Australian Lisa Gerrard's Career Spans Almost Two Decades with Dead Can Dance, Scoring Numerous Award-winning Motion Picture Soundtracks and a Series of Acclaimed Solo and Collaborative Albums. The Various Periods and Facets of her Career So Far Are Compiled on her First Ever Retrospective - 'the Best of .. '. Lisa Received Golden Globe Nominations for Both Ali and Insider, Grammy and Oscar Nominations and Won a Golden Globe for the Score of Gladiator and Won Four International Awards for Whale Rider. "The Best Of" Lisa Gerrard Offers a Concise and Convincing Insight Into the Various Strands of her Musical Output. This Album was Selected and Sequenced by Lisa Herself; Blending her Soundtrack Work, Dead Can Dance Highlights and the Pick of her Solo Recordings Into a Seamless and Spellbinding Whole. With this Release, her Quite Remarkable Career Has Been Documented in this Way for the First Time.
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Over a career that takes in almost two decades with Dead Can Dance, award-winning movie soundtracks and a series of acclaimed
solo and collaborative albums, Lisa Gerrard has established herself as one of Australia's most ground-breaking and in-demand artists.
A singer, composer and occasional actress, Lisa brings a vision that is both precise and all-embracing to everything she does.
It is a musical journey that began in the early 1980s when she and fellow Australian Brendan Perry formed Dead Can Dance, one of the
world's most extraordinary bands whose proud boast is that they never fitted into any neatly manufactured genre or lazy pigeonhole.
With Lisa's otherworldly voice counterpoised by Brendon's mellifluous tones, from the outset they thought nothing of setting discordant
electric guitars and dark, rolling bass lines against cellos, trombones and tympani.
Over nine albums between 1984 and 1995, the duo's musical canvas expanded with every release to take in a timeless mix of world
music influences, mediaeval chants, folk ballads,baroque stylings, Celtic flavours, electronics, samples and anything else that took their
fancy. This extraordinary mosaic of musical influences is perhaps less surprising in the light of Lisa's childhood in Melbourne, where she
recalls Greek, Turkish and Irish melodies "oozing into the streets" of her neighbourhood. Since then she's lived in London, Spain and
Ireland before returning to the Snowy Mountains of Australia.
By the mid-90s, even the ambition of Dead Can Dance was no longer broad enough to encompass Lisa's musical vision. 1995 saw the
release of her solo debut, The Mirror Pool, for which she was accompanied by the Victoria Philharmonic Orchestra. Again, it's an album
that defies categorisation, causing one impressed but perplexed reviewer to describe it as "ambient, orchestral, folk and new age all at
the same time." Duality, a collaboration with Pieter Bourke followed in 1998 and again transcended musical eras and genres. Six years
later came the stunningly beautiful Immortal Memory - another joint effort, this time with the Irish composer Patrick Cassidy.
In recent years Lisa has become a much sought-after composer of soundtracks. It's a logical progression, considering that Dead Can
Dance's music often had a cinematic quality that led to it being used in the cult movie Baraka, various TV commercials and even a car
chase scene in Miami Vice. Among the films Lisa has scored or contributed to are Gladiator, Heat, Mission: Impossible 2, The Insider,
Nadro, Ali, Whale Rider, Black Hawk Down, Tears of The Sun, Constantine and El Nino de la Luna (in which she also starred). She received
Golden Globe nominations for The Insider and Ali, Grammy and Oscar nominations and a Golden Globe award for the score of Gladiator,
and four international awards for Whale Rider. Lisa also wrote the theme music for the TV mini-series Salem's Lot, while the San Francisco
Ballet has performed to her work.
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