Along with guitarist Brendan Perry, singer Lisa Gerrard was one of the main members of Dead Can Dance, a group that released about seven albums from the mid-eighties to the nineties. Dead Can Dance's music has been labeled gothic rock, but can also be described as a fusion of ambient pop, world music and medieval music. In 1995 Lisa Gerrard released her first solo album: The Mirror Pool. Since then
… she has pursued a successful solo career in which she lent her rich counter-voice to various soundtracks, including Gladiator and Ali. On her album The Silver Tree she elaborates on her successes in film music. No songs here that you can easily sing along. The music is absolutely cinematic with lots of atmospheric electronic undertones, minimalist in structure, without head or tail. And with that beautiful dark voice that often mumbles intensely gloomy prayers without words and expresses mourning complaints full of pain. Music that can cut through your soul. This special version The Silver Tree has a bonus DVD with a short documentary in which Gerrard speaks extensively. (CP)more
