only and preview songs. When they were touring for their 1993 album Into the Labyrinth, filmmaker Mark Magidson captured two nights of performances at the Mayfair Theatre in Santa Monica, California. These were edited to a concert film available on DVD and this CD. The result captures Dead Can Dance at an interesting point, continuing their interest in percussion-heavy World music, but without yet the focus on specifically Carribean themes that formed their final album SPIRITCHASER.

At a Dead Can Dance concert, you never got just a straight-through rendition of tracks you knew from past albums. Of the 15 tracks here, only 4 had ever been heard before. Of those while "Yulunga", "The Wind that Shakes the Barley", and "Song of the Sibyl" are much as they appeared on INTO THE LABYRINTH and AION respectively, "Cantara" is reworked from a gothy synthesized strings production to a percussion-centre faux World music deal. Note that the CD and DVD differ in their contents. The CD lacks "Gloridean", one of Lisa Gerrard's best solo efforts (and of course the interviews), while the DVD lacks "Piece for solo flute", a brief entre-acte by Brendan Perry's brother Robert.

Among the new material, we can divide often things as usual into Perry's creations and Gerrard's. In 1993, Brendan Perry was first exploring guitar-based singer-songwriter stylings inspired by folk music and Tim Buckley, the vein he eventually chose for his 1999 solo album Eye of the Hunter. "I Can See Now", "American Dreaming", and "Don't Fade Away" are like this, as is much of "I Am Stretched on Your Grace". I am not one of the many who think this new style of Perry's was a complete mistake, but I find these works dull compared to what he eventually put on the solo album. Another interesting turn of Perry's, evidentally abandoned after this tour, was singing nonsense syllables, either by warping his English a la Elizabeth Fraser or imitating some exotic language like Gerrard had always done. "Desert Song" and the latter half of "Rakim" are examples of the former, while "Oman" features vaguely Arabic guttural projections and the former half of "Rakim" is who knows what. I must say that while I love the instrumentation in those tracks, Perry's singing makes the entire thing rather uncomfortable.

Lisa Gerrard's new contributions (which Brendan Perry completely sits out on) are a wholesale tackling of a Persian love song, the epic "Sanvean" (later used on her first solo album THE MIRROR POOL), the shorter but similar "Tristan". These are some of the only solo efforts we have by Gerrard before her turn to an endless and increasingly vacuous series of film scores.

While I was a huge fan of DCD as a teenager, I eventually lost interest in them and nowadays I find much greater fulfillment in the actual indigenous musical traditions and archaic Western periods that they imitated. I wouldn't be quick to recommend this album to just anyone, but yf you are currently enjoying DCD's output and haven't heard TOWARD THE WITHIN yet, you might as well check it out.

DVD Review: amazing, as close to live as possible
Summary: 5 Stars

For a music DVD (unlike MTV) this actually is a pretty good example. I was lucky enough to see then perform at Berklee School of Music in Boston just days before this was filmed in CA and despite the problems of "our performance" the overall outcome was outstanding. Shortly after Lisa came on and started to sing she passed out on stage, of course the music stopped and the stage was empty for quite some time until Brendan came and explained that she was okay and probably might not return and they began to continue the show without her. Eventually toward the end of the show Lisa returned to an amazing standing ovation and began to sing a few songs.( of which they were I forget) At the end , someone from the audience presented Lisa with a huge bouquet of roses. One of the most memorable concerts of my life which I will never forget and I am very glad there is a film of it.

DVD Review: Unique
Summary: 4 Stars

Excellent for DCD fans, this DVD illustrates how unique this band is. If you've heard the CD it's quite an eye-opener how to see how the amazing labyrinth of sound is produced. Quality not the ultimate but camera work pretty good. A must-see.

Description of Dead Can Dance - Toward The Within

There are few voices in popular music like that of Dead Can Dance's Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard. Perry's is rich and earthy, whereas Gerrard's multi-octave instrument is, at times, downright unearthly. Toward the Within, the audiovisual version of a 1993 concert at Santa Monica's Mayfair Theatre--chosen, no doubt, for its excellent acoustics--is a fine showcase for their unique talents. Joined by five musicians on keyboards, strings, and percussion, Mark Magidson (Baraka) has filmed the proceedings in a straightforward manner, but the music is intricate and exotic enough that no special effects or fancy camera moves are necessary. The songs, which incorporate pop, folk, and world-music influences, are interspersed with interview clips, turning the release into a hybrid between a concert video and a documentary. Highlights include the hypnotic "Rakim" and soaring "American Dreaming." Toward the Within was also issued on CD, sans the interview and video clips. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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