Immortal Memory

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Immortal Memory
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Studio album by
Released26 January 2004
Genre Modern classical, world fusion
Length56:58
Label 4AD
Producer Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy
Lisa Gerrard chronology
Duality
(1998)
Immortal Memory
(2004)
The Silver Tree
(2006)
Patrick Cassidy chronology
Immortal Memory
(2004)
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Immortal Memory is an album by Dead Can Dance member Lisa Gerrard and Irish classical composer Patrick Cassidy, released in 2004. It was Gerrard's first studio release since 1998's Duality with Pieter Bourke.

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Overview

Gerrard first met Cassidy in 2000 in Los Angeles (where he lives), when she came to work on the Gladiator soundtrack, and they planned to work together one day. [5] When they eventually found a shared two-month break, they joined at Gerrard's Australian studio for this record. [6]

The W. B. Yeats poem "Sailing to Byzantium" inspired the track of the same name.

The lyrics utilise three ancient languages:

Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."The Song of Amergin"5:27
2."Maranatha (Come Lord)"3:43
3."Amergin's Invocation"6:19
4."Elegy"6:41
5."Sailing to Byzantium"5:04
6."Abwoon (Our Father)"4:12
7."Immortal Memory"4:28
8."Paradise Lost"7:03
9."I Asked for Love"5:00
10."Psallit in Aure Dei"9:01

Music by Lisa Gerrard (tracks 1–9) and Patrick Cassidy (tracks 1–10).

Personnel

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Notes

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