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Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Gerrard was always surrounded by music, although it was not until meeting Brendan Perry that she had her first foray into a music career. Moving to London, England in 1982, they pursued the art-goth duo, Dead Can Dance, releasing records on the 4AD imprintThe pair went on to release eight albums for 4AD, before disbanding in 1998. However they have since reunited, for a world tour in 2005 and a ew album in 2012.
Gerrard began her solo career in 1995, releasing her first record, “The Mirror Pool,” which took a different direction musically to Dead Can Dance, using fragments of her digitally arranged compositions, creating them into tracks that utilised a neoclassical style inspired by Handel, as well as incorporating traditional Iranian music. Her style is operatic, often featuring wordless vocals, accompanied by string/woodwind orchestral sections. Her second album, “Duality,” was released in 1998, co-written by Pieter Bourke. Australia’s Victorian Philharmonic Orchestra featured on some of her tracks, providing a huge cinematic sound to her recordings.
In 2003, Gerrard composed the score for Niki Caro’s film, “Whale Rider,” before then releasing another solo album, titled “Immortal Memory,” in 2004, written alongside Irish composer Patrick Cassidy. The following year she again collaborated with another artist, to record the soundtrack for the Native American drama, “A Thousand Roads,” which she composed with Jeff Rona. Gerrard connived to collaborate with a number of artists, including Marcello De Francisci and recorded a new solo album in 2014, titled “Twilight Kingdom,” which she released on her own record label, Gerrard Records.
Live reviews
If you’re reading this with no clue as to who Lisa Gerrard is, then prepare to have your mind blown. The Australian veteran of a musician/composer/yangqin player is that stunning voice that you hear throughout the Oscar winning, Gladiator. She joins the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, for a breathtaking evening of the film Gladiator complete with a live orchestra.
The venue? …The Royal Albert Hall. Let’s get excited. This was one of those evenings where, as someone who composes music and performs music on a regular basis, I was very content to just sit down, watch Gladiator on this huge 50-foot screen and just admire the incredible writing of Gerrard and Zimmer.
Her voice is just a force to be reckoned with. It is so distinct, the way it embraces you like a warm blanket, employing a slow vibrato. “Now we are Free” at the end of the performance, just had the entire audience in awe as to what was happening. Especially with this famous scene where Russell Crowe’s Maximus is walking to his family, brushing the corn with his hands on the way to his house. It is one of those moments where everything just slots together perfectly, in such a divine manner. It is no surprise whatsoever, that she won a Golden Globe for the Gladiator score.
Lannistaar
Stockholm/Sweden 2019-10-19.
Both musicians, choir and Ms. Gerrard were really great. I would have liked Ms. Gerrard to have sung more than just 1 of her OWN songs for her old fans in the audience. Only a few bars of "Now we are free" feelt a bit poor.
I got the feeling that she looked very tired. Ill even. But hopefully that is not true.
Also there seemed to be technical problems with her ear plug?
On the whole (as a Ms. Gerrard fan) there was much more performance time wise by everyone else on stage than her which was a pity. But I am grateful that I got to see/hear her again after all these years now gone by. Must have been around 2004 in London, if I recall.
Again...more Ms. Gerrard and a few less choir songs would have been great.
/Maria
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