Dead Can Dance - Summoning of the Muse

[LEVIATHANCUBE]

So breathtaking the images with the song!

[thebeatcreeper]

fuck



[lrdmrkry]

one time i was so high and listened to this song my whole trip was a vision that looked exactly like these arts !!

[KimberCatLuna]

How historically accurate are the words to an actual summoning text? Just curious. It's one of my DCD songs.

[Electricmeditation1]

Pure Art...best possible Music!!

[mavenous22]

Gustave Dore is a fantastic artist, his work on the Arthur Legend is fantastic too...

[monolith01]

Dante Alighieri e Dead Can Dance...cosa c'è di meglio?

[mexashezaza]

pure epicness, pure gothic

[gericho1]

il ritorno alle origini...

[SwanDust]

Lisa Gerrard usually does not use any known language in her songs.... She sings in her very own language.... The vast majority of Dead Can Dance and solo material is in this personal language of hers. This is proof that ones does not need to understand the lyrics to a song in order for the song to move them beyond all meaning.... Lisa Gerrard has the voice of the universe and few if any can ever touch her.... This song is one of my faves of all time too.... :-)

[VittorioViaggi]

really original the transposition of the images of La divina commedia by Gustave Dore with DCD. Great work!

[WIESI3K]

great, brilliant, breathtaking, amazing.... I adore this music

[awellfedbottomfeeder]

I found it just time for annual tear fest comemmorating our greatest intel failing....

[glendalikesapples]

so beautiful :'>

[TheKellyRedhead]

Very enjoyable. Thank you for using Dore, et al., classsical paintings/prints.

[Porphyry100]

Although the lyrics for this song do not appear on any site , a repeatable chant is heard throughout the song . Perhaps , it is sang on latin language ? Can anyone , please , write them down and tell me about it ? Long live Dante Alighieri !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AnaMariaMeldelen]

@Porphyry100 I think, in fact, that is a mix of French and Latin.

[Kinwish]

@Porphyry100 Lisa Gerrard sings some songs in a language she made up. I think this is likely one of them.

[ChairBriere]

@Porphyry100

Yes, she performs Glossolalia (speaking in tongues), essentially it's her own personal form of expression that doesn't necessarily make any sense to anyone but her -though her passion and voice are very expressive! From the Wikipedia page on Lisa Gerrard, it states she developed her own language at the age of 12 and has been using it in one form or another since then. I listen to a LOT of DCD, it appears to me that 90% of her songs (if not all) are in her private language.

[neith85]

@Porphyry100 I can tell you that, if any latin parts are in the lyrics, they're really blurred and tought to get. I'm Italian and i've studied latin (basically the pronounciation is the same) and i really can get nothing out of the lyrics. Although, if you listen to Hortus Animae's cover of this songs, whose vocals are done by Liv Kristine, it sounds really the same as Gerrard's vocals. Quite weird if no one has the lyrics to this song. Perhaps she just mimicked the sounds she heard?

[mdragon180]

Oh wow - this is so beautiful! Awesome vid & music my friend! Loved it :-)

[sebuhhh]

Wardaemonic - Summoning of the Muse

will make u breathless

[TARSTARBAS]

What is darker than this song? It pure emotions drown in music!!!

[LadyDark000]

Aren't these pics from The Divine Comedy by Aligeri?

[Lesya1010]

wonderful! 

[AnatanoMeniKiUtskshi]

best fan video ever, the art goes perfectly with the song

And yes, actual Gothic architecture/art was based on man's redemption and light, not darkness. Compare with Romanesque architecture, which was focused on man's sinful nature.

[theincredablehunk]

@AnatanoMeniKiUtskshi bit ott



[meldonlandless]

maybe Dante and Vergilius had heard this chant across the Purgatory...

[2543309]

@meldonlandless yeah!!!!

[AJMWriter]

@meldonlandless What an awesome thought...

[vudu0]

Quisiera saber que dice esta cancion por que la verdad con la pura voz uno siente que la vida se le va entre las nubes esta cancion me ahce ma sque soñar

[exilerdark]

This must the best version of it on youtube, regarding the imagery. 'Serious' art, none of that gothic poser images a lot of people seem to relate to Dead Can Dance. Nicely done!

[silenig]

@exilerdark Thanks for the comment, much appreciated. This is what I was after by using these pics

[SubmergedRecords]

@silenig Is the art by Albrecht Durer? If not, it's very similar.

[meldonlandless]

@SubmergedRecords I think it's by Gustave Doré, who engraved the most disturbing stories of the past millenium

[SubmergedRecords]

@meldonlandless I think you're right! My mistake. I actually have a copy of Don Quixote illustrated by Doré, so I should have spotted his style.

[SteelyMcBomb]

@silenig Agreed. I'm not sure why DCD seems to summon up the grotesque and weird as if their work is connected with this goth movement. The irony of this connection can't be stranger in my mind.

[zinahewitt972]

@silenig I @sileng and raise him a compliment.. Great job exiledark especially in full screen.

[psirou]

@exilerdark I concur wholeheartedly. Just now I commented on a sister video of the same song but illustrated with god awful teen goth esthetism.

[HumansInTheRain]

@exilerdark I agree!

[zinahewitt972]

@exilerdark I must say I agree with your comment. This is a very nice arrangement of images to match the song.