Gerrard, Lisa

Artist: Klaus Schulze & Lisa Gerrard
P: 2009
In the successful history of the cooperation between Klaus Schulze and Lisa Gerrard a new chapter is written. Klaus Schulze is an institution, a living legend: He was a member of electronic bands, since 1972 he has recorded solo records, he produced Bands like Ideal or Alphaville und he took part in the recording of Schiller's platinum-album "Sehnsucht", he has entered various co operations, always full of suspense, always innovative.
Gerrard, born in Melbourne, Australia was once a member of the unique duo Dead Can Dance and has since contributed to a host of movie scores such as Gladiator, Ali and Whale Rider. She owns one of the most remarkable and expressive voices of modern times.
"I have wanted to work with Lisa since the days of Dead Can Dance in the 80's, but I never had an opportunity for such a collaboration", Schulze says.
After the extremely successful studio album to "Farscape" and the DVD/CD "Rheingold" with "Dziekuje Bardzo" (Polish for "many thanks") CD Set will be released which reveals more highlights.
The DVD not only contains the concert in Warsaw, you will also find a complete concert which was recorded the day before in the Schiller's Theatre in Berlin.
Especially the Warsaw concert was a big emotional moment and a triumphant return for Klaus Schulze
25 years after his last concerts in Poland (which can be heard on "Dziekuje Poland live 83" SPV304972) he returned to the place where he can count on his most loyal fans.
As always with Klaus Schulze exclusive new pieces were played in both concerts, Lisa Gerrard is to be heard on the tracks "Bazylika NSJ", "Godspell", "Ocean Of Innocence" and "Spanish Ballerina" as a singer, "Shoreless One" and "Shoreless Two" are two long Klaus Schulze-solo pieces with breathtaking solos on the Mini-Moog.
Both concerts differ in atmosphere, intensity and character clearly from the Loreley concert and present again a huge number of new facets.
The DVD is published in an elegant slipcase and contains the 30-minute documentation "In The Moog For Love" with a detailed interview with Lisa Gerrard in addition to the concert, directed by James L. Frachon
Recorded 12 and 13 November 2008 during concerts in Berlin and Warsaw, mix in Paris and Hambühren

Klaus Schulze - all instruments
Lisa Gerrard - vocals

Artist: Lisa Gerrard
P: 1998  
Having already worked with Pieter Bourke on The Mirror Pool, Lisa Gerrard created her second album, Duality, with him as a full partner. It's literally just the two of them, recorded at a home studio in Australia. Bourke's work in Eden -- which had often been tagged with a Dead Can Dance wannabe brush -- actually meant that he knew more than most where Gerrard was coming from with her all-encompassing vision of music from different locales and times.
Compared to the often overwhelming feeling of The Mirror Pool, Duality is no less mysterious and captivating, but still maintains a more intimate, close atmosphere.

The echoing depths that characterize Gerrard's work again appear, as much a tribute to excellent production as it is an artistic choice, and there are wondrous parts with haunting string arrangements, but there are no huge, heavenly orchestras or the like dominating this time out.

Artist: Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy
P: 2004
Gerrard's album is a collaboration with composer Patrick Cassidy.
It is a transcendent, hymnal collection of music which draws on a global variety of musical influences, literary inspirations and mythical traditions.
Gerrard's music as amongst its elegant arrangements is the world's most basic sound source, the human voice. Immortal Memory (57'04") is Gerrard's third studio album since leaving Dead Can Dance, and a well deserved break from soundtrack work as well.
Here, Gerrard sings in Gaelic, Aramaic and in her well known vocalise style of wordless emotionally charged tones. Ranging from compassionate elegies and idyllic nocturnes to dramatic evocations and woeful laments, Gerrard's voice soars gracefully above composer Patrick Cassidy's hauntingly beautiful sampled string arrangements.
This is quite a serious album yet still retains a fairy tale quality - one of purity - where songs are found within the language of poetry. The extraordinary reach of Gerrard's voice is legendary.

Artist: Lisa Gerrard & Patrick Cassidy
P: 2004
This is the first Edition with different Artwork.
Gerrard's album is a collaboration with composer Patrick Cassidy.
It is a transcendent, hymnal collection of music which draws on a global variety of musical influences, literary inspirations and mythical traditions.
Gerrard's music as amongst its elegant arrangements is the world's most basic sound source, the human voice. Immortal Memory (57'04") is Gerrard's third studio album since leaving Dead Can Dance, and a well deserved break from soundtrack work as well.
Here, Gerrard sings in Gaelic, Aramaic and in her well known vocalise style of wordless emotionally charged tones. Ranging from compassionate elegies and idyllic nocturnes to dramatic evocations and woeful laments, Gerrard's voice soars gracefully above composer Patrick Cassidy's hauntingly beautiful sampled string arrangements.
This is quite a serious album yet still retains a fairy tale quality - one of purity - where songs are found within the language of poetry. The extraordinary reach of Gerrard's voice is legendary.

Artist: Lisa Gerrard & Marcello de Francisci
P: 2010
In Deluxe Digipak with a massive 20 (!) pages booklet!

Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner singer/composer Lisa Gerrard (Dead Can Dance) and film composer Marcello De Francisci have joined forces to bring you their first collaborative album work titled "Departum". This album is a collection of pieces, which are filled with lyrical soundscapes, orchestrated with vocal chants, cimbalom, guitars, percussion, modern instruments, and orchestra. An effort that took two years in the making moreover a journey inspired by ancient world cultures (Mesopotamia, Europe & Asia).

After the groundbreaking album "The Trail of Genghis Khan" written in collaboration with an Australian artist Cye Wood, Lisa Gerrard returns to Infinite fog with long-awaited complete, extended edition of the album "Departum".

Highest quality sound, ambient drifts, soft tribal rhythms, touching melodies of Cymbylom and 144-Strings Yang Chin playing by Lisa Gerrard and transcendental vocals. All this gives even more in sum and makes "Departum" pure pleasure listening.

Artist: Lisa Gerrard & Hans Zimmer
P: 2000
Gladiator is the original soundtrack of the 2000 Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning film starring Russell Crowe (who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as "Maximus" in the film Gladiator), Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed and Richard Harris. The original score and songs were composed by Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard and was released in 2000, entitled Gladiator: Music From the Motion Picture. The orchestra was conducted by Gavin Greenaway.

The album won the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score and was also nominated for the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Score ("Anthony Asquith Award for Film Music").

Artist: Lisa Gerrard
P: 1995  
Her first Solo CD. Classical tracks with her own speech/singing in her own tongue.
Symphonic and unique.

Artist: Lisa Gerrard
P: 1999
Soundtrack by Lisa Gerrard with some fascinating tracks, that fit wonderful into the movie, but could also be heard as the music itself without the pictures.

Artist: Lisa Gerrard
P: 2007 
The Silver Tree is an album of ancient echoes, ghostly refrains, and hymns to the heavens. On "Abwoon," she intones the Lord's Prayer in Aramaic, orchestrating her own voice in choral harmonies that unfold beneath her like winds on waves. But "Spaceweaver" sends chills through the soul as Gerrard unlocks this peculiar nasal, back-of-the-throat snarl that she only adopts on such tracks, with a menacing blues groove that recalls "Meltdown" from her score to The Insider. You can hear much of Gerrard's soundtrack work mirrored here: "The Sea Whisperer" picks up at the spirit-affirming end of "Now We Are Free" from Gladiator. And I suspect that the 10-minute opus "Towards the Tower" might be her rejected overture for the film Constantine. With Ligeti-like voices, suspended glissando strings, and ominous percussion shifts, it certainly would work in the cinematic context of a supernatural thriller. The album has been available for half a year in Australia (worldwide via digital download), so as a bonus, the American release tacks on a bonus track, "Entry." Its thudding electronic drum loop and sketchy vocal makes for a disruptive exit. But until you get there, The Silver Tree is an embracing experience. Whether singing Aramaic, English, or that language of her imagination, Lisa Gerrard makes the most heavenly music heard on earth--and maybe beyond.

Artist: Lisa Gerrard
P: 2003
Original Soundtrack. 

Composed, performed and arranged by - Lisa Gerrard

Keisha Castle-Hughes - Voice on track 1
Rawiri Paratene - Voice on track 4
Keisha Castle-Hughes - Voice on track 7
Phil Pomeroy - piano on track 11
Keriana Thomson, The Wananga Boys - Voice on track 12
The People Of Ngati Konghi, Whangara - Voice (Haka) on track 14
Keisha Castle-Hughes - Voice on track 15
The People Of Ngati Konghi, Whangara - Voice (Haka) on track 15

This ex-Dead Can Dance member imparts her own mixture of the ethereal, the worldly, the emotionally abstract, and the purely beautiful to all of her projects. She's been universally recognized and acclaimed for her body of work, received a Golden Globe and was Oscar-nominated for the ''Gladiator'' soundtrack. She has also worked on such high profile movies as ''Ali'' and ''The Insider''.
This release is a soundtrack for the New Zealand indie film ''Whale Rider'', already the biggest grossing film in New Zealand ever. Gerrard's music, combined with the motion picture, provides an experience of profound power and spiritual enlightenment. Digipak/slipcase.