First time reaction and analysis featuring Lisa Gerrard and Pieter Bourke performing Sacrifice 

I've seen Dead Can Dance in concert twice and it was like having an out-of-body experience. Heaven.

Lisa Gerrard is one of my all time favourite singers. This song as well as "Redemption" are really special. Lisa has a way of singing to the soul.

Welcome to the world of Lisa Gerrard (and Dead Can Dance). You live here now.

Your reaction was wonderfully expected. Anyone with an ear for music gets completely shook when hearing Lisa Gerrard. Her vocals are simply on another level. If one day we found out she wasn't human, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest.

I went down the rabbit hole that is Lisa Gerrard through Dead Can Dance about 30 years ago. No regrets. Lisa's talent is otherwordly.

Lisa Gerrard is one of a kind. No one can equal her vocalisation if music with such powerful emotion.

Dead Can Dance has been around since the 80's and I can't believe I have never heard any of them until post Covid! How can they not be among the most iconic musicians of modern time?

You must listen to Host of the Seraphim and Cantara by her (Dead Can Dance), stunning stuff!

Wow. I have not heard Lisa for years now. She was my Muse, basically, in art school. So many nights on projects I would just get lost in a trance listening to her and Dead Can Dance, working on a painting or calligraphy of some sort. It's not music I listen to on my own except for certain contexts, and it has been some time. That made it all the more powerful and moved me to tears. I think way back on one of your first videos when you started this channel I recommended Dead Can Dance. I don't think I have ever heard any other reactor react to them (or Lisa), among the vocal professionals and musicians I watch for reactions. Thanks so much for this! It's quite a thing to know all of her works and Dead Can Dance very, very well, and then some years later after a couple years of watching music reactions mostly from a vocal perspective to then return, since I've learned a lot more about voice as well. Amazing really. I recommend checking out some Dead Can Dance, even on your own time if not a reaction. She puts in some stunning, stunning turns of voice. She's somewhat restrained and melodic here, but even here she has such range and variety of color and tone, and that phrasing. Makes me surprised I have never seen a reaction to her before, honestly. Thanks Bethany!

Goosebumps. Every single time

Music sings THROUGH her. She opens her mouth and something ancient and powerful sings out, and I've always known that if Music were to be incarnated on Earth as a human being, It would sing and sound EXACTLY like this.

Lisa Gerard... spiritual journey. I listened that song live. The people were crying. I have never seen anything like this before.

Somehow, this is the first time this particular performance has been promoted in a reaction video. Understandable: it's old, amber, attended by a lot of old people. But it is...aching. And dynamic. And...orange! I'm beside myself to see this video elevated in this way - old, but exquisite and interesting and important - not just because it's Lisa Gerrard, who is simply remarkable, but because it's this specific performance. This song should have been imprinted on Voyager's Golden Record and sent out into the blackness of space to help the universe know itself.

I’ve seen Dead Can Dance in concert more times than I can count, and every time I go I look around and see people in the audience crying. The overwhelming feeling their music generates in my soul is beyond description. I was so fortunate to see Lisa perform solo at The Orpheum in L.A. I was literally less than ten steps from her for the entire performance. She is truly an angel on earth. ✨💖✨

Pure transcendence. One of the few singing Goddess.

Oh, hot damn, a reaction to Lisa Gerrard! Finally someone doing that! I love Dead Can Dance and her solo work!

I am 54 old man. Sin my 20th I listen to DCD a Lisa. It’s like a religion. It’s still shaking me.

I have never heard anything like this before, the song is given plenty of time to breathe.

I've seen her twice live in concert. The power of her voice is like a wave. When she lets go, the force of her voice just sends shockwaves through you. the entire audience was spellbound--so many people were in tears.

Lisa can open new dimensions for you, she is just amazing!

She's like a vocal Theramin.... AMAZING.....

Hello I saw some Lisa and also the group Dead can dance since the years 85/88 last concert I saw was for their 40th anniversary In Brussels in 2019 I saw Lisa several times in solo concert and each time it returns like a pancake it's a shock of energy that you receive in the face and in the abdomen it transports you... For that you also have to believe in the power of music on the human body .... I advise everyone to try to see them live Bonjour j'ai vu les uns Lisa et aussi le groupe Dead can dance depuis les années 85 / 88 dernier concert que j'ai vu c'était pour leur 40 ans À Bruxelles en 2019 j'ai vu Lisa plusieurs fois en concert solo et à chaque fois elle lui retourne comme une crêpe c'est un choc d'énergie que vous recevez en pleine face et dans l'abdomen sa vous transporte... Pour ça il faut aussi croire à la puissance de la musique sur le corps humain.... je conseille à tout le monde d'essayer de les voir en live

Wow Wow Wow! I am so grateful you gave Lisa Gerrard a chance. She IS an A-Mazing performer, both in her solo work, her collaborations with other artists, and with Brendan Perry, in DEAD CAN DANCE. I had never and have never heard any female voice like her. Her voice is her instrument. You are the first-ever reaction I have ever seen for Anything including her! I am blown away. So many words and descriptors come to my mind when I think of her, her voice, her presence, so much. Just so beautiful, moving and transcendent. I know it is for me. Like you, I first heard her on the Gladiator soundtrack and took a dive from there. I have not been disappointed with any work associated with her. I hope you continue your journey with Lisa Gerrard and Dead Can Dance, in live reactions or on your own. You are in for a real treat! Thank You So Much Again for giving her a listen.

The Host Of Seraphim, and I'll leave it at that.

In this song she's using more of her chest vocals that gives us the operatic deep masculine contralto feel. In other songs such as "Sanvean" "Redemption," and " Aria"uses this same type of deep vocal. Other songs such as "Come Tenderness" "Serenity" and The Man On Fire Soundtrack "The End" you hear a very relaxed airy vocal to them. THEN There are other songs out there where you hear a completely different vocal out her using her mezzo soprano head voice. In some songs like her Dead Can Dance song " Cantara" "Host Of Seriphin" "Dreams Made Flesh" and "Frontier" her head vocals sound almost childlike with a very fast trill vibrato. These are songs worth checking out.

DCD in concert, like Pink Floyd, are live performances that are as if you are starring into the Sun. As for Lisa, I like to think she was there, at the beginning of Time and Space narrating the Big Bang with song, and that she will be there, at the end of All, doing the same. She is one of the Ainur, from a place outside the Universe, but an essential part of it.

Her voice is absolutely incredible!!! Real angel singing from heaven!!

I will never ever forget the first time I heard Lisa's glorious voice. It was the first track off of Dead Can Dance's second album, Spleen And Ideal, which had just been released. The song is called De Profundis and omg was it ever. It quite literally changed me. I was a different person after hearing that song. In fact, my daughter (that was born just last october) was named Sanvean as a second name. Lisa has meant soo very much to me over the decades.

I discovered Lisa through this song. It was used as the main theme in the film The Insider (1999) with Al Pacino and Russell Crowe. Since then I became a great fan of her work.

I am always so excited to see someone react to Lisa Gerrard! She's so magical, not just technically but emotionally. She gets me near tears every time. I, like everyone else, highly recommend Dead Can Dance as there's so much of her playing within their work. So beautiful!

My first contact with DCD was in 1994, I was 20 y.o. and I attended “Romeo and Juliet” at the National Theatre in Bucharest. I was smuggled in by a friend who was acting that night on the scene and since I didn’t have a seat (the show was sold out many months before) he took me to the guy who was in charge of the sound. So I’ve watched the performance from above and listened to “The Host of Seraphim” in studio environment. I was blown away. The director used that track for the poisoning scene and it was mesmerizing. I asked the old man who’s singing and I’m a fan ever since.

She a freak of nature. Its wonderful to live in same time as her

I saw Lisa perform with Dead Can Dance for the live filming of Towards the Within album in Santa Monica, CA I believe it was at the Mayfield theatre. She has such an angelic presence on stage and does hit all those vocal ranges. I got to meet her after the show which made me laugh because her offstage demeanor was fun and goofy!

Her cover of The Wind That Shakes Barley will make you cry.

What an incredible voice, first time I hear this singer. So low, almost hard to believe, and otherworldly overtone sounds, that draw you in due to absence of words. Truly magical. I can imagine how Lisa would've performed in the Lord of the Rings and also in certain episodes of Star Trek in anotherworldly ambiance. There's truly a prejudice flying out of the window, for me, for at an older age, I thought that bands with names as "Dead Can Dance" and Metallica, Techno Style music etc. were just LOUD, making NOISE. Forgetting that the singers in such bands can have great voices, and musicians who are talented, both original as well. I've not been to concerts/festivals since the 70's 😉 Your channel opens new insights and offers great teachings about the use of the voice as well. Thank you, Bethany, also for your enthusiasm, and giggles, also your honest reactions 👍👋🧙‍♀️🧚‍♀️

Lisa Gerrard is the ultimate student of the vocal instrument - she has studied so many different regional singing styles - nothing she does is by chance.

I was lucky enough to catch the first five live performances of DCD and Lisa Gerrard in LA (not the Mayfair theatre performance, butt the Wadsworth, Royce Hall, Wiltern, Wilshire Ebell, and Universal Amphitheatre,from '90-'96) It was mesmerizing every time, and I was entranced by live performances of Sanvean twice before any recording was ever available. She is truly inspiring and mesmerizing, as was the whole ensemble of musicians.

Thank you for reacting! Dead Can Dance Concerts are outstanding. I've seen them and Lisa solo many times. They can make your soul fly. Overwhelming.

I have never heard anyone as special as Lisa Gerard and Lis Fraser from the Cocteaut twins I have been listening to them all my life since I was 22 Absolutely special like from another world! Very Special!!

Lisa Gerrard's soundtrack for Michael Mann's The Insider is absolutely phenomenal, as is the movie, and is where I first heard of her. Have been a fan of her music ever since.

Lisa Gerrard... Such a genius. Her use of idiosyncratic language in her work is just so refreshing, and her performances are mind blowing. Abwoon, Space Weaver, so many others. And while her solo work is amazing, her work in Dead Can Dance is out of this world. Anabasis, All In Good Time, so many. The Live Happenings Recordings were made freely available at one point, and they're stellar.

It's been a while since I've listened to Lisa or the band Dead Can Dance. She did the soundtrack for Whalerider. One of my favourite songs of all time is Rakim from Dead Can Dance. She is a magnificient and unique vocalist. Every time she sings it sounds like it should be in a movie of epic proportions.

seriously lisa have the most etheral voice ever. i love all Her songs especially "the gladiator" OST

Cool to finally see a reaction to Lisa Gerrard. Her and Brendan Perry are Dead Can Dance and I first heard them in around 1984?85? from their album Aion which was played on an alternative music radio station. Her vocals are absolutely astounding...nothing quite like that out there. Rakim is a song from Dead Can Dance and as far as I know the only time Lisa and Brendan actually sing on the same song together...and as another commenter noted she plays a mean hammer dulcimer :)

I can't think of anybody better than her in the present times. She's a legend. Period.

I’ve seen DCD three times. My first in ‘97 was my favorite. As soon as she opens her mouth, I puts me into tears. There is no other voice as beautiful as hers.

How can Lisa Gerrard sing so powerfully and yet so still? There is only only one Lisa Gerrard!

Одна из сильнейших мировых вокалисток проникновенно и глубоко затрагивающих своим исполнением конца 20 и начала 21 века! Обожаю её голос!

Nary a single person here mentions Cocteau Twins and I'm kind of shocked honestly. Basically everyone I knew who listened to DCD listened to Cocteau Twins and put Liz and Lisa on pedestals as vocalists, albeit different stylistically, but both beautiful in their own right.

I don’t find me to be the brightest bulb but I did learn in my 44 yrs of life that Lisa Gerrard/Dead Can Dance is the most talented group there ever was. She is the greatest.

Thank you, thank you. I have been listening to Lisa Gerard since the 80’s when she was in the Australian band Dead Can Dance. She and her partner, Brandon Perry, co-founded the band and they were, and for me, still are one of the most unique bands I’ve ever heard. Their album “Toward The Within” was my first exposure to them, and her, and it was musically transformative for me. I highly suggest listening to that album to get an even clearer impression of what she can do with her voice. In an interview during that time she talked about how her daughter was at the stage where she was making sounds with her voice but didn’t know words yet. Lisa said it got her thinking of how she could use her voice as an instrument without the confines of language. She grew up in a Greek/Turkish neighbourhood in Melbourne and she is able to incorporate those vocal styles in her singing. As a composer besides Gladiator she also worked on Blackhawk Down, Mission Impossible 2 as well as other films. She composed and sang for the soundtrack of the New Zealand film “Whale Rider” which is an incredibly moving film. I hope you’ll get a chance to listen to more of her works. 🙂🎶🇨🇦

Lisa Gerrard is a goddess! A magical voice-demon

Image falling asleep with RU-vid playing just anything and waking up to this heavenly music.

Thank you so much for this reaction Bethany! I don't think i've seen too many vocal analyses of Lisa Gerrard (Maybe one in the past ~4 years?) so it's great seeing another one! I recall experiencing a quasi-documentary film called Baraka back in 1992 and it heavily used Lisa and some Dead Can Dance tracks, and her vocal ablilites were astounding. Highly recommend Host of the Seraphim as another reaction, not certain how many flavours of that song might be online with which one could react to, but there must be at least one; her range and power and agility (is that the technical term for shifting octaves in vocalization?) on that track are mindblowing. Thanks again for this fantastic reaction!

She is incredible. Only got to see Dead Can Dance once, and sadly I was at the back near the bar tills registering and the audience talking. Drove me MAD. I was so upset as I knew it would be my last chance to see them. 'Host of the Seraphim' and 'Yulunga' must also be experienced to be believed, also her solo song 'Space Weaver' is exquisite. I played that song at my grandmother's funeral.

I cry and get emotional every time I listen to Lisa Gerrard. Her voice kills me and revives me every time.

I really enjoyed her contributions to Dead Can Dance "Spleen and Ideal"

I still not get how people watch this for the first time and not cry, even see the name she was going to react i started crying :d (((

Best singer in the world.

I think she is the best singer in the world or something! She doesn't use words and it's only her voice and she makes me feel so much stuff! So beautiful! You need to hear the singer of dead can dance too. Beautiful voice :)

Nicely done.. funny how two iconic vocalists are under the same record label..of course Lisa Gerard and none other than Elizabeth Fraser (Cocteau Twins)..both true artists that stand alone in their own arena -unique/true artistry evoking hidden emotions…heavenly voices..

My Goddess since I have heard the first Demos of Dead Can Dance so many Years ago.I had the privilege (!) to see and "feel" her 4times live...no words can describe these trips of emotion and thoughts.....everybody...and i mean EVERYBODY was crying during the whole concerts.....

I wish you could hear her with Pieter, I hope you listen to more of their music. His voice is luscious and deep

She's amazing.

Ceux qui n'ont jamais vu dead can dance en concert ont clairement raté quelque chose de phénoménal. Lisa est une Reine! Unique! Je conseille d'écouter Sanvean!

This is so unusual and beautiful. Love to see you speechless :)

Sometimes Lisa's voice is so beautiful that it literally hurts.

Her voice is hauntingly beautiful. Like others here, I encountered her first in *Dead Can Dance* with Brendan Perry (who has a fantastic voice as well!). It's wonderful to see you experience her for the first time. Keep up the great work!

Powerful and moving. She sings in her own unique language, idioglossia, Her music transcends definition. Her voice reminds me of the sound healer, Tom Kenyon, a real mind blower to experience. Bethany, I would throw out Cilla Black, UK musician, as a reaction source. She made her fame in the 60's with huge hits but I never knew she was such a strong vocalist.

I’ve listened to Dead Can Dance since late 80s and have seen them in concert in 2010. Lisa Gerrard is just amazing. I’ve never heard anyone more beautiful. Thanks you for your reaction and analysis.

When I heard it for the first time, I cried!

It amazes me allways that dead can dance is a delight for such a few group of people,. It amazes me because art like this should be apreciated by our entire species yet only a few people enjoy the sublime artists. Fun fact: some people go to her concerts and buy tickets of the front sit because they believe her voice has healing frequencies.

Wonderful reaction video! Lisa Gerrard is so special. I highly recommend her live performance of "Gladiator". 👍🏻 One question: could you please react to the wonderful singer SISSEL and her awesome live performance of "Slow Down" with the Tabernacle Choir? Thank you 🙏🏼 I am sure you will love it! 🙂🙏🏼

Dead Can Dance is my favorite band (and Lisa Gerrard is my favorite solo artist). I have loved her work in DCD, solo works, and other collaborations for many years. Her voice is - at least to me - otherworldly. If you enjoyed this piece, I highly recommend some of her other works, including: * Host of Seraphim (DCD song used in the film Baraka) * Yulunga * Cantara * Song of the Sibyl * Sanvean * Gorotz A Ran (with Denez Prigent) - used in the film Black Hawk Down * Creasy Dies (used in the soundtrack and film Man on Fire) * The Human Game (collaboration with Pieter Bourke from their album Duality) I could go on and on, but I'll stop now! 😊

Leuk dat er ook weer eens een ontrafelende reactie komt op Gerrard door iemand die er ook echt verstand van heeft en diverse aspecten weet te benoemen

What a find ❤

This song was made for “the insider” movie …very deep pure genius❤

Extraordinary vocal tones. Stunning. Feels like she is... during certain notes ...pressing her tongue down, tightening her jaw and closing her adenoids 😯 Experiment and hear the difference.

I get chills up and down listening to this.

Sanvean is my all time favorite. I cry when I hear it.

I agree with most of the suggestions below, so many great Dead Can Dance songs - though, if you want to hear one where she sings in a language that doesn't just exist in her head, try The Wind that Shakes the Barley. It was also fun to hear her sing that in a big London concert hall (given that it's an Irish rebel song).

Lisa Gerrard is the best vocalist on the planet. No one comes close. No one can do what she does.

quelle beauté 🤩

You should see her do "Sanvean," particularly live

Yulunga spirit dance, official video. Dead can dance have been a fascinating soundtrack to my 20s

I first heard this song in the movie Insider and I bought the CD the next day , when I realized it was just one woman singing the whole thing I was mind blown. She truly is one of kind .

Yes, please do react to more Dead Can Dance & Lisa Gerrard, like everyone else is saying!! Dead Can Dance is my favorite group of all time, and shes a spectacular singer!

Absolutely beautiful!

DCD and Lisa are the best. Saw them twice. First heard Aion in University, and I have been hooked ever since.

lisa has done many albums and film scores. she comes from melbourne australia. some of her films songs include Lisa Gerrard & Denez Prigent - Gortoz A Ran, from black hawk down, such a sad film. or something newer ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tWE_pnJQ1PQ.html exaudia

Saw Lisa in 1986 in l'Ancienne Belgique in Brussels with Dead Can Dance. Arresting!!! She came down and spoke to my Belgian friends and me after the show. It was great, as an Aussie living there, to connect with this great Australian talent and just shoot the shit with her.

Lisa and Dead can dance have been in my heart since years, been listening them since my teen years and still love them. I Highly recommand Dead Can Dance - Sanvean

Sweet reaction..again I hope that you revisit some Dead Can Dance music with your insightful analysis.

Love your sunny energy

I've always loved Dead Can Dance from my high school days... Yes, High School for me was the late 80's.

Wow. Love your videos

Thanks for listening/reviewing Lisa. This has a touch of Tim Buckley's "Song to The Siren"; I imagine whomever requested Lisa Gerard may have also requested Liz Fraser of Cocteau Twins; They are contemporaries and shared the same label in the 80s/90s (4AD). She always has an interesting way to sound like she's singing Bulgarian Voices (also on 4AD for a short time), and like Liz, sings a lot of non-words / made up language intermixed with English (and perhaps other languages). Australian! (Liz is from Scotland). Great choice.

The subtitles are killing me 😂😂

Hi Vocalyst, I enjoyed watching this w/ you; your reaction made me appreciate Lisa's talent even more than I already did. RogerC 9/11/23

Your channel is a gem, and you... you are charming :) Your smile is infectious. Keep it up :)