Awase AwaitingStock Dead Can Dance's second album

Dead Can Dance's second album

production of 'The Final Cut' was dominated by interpersonal conflict

learning to accept and trust myself

1976's 'Arrival

Awase AwaitingStock Dead Can Dance's second album'Awase,' a term from martial arts, means "moving together" in the sense of matching energies a fitting metaphor for the dynamic precision, tessellated grooves and balletic minimalism of Nik Brtsch's Ronin. Six years have passed since the last release from the Swiss group. In the interim, trimmed from quintet to quartet size and with new bassist Thomy Jordi fully integrated, Ronin has become a subtly different band. Brtsch speaks of a new found freedom