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"Sanvean: I am your shadow" is a song co-written in September 1993 by Lisa Gerrard and composer/multi-instrumentalist Andrew Claxton during rehearsals in Ireland for the 1993 Dead Can Dance international tour. [1] Lisa Gerrard stated she wrote this song missing her family who had remained in Australia. Its first public performance was in Sligo, Ireland and first recorded on their 1994 live album Toward the Within , and later on Gerrard's 1995 solo album The Mirror Pool and The Best of Lisa Gerrard in 2007. Like most of her work it is sung in a euphonic and emotional pseudo-language.

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It has become an iconic song through its frequent appearance on soundtracks and other uses:

It is a favourite choice throughout the world for weddings, funerals and other solemn occasions.

For many years it has also been performed internationally by Duo Spiritalis based in Switzerland.

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References

  1. Hennessy, Kate (2014-12-16). "Sanvean by Dead Can Dance – pining after Australia in an invented language". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 2023-10-08.
  2. "Andrew Claxton". www.oxfordschoolofmusic.org.uk. Retrieved 2023-10-08.