“I was later to realise that Woodbine, as with many other studios, was really just a blank canvas on which to paint. That we arrived with our brushes and next to no ideas was somewhat ironic.”
Tag: Dead Can Dance
Peter Ulrich (Dead Can Dance) interview
“I think there were a lot of Dead Can Dance fans who imagined that we probably, you know, sat on the tour bus and just read Proust and pontificated or whatever. Of course, you can’t do that 24 hours a day.”
Ivo Watts-Russell/4AD interview, 1988
“You’re thinking about this music all the time as opposed to just simply listening to it – enjoying it or not enjoying it.”
Heavenly Bodies – ‘Celestial’ (Third Mind Records/C’est La Mort, 1987)
“The ghost of early Dead Can Dance understandably lingers in the tribal percussion and heavily reverbed guitar work and Seaman’s voice is most definitely from the school of Lisa Gerrard, albeit via Alison Shaw.”
Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance) interview
“Homo sapiens have stayed pretty much as they were, as hunter/gatherers, except that they have supermarkets now where they gather. “
Arcane Delights 