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Galás is a singer, musician and artist renowned as much for her uncompromising personality as her experimental work and four-octave range. That unearthly voice is used to stunning effect on the track, as she growls out a dark tale of love, betrayal and guilt in a primal Southern growl.
On her 17th album - the first since 2004 -the queen of extended vocal techniques turns standards from jazz, blues, and country music into her own musical genre. Using the full extent of her vocal arsenal and a virtuosic piano technique, Galás carves songs of doomed love into haunting works that promise to rip your heart out.
Featured on the album are her much acclaimed reinterpretations of Ralph Stanley's reaper song, "O Death"; O. V. Wright's "8 Men and 4 Women"; "Long Black Veil" made popular by Johnny Cash; "Time (Interlude)" sung by Timi Yuro; Tracy Nelson's "Down So Low"; her signature rendition of "Autumn Leaves"; and the favorite "Heaven Have Mercy", made famous by Edith Piaf.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
To experience Diamanda Galas once is never to forget.
For The Wolf his own encounter took place at
The Queen Elizabeth Hall on the 20th of March 2008.
All of London's night creatures were in attendance.
The evening as much a ritual as a performance.
A darkened stage, a shadowy hunched figure at the piano,
a little judiciously wafted dry ice and an extraordinary
musical experience.
Essentially what I heard that evening and what you will
hear in this newly released live album is The Blues.
'Guilty Guilty Guilty' (Amazon appears to have identified
exclamation marks absent from my own edition) delivers
The Blues like you never heard it before.
Ms Galas' multi-octave voice hurls these seven songs around
in a totally otherworldly way. A cast-iron larynx for certain.
Raw and uncompromising.
An aquired taste but a taste certainly worth aquiring.
There is great beauty and restraint in this music as well
as blood-curdling excess.
'Interlude ( Time )' is one of the most affecting songs I think
I've ever heard; a calm centre to the performance before the
bleak percussive shards of 'Autumn Leaves' sweep us back once again
into cold, bleak territory. A very fine rendition of a great classic.
Ms Galas' pianistic skills are generally commented on far less
that her vocal gymnastics. It is the sum of these two indivisible
elements together which create the magisterial whole.
'O Death' perhaps the most consummate, terrifying example.
This is elemental music. Not for the cynical or the faint-hearted.
Although not an easy or comfortable listen 'Guilty Guilty Guilty'
none-the-less manages to be perhaps her most accessible recording.
Blues from Heaven and from Hell.
Unique and Totally Thrilling.
Highly recommended.
For The Wolf his own encounter took place at
The Queen Elizabeth Hall on the 20th of March 2008.
All of London's night creatures were in attendance.
The evening as much a ritual as a performance.
A darkened stage, a shadowy hunched figure at the piano,
a little judiciously wafted dry ice and an extraordinary
musical experience.
Essentially what I heard that evening and what you will
hear in this newly released live album is The Blues.
'Guilty Guilty Guilty' (Amazon appears to have identified
exclamation marks absent from my own edition) delivers
The Blues like you never heard it before.
Ms Galas' multi-octave voice hurls these seven songs around
in a totally otherworldly way. A cast-iron larynx for certain.
Raw and uncompromising.
An aquired taste but a taste certainly worth aquiring.
There is great beauty and restraint in this music as well
as blood-curdling excess.
'Interlude ( Time )' is one of the most affecting songs I think
I've ever heard; a calm centre to the performance before the
bleak percussive shards of 'Autumn Leaves' sweep us back once again
into cold, bleak territory. A very fine rendition of a great classic.
Ms Galas' pianistic skills are generally commented on far less
that her vocal gymnastics. It is the sum of these two indivisible
elements together which create the magisterial whole.
'O Death' perhaps the most consummate, terrifying example.
This is elemental music. Not for the cynical or the faint-hearted.
Although not an easy or comfortable listen 'Guilty Guilty Guilty'
none-the-less manages to be perhaps her most accessible recording.
Blues from Heaven and from Hell.
Unique and Totally Thrilling.
Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD|Amazon Verified Purchase
A greek woman who can transpose herself into the spirit of a 1920's black blues destroyer, one of the only known, who can actually transcend the originals. Not only does she drop into the vertical abyss of despair, penury, heartbreak but she quaffs a deep draft from the well of misery to slake her thirst with her hands hammering the ivories. The vocal chords are a frequency weapon delivered with the power of a rocket. The only way to describe the effect live is to imagine being on a runway as the plane warms up and then hurtles at 500mph into the night sky. This is G Force Diamanda. Her voice sieves the erstatz from the real and leaves the rest of the modern day female vocal cohorts appearing as lollipop ladies on the zebra crossing of life. Stuck with a big sign, dressed in brightly garish clothes doing a worthwhile job, taking the pocket money from children to play bingo.
Diamanda sets the standard to judge everyone else and this record along with the Singer is the measurement of wannabees blues singers such as Amy Winehouse or her copyists. Play this loud and hell will freeze, the birds will no longer sing and smoke will rise from the floor. Neighbours will stare at you with shock and awe, too afraid to ask you to turn it down lest you gaze at their visage and turn them into stone.
It is the feeling of power and you can tune in for the price of a CD. In Delvisland Diamanda is the Ice Queen and the rest are flakes.
Diamanda sets the standard to judge everyone else and this record along with the Singer is the measurement of wannabees blues singers such as Amy Winehouse or her copyists. Play this loud and hell will freeze, the birds will no longer sing and smoke will rise from the floor. Neighbours will stare at you with shock and awe, too afraid to ask you to turn it down lest you gaze at their visage and turn them into stone.
It is the feeling of power and you can tune in for the price of a CD. In Delvisland Diamanda is the Ice Queen and the rest are flakes.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Where do you begin to review Diamanda without falling back on cliche? You don't. This is intimate, intimidating, up-close and personal. Just sit back and experience it. Whether you're a hardened fan or this is your introduction - you'll be carried along.
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