Lisa Gerrard & Marcello De Francisci (Exaudia, DCD). Part II - Don't forget to subscribe.

Album Title: Exaudia
Vocal Melody Composed and Performed by: Lisa Gerrard
Music Track Composed, Performed, Produced, Mixed and Mastered by: Marcello De Francisci
Record Label: Atlantic Curve | Schubert Music Publishing
Video Concept, Direction, Creation and Edited by: Marcello De Francisci
Full Album Release Date: 08/26/2022
Order: orcd.co/exaudia
(C) Copyright ©2022 Atlantic Curve-Schubert Music Publishing. All Rights Reserved
This is my conversation with my friends Lisa Gerrard and Marcello De Francisci. It took place on 2/21/2023 from her home in Australia between midnight and 1am EST.
Dead Can Dance vocalist and film composer Lisa Gerrard has joined forces with Los Angeles-based composer/ record producer Marcello De Francisci for the stunning new album Exaudia, a vivid collection of epic and empowering compositions. The sensuous and optimistic first single, “Until We Meet Again”, is out now.
‘Exaudia’ is the term used when a monarch grants a citizen of his kingdom an audience and, as a result, consents to a wish. Working with Bahar Shah, Astrid Williamson, Daniela Arbizzi and Farhad Behroozi, Exaudia combines the euphoric textures of De Francisci’s production with Gerrard’s haunting vocals. A feminine embodiment of poetic expression, the record plays majestically with this narrative.
“This piece is very much a story that depicts longing, distance between two people, it is an invitation to heal and a message of hope,” says De Francisci. “We collaborated remotely on Exaudia during the holidays between Melbourne and Los Angeles as I recall, importing Lisa Gerrard’s vocals onto my session, which her engineer Simon Bowley had sent over on the night of New Year 2021. Whatever plans I had to celebrate that evening were completely obliterated upon witnessing the emotional impact Lisa’s performance had on me. The overall track in general, as a result, was instantly addictive and therefore, I proceeded to work alone in the studio until dawn.”
“This work was borne out of a desire to write something together during Covid,” says Gerrard. “There is also the artistic desire to embrace the opportunity to unlock our unfulfilled visions. The album is very physical in its construction and sensibility, it is a deeply sensual work that enjoys a sense of empowered subtlety,” says Lisa Gerrard.
Gerrard’s unmistakable voice has evolved into a soothing warmth, illustrated by this gorgeous dreamscape of a video. The cinematic nature of this composition transcends space and time, evoking a state of consciousness we can only reach on the astral plane in our dreams. It is an emotional piece, a universal one, and a most welcome piece of comfort. It is a pure embodiment of the Divine Feminine.
Lisa Gerrard is an Australian musician, singer and composer who rose to prominence as part of the music group Dead Can Dance with music partner Brendan Perry. In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer).
Since her career began in 1981, Gerrard has been involved in a wide range of projects. She received a Golden Globe Award for the music score to the film Gladiator, on which she collaborated with Hans Zimmer.
Lisa Gerrard was born on 12 April 1961 in Melbourne, and grew up in the suburb of Prahran with her Irish immigrant parents. She has said that she grew up with "Mediterranean music blaring out of the houses" and that this influenced her music, particularly on later Dead Can Dance albums and in her solo and collaborative works.
Gerrard's first foray into forming bands and creative music-making was in Melbourne's little band scene, an experimental post-punk scene which flourished from 1978 until 1981. It was at one of these little band events that she first met Dead Can Dance co-founder Brendan Perry. Perry recalls, "It never occurred to me that we would one day collaborate musically together because at the time I thought her music was too avant garde. I particularly remember one song that she sang about finding a man in the park and asking her mother if she could bring him home to keep in her wardrobe as she attacked this chinese dulcimer with two bamboo sticks".
Dead Can Dance originally formed as a quartet in 1981 in Melbourne, but in 1982 moved to London with members Gerrard, Brendan Perry and bass player Paul Erikson. Shortly after coming to England, Erikson flew back to Australia, leaving the band as a duo. Dead Can Dance recorded eight albums on the 4AD Records recording label beginning with the self-titled Dead Can Dance LP in 1984. In 2005, the song "Nierika" became part of the opening titles for Mexican television station TV Azteca's soap opera "La Chacala". The band split in 1998, but reunited in 2005 for a world tour. In 2012, the band announced a new world tour to coincide with the release of their new album, Anastasis.