Date: Tue, 29 Aug 1995 22:00:55 +0200 
      From: Frank Brinkhuis (brink2@XS4ALL.NL) 
      Subject: Tarnation UK release date?/Gerrard


Can anyone tell me the UK release-date for the Tarnation 'Gentle Creatures'
album. It isn't out yet, as far as I know.


Hey, and I found the following on the PIAS website. I don't think I've seen
this on the 4-ad list before:

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LISA GERRARD: THE MIRROR POOL

My name is Lisa Gerrard and it is out of a love of accuracy that I have chosen
to communicate directly to you about 'The Mirror Pool', my recently completed
solo project.

Let me begin with a brief history: For the past fifteen years I have worked
with
Brendan Perry under the title of 'Dead Can Dance' - a title chosen to describe
the process of creativity. Brendan and I have released eight albums, during the
making of which there is usually a surplus of work that overlaps the continuous
nature of a Dead Can Dance record. Some of these pieces, which were not
realized
for reasons of continuity, have been collected together in the form of largely
orchestral based works and pieces written primarily for 'voice' music. There
are
also acoustic pieces made up of Greek bouzouki, yang ch'in (Chinese dolcimer)
and live percussion including derabukkas, hand claps, camel drum, bass tablas,
Indian elephant bells, tambours, tambourines and finger cymbals. Alongside
these
works exist pieces created out of instrumental samples.
The orchestral music was composed by myself using a computer with orchestral
samples in my home studio. These parts were then translated into score form by
John Bonnar, who also conducted the recorded performance by the 'Victorian
Philharmonic Orchestra' at Eaton Studios in Melbourne, Australia. I performed
the vocal pieces live during the making of these recordings with the
orchestra.
The acoustic pieces, which I also composed, were recorded live in my home
studio, as were the smapled works and all the voice music.
Usually when work is reviewed there are references made to cultural influences.
In my case I have explored cultural expression as a means of freeing the spirit.
I have chosen the title 'The Mirror Pool' because it is suggestive of the
abstract properties that exist within the entity of music - the properties
being
those that permit reflection.

Lisa Gerrard, June 1995
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