Brendan Perry

After the breakup of <a href="spotify:artist:6sq7prp0tj9Abn89khmfja">Dead Can Dance</a>, singer/songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Brendan Perry collaborated with friends like <a href="spotify:artist:6VOpJbBvWLgyTI6GsnKvbg">Hector Zazou</a> (on his 1998 Lights in the Dark album) and former bandmate <a href="spotify:artist:6Irvlp03gt1J3WrL861Ixz">Peter Ulrich</a> (whose Pathways and Dawns Perry co-produced and arranged). During the late '90s he began teaching percussion workshops in Afro-Cuban and African Manding styles out of his Quivvy Church home and studio in Belturbet, County Cavan (Perry's mother's home county), Ireland. These workshops culminated in the creation of a community-based samba school called The Salamanders. His first solo album, Eye of the Hunter, was released in 1999 on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%224AD%22">4AD</a>, his longtime label. In 2003, Perry oversaw the creation of an international samba festival in Belturbet. In 2005, he and <a href="spotify:artist:3C4MmUJYQN9svNdedAR2BK">Lisa Gerrard</a> briefly re-formed <a href="spotify:artist:6sq7prp0tj9Abn89khmfja">Dead Can Dance</a> for a limited-run farewell tour with a 40-piece orchestra. While they performed their classic material, they also premiered two new songs, "Babylon" and "Crescent." Both of these selections were later recorded for Ark, Perry's 2010 solo album; it was released in the United States in mid-2011. In 2012, <a href="spotify:artist:6sq7prp0tj9Abn89khmfja">Dead Can Dance</a> released Anastasis, their first studio album in 16 years. Over the next year-and-a half, they toured the globe. In 2013, the band announced the sale of Perry's Quivvy Church Studio in preparation for a move to (and new studio in) France. <a href="spotify:artist:3C4MmUJYQN9svNdedAR2BK">Gerrard</a> continued with her solo and soundtrack work while Perry built the studio and the pair planned a studio offering. In 2017, he served as the frontman for guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:19i8kzdgjVMY7yK1Zfa1LO">Olivier Mellano</a>'s No Land project, that explored the overlaps between a host of modern musical genres, new music, and the music of Breton Pipe Bands, and blurred the lines of other folk traditions. <a href="spotify:artist:19i8kzdgjVMY7yK1Zfa1LO">Mellano</a> enlisted not only Perry but the 30 musicians of Bagad' Cesson for the recording. The finished album was issued in November. ~ Heather Phares, Rovi