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Dead Can Dance "The Host of Seraphim" HD 1080p Dead Can Dance (sometimes referred to as DCD) are an Australian/British ethereal neoclassical duo formed in Melbourne, Australia, in August 1981, by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry. The band relocated to London in May 1982 and disbanded in 1998. Their 1996 album Spiritchaser reached No. 1 on the Billboard Top World Music Albums Chart. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane described Dead Can Dance as having an ambient style of world music that "constructed soundscapes of mesmerising grandeur and solemn beauty; African polyrhythms, Gaelic folk, Gregorian chants, Middle Eastern mantras, and art-rock." Dead Can Dance's albums were not widely available in the United States until the early 1990s, when 4AD made a distribution deal with Warner Bros. Records. 4AD allied itself with the Beggars Banquet Records Group, which included that eponymous label and XL Recordings in the US, but the band's recordings remained distributed through Warner Bros. Records. Subsequent releases, however, have been licensed to Rhino/Atlantic Records, a sister label within Warner Music. Their 1991 compilation, A Passage in Time, remains with 4AD independently of the Rhino and Warner Bros. deals; it was initially only released in the US. Their sixth studio album, Into the Labyrinth, was issued in September 1993 and dispensed with guest musicians entirely; it sold 500,000 copies worldwide and appeared on the Billboard 200. The band had become 4AD's highest selling act. They followed with a world tour in 1994 and recorded a live performance in California which was released as Toward the Within, with video versions on Laserdisc and VHS (later on DVD). Many unofficial bootlegs of concerts spanning their career exist, containing several rare songs that were only performed live. Toward the Within is the duo's only official live album. It reached the Billboard 200. Gerrard released her debut solo recording, The Mirror Pool, and recombined with Perry for the Dead Can Dance studio album, Spiritchaser, in 1996. The album also charted on Billboard 200 and reached No. 1 on the Top World Music Albums Chart. On 28 March 2010, in an interview for Bulgaria's Katehizis.com online music magazine, Perry revealed the possibility of a future Dead Can Dance reunion: "Yes, I've been talking about it with Lisa Gerrard. Maybe in the end of next year we'll start work again. We've been talking about doing something like taking a small chamber orchestra -- 10 or 15 people -- and tour with them. And we have to write songs. We have to write new material -- totally new -- so the whole, entire set will be a new album. Then we'll go into the studio after the tour, record, produce and release a record as well." This was confirmed in the official Brendan Perry forum on 12 May 2011: "I have been talking with Lisa Gerrard this past week with regard to recording a new DCD album this coming winter. We hope to complete the album by the summer of 2012 and then embark on an extensive two month world tour in late 2012." The band made a formal announcement about its world tour and new album, yet untitled, for a release date of 9 August. On September 30, 2011, Dead Can Dance announced the release of a four track EP entitled Live Happenings -- Part 1 available for free download from their website. Since December the EP Live Happenings - Part 2 replaced the first EP. Both EPs contain songs from their 2005 Tour. Since January 31, 2012, the EP available was Live Happenings -- Part 3, to be replaced by Live Happenings - Part IV on March 20, 2012. In late 2011, the band announced a reunion World Tour, including 12 US cities, to be accompanied by the release of a new album. The tour is scheduled to begin August 9th, 2012 in Canada and end October 28th, 2012 in Ireland. For copyright and more information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Can_Dance http://www.deadcandance.com/ http://www.last.fm/music/Dead+Can+Dance