Within the Realm of a Dying Sun

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Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
Studio album by Dead Can Dance
Released	July 1987
Recorded	April 1987--May 1987
Genre	World music, Modern classical
Length	38:43
Label	4AD Records
Producer(s)	Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard
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Dead Can Dance chronology
Spleen and Ideal (1985)	Within the Realm of a Dying Sun (1987)	The Serpent's Egg (1988)

Within the Realm of a Dying Sun is the third album recorded by the Dead Can Dance duo, Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry, in 1987.

The cover's photograph was taken in Paris, at the Père-Lachaise cemetery. It features the grave of the politician Raspail.

Lisa Gerrard's vocals feature prominently in the second half of the album, and her singing style often hits those wailing Arabic overtones like on the track titled Cantara. It is in contrast to the dreamlike first half, but builds powerfully as the album progresses.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Anywhere Out of the World"
2. "Windfall"
3. "In the Wake of Adversity"
4. "Xavier"
5. "Dawn of the Iconoclast"
6. "Cantara"
7. "Summoning of the Muse"
8. "Persephone (the Gathering of Flowers)

[edit] Miscellanea

• Gerrard's vocals on "Dawn of the Iconoclast" were sampled on the electronica track Papua New Guinea by Future Sound Of London.

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