Aion (album)

Infobox Album |
Name = Aion
Type = studio
Artist = Dead Can Dance


Released = start date|1990|6|11
Recorded =
Genre = Gothic rock
Length = 36:11
Label = 4AD
Producer =
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:p9x8b594tsqj link]
Last album = "The Serpent's Egg"
(1988)
This album = "Aion"
(1990)
Next album = "A Passage in Time"
(1991)

"Aion" is the fifth studio album by Dead Can Dance. The first album Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry wrote after the end of their amorous relationship, it was recorded at Perry's new estate, Quivvy Church in Ireland.

The male soprano David Navarro Sust contributes vocals to the first track.

The album cover shows a detail from the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, "The Garden of Earthly Delights" (particularly, its central "Earth" panel).

Track listing

# "The Arrival and the Reunion" – 1:38
# "Saltarello" – 2:33
# "Mephisto" – 0:54
# "The Song of the Sibyl" – 3:45
# "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book" – 6:03
# "As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins" – 5:16
# "The End of Words" – 2:05
# "Black Sun" – 4:56
# "Wilderness" – 1:24
# "The Promised Womb" – 3:22
# "The Garden of Zephirus" – 1:20
# "Radharc" – 2:48