“Anywhere Out of the World” by Dead Can Dance

"Anywhere Out of the World" comes from Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, the third Dead Can Dance album, released on 4AD in July 1987, when the group had narrowed to Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry with Peter Ulrich alongside. Gerrard and Perry wrote it, and they'd had it with the old guitar-bass-drums setup: this is chamber music with a pulse.

The credits read like a small orchestra: Richard Avison and John Singleton on trombone, Andrew Claxton on bass trombone and tuba, Mark Gerrard on trumpet, Ruth Watson on oboe, Alison Harling and Emlyn Singleton on violins, Piero Gasparini on viola, Gus Ferguson and Tony Gamage on cellos, and Ulrich on snare and timpani. The band produced it with John A. Rivers, and 4AD boss Ivo Watts-Russell felt their partnership with Rivers peaked on this record.

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