DREAMCHILD: Lullabies For The Dead

Dreamchild

Lullabies For The Dead

© 2005 Gerace/Wanner (783707040400)

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Ethereal nightmares and fever dreams with dramatic,& powerful female vocals, evocative guitar soundscapes and melancholy wire-strung harp. Decadent music to sip absinthe by...

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Lullabies for the Dead follows its own inner dream logic, moving musically through time, history and morbid fables of mortality. Heard as an entire musical work, Lullabies for the Dead will mesmerize you with its ethereal nightmares and fever dreams.

The central theme of songs sung for and to the dead and dying subtly weaves its way through the entire CD, moving through melancholy remembrances & murderous malice to doleful dirges & poignant laments.

Join Dreamchild in examining the fates of a pair of very different decapitated heads (those of Orpheus and of Iokannan, or John the Baptist) in La Tête d'Orphée, Salome and Herodias Piercing; visit the fabled tomb of Arthur and his knights in Avalon, frozen in waiting for their hour of need, or the dying wood haunted by the enthralled and doomed knight in Keat's La Belle Dame Sans Merci. Or, if you prefer, brave the lair of the seductive yet deadly Medusa. Hear Frida Kahlo awakening to the embrace of her skeleton lover in Una Escultura de Huesos , and celebrate her passing in RJ Stewart's Tango for Frida. At last, ascending through the darkness, absolutioncomes in the form of the delicate lament, Lullaby for the Dead to finally reach the redemptive requiem of Salve - though Custom Fails and those who search for The Fountain of Life will die, made mad with a yearning thirst that can never be quenched.

Dark, ethereal & powerful - always dramatic and sometimes hopelessly romantic, Lullabies for the Dead lets you run your fingers through the dust of mortality and glimpse through the veil to what lies beyond the final domain of the tomb...

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  • Dreamy, Dark, and Delightful
    author: Krista Lilith

    Although I enjoy this CD very much, I prefer the artists' other works. Despite this album's obvious death-related and gothic themes in the art work and lyrics, the melodies are not as dark as some of their prior works. Again, this is not to say that it is not still very talented, beautiful, and enjoyable work because it is absoultely all of these things. Overall, this is a pretty, thoughtful, and pleasurable CD.

  • Goodbye, until we meet upon a distant shore.
    author: Noise

    Hello ladies and gentlemen. I am Princess Diana. I was Princess of Wales. I was married to a man named Charles when I was only 19 years old. Charles is Queen Elizabeth's oldest son. We had two kids together. My family is very wealthy and important. After being married a few years, Charles and I were not getting along. It was hard for my children and me. People loved to read articles, magazines, and newspapers about me and Queen Elizabeth. I helped a lot of people in need, such as poor and sick people. For the first time in my life I shook hands with a man that had AIDS. I also ran a marathon for people that had cancer. In August 1997, I died in a car accident in Paris, France. My grave site is on a tiny island near my home in England. Over my grave they used to play Dead Can Dance all day long. Now they play "Avalon" and "The House of the Dead" and "Salve" by Lullabies for the Dead. I am so glad. Well thank-you for listening to my life story. Goodbye, until we meet upon a distant shore. (Francis DiMenno)

  • Dark, intoxicating beauty.
    author: J.

    Cheryl Wanner's voice is extraordinary - a living breathing thing of smoke and crushed velvet. It wraps around you, intoxicating in its richness. The soundscapes on this album perfectly blend an array of atmospheric whispers and hushed sounds with the vaguely psychedelic combination of harp and guitar. The lyrics are complex and exquisitely literary. I can think of noone to whom I can truly compare this album - except to say that Wanner's voice in it's lower register does bear an echo of Diamanda Galas, while in its upper register it has a chant-like mania reminiscent of Dawn 'the faun' McCarthy (of Faun Fables). The songs play like incantations, drawing something breathtaking out of the deepest of shadows. I cannot recommend this dark delight, or Dreamchild in general (I have since sought out their earlier works), highly enough.

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