(LAD, 1999, 42:16)
Brendan Perry next to Lisa Gerrard integrated per
years the arisen more original and more brilliant grouping of the scene british dark of
the ´80, Dead Can Dance. Together they were the authors of a complex, elaborated
musical aesthetics and full with mysticism that embraced elements medieval, Baroque and
folkloric pagans.
With DCD it published disks of a nonpareil beauty, unique
pieces of deep and refined sensibility.
With the step of the years their proposal was intruding more and
more in sounds and recognizable forms of the ethnic music, assuming a personality and an
exquisite maturity. Inside that search in ways each component had its assigned list. Brendan
contributed its great voice, introspective compositions and certain contact with the
earthly thing in harmonic balance with the ethereal of Lisa, for that then its wife
But that history arrives to its fín in 1997, beginning both
separate artistic roads, where "Eyes of the Hunter" represents the work
in solitary of Brendan Perry.
And their nature is notorious, constituting an album calms down,
passionate, of a great melancholy, in which the guitar and the voice are accompanied by
keyboards and mandolins that frame its proposal so particular where the main main
character is the voice and the poetry to her service, elevating the work.
Meditative music made with care and handmade neatness, without
frights. Eight beautiful pieces of among those that stand out on the other "Voyage
of Bran", "Jellyfish", "I Must Have Been Blind"
and "Archangel" that justify the acquisition of the album by themselves.
"Eyes of the Hunter" with security won't defraud to
the old fans, and with all security it will incorporate new