Wake (album)

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Wake
Compilation album by Dead Can Dance
Released	January, 2003
Recorded	1981-1988
Genre	World music, Gothic music
Length	??:??
Label	4AD
Producer(s)	Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, John A. Rivers
Professional reviews
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Dead Can Dance chronology
Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) (2001)	Wake (2003)	Memento (2005)

Wake is a compilation from previous albums of Dead Can Dance released in 2003. It contains 26 tracks on two discs. It includes the song, The Lotus Eaters, (previously released only on the Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) box-set), which was recorded in 1998 as part of their new album but remained the last song recorded before the break-up of the band.

The name itself has multiple meanings. First, when taken in context of the sun rising on the cover, it could refer to the act of waking. Secondly, in the context of the name of the band itself, "wake" could refer to the process of changing from inanimate ("dead") to animate ("dancing"). Third, as it was released after the band had broken up, it could refer to a traditional Irish wake, the ceremony of watching over a recently deceased family member's body. It can even be interpreted to mean the wake in water following the movement of a boat, something which is hinted to on the album's cover.

[edit] Disc 1 track listing

1. "Frontier (Demo)"
2. "Anywhere out of the World"
3. "Enigma of the Absolute"
4. "Carnival of Light"
5. "In Power We Entrust the Love Advocated"
6. "Summoning of the Muse"
7. "Windfall"
8. "In the Kingdom of the Blind the One-eyed Are Kings"
9. "The Host of Seraphim"
10. "Bird"
11. "Cantara"
12. "Severance"
13. "Saltarello"
14. "Black Sun"

[edit] Disc 2 track listing

1. "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)"
2. "The Carnival Is Over"
3. "The Lotus Eaters"
4. "Rakim"
5. "The Ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove"
6. "Sanvean"
7. "Song of the Nile"
8. "The Spider's Stratagem"
9. "I Can See Now"
10. "American Dreaming"
11. "Nierika"
12. "How Fortunate the Man with None"

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Dead Can Dance

Lisa Gerrard - Brendan Perry

Discography

Albums: Dead Can Dance - Spleen and Ideal - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun - The Serpent's Egg - Aion - Into the Labyrinth - Spiritchaser

Compilations: A Passage in Time - Dead Can Dance (1981-1998) - Wake - Memento

Live albums: Toward the Within