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Released
  
26 January 2004

Immortal Memory (2004)
  
The Silver Tree (2006)

Label
  
4AD

Length
  
56:58

Release date
  
26 January 2004

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Artists
  
Lisa Gerrard, Patrick Cassidy

Genres
  
Film score, World music, 20th-century classical music

Producers
  
Lisa Gerrard, Patrick Cassidy

Similar
  
Lisa Gerrard albums, World music albums

Immortal Memory is an album by ex-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.

Contents

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. When they eventually found a shared two-month break, they joined at Gerrard's Australian studio for this record.

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

The lyrics utilise three ancient languages:

  • Gaelic (ancient Irish) in "The Song of Amergin" (based on the first song supposedly sung by a mortal on Irish soil).
  • Aramaic in "Maranatha" (meaning "come lord, come teacher"), and "Abwoon" (meaning "our father", a rendition of the "Lord's Prayer" in the language of Jesus).
  • Latin in "Psallit in Aure Dei" (meaning "singing in the ear of God", a dirge for Patrick Cassidy's late father).

    • Track listing

    1. "The Song of Amergin" – 5:27
    2. "Maranatha (Come Lord)" – 3:43
    3. "Amergin's Invocation" – 6:19
    4. "Elegy" – 6:41
    5. "Sailing to Byzantium" – 5:04
    6. "Abwoon (Our Father)" – 4:12
    7. "Immortal Memory" – 4:28
    8. "Paradise Lost" – 7:03
    9. "I Asked for Love" – 5:00
    10. "Psallit in Aure Dei" – 9:01

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

    Personnel

    Musical
  • Lisa Gerrard – arranger, vocals
  • Peter Cassidy – arranger, synthesized instruments
    • Technical
  • Simon Bowley – mixing
  • David Badrick – mixing assistance
  • Don C. Tyler – mastering
  • Chris Staley – mastering assistance
  • Jacek Tuschewski – technical assistance
    • Graphical
  • Jacek Tuschewski – sleeve design, paintings
  • Chris Bigg – sleeve design
  • Mark Magidson – sleeve photography (Uluru tree)
  • Greg Barrett – sleeve photography (portraits)

    • Songs

    1The Song of Amergin5:28
    2Maranatha (Come Lord)3:44
    3Amergin’s Invocation6:19

    References

    Immortal Memory Wikipedia
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