Lisa Gerrard announces: "I'm no longer in Dead Can Dance"

The groundwork for the end of a historic partnership already seemed evident, but now the time has come to officially close the book on Lisa Gerrard's long journey with Dead Can Dance.
Yesterday, on the Australian singer's Facebook page, a post appeared that essentially made official what had already been in the air. The band's longtime female voice is no longer part of Dead Can Dance. The group's most recent releases, the singles “Mon Amour Sauvage”, “Death Cults” and “Our Day Will Come”, had seen Brendan Perry alone at the helm of the Anglo-Australian outfit, leaving many wondering whether Lisa's absence would only be temporary. Now we have confirmation that Lisa Gerrard is no longer part of Dead Can Dance, thanks to a post that makes the split official, while still showing the utmost respect for the project, even in its new form:

Dead Can Dance is the most important and influential project of that “gothic” and “atmospheric” current that emerged as an offshoot of darkwave starting in the early Eighties: no other band in this field has managed to achieve results of such broad scope. Dead Can Dance is a cultural project, even before being a musical one, aimed at the (re)discovery of ancient traditions, distant in both time and space. Their saga has explored wildly different eras and settings, evolving into a meticulous study of European folk tradition, with a particular fondness for medieval and Renaissance themes (which sparked the rich strand of ambient, chamber-based “gothic” music led by bands like Black Tape For A Blue Girl), rediscovering sacred music on one hand and tribal music on the other (laying new foundations for the revival of world music), while always maintaining rigorous stylistic coherence and, at the same time, drifting further and further away from the conventions of rock music.

Lisa Gerrard's career began in 1981 in Melbourne with Dead Can Dance: originally a quartet, it became a trio in 1982, the year the band moved to London, and later a duo, following one member's return to Australia. The group disbanded in 1998; Gerrard went back to Australia, while Perry moved to Ireland. The band reunited temporarily in 2005 for a world tour and then again in 2011. In the meantime, Gerrard has released several solo projects, including the brilliant “Burn” from 2021 with Jules Maxwell, which remains one of the high points of her career.

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