Bourke may refer to:

• Bourke, New South Wales
• Bourke engine
• Bourke Street, Melbourne, a street in Melbourne, Australia

People with the surname[link]

• Bourke (MCC cricketer) (first name unknown)
• Edmund Bourke, Danish statesman
• Jamie Bourke, Australian ice hockey player
• Martin Bourke, Governor of Turks and Caicos Islands
• Richard Bourke, Governor of New South Wales
• Rick Bourke, Australian rugby league footballer
• Thomas Bourke, 4th Baron Bourke of Castleconnell,
• Tom Bourke, Australian rugby league footballer
• Vernon Bourke, Canadian-American Philosopher

See also[link]

• Bourke's Parrot
• Burke (disambiguation)
• Earl of Mayo

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Lisa Gerrard
Background information
Birth name	Lisa Gerrard
Born	(1961-04-12) 12 April 1961 (age 51)
Origin	Melbourne, Australia
Genres	Neoclassical, New Age, Ethereal Wave, Gothic rock
Occupations	Composer Singer Musician
Instruments	Vocals, accordion, keyboards, yangqin, dulcimer, guitar
Years active	1981–present
Labels	Gerrard Records
Associated acts	Dead Can Dance
Website	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 former music partner Brendan Perry.

Since her career began in 1981, she has been involved in a wide range of projects. Gerrard received a Golden Globe Award for the music score to the film Gladiator, on which she collaborated with Hans Zimmer. In addition to singing, she is an instrumentalist for much of her work, most prolifically using the yangqin (a Chinese hammered dulcimer).

Early life[link]

Lisa Gerrard was born 12 April 1961 in Melbourne and grew up in the suburb of Prahran with her Irish immigrant parents. On her upbringing, she has said she grew up with "Mediterranean music blaring out of the houses" and that this influenced her music, particularly on later Dead Can Dance albums and in her solo and collaborative works.^[1]

Gerrard's first foray into forming bands and creative music-making was the highly experimental Little Band scene. It was at one of these little band events that she first met Dead Can Dance cofounder Brendan Perry. Perry recalls, "It never occurred to me that we would one day collaborate musically together because at the time I thought her music was too avant garde. I particularly remember one song that she sang about finding a man in the park and asking her mother if she could bring him home to keep in her wardrobe as she attacked this chinese dulcimer with two bamboo sticks."^[2]

Career[link]

Dead Can Dance[link]

Dead Can Dance originally formed as a quartet in 1981 in Melbourne, but in 1982 moved to London with members Brendan Perry, Lisa Gerrard, and bass player Paul Erikson. Shortly after coming to England, Erikson flew back to Australia, leaving the band as a duo. Dead Can Dance recorded eight albums on the 4AD Records recording label beginning with the 1984 LP, Dead Can Dance. The band split in 1998, but reunited in 2005 for a world tour.

Solo and collaborative career[link]

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In 1995 Gerrard recorded and released her first solo album The Mirror Pool. After the release of this album, she continued to work with Dead Can Dance, releasing their final album, Spiritchaser, in 1996. Following this, in 1998 she recorded Duality in collaboration with Pieter Bourke. This album would mark the beginning of an extensive collaboration for a number of film scores, including The Insider and Ali. Gerrard began a new collaboration with Patrick Cassidy in 2004 with the release of Immortal Memory. Again, this collaboration was furthered in film work, including Salem's Lot.

The following year in 2005, Gerrard contributed to the Ashes and Snow Soundtrack. For the songs "Womb" and "Wisdom," Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy wrote and performed together. Gerrard's collaboration with Cassidy extended to include work with conductor Julie Rogers on the songs "Devota" and "Vespers."

In 2006, Sanctuary, a documentary about the life and work of Lisa Gerrard, was recorded and released in September 2006. It is the work of multi-skilled producer/director Clive Collier and features extensive interviews with Lisa Gerrard and various people who have collaborated and worked with her in the past including Michael Mann, Russell Crowe, Hans Zimmer, and Niki Caro. The documentary was released on DVD by Milan Entertainment on 24 April 2007.

In the same year, Lisa Gerrard released her second solo album The Silver Tree. This album was markedly different from her previous work and was also her first album released outside of 4AD Records. The album was first released on iTunes, with a wider physical release planned at a future date. The album was nominated for the Australian Music Prize for 2006. It is currently shortlisted as one out of nine of the best Australian albums. In 2007 a retrospective album The Best of Lisa Gerrard, a compilation of fifteen songs, was released covering her career in Dead Can Dance, solo work, and film work.

A world tour was undertaken in 2007 beginning in April in Melbourne, Australia. This tour marked the first time Lisa Gerrard had toured in Australia, with a performance in three cities. The tour was followed by performances in Europe and North America. More performances took place in Europe and Russia from 30 October to 22 November 2007.^[3] In November 2007, Lisa Gerrard collaborated with German electronic musician Klaus Schulze on the double-album Farscape. The album was released 27 July 2008 and was followed by a European tour.

In 2009 Lisa Gerrard completed work on the documentary by Australian adventurer Tim Cope called On the Trail of Genghis Khan and contributed her voice to the soundtrack, which began airing in 2010, of the Japanese NHK taiga drama Ryōmaden, a story based on the life of Sakamoto Ryoma. Also in 2009, Lisa Gerrard created her own record label, Gerrard Records, which, aside from being a conduit for the release of Gerrard's future works will also act to promote and support unrecognised artists of all genres. In September 2009, Gerrard and Klaus Schulze performed another tour in six European cities - Warsaw, Berlin, Amsterdam, Essen, Paris, and Brussels. This tour coincided with the release of Come Quietly, a joint project between Gerrard and Schulze that was released during the tour.

Lisa Gerrard released her third solo album, The Black Opal in October 2009. The album included collaboration with Michael Edwards, Patrick Cassidy, Pieter Bourke, and James Orr and was the first release to come from Gerrard Records.

In 2010 Gerrard released a new album with fellow composer Marcello De Francisci titled "Departum" from Gerrard Records which was followed by the release of three new singles; "Coming Home" - as featured in Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, "Entry" and "Come This Way".

Gerrard also collaborated with Prash Mistry from "Engine Earz Experiment" on a track titled "Spirit Guide" which will appear on his upcoming album in 2011.

On 1 December 2010 Gerrard capped off a busy 2010 with the release of a new soundtrack album with Cye Wood titled "The Trail of Genghis Khan" which contains music from the Gerrard/Wood score to the documentary TV series by Australian adventurer Tim Cope.

Film career[link]

Paris concert

Lisa Gerrard's first experience in composing music for a film came with the 1989 Spanish film El Niño de la Luna, directed by Agustín Villaronga. The film score was composed by Dead Can Dance and the film featured Lisa Gerrard in her first acting role. El Niño de la Luna describes the story of David, a young orphan with special powers, escaping an institution with the help of a fellow institute inmate, Georgina, played by Lisa Gerrard.

Gerrard participated in a number of musical scores but came to fame as a film composer after recording The Insider in 1999, with Pieter Bourke, and Gladiator in 2000, with Hans Zimmer, which received an Academy Award nomination for best music score, although only Zimmer was nominated. It did, however, win a Golden Globe Award for both composers. Gerrard's score for the New Zealand independent film Whale Rider consisted entirely of solo material; a soundtrack album was released by 4AD.

In 2005 Gerrard collaborated with Ennio Morricone for Fateless followed by a collaboration with Jeff Rona on the score for the feature film "A Thousand Roads" and the song On an Ocean for the Henry Poole Is Here score. Gerrard along with Dead Can Dance also provided several contributions to the soundtrack of Baraka, a visual journey showcasing mankind's impact on our planet. Gerrard was also invited by Denez Prigent to collaborate with him on his piece "Gortoz a ran - J'attends" (meaning "I await"), a piece that was later used in the soundtrack of Ridley Scott's film Black Hawk Down.

In 2009 Lisa Gerrard wrote the score for Balibo, for which she won a Best Feature Film Score award at the 2009 APRA Screen Music Awards and an Aria Award for Best Original Soundtrack/Cast/Show Album at the 2009 Aria Awards. Gerrard finished 2009 by contributing her voice to the theme song for the Japanese NHK taiga drama Ryōmaden, which began airing in 2010.

In 2010 Gerrard completed the score for "Tears of Gaza" with Marcello De Francisci which was well received despite its controversial theme.^[4] Gerrard also scored the Jim Loach directed Oranges and Sunshine starring Emily Watson and Hugo Weaving released in April 2011 which garnered her with another nomination at the 2011 IF Awards for Best Music Score.

In November 2010 Gerrard provided vocals and additional music for the post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Priest scored by Christopher Young which was released in 2011.

In November 2011 Gerrard completed the score for Burning Man which won her Best Music Score at the 2011 Film Critics Circle of Australia awards announced on 10 April 2012, beating scores for Snowtown, The Hunter and Red Dog.

Vocal ability[link]

Europe, 2007.

Gerrard possesses the vocal range of a contralto, spanning from E3-F5.^[5] Her voice has been described as rich, deep, dark, mournful and unique.^[6][7][8]

She also has the ability to extend upwards into the dramatic mezzo-soprano range, examples of such would be on the songs The Host of Seraphim, Elegy, Space Weaver, Come This Way and One Perfect Sunrise.^{[9][10][citation needed]} Gerrard however performs more predominantly in the dramatic contralto range in her other songs, Sanvean, Sacrifice, Largo and Not Yet.^{[11][12][13][14]}

Gerrard sings many of her songs, such as "Now We Are Free", "Come Tenderness", "Serenity", "The Valley of the Moon", "Tempest", "Pilgrimage of Lost Children", "Coming Home" and "Sanvean" in an idioglossia (an idiosyncratic language) that she has developed since the age of twelve.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life[link]

Rotterdam, Netherlands 2007

Gerrard has two children^[15]. She is married to a Polish graphic design artist/music producer Jacek Tuszewski with whom she has a daughter (born 1992). Her nephew, Jack Gerrard, plays for Cairns' post-hardcore act Almost a Square as the drummer and back-up vocalist.

Discography[link]

Dead Can Dance[link]

Career after Dead Can Dance[link]

Lisa Gerrard with Klaus Schulze 2009.

• Solo Albums
  • The Mirror Pool (1995)
  • The Silver Tree (2006), release on iTunes and by Rubber Records and re-released in 2010 by Gerrard Records
  • The Best of Lisa Gerrard (2007)
  • The Black Opal (2009) released by Gerrard Records

• Singles
  • "Sanvean" (1995)
  • "The Human Game" (with Pieter Bourke, 1998)
  • "Abwoon" (with Patrick Cassidy, 2003)
  • "Hommage A Polska. 17 września" (with Klaus Schulze, 2009)
  • Coming Home (2010) released by Gerrard Records
  • Entry (2010) released by Gerrard Records
  • Come This Way (2010) released by Gerrard Records

• Collaboration Albums
  • Duality (1998), with Pieter Bourke
  • Immortal Memory (2004), with Patrick Cassidy
  • Ashes and Snow (2006) with Patrick Cassidy
  • Farscape (2008) with Klaus Schulze
  • Rheingold (2008) with Klaus Schulze
  • Dziękuję Bardzo (2009) with Klaus Schulze
  • "Come Quietly" (2009) with Klaus Schulze
  • Departum (2010) with Marcello De Francisci
  • The Trail of Genghis Khan (2010) with Cye Wood

Paris, 2009

• Miscellaneous
  • Microfile: Centerfold 7" ("Centerfold" and "Window") (1981)
  • Compilation entitled "From Belgrave with Love" ("Mossaic" by Lisa Gerrard and "Summer house" by Microfilm) 1981
  • The Future Sound of London sample her vocals from the song "Dawn of the Iconoclast" for their 1992 hit single "Papua New Guinea" (1992)
  • French promo CD-single "La bas" and "Lament"
  • Compilation entitled "These Wings without Feathers" ("Dreamsong" and "Untitled") (1996)
  • Guest performer for the industrial/electronic music group Delerium entitled "Forgotten Worlds" on the album, Karma (1997)
  • "The Wings of a Film - The Music of Hans Zimmer" ("Now We Are Free" live)
  • With Orbital: "One Perfect Sunrise" on the album The Blue Album (2004)
  • Orbital featuring Lisa Gerrard: "One Perfect Sunrise" (radio mix) CD single
  • Orbital featuring Lisa Gerrard: "One Perfect Sunrise" (Phil Hartnoll mix) CD single
  • With Denez Prigent: "J'attends - Gortoz A Ran" with Denez Prigent on the album Irvi
  • "An Hini a Garan" with Denez Prigent on the Album Sarac'h
  • Mantras of a Lost Archetype (unreleased solo album)
  • The Ashes and Snow art exhibition by Gregory Colbert, (with Patrick Cassidy and Michael Brook, "Devota", "Vespers", "Womb", "Wisdom")
  • View from a Window collaborative song recording in track title "There in Your Arms" (2008) with Josiah Brooks
  • "Wisdom of Wind" composition with Jeff Rona, recorded by Tarja Turunen for her album My Winter Storm (2007) and present in the "Enough" single (2009)

Movie score composing and contributions[link]

• Dèmoni 2 (1986) (as Dead Can Dance)
• El Niño de la Luna (1989) (as Dead Can Dance, also with Gerrard in her acting debut)
• Baraka (1992) (as Dead Can Dance, with Michael Stearns)
• Heat (1995) featured previously recorded material from The Mirror Pool
• Nadro (1998)
• The 13th Warrior (1999) with Graeme Revell (score later withdrawn)
• The Insider: Soundtrack (1999), with Pieter Bourke
• Gladiator (2000) with Hans Zimmer
• Gladiator: More Music From the Motion Picture (2000, released 2001) with Hans Zimmer
• Mission: Impossible II (2000) with Hans Zimmer
• Black Hawk Down (2001) - Song: "J'attends - Gortoz A Ran" with Denez Prigent
• Ali (2001) with Pieter Bourke
• 9/11 (2002) - Song: "Sorrow" composed with Hans Zimmer
• Whalerider (Original Soundtrack) (2003)
• Tears of the Sun (2003) with Hans Zimmer
• The West Wing (Television) (2003) - Song: "Sanvean" in the episode 7A WF 83429
• King Arthur (2004) - Song: "Amergin's Invocation"
• One Perfect Day (2004)
• The Passion of the Christ (2004) with Patrick Cassidy (score withdrawn)
• Man on Fire (2004) with Harry Gregson-Williams
• 'Salem's Lot (TV mini-series) (2004) with Patrick Cassidy and Christopher Gordon
• Layer Cake (2004)
• A Thousand Roads (2005) with Jeff Rona
• Constantine (2005) (score incomplete and withdrawn)
• Fateless (2005) with Ennio Morricone ("A song", "A Voice from the Inside", "Return to the Life")
• Seoul Train (2005)
• The Greater Meaning of Water (2006) previously recorded material
• The Mist (2007) (The Host of Seraphim)
• Playing for Charlie (2008)
• Ichi (2008) with Michael Edwards
• Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
• Balibo (2009)
• Ryomaden (2010) Theme Song to TV Series
• From Ararat to Zion (2010) with Ara Torosyan
• Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010) -"The Host of the Seraphim" (DCD) and "Coming Home" (solo).
• Oranges and Sunshine (2010)
• Tears of Gaza (2010)
• Samsara (sequel to Baraka) composer of original music, with Michael Stearns and Marcello De Francisci
• Priest - vocals and additional music
• Deus Ex: Human Revolution (2011)
• Diablo 3 (2011)

Live at the Forum, Melbourne, 2 April 2007

Sources[link]

External links[link]

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Pieter Bourke is an Australian composer, keyboardist, percussionist and audio engineer. He has recorded several projects with ex-Dead Can Dance founding member Lisa Gerrard, and was a touring member of Dead Can Dance's 1996 Spiritchaser tour. He also collaborated with Australian musician David Thrussell (alias Black Lung), first as part of the latter's band Snog, then just the two of them under the project name Soma. More recently, he formed the Dub Reggae outift Secret Masters with fellow Australian Brian Westbrook. Bourke and Gerrard received two shared Golden Globe nominations for Best Original Score,^[1] in 2000 for The Insider (1999), and in 2002 for Ali (2001).

Career[link]

Eden[link]

Pieter Bourke began his career in 1988 with the Australian band Eden. Consisting of Sean Bowley (vocals, guitar), Ross Healy (bass) and Bourke (keyboards, rhythm programming and percussion), Eden performed regularly in Melbourne’s alternative scene beginning in 1988. The Light Between Worlds EP was released in 1989 on the Scottish label Nightshift Records. This was supported by the release of a 7” single, Searching For Angels Hands, which broadened Eden’s audience in Australia through a performance on the national music television programme Countdown Revolution.

A full length album Gateway To The Mysteries was released in 1990 on the English label Third Mind Records. Bourke’s last recorded output with Eden was the Healingbow CD EP, released in 1993 on Projekt.

Snog[link]

In 1993 Pieter Bourke formed a collaborative partnership with David Thrussell, who had recently provided some remix work for Eden on the Healingbow EP. They shared an interest in European electronic music, and in the possibilities that emerging audio sampling technology was providing. Bourke and Thrussell then embarked on a prolific period of writing and recording together. Initially Bourke joined Thrussell’s techno-industrial band Snog, playing keyboards live and writing new material with Thrussell.

The first fruit of their labour was the 1993 single Born To Be Mild, which was quickly followed by their sardonic Christmas release Hey Christian God. A full length CD, Dear Valued Customer was released in 1994 and was supported by live performances across Australia.. Bourke co-wrote 3 songs from the 1996 Snog album Buy Me...I’ll Change Your Life, including the singles The Future and Hooray. His last contribution to Snog was the song The Grey Menance, which was co-written with Thrusell and appeared on the 1999 release Third Mall From The Sun.

Soma[link]

Parallel to Snog, Bourke and Thrussell created a new project, Soma, to further explore the combination of their respective musical styles and tastes within an instrumental format. Bourke's organic influence wrapped around Thrussell's electro sensibilities created exotic constructions that skirted the borders of ambience, techno and soundtrack with a vocabulary both stylish and deep^[2]. A self titled 7 track CD was recorded and released in 1993. This material was expanded with the addition of 6 new songs and was released as Hollow Earth in 1994.

In 1996 Soma released The Inner Cinema, which saw the collaboration between Thrussell and Bourke evolve and deepen from the tone set by their debut^[3]. It is widely regarded as the duo’s most potent work together. The Stygian Vistas CD EP was released in 1997, containing a blend of remixes from the first two albums plus three new songs. Bourke and Thrussell then took a hiatus from Soma to work on other projects, but re-emerged in 2000 with a 4 track CD EP, My Ancient Vihmaana.

Lisa Gerrard[link]

In 1995 Pieter Bourke began working with renowned musician Lisa Gerrard, co-founder of the pioneering group Dead Can Dance. Bourke played percussion on Gerrard’s first solo album The Mirror Pool and then became a touring member of her band for concerts in Europe and North America. In 1996 Bourke then played keyboards and percussion for Dead Can Dance on their Spiritchaser world tour.

In 1997 Lisa Gerrard invited Pieter Bourke back to her studio to perform on new material for a second solo album. As well as playing percussion and keyboards, Bourke was also asked to engineer the recordings. As work on the songs progressed, Bourke’s role expanded from session musician to full partner. The resulting album, Duality, was released in 1998 on the 4AD label. Gerrard has commented that the recording process of Duality was one of rare synchronicity^[4].

The Human Game was released as a single, accompanied by a music video. The album also contains the song Sacrifice, which has subsequently been licensed for use in a wide variety of film and television productions.

Soundtracks[link]

In 1998 Bourke and Gerrard were asked by Italian Director Ivana Massetti to contribute music to Nadro, a French documentary which looked at the life and career of influential West African visual artist, poet and author Frederic Bruly Bouabre. Two songs from this soundtrack were released on The Human Game CD single; Awakening and Jungabya.

In 1999 Pieter Bourke and Lisa Gerrard composed the soundtrack for the critically acclaimed film, The Insider, by American Director Michael Mann. Bourke and Gerrard’s score provided a brooding, atmospheric, chilling evocation of the film’s real life drama about a tobacco industry whistle-blower (played by Russell Crowe) and the 60 Minutes reporter (Oscar winner Al Pacino) who puts both their careers, and lives, in jeopardy. The film received 3 Golden Globe Award nominations, including Best Soundtrack.

In 2001 Bourke and Gerrard scored Mann’s next film, a bio-pic about boxing legend Muhammad Ali. Ali also received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Soundtrack.

Secret Masters[link]

In 2001 Pieter Bourke established the dub reggae project Secret Masters in collaboration with fellow Australian musician Brian Westbrook. The Lost Dub Tapes was released in 2004. For the 2009 follow up album, Words, Power, Sound, Westbrook travelled to Jamaica to record local vocalists. The album also contains two songs featuring the vocals of British reggae singer and DJ Tippa Irie.

Discography[link]

• 1989 - The Light Between Worlds - EP - Eden ( Nightshift )
• 1990 - Searching For Angels Hands - Single - Eden ( Shock / Nightshift )
• 1991 - Gateway To The Mysteries - CD -Eden ( Shock / Third Mind Records )
• 1993 - Healingbow - CD EP -Eden ( Projekt )
• 1993 - Born To Be Mild - CD single - Snog ( Polygram / Machinery )
• 1993 - Hey Christian God - CD single - Snog ( Polygram / Machinery )
• 1993 - Soma - CD EP - Soma ( Extreme )
• 1994 - Cliche - CD single - Snog ( Polygram / Machinery )
• 1994 - Hollow Earth - CD - Soma ( Extreme )
• 1995 - Sleepwalker - CD single - Soma ( Extreme )
• 1995 - Dear Valued Customer - CD - Snog ( Polygram / Machinery )
• 1996 - The Future - CD single - Snog ( Polygram / Machinery )
• 1996 - Arcane - CD single - Soma ( Extreme )
• 1996 - The Inner Cinema - CD - Soma ( Extreme )
• 1997 - Stygian Vistas - CD EP - Soma ( Extreme )
• 1997 - Hooray - CD single - Snog ( Polygram / Machinery )
• 1998 - Duality - CD - with Lisa Gerrard (4AD)
• 1998 - The Human Game - CD EP - with Lisa Gerrard (4AD )
• 1999 - The Insider - Motion Picture Soundtrack CD - with Lisa Gerrard (Sony Music)
• 2000 - My Ancient Vihmaana - CD EP - Soma ( Karmic Hit )
• 2002 - Ali - Motion Picture Soundtrack CD - with Lisa Gerrard ( Universal Music Group )
• 2004 - The Lost Dub Tapes - CD - Secret Masters ( Master Tunes )
• 2009 - Words, Power, Sound - 2CD - Secret Masters ( Master Tunes )

Citations[link]

References[link]

• Pieter Bourke.com official biography as cached in 2002 at Archive.org
• Pieter Bourke at the Internet Movie Database

External links[link]

• Pieter Bourke.com - official website as cached in 2002 at Archive.org (JavaScript browser required)
• Pieter Bourke.com - official website (under reconstruction since 2005 as of 2007^[update])
• Pieter Bourke MySpace - official site
• Secret Masters.com - official website

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