Lisa Gerrard (3,892 views)

[IhateMana]

Member Of: Dead Can Dance
Vocal Range: A2 - F♯5

Significant High Notes

F♯5 ("Cantara" live Hamburg 1987)
F5 ("Swans" live Hamburg Musikhalle 1990)
E5 ("ACT I - Sea Borne", "The Spider's Stratagem")
E♭5 ("Accord" live Paris 1988, "Adha Song" unspecified live performance, "Carnival of Light", "The Crossing", "Eyeless In Gaza" Live in Hamburg 1990, "Loreley" live @ the Loreley 18/07/2008, "Ocean", "Wisdom")
D5 ("ACT I - Sea Borne", "ACT II - The Mountain", "The Beginning", "Eyeless In Gaza" Live in Hamburg 1990, "Immortal Memory", "Liquid Coincidence 1", "Liquid Coincidence 3", "Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)", "Rakim" Live Towards the Within, "The Spider's Stratagem")
C♯5 ("Accord" live Paris 1988, "Amelia (Sailing the Seas)" live Belgium 1993, "Cantara", "Clap Along Song" unspecified live performance, "The Crossing", "Echolalia", "Isabella (Redark)" live Hamburg Musikhalle 1990, "Nadir (Synchronicity)", "Shadow Magnet", "Summoning of the Muse", "The Writing On My Father’s Hand", "To Those Who Seek Forgiveness", "Wisdom")
C5 ("ACT II - The Mountain", "Adha Song" unspecified live performance, "Anabasis", "The Arrival and the Reunion", "Bazylika NSJ" live Warsaw 13/11/2008, "The Beginning", "Call of the Steppes – Part I", "Cantara", "Carnival of Light", "Dreams Made Flesh", "Echolalia", "Estelita", "Glorafin", "Hiraeth", "Indus", "Kiko", "Liquid Coincidence 1", "Liquid Coincidence 3", "Liquid Coincidence 4", "Liquid Coincidence 5", "Loreley" live @ the Loreley 18/07/2008, "The Lotus Eaters", "Ocean", "Orbis De Ignis", "The Path Ahead", "The Promised Womb", "Radharc", "Rattlesnake", "The Rite", "River Dance", "The Song of the Sybil", "Shelter", "Solace", "Summoning of the Muse", "Swans", "The Writing On My Father’s Hand"´, "To Those Who Seek Forgiveness", "Tristan")
B4 ("Agape", "As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins", "Cor Nobilis - 'The Gentle Ones'", "Devotion", "Forgotten Language", "Frontier" demo, "Improvisation" Live at TedxSydney 2015, "Liquid Coincidence 4", "Liquid Coincidence 5", "Mani Yanni", "The Might of Rome", "The Mob", "Now We Are Free", "Of Love Undone", "Our Kingdom Came", "Pora Sotunda", "Return of the She-King", "Sailing to Byzantium", "Shanga", "Threshold", "Towards the Tower", "Violina (The Last Embrace)", "Wellgunde" live @ the Loreley 18/07/2008)
B♭4 ("Amelia (Sailing the Seas)" live Belgium 1993, "Amergin's Evocation", "The Arrival and the Reunion", "Ascension", "Bazylika NSJ" live Warsaw 13/11/2008, "Bylar", "Call of the Steppes – Part I", "Call of the Steppes – Part II", "Call of the Steppes – Part III", "Circumradiant Dawn", "Dawn of the Iconoclast", "De Profundis (Out of the Depths of Sorrow)", "Elegy", "The End of Words", "Entry", "Estelita", "Frontier", "Glorafin", "The Host of Seraphim", "The Human Game", "Indus", "La Bas (Song of the Drowned)", "Laurelei", "The Lotus Eaters", "Maranatha (Come Lord)", "Meltdown", "Mesmerism", "Nadir (Synchronicity)", "The Nomad's Path", "Orleans", "The Path Ahead", "The Promised Womb", "Rattlesnake", "Redemption", "River Dance", "Sanvean (I Am Your Shadow)", "Shadow Magnet", "Song of Sophia", "Song of the Nile", "Song of the Stars", "The Starving Steppe", "Ullyses", "The Unfolding", "Unison", "Venteles", "Watchtower", "Wellgunde" live @ the Loreley 18/07/2008, "Womb", "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" Live Towards the Within, "The Writing On My Father's Hand")
A4 ("38 Weeks", "Adagio For A Broken Promise", "Armira", "Ariadne", "As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins", "Avatar", "Call of the Steppes – Part II", "Carnival of Light", "The Children's Toys" live Europe 1987, "Departum", "Devorzhum", "Dreams Made Flesh", "Flowers of the Sea", "Gloradin", "Gloridean", "Hiraeth", "In the Beginning Was the World", "Immortal Memory", "Kiko", "A Kingdom Now Forgotten", "Largo", "Liquid Coincidence 1", "Liquid Coincidence 3", "Liquid Coincidence 7", "Loreley" live @ the Loreley 18/07/2008, "The Lost Star of Menelik", "Mani Yanni", "Musica Eternal", "Now We Are Free", "Of Love Undone", "Our Kingdom Came", "Penumbra", "Pora Sotunda", "Red Horizon", "Rite of Passage", "Rome is the Light", "Sacrifice", "Saldek", "Sanvean (I Am Your Shadow)", "The Secret Language of Angels", "Shelter", "Solace", "The Spider's Stratagem", "Sukhe", "Tell it From the Mountain", "Tigon", "To Those Who Seek Forgiveness", "Towards the Within", "Tristan", "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)")


Significant Low Notes

A3 ("Adrift", "Asena", "As the Bell Rings the Maypole Spins", "Bazylika NSJ" live Warsaw 13/11/2008, "Blinded", "Bylar", "The Children's Toys" live Europe 1987, "Come Tenderness", "Cor Nobilis - ‘The Gentle Ones’ ", "Departum", "Dreams Made Flesh", "Echolalia", "Elysium", "The Emperor is Dead", "Gloridean", "Hiraeth", "Immortal Memory", "Liquid Coincidence 1", "Liquid Coincidence 3", "Liquid Coincidence 4", "Liquid Coincidence 7", "The Messenger", "The Nomad's Path", "Now We Are Free", "Ocean", "Of Love Undone", "Orleans", "Persian Love Song" live Towards the Within, "Psallit In Aure Dei", "Rattlesnake", "Rome is the Light", "Sailing to Byzantium", "The Silencer", "The Secret Language of Angels", "Serenity", "Shadow Magnet", "Tell it From the Mountain", "Towards the Within", "The Unfolding", "Vespers", "Waves Become Wings", "Yulunga (Spirit Dance)")
G♯3 ("Abwoon Our Father", "Adagio For A Broken Promise", "Amelia (Sailing the Seas)" live Belgium 1993, "Busy Little Bee", "The Comforter", "Elysium", "An Evening With Lisa Gerrard" 2007, "Forgotten Language", "Liquid Coincidence 5", "The Maharaja", "Mani Yanni", "Meltdown", "Nadir (Synchronicity)", "Sacrifice", "Serenity", "The Serpent & the Dove", "Wilderness")
G3 ("38 Weeks", "Abwoon", "Abwoon Our Father", "All Along the Watchtower", "Armira", "Asena", "Bazylika NSJ" live Warsaw 13/11/2008, "Bylar", "Celon", "Chant of the Paladin", "Circumradiant Dawn", "Departum", "Diary of the Fallen", "Gloradin", "Hymns of a Promised Land", "Improvisation" Live at TedxSydney 2015, "Liquid Coincidence 3", "Liquid Coincidence 5", "Love Theme", "Maya’s Dream", "Mesmerism", "The Messenger", "Nadir (Synchronicity)", "Ocean", "Paradise Lost", "The Path Ahead", "Persephone (The Gathering of Flowers)", "Persian Love Song" live Towards the Within, "Redemption", "The Rite", "The Sea Whisperer", "Seven Seas", "Shelter", "Sukhe", "The Spider's Stratagem", "Too Far Gone", "The Valley of the Moon", "The Veil", "Vespers", "Waves Become Wings", "Wellgunde" live @ the Loreley 18/07/2008)
F♯3 ("Adrift", "Armira", "Bazylika NSJ" live Warsaw 13/11/2008, "Call of the Steppes – Part III", "Devotion", "In Exile", "Largo", "Liquid Coincidence 4", "Not Yet", "The Sea Whisperer", "Shelter", "The Song of Amergin", "Womb")
F3 ("Adagio for a Broken Promise", "The Battle", "Black Forest", "Blinded", "Celon", "The Circulation of Shadows", "Emmeleia", "Forgotten Language", "Gloridean", "In Search of Lost Innocence", "Jerusalem", "La Bas (Song of the Drowned)", "The Maharaja", "The Nomad's Path", "Rattlesnake", "Redemption", "Seven Seas", "Shelter", "Sleep", "Space Weaver", "Tempest", "Towards the Tower", "Watchtower", "Yukis Lullaby")
E3 ("Come Tenderness", "Diary of the Fallen", "Emmeleia", "Forgotten Language", "Gloradin", "Gloridean", "In Exile", "Largo", "Liquid Coincidence 1", "Not Yet", "Now We Are Free", "Psallit in Aure Dei", "The Secret Language of Angels", "The Subordinate", "Sukhe")
E♭3 ("The Circulation of Shadows", "La Bas (Song of the Drowned)", "Pilgrimage of Lost Children", "Seven Seas", "Tristan", "The Wind That Shakes the Barley")
D3 ("An Evening With Lisa Gerrard" 2007, "The Gardener", "In the Beginning was the World", "Liquid Coincidence 1", "Maranatha (Come Lord)", "The Messenger", "Redemption", "Tell it From the Mountain", "Yukis Lullaby")
C♯3 ("The Black Opal", "An Evening With Lisa Gerrard" 2007, "The Wind That Shakes the Barley")
C3 ("Sukhe")
B2 ("The Black Opal", "Forest Veil")
A2 ("Forest Veil")

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Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.

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{Questionable Notes}
Pretty much any ululations

C6 ("ACT I - Dance of the Bacchantes" This is more the kind of thing Brendan would do, yet there are two vocal tracks playing here so???)
B♭5 ("ACT II - Liberator of Minds")

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{Discography}
Dead Can Dance

Dead Can Dance - COMPLETED IhateMana
Spleen and Ideal - COMPLETED Platypus
Within the Realm of a Dying Sun - COMPLETED IhateMana
The Serpent's Egg - COMPLETED Platypus
Aion - COMPLETED IhateMana
Into the Labyrinth - COMPLETED Platypus
Spiritchaser - COMPLETED IhateMana
Anastasis - COMPLETED Platypus

Solo & Collaborations

The Mirror Pool - COMPLETED Platypus
The Silver Tree - COMPLETED IhateMana
The Black Opal - COMPLETED Platypus
Twilight Kingdom - COMPLETED Platypus
Duality - COMPLETED Platypus
Immortal Memory - COMPLETED @shikkaku
Ashes and Snow - COMPLETED IhateMana
Farscape - IhateMana and Platypus???
Rheingold - COMPLETED IhateMana
Dziękuję Bardzo - IhateMana
Balibo - IhateMana
Come Quietly - IhateMana
Departum - COMPLETED kuyashii
The Trail of Genghis Khan - COMPLETED kuyashii
Diaries of Hope
Big In Europe vol. 1 - Warsaw
Big In Europe vol. 2 - Amsterdam
The Sum of Its Parts - COMPLETED kuyashii
Hiraeth - COMPLETED IhateMana

Soundtracks

The Insider - COMPLETED IhateMana
Gladiator - COMPLETED IhateMana
Whale Rider - COMPLETED IhateMana (there were no significant notes on this album)
Salem's Lot
A Thousand Roads
Ichi - IhateMana
Insight
Oranges and Sunshine
Samsara
The Bible
Jane's Got A Gun
2:22

[g]

May I ask that why is no note bolded here?

[IhateMana]

nothing stuck out while we were notewatching her. tbh none of her highs are particularly good imo. Like i mean, they're fine and all i like her voice duh, but I wouldn't consider any of them to be a "bold". Like, I think the C#5s in Echolalia are about as strong as her highs get and everything above that is kinda like the F#5. Her lows are all very strong, but they're pretty much all identical quality.

[sunshine]

Is her tessitura Bb3-G#4 then? Is she a mezzo?

People tend to refer to her as a contralto.

[IhateMana]

so, we tend not to talk about voice types on this forum, it's something we moved away from re: contemporary vocalists a long time ago.

In my most humble, and honest, and non-expert opinion... I've never particularly bought her being a contralto tbh. she can sing low very well, and her highs are pretty rubbish in the 5th octave, but I've never thought her voice was dark enough naturally. people will argue this black and blue though, it's one of the many reasons we don't discuss voice types now lol.

the gap we leave between low and high note sections is more a reflection of how they use their voice musically, rather than being in any way related to the singer's placement or tessitura (although obviously their will be some correlations here and there: but correlation, not causation)