Dead Can Dance Toward the Within Label: 4AD There are some pretty good things on this CD, and only four of them have been previously released in some form, which is not bad for a live record. However, it does have lots of stupid, intrusive crowd noise that you've got to watch out for: 1 begins with it, most tracks end with about 20 secs of it, and track 15 ends with a full minute of it. Only two tracks are completely immune: 8 & 13. If you're not familar with Dead Can Dance, they have a number of distinct sounds, though they all tend to be slow and atmospheric. Some tracks incorporate a lot of World influences (Indian or Arabic usually, though there's one Irish here). They often use very slow, moody wailing female vocals (usually not in english) and/or slow, deep male vocals, usually in english. World Music influenced: 1. 6:26 Rakim - Indianesque. Percussive, adds female wail, then male vox. 2. 2:56 Persian Love Song - Traditional Persian, female solo wail. 3. 4:20 Desert Song - Arabesque. Flute plus vocal wailing. 6. 3:12 The Wind that Shakes the Barley - Trad. Irish, mournful female solo. 11. 5:50 Oman - Arebesque touches, Mid-tempo, male wailing. Spy movie music? Slow, light guitar strumming with Male vox: 8. 2:56 I Can See Now - No applause at end, runs straight into 9 9. 4:55 American Dreaming 15. 6:12 Don't Fade Away - a minute of applause at the end. Basic miscellaneous Dead Can Dance: 5. 3:34 Piece for Solo Flute - slow, but kind of pretty flute solo 13. 1:48 Tristan - Slow male wail. No applause at end. 14. 4:05 Sanvean - Weird, vibrating female voice, almost operatic. 12. 4:31 Song of Sybil - Slow, solem, male and female wail/chant 4. 7:11 Yulunga - Female wail with strings and percussion. 10. 5:16 Cantara - Slow/sparse for 2 mins, then drums kick, then female wail 7. 4:38 I am Stretched on Your Grave - male vocal Sinead cover. So? -- JB (doom)