Track Listing

1. Wheat - Gerrard, Lisa
2. Elysium - Gerrard, Lisa
3. Sacrifice - Gerrard, Lisa
4. Ariadne - Dead Can Dance
5. Sanvean - Dead Can Dance
6. Host Of Seraphim - Dead Can Dance
7. Cantara - Dead Can Dance
8. Swans - Gerrard, Lisa
9. Promised Womb - Dead Can Dance
10. Yulunga (Spirit Dance) - Dead Can Dance
11. Indus - Dead Can Dance
12. Persephone (The Gathering Of Flowers) - Dead Can Dance
13. Go Forward - Gerrard, Lisa
14. See The Sun - Gerrard, Lisa
15. Now We Are Free - Gerrard, Lisa

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4597 in Music
• Released on: 2007-02-12
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

CD Description
Issued in 2007 on the 4AD label, THE BEST OF LISA GERRARD collects many of the finest tracks by the former Dead Can Dance vocalist/multi-instrumentalist. While the compilation includes a few tracks by that revered act, most notably the mystical "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)", a song that showcases Gerrard's striking voice, it primarily focuses on her solo work and film compositions, which both draw from music across the globe. On these pieces, Gerrard often collaborates with fellow Australian native Pieter Bourke, as on the passionate "Swans" and the expansive "Sacrifice", the latter from the INSIDER score. Although this anthology is a mere fraction of Gerrard's recorded output, it does serve as an excellent introduction to her impressive catalogue.

Customer Reviews

Marmite
Lisa Gerrard's work is becoming ever more popular in film, notably the incredible themes as used over the past decade in The Insider, Gladiator, Tears of the Sun, Layer Cake, Man on Fire, The Mist, and many more. This 'best of' album gives the listener just a taste of her work. Although it is an amazing collection as is, it is a big shame that many of the most popular and familiar tracks mentioned above are not included - this could have been without doubt the ultimate Lisa Gerrard collection.

However, this turns out to be just a minor disappointment. The more you listen to this album, the more you find yourself becoming astounded and stunned by the different sounds that she can produce with that unbelieveable voice. Even tracks that at first do not necessarily stick in your mind begin to grow on you. Clever and intelligent music, it is not to everyone's taste. As one reviewer has said before, her music is like Marmite - you either love it or hate it. I couldn't agree more.

Favourite tracks: The Host of Seraphim, Sanvean.

Music from the soul
One of the best albums I have ever heard.
When you hear the music you know it came straight from the heart.

I could write a whole essay on what makes this album brilliant. But I won't because to really know how good this album is, you have to hear it, my words probably won't make sense anyway.

Good for what ails you.
M. Wards bemoaning of the loss of "free" radio in the States on his last album "Transistor Radio" is understandable, as he himself is a major casualty of the system that prevails there now. How do you classify his music? Folk/Blues/Country/Jazz/Rock fusion? ... Not quite. Each track has a style of it's own. He just dips into whichever box takes his fancy at the time. And at whatever he choses he is a master. Ward has been around for a while now, and this is his fifth album, yet only recently did he get on national television. (Seach YouTube for "Chinese Translation" and you'll find a stunning performance on the David Letterman show.)

Whilst Sufjan Stevens can end up with too much of this and a bit watered down on that, and end up with albums that have brilliant highlights but ultimately can overface you, Ward does everything to perfection and realises that less is more. On top of this Stevens' voice compared to Ward's is just no contest.

On Post-War, Ward brings in a full band for the first time, and for me, at the moment, this album shades it by a whisker on being my favourite. After 2003's "Transfiguration of Vincent" and last year's "Transistor Radio" that believe me is saying something.

Favourite tracks "Post-War", "Chinese Translation" and "To Go Home".

If you thought Springsteen didn't quite capture those moments on "Darkness" ever again then come here. This lad will (eventually) inherit the earth.