ANASTASIS: LA "RESURRECCIÓN" DE DEAD CAN DANCE
"On the cover of Anastasis, Dead Can Dance’s first
album in 16 years: a field of sunflowers, ripened, and then blackened, by the
sun, standing with sad, slightly crowned heads. Less dead than dormant, the heads
and stems will one day be chopped, but then via the roots, will return. For
Anastasis is the Greek word for ‘resurrection’ and the seemingly dead will
dance again.
“I thought Anastasis was a good title given our reunion,”
explains Brendan Perry, who, with Lisa Gerrard, formed the band in Melbourne,
Australia in 1981, releasing seven studio albums, and one live album, before
going their own ways after 1996’s Spiritchaser. “Anastasis also means ‘in
between two stages’,” he adds. “Regeneration comes with the next season”.
Anastasis is perfectly apt given how the album is an
astonishing regeneration of the legendary beauty, power and spellbinding nature
of the duo’s unique sound and vision. Age hasn’t withered DCD, not the passing
of the years; if anything, the album sounds bolder, stronger, more confident in
its vision. There’s surely no other musical force on the planet that sounds so
stately and yet mesmeric; who combine so effortlessly the spiritual and the
earthbound with music that’s not tied to any one century, but roams freely
between the ages as well as the continents".
Este texto, que brinda una apropiada síntesis del concepto
de esta nueva obra, está extraído del website de la banda, donde también tienen
un streaming del álbum completo.