Immortal Memory Explained

Immortal Memory
Type:studio
Artist:Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy
Cover:Immortal_memory_-_gerrard_cassidy_-_front.jpg
Released:26 January 2004
Genre:Modern classical, world fusion
Length:56:58
Label:4AD
Producer:Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy
Chronology:Lisa Gerrard
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Immortal Memory is an album by Dead Can Dance member Lisa Gerrard and Irish classical composer Patrick Cassidy, released in 2004. It was Gerrard's first studio release since 1998's Duality with Pieter Bourke.

Overview

Gerrard first met Cassidy in 2000 in Los Angeles (where he lives), when she came to work on the Gladiator soundtrack, and they planned to work together one day.[1] When they eventually found a shared two-month break, they joined at Gerrard's Australian studio for this record.[2]

The W. B. Yeats poem "Sailing to Byzantium" inspired the track of the same name.

The lyrics utilise three ancient languages:

Track listing

Music by Lisa Gerrard (tracks 1–9) and Patrick Cassidy (tracks 1–10).

Personnel

Musical
Technical
Graphical

References

Notes and References

  1. http://www.4ad.com/lisagerrard/news/~immortalmemory/ 4AD press release
  2. Prefix Magazine review, op. cit.