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Brendan Perry

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Brendan Michael Perry (born 30 June 1959) is a singer and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work as half of the duo Dead Can Dance with Lisa Gerrard. [1]

42 relations: AK79, Ark (Brendan Perry album), Auckland, Bass guitar, Bouzouki, Buzzcocks, Dead Can Dance, Dead Can Dance (1981–1998), Dead Can Dance (album), East End of London, Eye of the Hunter, Guitar, Hammered dulcimer, Hurdy-gurdy, Keyboard instrument, Lisa Gerrard, London, Low whistle, Mandolin, Melbourne, New York Dolls, Olivier Mellano, Percussion instrument, Peter Ulrich, Piano Magic, Ponsonby, New Zealand, Psychedelic music, Punk rock, Robin Guthrie, Rough Guides, Sahara Blue, Sing a Song for You: Tribute to Tim Buckley, Singing, Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley song), St Paul's College, Auckland, The Scavengers, The Stooges, Tim Buckley, Wake (Dead Can Dance album), Whitechapel, Zoar (band), 4AD.

AK79

AK79 is a compilation album of tracks by punk bands active in Auckland, New Zealand in the late 1970s.

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Ark (Brendan Perry album)

Ark (2010) is the second solo album by Brendan Perry, the male half of the band Dead Can Dance.

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Auckland

Auckland is a city in New Zealand's North Island.

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Bass guitar

The bass guitar (also known as electric bass, or bass) is a stringed instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

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Bouzouki

The bouzouki (also buzuki; μπουζούκι; plural bouzoukia μπουζούκια) is a musical instrument popular in Greece that was brought there in the 1900s by Greek immigrants from Asia Minor, and quickly became the central instrument to the rebetiko genre and its music branches.

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Buzzcocks

Buzzcocks are an English punk rock band, formed in Bolton, England, in 1976 by singer-songwriter-guitarist Pete Shelley and singer-songwriter Howard Devoto.

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Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance is an Australian musical project formed in 1981 in Melbourne by Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry.

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Dead Can Dance (1981–1998)

Dead Can Dance (1981–1998) (2001) is a four-disc box set, containing three CDs of music spanning Dead Can Dance's career and a DVD of their 1994 video release Toward the Within.

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Dead Can Dance (album)

Dead Can Dance is the debut studio album by Australian musical act Dead Can Dance.

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East End of London

The East End of London, usually called the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London, and north of the River Thames.

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Eye of the Hunter

Eye of the Hunter (1999) is the debut solo album by Brendan Perry, previously the male half of the band Dead Can Dance.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hammered dulcimer

The hammered dulcimer is a percussion-stringed instrument which consists of strings typically stretched over a trapezoidal resonant sound board.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a stringed instrument that produces sound by a hand crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

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Keyboard instrument

A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument played using a keyboard, a row of levers which are pressed by the fingers.

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Lisa Gerrard

Lisa Gerrard (born 12 April 1961) 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.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Low whistle

The low whistle, or concert whistle, is a variation of the traditional tin whistle/pennywhistle, distinguished by its lower pitch and larger size.

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Melbourne

Melbourne is the state capital of Victoria and the second-most populous city in Australia and Oceania.

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New York Dolls

The New York Dolls were an American hard rock band formed in New York City in 1971.

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Olivier Mellano

Olivier Mellano (born 21 July 1971) is a French musician, composer, improvisator, writer and a guitarist who has played in more than fifty groups since the beginning of the nineties.

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Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater (including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles); struck, scraped or rubbed by hand; or struck against another similar instrument.

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Peter Ulrich

Peter Lawrence Ulrich (born 29 August 1958 in Perivale, England) is a multi-instrumentalist songwriter and recording artist.

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Piano Magic

Piano Magic was a musical collective formed in the summer of 1996 by Glen Johnson, Dominic Chennell, and Dick Rance in London, England.

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Ponsonby, New Zealand

Ponsonby is an inner-city suburb of Auckland located 2 km west of the Auckland CBD, in the North Island of New Zealand.

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Psychedelic music

Psychedelic music (sometimes psychedelia) covers a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline and DMT to experience visual and auditory hallucinations, synesthesia and altered states of consciousness.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Robin Guthrie

For the English artist, Robin Guthrie, see Robin Guthrie (artist) Robin Andrew Guthrie (born 4 January 1962) is a Scottish musician, songwriter, composer, record producer and audio engineer, best known as the co-founder of the alternative rock band Cocteau Twins.

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Rough Guides

Rough Guides Ltd is a British travel guidebook and reference publisher, since November 2017 owned by APA Publications.

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Sahara Blue

Sahara Blue is a 1992 concept album produced by Hector Zazou.

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Sing a Song for You: Tribute to Tim Buckley

Sing a Song for You: Tribute to Tim Buckley is a double CD studio album performed by various artists in tribute to 1960s musician Tim Buckley.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Song to the Siren (Tim Buckley song)

"Song to the Siren" is a song written by Tim Buckley and his writing partner Larry Beckett and was first released on Buckley's 1970 album Starsailor.

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St Paul's College, Auckland

St Paul's College is a Catholic secondary school for boys owned by the Marist Brothers and located in the central Auckland suburb of Ponsonby on a spacious 7.3 hectare campus.

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The Scavengers

The Scavengers were a New Zealand punk rock band that formed in 1977.

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The Stooges

The Stooges, also known as Iggy and the Stooges, were an American rock band formed in Ann Arbor, Michigan in 1967 by singer Iggy Pop, guitarist Ron Asheton, drummer Scott Asheton, and bassist Dave Alexander.

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Tim Buckley

Timothy Charles Buckley III (February 14, 1947 – June 29, 1975) was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.

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Wake (Dead Can Dance album)

Wake is a compilation album by Dead Can Dance, released in 2003.

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Whitechapel

Whitechapel is a district in the East End of London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.

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Zoar (band)

Zoar is a primarily instrumental musical group from New York City.

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4AD

4AD is a British independent record label, founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1980.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brendan_Perry

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