Immortal Memory

2004 studio album by Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy

Immortal Memory

Studio album by

Lisa Gerrard and Patrick Cassidy

Released

26 January 2004

Genre

Modern classical, world fusion

Length

56:58

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)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Guardian	^[2]
Prefix	^[3]
Christianity Today	(positive)^[4]

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.

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:

Gaelic (ancient Irish) in "The Song of Amergin" (based on the first song supposedly sung by a mortal on Irish soil).
Aramaic in "Maranatha" (meaning "come lord, come teacher"), and "Abwoon" (meaning "our father", a rendition of the "Lord's Prayer" in the language of Jesus).
Latin in "Psallit in Aure Dei" (meaning "singing in the ear of God", a dirge for Patrick Cassidy's late father).

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
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