Dead Can Dance - SACD Releases

JonFo · Mar 19, 2008

Al right my dear friends, here is music that just begs to be played on a good MartinLogan set in a well treated room .

As we all know MLs excel at vocals, and Lisa Gerard has what I consider to be her generations best voice. Her range is incredible and her wordless vocalizations ARE the instrument. The fit to the music is sublime.

Backed by great musicians, the growth of Dead can Dance over the years has been well cronichled.

What I wanted to share is that the entire back catalog of Dead Can Dance is soon to be available in SACD high resolution audio format.

I can’t begin to tell you how much I look forward to this, as this is some of my favorite music (at least all the Lisa pieces).

The SACD’s will be stereo only, as they did not have all the elements to remix into multichannel. But at least it will be a more accurate rendition of the master tapes.
The mixes were quite good to begin with, so no real loss there.

These are available for pre-order at your favorite record store:

Aion [Hybrid SACD] [Import]

Into the Labyrinth [Hybrid SACD] [Import]

Within the Realm of a Dying Sun [Hybrid SACD] [Import]

Spiritchaser [Hybrid SACD] [Import]

Spleen and Ideal [Hybrid SACD] [Import]

Serpent's Egg [Hybrid SACD] [Import]

Dead Can Dance [Hybrid SACD]

Cherian · Mar 19, 2008

Jonathan,

Thanks for the heads up. I just preordered 5 for now. :music: Can't wait!! I may have to buy a good SACD player for this one.

MiTT · Mar 21, 2008

Very Cool! I'll be pre-ordering in a few minutes myself. One of my all time favorite bands, and I agree with Jonathan - they sound AMAZING on Martin Logans.

Not bad for a "dead" format huh Jonathan? :devil:

Now, if only you told me that all of the "This Mortal Coil" releases were also getting the SACD treatment, then I'd just sh!t little green apples!

DTB300 · Mar 21, 2008

I have seen posts that three of them having been cancelled at this time from Warner Music Japan: Aion, Serpents Egg, & Within the Realm...

MiTT · Mar 21, 2008

DTB300 said:
I have seen posts that three of them having been cancelled at this time from Warner Music Japan: Aion, Serpents Egg, & Within the Realm...

That's too bad, although, with the exception of "Within the Realm of a Dying Sun", these are my least favorite DCD tomes.

JonFo · Mar 22, 2008

MiTT said:
...

Not bad for a "dead" format huh Jonathan? :devil:

...

Hey Tim, I'll take it any which way I can.
I collect the weirdest high-def formats (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-MasterHD, SACD, DVD-A, HDAD, DVD-V + DTS high bit rate, DVD-V + AC3 high bit rate, DVD-V + 24/96 PCM, etc.) then there’s the plethora of 44/16 2ch PCM encodings: DolbySurround, HDCD, DTS, Ambisonics, SQ, and now have to figure out how to play them back over the years to come.
Guess I'll keep a Meridian in the rig forever (it does Ambisonic, SQ, DD, DTS MLP, MPEG)

That, or I'll have to re-encode the old stuff to some std format in a few years (like DolbyTrueHD).

Ah, the joys of being a guy who never met a high-rez or surround format he wouldn't purchase

theWB · Apr 16, 2008

JonFo · Apr 17, 2008

Thanks Wayne, I saw that this past weekend and printed out the info from that site.

Amazon offers a price-match guarantee on pre-orders, so I'm going to hold them to it.

Anyone had a problem with Amazon not honoring another on-line vendors prices?

theWB · Apr 24, 2008

If you planned on buying all 9, an even better price from Acoustic Sounds

http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=49244

Cherian · Apr 26, 2008

Thanks for the heads up. I have got all of them on order now.

JonFo · May 28, 2008

theWB said:
If you planned on buying all 9, an even better price from Acoustic Sounds

http://store.acousticsounds.com/browse_detail.cfm?Title_ID=49244

Thanks Wayne. I pre-ordered all 9 from them as well.

BTW- Amazon does NOT price match. They are good at adjusting their prices to be competitive, but once you buy something from them for X, that's the price. no guarantees.
Also, they either sold out their inventory to pre-orders, or they dropped carrying this set, as they list these titles as ‘unavailable’ now. Wonder if it was the rash of cancellations?

Ship date is supposedly nearing. Mid June is the latest date shown by AcousticSounds.

Cherian · May 31, 2008

WOW it looks like all the Dead Can Dance SACD's are Mastered my MFSL (AKA MoFi). Release date June 2th two more days to go.
:rocker:

JohnA · Jun 23, 2008

...a month later and we're still waiting....

Cherian · Jul 19, 2008

Looks like the long wait is over. I just got an e-mail that all 9 DCD SACDs have shipped!!

JohnA · Jul 21, 2008

Got them all now, had them for over a week (except for the first album and the EP, never liked those)

Very good remasters. :rocker:

Shame they are not surround, big shame

Cherian · Jul 22, 2008

Yes these are excellent remasters. MOFI did a super job with them. I’m so happy to have a good SACD player for these.

DTB300 · Jul 30, 2008

So what is considered their best album??? I know I will hear alot of personal preference in replies to this.

Cherian · Aug 2, 2008

My favorite is “Into the labyrinth”, next Is “Spiritchaser” and then “Toward the Within”.

MiTT · Aug 4, 2008

Yeah, that would be my ranking sequence as well. I agree with Cherian.

TomDac · Aug 5, 2008

I like Lisa Gerrard with Pieter Bourke. Duality.

All the DCD stuff is just HAUNTING... great on a stormy night with some candles lit....

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