Spiritchaser

Infobox Album |
Name = Spiritchaser
Type = Album
Artist = Dead Can Dance


Released = June 03, 1996
Recorded = unknown
Genre = Worldbeat, Ethnic Fusion
Length = 51:57
Label = 4AD
Producer = ?
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:9t5m968ofep2 link]
*Pitchfork Media (8.4/10) [http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/16905-spiritchaser link]
Last album = "Toward the Within"
(1994)
This album = "Spiritchaser"
(1996)
Next album = "Dead Can Dance (1981-1998)"
(2001)

"Spiritchaser" (1996) was the last studio album of Dead Can Dance before Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard went their separate ways. It expands on their exploration of world music and like "Into the Labyrinth", "Spiritchaser" was recorded at Quivvy Church, Perry's personal studio in Ireland.

The track "Indus" contains a melody that is very similar to the melody of "Within You Without You," a Beatles song that George Harrison composed with
Indian musicians. Although not deliberate, Perry and Gerrard were asked to contact Harrison for his permission to use it; he granted it, but the record company insisted that they give him partial songwriting credit for it. [http://www.imasy.or.jp/~mtoyokaw/4ad-faq/artists/dead-can-dance/boston-globe.txt]

Track listing

# "Nierika" – 5:44
# "Song of the Stars" – 10:13
# "Indus" – 9:23
# "Song of the Dispossessed" – 4:55
# "Dedicacé Outò" – 1:14
# "The Snake and the Moon" – 6:11
# "Song of the Nile" – 8:00
# "Devorzhum" – 6:13

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