Dead Can Dance played Pritzker Pavilion (pics-setlist-videos)

photos by Carmelo Espanola

Dead Can Dance @ Prizker Pavilion on 8.21.2012

Returning seven years after its previous reunion tour, and with its first new material since 1996, Dead Can Dance remains committed to the ceremonial grandeur and widescreen blending of world styles it has offered since the early 80s. If not for the group's distinctive boundary-hopping fusion and dark folk roots, its more solemn fare could be mistaken as new-age ambience designed for massage therapists. Yet in [Lisa] Gerrard, the cult-favorite band claims an inimitable voice, a singer whose operatic range and nuanced control peak on glossolalia passages that mourn, reflect and comfort. [Chicago Tribune]

In support of their first album in 16-years, Anastasis, Dead Can Dance (aka Brendan Perry and Lisa Gerrard) visited Chicago's Pritzker Pavilion on Tuesday, August 21 as part of a 2012 world tour. They performed Anastasis in its entirety (but not in order), as well as songs from the rest of their catalog. More pictures from the Pritzker Pavilion show, DCD's full setlist, and some videos are below...

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Dead Can Dance - "Ime Prezakias" LIVE Chicago 2012 Jay Pritzker Pavilion

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Dead Can Dance at the Pritzker Pavilion 2-5

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Dead Can Dance -- Pritzker Pavilion 8/21 Setlist:
Children Of The Sun
Anabasis
Rakim
Kiko
Lamma Bada
Agape
Amnesia
Sanvean
Nierika
Opium
The Host of Seraphim
Ime Prezakias
Now We Are Free
All In Good Time
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The ubiquitous Mr. Lovegrove
Dreams Made Flesh
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Song To the Siren
Return of The She King
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Rising Of The Moon
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