Aion (album)

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Aion
Aion cover
Studio album by Dead Can Dance
Released September 1990
Recorded ?
Genre Gothic rock
Length 36:11
Label 4AD
Producer ?
Professional reviews
Dead Can Dance chronology
The Serpent's Egg
(1988)		 Aion
(1990)		 A Passage in Time
(1991)

Aion (1990) was Dead Can Dance's fifth studio album. The first album Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry wrote after the end of their amorous relationship, it was recorded at Perry's new estate, Quivvy Church in Ireland.

The male soprano David Navarro Sust contributes vocals to the first track.

The album cover shows a detail from the Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, The Garden of Earthly Delights (particularly, its central "Earth" panel).

[edit] Track listing

  1. "The Arrival and the Reunion" - 1:38
  2. "Saltarello" - 2:33
  3. "Mephisto" - 0:54
  4. "The Song of the Sybil" - 3:45
  5. "Fortune Presents Gifts Not According to the Book" - 6:03
  6. "As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins" - 5:16
  7. "The End of Words" - 2:05
  8. "Black Sun" - 4:56
  9. "Wilderness" - 1:24
  10. "The Promised Womb" - 3:22
  11. "The Garden of Zephirus" - 1:20
  12. "Radharc" - 2:48
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