Brendan Perry
After the breakup of Dead Can Dance, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Brendan Perry collaborated with friends like Hector Zazou (on his 1998 Lights in the Dark album) and former bandmate Peter Ulrich (whose Pathways and Dawns Perry co-produced and arranged). During the late '90s he began teaching percussion workshops in Afro-Cuban and African Manding styles out of his Quivvy Church home and studio in Belturbet, County Cavan (Perry's mother's home county), Ireland. These workshops culminated in the creation of a community-based samba school called The Salamanders. His first solo album, Eye of the Hunter, was released in 1999 on 4AD, his longtime label. In 2003, Perry oversaw the creation of an international samba festival in Belturbet. In 2005, he and Lisa Gerrard briefly re-formed Dead Can Dance for a limited-run farewell tour with a 40-piece orchestra. While they performed their classic material, they also premiered two new songs, "Babylon" and "Crescent." Both of these selections were later recorded for Ark, Perry's 2010 solo album; it was released in the United States in mid-2011. In 2012, Dead Can Dance released Anastasis, their first studio album in 16 years. Over the next year-and-a half, they toured the globe. In 2013, the band announced the sale of Perry's Quivvy Church Studio in preparation for a move to (and new studio in) France. Gerrard continued with her solo and soundtrack work while Perry built the studio and the pair planned a studio offering. In 2017, he served as the frontman for guitarist Olivier Mellano's No Land project, that explored the overlaps between a host of modern musical genres, new music, and the music of Breton Pipe Bands, and blurred the lines of other folk traditions. Mellano enlisted not only Perry but the 30 musicians of Bagad' Cesson for the recording. The finished album was issued in November.
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Discography
9 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Ark
Alternative & Indie - Released by Cooking Vinyl on 6 Jun 2010
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Songs of Disenchantment: Music from the Greek Underground
Alternative & Indie - Released by Holy Tongue Records on 20 Nov 2020
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Eye of the Hunter / Live at the I.C.A.
Alternative & Indie - Released by 4AD on 20 Oct 2023
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Eye of the Hunter
Alternative & Indie - Released by 4AD on 4 Oct 1999
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
No Land
Bagad' Cesson, Brendan Perry, Olivier Mellano
World - Released by world village on 10 Nov 2017
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Happy Time (Live at the ICA)
Alternative & Indie - Released by 4AD on 11 Sep 2023
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Utopia
Alternative & Indie - Released by Cooking Vinyl on 30 May 2010
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Eye of the Hunter / Live at the I.C.A.
Alternative & Indie - Released by 4AD on 20 Oct 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Happy Time (Live at the ICA)
Alternative & Indie - Released by 4AD on 11 Sep 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo