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Artist:
GALAS, DIAMANDA
Title:
Defixiones Will and Testament
Label:
MUTE USA
Format:
2CD
Price:
$21.00
Catalog #:
STUMM 205CD
"Diamanda Galás releases two double albums on the same day, her first releases since 1998's
Malediction and Prayer
. For both of these albums, Galás continues her forensic acts of identifying long buried hurts. "On
Defixiones, Will And Testament
she investigates the little known Armenian, Assyrian and Greek genocides carried out by Turkey between 1914 and 1923, with the singer articulating the anger and sorrow of the dispossessed through the words of exiled poets and writers alongside her own texts. Galás covers a whole lotta dying ground in a babel of languages with adaptations of poems by Belgian writer Henri Michaux, Romanian-Jewish Paul Celan, Italian filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini, French symbolist Gérard Nerval, Peruvian Cesar Vallejo, Armenian Siamanto, Syrian Adonis, Assyrian poet-martyr Dr Freidoun Bet-Oraham and more. The set is sung by Galás accompanying herself on piano, tape and a minimum of electronics, though you'd be forgiven for thinking that there are more of her out there coming at you from all sides, as her formidable voice rises to its full power and rattles the walls with its reverberating echoes.
'My voice,'
she said in 1988, '
was given to me as an instrument of inspiration for my friends, and a tool of torture and destruction to my enemies. An instrument of truth.
' With its much-touted three-and-a-half octave range, Galás's voice is the most powerful weapon in her self-designed musical armory." 48 pages hard back book presentation."
Artist:
GALAS, DIAMANDA
Title:
La Serpenta Canta
Label:
MUTE USA
Format:
2CD
Price:
$19.00
Catalog #:
STUMM 206CD
"
La Serpenta Canta
aka 'The Serpent Sings', is a song recital recruiting blues, R&B, Motown, southern soul, Country & Western and her own 'Baby's Insane' (from
This Sporting Life
, her duo album with John Paul Jones) in Galás's ongoing campaign against forgetting. The songs are render in her own inimitable style spanning Eastern Orthodox liturgy, American roots and the rembetika songs of Greece and Asia Minor. This set is sung by Galás accompanying herself on piano and is a collection of live recording from around the world between May 1999 and November 2002 ."
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