Dead Can Dance performing "Children Of The Sun" Live at the Village on KCRW

[@cosmotraumatika7474]

Very few realize how rare it is for creating performers to sing with absolute mastery, 20-30 years later in their careers. Who knew Dead Can Dance would be their best in their 60s?

[@edwardwilliammorris1340]

Amazing music

[@vincevonderheyden7887]

😅😊😅😊😅😅o😅😅i😊i

[@CMDR_Elizium51RA]

Dead Can Dance is a gift to our musical history. I wish more people knew their music.

[@romeomarius6654]

Listen Dead can Dance in some context some people call me freak cause i listen such music.... This world is not prpared for them. They are the future!❤

[@Milohenry13]

Welp. You gotta be cool about it.

[@morioritysresponse2287]

He sounds like the late Jim Morrison from the Doors. Just found this group and love the music!

[@lt7601]

the song reminds me of the end

[@alixterprincess3847]

And his voice sounds like Frank Sinatra too

[@msangthrope5396]

Anytime a singer sounds just like their studio recording is a sign of amazing talent.

[@dominusstyx]

As a European, I love Dead Can Dance too. Sorry, to say that to you, but what you're hearing in the studio recording and not live. Pay attention all the instruments you're hearing and what you see. Besides, it's also obvious of the qualities of musical sounds, and of his voice, of course. Take care.

[@pixelfrenzy]

you think they're miming? really? @@dominusstyx

[@vanderleipeixoto0991]

Fair point, but you’re mistaken. I agree it sounds like the album version, but if you listen to both simultaneously, you’ll notice the difference. So, no, it’s not mimicry.​@@dominusstyx

[@vanderleipeixoto0991]

Truth is, they are really good.

[@dominusstyx]

@@pixelfrenzy No, they're not pretending to play, it's what we're hearing as audience, and that's the studio recording. All TV/Radio shows it's the same thing, even if there's live audience. Only concerts are really live, with all the paraphernalia and full orchestras. Of course there are exceptions, but are rare though. On that particular setting, for me, there's no way to be live, apart of the absence of the plethora of instruments we're hearing, even the "echo" of his voice and only, screaming Studio. Then again, maybe I'm wrong. Good bye.

[@deadweight6090]

This WHOLE ALBUM is FLAWLESS.

[@alexzannoni1501]

Brilliance never dies!! Thank you DCD 🙏🙏✌️

[@michaelhornby2961]

unquestionably one of the most iconic bands of the 80s and beyond. Brendan perry is a craftsman like no other. Lisa Gerrard equally an emotive force like no other . dead can dance you are simply wonderfull.

[@krajchek]

Michael Hornby yes, but something is wrong with Lisa, just review the clip again only by looking at her...many clips are the same..sad.

[@annachepeliuk9000]

Ллщ

[@annachepeliuk9000]

Hjhu💜😪💜

[@annachepeliuk9000]

Jyuuuu💜💜😪😪uju👍👍👍🌹

[@annachepeliuk9000]

😱😱😪👍🏵

[@brentcollins9727]

Still sounds amazing in 2023

[@richo7328]

Brendan's voice heals my heart.

[@felipealbertoarancibiavene6131]

This is a song that fits perfectly into these end times which we are living in now... he who wants to dive into spirituality must pay heed to what is said here... a song of faith and hope...

[@tucagoncalves5551]

I loved

[@rens1030]

Our journey's just begun

[@adrianbenedictmendoza6818]

This is just our Carnival as they remind us, my friend

[@Belljargrrrl]

I love watching them perform live! Nothing like it. Brendan Perry’s voice is perfection.

[@rickdeckard1075]

he is really a pro. gives 110% in his performance

[@aniaamok6550]

So true!

[@antonomad]

I saw DCD in Tokyo back in the 2014 it was one of the best performances I’ve even seen. His and Lisa’s voices are out of this world 🌎

[@alexoliveira1102]

Wonderfull!

[@Accidentinparadiable]

PERFECTION for sure.

[@LordTheProut]

do you believe in magic ? when i heard song like this, i t is s o TRUE magic !!

[@piotrmanula6091]

😊

[@shaffy27]

The best male and female voice in one band! Amazing! 🤩🤗

[@leonardovillegas1119]

If this ain't playing at my funeral I'm not going, srry.

[@gewonejongen3956]

I will be there!

[@dimitrisapostolou7536]

@@gewonejongen3956 hahaha Call me when you will be there

[@nat75kemp]

Sublime beautiful sorrows, class choice.

[@Jorge-ed5gu]

Buen chiste

[@necomeko]

Brendan Perry is such an incredible song writer. Its sad that most people are caught up with 'Modern Pop' and wont experience his work.

[@GohAhweh]

Share it.

[@Thazo79]

His voice is amazing too.

[@robertaharvey2027]

You don't actually know if that's true... I have heard your words saying this from so many... Its just learned behaviour.... We are ancient.... 🙏

[@limasousa5769]

Eu amo a energia das melodias do trabalho dele. Brasil. Fortaleza-Ce, em 4/ 5/2023.

[@venganostureinoaortiz4864]

Y qué? La música de DCD será inmortal

[@skyhawk747]

Saw them live in London in 2022... AMAZING!

[@stephenbradley6285]

This recording is much better than most of the others. Production of Sunlight takes between 10000 and 170000 years from fusion in the suns core until it reaches your senses...as light and heat ...plus...

[@JanusKristijan]

We are ancients As ancient as the sun We came from the ocean Once our ancestral home So that one day We could all return To our birthright The great celestial dome We are the children of the sun Our journey's just begun Sunflowers in our hair We are the children of the sun There is room for everyone Sunflowers in our hair Throughout the ages Of iron, bronze, and stone We marvelled at the night sky And what may lie beyond We burned offerings To the elemental ones Made sacrifices For beauty, peace and love We are the children of the sun Our kingdom will come Sunflowers in our hair We are the children of the sun Our carnival's begun Our songs will fill the air And you know it's time To look for reasons why Just reach up and touch the sky To the heavens we'll ascend We are the children of the sun Our journey has begun All the older children Come out at night Anaemic, soulless Great hunger in their eyes Unaware of the beauty That sleeps tonight And all the queen's horses And all the king's men Will never put these children back Together again Faith, hope, our charities Greed, sloth, our enemies We are the children of the sun We are the children of the sun

[@TheWinterShadow]

Back in the days of standards and effort, this was once called poetry.

[@danielkochan1078]

Thanks for lyrics help me toca understand

[@МигрантВнутренний]

@@danielkochan1078 я тоже не с разу

[@lorenaribeiro5276]

I am

[@brucewatson7503]

WOW

[@ronny-2112]

One of the most amazing and transcendental music I ever heard in my life... Thanks Brendan and Lisa for many decades of this beutiful music...

[@dougnakakoge7245]

This song should reach every ear of the new generation...

[@zendenswart768]

It's 2022 discovered this incredible talented beautiful band. Love this . Brilliant song

[@ВасилийСтечкин-д7г]

listen Ataraxia too :)

[@timseidenkranz-kf7ts]

Keep the sun in your life.

[@mordiskitos93]

5:56 the chills are strong with the entire song, but I live for that part.

[@judegunn1]

The goosebumps when the brass comes in towards the end...

[@patrickkagel-t8b]

Such a beautiful song this is ❤

[@bassbytes]

The most beautiful song about human evolution.

[@peterhuisman1973]

Darwin?

[@TheWarrrenator]

Lisa Gerard never fails to resemble a pagan nun from outer space. I love her so much! And this is a great jam! Thanks!

[@Basmatiminarii]

She dresses like royalty, stunning

[@arjantjeee]

She's more than royalty

[@veridical1]

He should be Knighted and she should be A Noble of the Thistle, immediately

[@Fnberg744]

Her hair...

[@thomasdupont7186]

"She dresses like royalty, stunning" pfffff lol, what a stupid thing to say....

[@ex59neo53]

@@thomasdupont7186 That's why she wrote it :p

[@johnhawken4579]

The whole performance is awesome 😮 Great vocal Brendan goddess Lisa & musicians 🎶🎵😎

[@stephenbradley6285]

The best recording of this song, probably

[@J.Ravensblood]

Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry are brilliant, have been for 30 plus years and they have not lost it at all in fact the newest album is one of their best. Live just shows that Brendan's voice is stronger than ever. This tune is just beautiful. When I first bought this album this being the first song, just took me away, just as all their past work did, and does

[@fredgehrke2080]

Mrtmr Rvnsbld yes yes,I think so-It reminds me a lot of U2 or his voice, can that be?

[@TechCrazy]

Sounds like a pagan chant from out of this world beckoning us to the greater mysteries of life itself. Love the arrangement of the keys, rhythm, voice and the very solemn look they all have while performing. Its quite an experience!

[@pedroxco7]

If you watch carefully, at 6:13, it's the only time in this song that Brendan sings with his eyes fully opened. Delivering that line! One of a kind song...

[@Hanna-rg1sy]

What a majestic voice of Brendan Perry ..timeless

[@zejaguar]

I bought this CD before I went on vacation in France.I listened to it many times at the beach.

[@christophmiessler5459]

This song is we a warm cocon. I have seen Dead can Dance in Berlin at 1985 in the Loft Club on Nollendorfplatz in Schöneberg. It was amazing! 🤗🤗 Dead can Dance is forever in me!

[@Nebulung]

If I believed in the afterlife, I'd want DCD to be playing while my spirit transitions from this realm to the next.

[@noelosullivan197]

IF GOD EXISTS HE'D LISTEN TO DEAD CAN DANCE.😀

[@oscribe2772]

Funny that - as a huge fan of DCD - i had the SAME wish... this music express so much than it simply sounds ^o^ !!

[@MichelleAnouk]

I HOPE THE SAME JEJEJE

[@stella19782]

The same for me....🖤

[@francopi6796]

T

[@Maddolis]

I love revisiting this performance every couple of years. Such a fantastic and influential band - I'll be looking up an artist I'm just getting into, be it metal, rock, pop, electronic, film/videogame music and so often I'll see Dead Can Dance cited as an influence. They're one of those bands that perhaps aren't charting constantly but whose footprint can be seen or heard in a great many bands, and will be for centuries quite possibly.

[@mrtnogden1]

This is why I love music in general!! But this guys are out of this world. Awesome.

[@historybuff333]

man...whatever they fought about all those years ago still haunts them. It doesn't affect their performance but interesting you can still see it.

[@begindream007]

OMG! SO MANY IMAGES OF BEAUTY ARE WHIRLING AROUND!

[@BB..........]

Lisa's voice is what got my attention immediately when I first heard DCD many years ago but it ended up being Brennan's voice that I ended up liking the best. They're both incredibly gifted singers and musicians that have brought a lot of musical enjoyment to my life.

[@Dominian1]

Except for minute variations on the vocal performance this sounds precisely like the studio version. Extremely impressive!

[@SilverMatchinc]

That man has a passion for the music he makes!! That's what i love

[@Fnberg744]

thank you Sandra Louise Maxwell for petting my hair turning me onto this song tripping in a hotel room exactly one year ago tonight. Here's to Crescent City. I haven't been able to relax since but that night I was floating on a cloud. a child of the moon. you of the sun. I hope you are well. justin

[@xavierguichard1186]

Lisa is so beautiful !!!

[@анжейкилококосов]

какой красивый и талантливый коллектив!)))

[@pascalhireche2301]

❤oui exactement merci pour eux Merci beaucoup

[@robshef718]

Awesome and beautiful and Timeless, and hard to find the words....but they surely speak to the heart! Thank You Brendan and Lisa, and the crew.

[@community-first]

I want these guys at my funeral ...wow

[@sirijot1]

I was blessed with discovering DCD in 1990 on an alternative radio program in Canada. I was stunned, mesmerized, and nothing can compare since. This music is sublime, Divine, otherworldly, and deeply magical . BTW...DCD has been explained by Brendan Himsrlf as the coming to life of musical instrument, the resonance, what was still and inert, touched by the human and the energy of Soul....comes to life....thus DCD....not goth by any means....old Souls music from another world. Thankyou for 30 plus years of nectar.

[@michaelhornby2961]

There isnt any other band that transports my mind so effortlessly epic musicians.

[@WPerna]

I Love Dead Can Dance!!! They are not from this planet!!!

[@raven69600]

Damn... I remember when I first heard these guys... I was 19 ...I found a cassette tape in the laundry room trash while I was doing laundry. Took it to my dorm an pooped it into my then hi fidelity tape player... and it changed my life...

[@Dominian1]

I don't care that this comment is two years old. You wrote "pooped into my hi-fi" and I need you to remind you of that.

[@raven69600]

@@Dominian1 😂😂😂😂🤙🏽 I didn’t even notice 🤦🏽‍♂️😂😂

[@velas1985]

his voice sounds exactly like the record...magnificent! damn they are no humans!!

[@wramrobertodecamargoaccors4679]

Fantastic background accompaniment!

[@thomasley4006]

I was so happy about this album! Probably the best comeback in popular music history, at least that I know of.

[@bidyutde56]

They are God gifted... after so many years they are still Outstanding...

[@FernGullyVibe]

Goodness I could listen to their music and them signing forever. Voices you'd never tire of.

[@michaelhornby2961]

3:30am with headphones on lol. Incredible music.

[@deeliciousplum]

Okay. I did not think that it was possible for goosebumps to appear atop of goosebumps. What an exceptional performance. That voice and those accompanying musicians layering those lush sounds. Wow!

[@martamr0z560]

Brendon's voice! Mmm great song!

[@QuicoReed]

I remember when I saw them live the first time, after buying every album they had put out...and I was stunned by the power of their performance. You just don't realize how those drums shake the walls and how Brendan's voice is far more powerful in the live setting than it sounds in these recordings. And of course Lisa is a legend, and rightly so. When that voice takes off the angels come to earth to enjoy the show.

[@timmarchant8380]

What a voice

[@journeyintothebible]

If you told me that in the grand scheme of things that DCD existed for the sole purpose of creating this masterpiece, I would believe it.

[@danielledantz1657]

Journey Into The Bible have you heard The Carnival is Over? If not go listen now. You will recapture that feeling again.

[@Rubidium54]

Sounds like a Cosmic Symphony.

[@carysfaerie]

Incredible sound quality.. I love their music so much..it’s just not of this world..or maybe it’s exactly of this earth itself

[@deadweight6090]

This has the vibes of the Doors.Love this song.

[@lorina-janebuonanducci.1042]

cried a river hearing /seeing this such beautiful soul beings and celestial work of art

[@evapecnikova45]

there is nothing like you, love you both

[@angharad588]

My favorite group from their first CD on. Just look at how beautiful she is! They are both so talented.

[@BB..........]

His voice is still just as haunting now as it was over 30 years ago when I first heard it. The part at 3:54 gives me goosebumps.

[@bazz123]

2019.. Still solid...

[@teresarosa7329]

Unique Voice Beautiful Music Thank You ❤️

[@robertczimmerman3774]

Music of the gods

[@kaiseredwardappah6630]

Australia 🇦🇺 should be proud of this group pioneers of the Gothic sound Dead 💀 can Dance 💃 we’re cult in our time especially in West Germany 🇩🇪♥️

[@kevmonz]

Brendon was actually from New Zealand

[@joebell3220]

Brendan Perry is a Magestic Composer all around and pristine vocalist in his own right* He has made his music, while at the same time his own Genre* Magical well into the night and into sunlight even.

[@carlosiswhoiis9971]

I never understand why people don't explore music. By exploring music, I came across Dead Can Dance and was memorized by their groove, and their voices.

[@gocnogan]

We were at the concert in Praque two days ago. What an astonishing performance. We've been brought into their world from the very first song. Soo happy to see them

[@evablasko6482]

Were there too!! Amazing!

[@miguelefrainmartineztorres868]

Me encanta la madurez de este grupo. Le ha dado lo mejor de todo... La serenidad, y se nota en su manera de cantar, tocar la música.

[@Alpha-soixante]

My good friend turned me on to DCD around the time Within the Realm of a Dying Sun came out (I was 14). Man, they were pretty eclectic for that time. Especially given the rest of the 4AD catalog around that time. I was listening to The Birthday Party, Bauhaus, Wolfgang Press, Pixies and other "harder edged" bands. Enter DCD. My mind was kinda blown. I gobbled up everything I could find. Fast forward a year and The Serpent's Egg was released. Mind blown - again! I think that was the first inkling I got of just how huge their soundscape was to become (though I didn't know it at the time). I lost touch with them after Into The Labyrinth. They started becoming a little too mainstream for my liking. I was shifting gears and my taste had veered over into some very fast and loud punk rock. And there it remained for a couple decades. Now I'm 44, and am rediscovering DCD all over again. It's good to see they are still sounding amazing! Kudos to them. Let's see how my 10 year old son likes them. :D

[@kashakroger1692]

I hope you have successfully helped your son see the light!

[@SANDRAKAETHNER]

Same for me! I was introduced also with the same album recommended by a friend… I think this act changed my entire taste for music … for the better

[@metalpiper]

No words for this project....because it lives in my mind. It's most certainly a part of me and who I am. Thank you DCD!! forever and always.

[@anjiudy3297]

Happy Fathers Day and Summer Solistice 2015. We are the Children of the Sun!

[@KlausSengenbergerPDX]

552,906 views and around 500,000 are probably my views. getting tired of this song ? .... NO... NEVER .... IMPOSSIBLE

[@dyotoorion1835]

Dead Can Dance are one of the best bands ever. So beautiful. Thank you for your lovely music.

[@tanguydelooz2881]

Incredible how he gives life to an augmented reality just with his voice which roots deeply into our soul.

[@stephenbradley6285]

So true

[@tonysplace8009]

This song made me discover this band and now I am hooked on their unique brand of music!

[@petrvokurek2286]

This brings me to tears every time I listen to it! So beautiful and powerful....omg!

[@isabelkelly7717]

This singer has some serious 2nd chakra sexiness!🔥❤🌏

[@Ozren-d8y]

I belive in every Word they sengd.what was in the past Will shine again.Children of the sun will rise again.

[@SolarTiger]

Discovered this group after watching the movie "Baraka" and sitting through the credits to find out who created some of the evocative music in the film...I had never heard of DcD before that...big fan since!

[@marly4901]

Hi Jack, the same thing for me, Lisa is an Australian Icon but no-one knows who she is? DcD awesome.

[@Ginko727]

No words. . . Middle Age vibrations

[@emaacuna9966]

Mi espíritu se estremece y soy una con el artista, estoy contenida en él. Gracias por tan elevada y suprema emoción, comparable al nacimiento de una flor.

[@yinks4]

I love DCD so much... No other band makes me feel what they do

[@WillySognatore]

Same 💓💓

[@Preceptor1111]

The Goddess and The Divine God. Their voices ascending from Divinity. ♡ Dead Can Dance.

[@milapeace845]

Eine absolut reine Stimme, wie vor 30 Jahren, Respekt! 👏👌Ein echter Hörgenuss!!!

[@NetworkGeek280]

Thumbs up for the Dad dance moves alone!

[@calmandcoldblood]

Floating into space, again and again, in 2020.

[@meesterarnoutjan]

What an incredible good song!

[@montbob100]

that beginning is gorgeous.

[@powerplantplanetuniverse5945]

Love his voice,ever since they started...Dead can Dance is so unique,simply uncomparable...i have no words to explain ! ;)

[@traceycross1880]

worked and lived with both Brendan & Lisa in Ireland in the 90"s, still love you my Friends XXXX

[@trunnerfitness8845]

Any old timers out there hear a little Jim Morrison in this magnificent piece of music ?

[@wilborcarvallonunura9307]

ASI ES ...A DUO CON FRANK SINATRA...IMAGINARIAMENTE

[@seafoodmonster3060]

I was thinking the same thing at one point.

[@kastore7]

Totally, i was thinking the same, for the voice and the letter, im remembering "No to touch the earth" for example, good ear!

[@shabibbabing4727]

First time I heard this was at night. I was driving up I95 in Philly. I had never heard of this band and I could not get over how much he sound like Jim Morrison "all the older children come out at night". Unbelievable!

[@Ginko727]

And all the children come insane

[@svaanschannel7098]

Artists at work.