Brendan Perry (Dead Can Dance)

Delighted and honoured to be joined by multi-instrumentalist, Brendan Perry on the podcast this week. 

Brendan, who is one half of seminal 4AD band, Dead Can Dance, talks to me about his first band The Scavengers and the early punk rock scene in Aukland, New Zealand. His love of Bowie and early musical influences and the recording of Dead Can Dance’s self-titled debut album, released back in 1984. 

So many great stories in this one!

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Dead Can Dance are one of my all-time favourite groups, so it was a real honour to speak to Brendan about the truly wonderful music he has made with Lisa Gerrard and as solo artist

The overall sound of Dead Can Dance is tricky to define, there are elements of European folk ambient, baroque rock, classical and darkwave in their wonderful, genre-bending music. So many Dead Can Dance albums to discover, with three great solo albums from Brendan to check out too  

https://www.deadcandance.com/

Dead Can Dance - 'Opium"

Dead Can Dance - 'The Host Of Seraphim' (Remastered)

Brendan Perry - 'Song To The Siren' (live on KEXP)