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	Bone on bone was the sound that Jouannest required from the piano--skeletal--a man on the edge of a breakdown dragging his dead friend through sleeping Paris to bury him with noone to help. Bone on bone is what was gotten since Galás' left hand had just received unforseen surgery so it was like a claw of knives attacking the nine-foot Steinway piano she had demanded. It was curious how it emphasized the horror of the piano writing of Jouannest-- Like a skeleton coming across rocks whilst being dragged along and continuing to be dragged until the grave. Dedicated to Kamal Ackarie and Gregorio Tlalocan Words by Jacques Brel Music by Gérard Jouannest 1966 Performance by Diamanda Galás at LA VILLETTE PARIS June 4 2010 Live engineer Jason Hattams Recorded and mixed by D E F Paris August 8 2010 X-ray of D. Galás hands taken by Dr. S. Beldner NYC Graphics Miah Daley FERNAND is exclusively available here as a high quality WAV file for $5. Unmastered.
	Another chapter of the long electroacoustical vocal work with 5 mics: LES YEUX SANS SANG This is Chapter 9: Blood. Recorded in Amsterdam. June 14, 1984. Photo by Kristofer Buckle Graphics Miah Daley Exclusive download $2
	LES YEUX SANS SANG Recorded in New York 1985. Excerpt. Solo Voice - D. Galás Photo by Kent Strother Graphics Miah Daley Exclusive download $2
	BIRDS OF DEATH at Massey Hall 1998 Diamanda Galás words and music Live performance voice and piano Diamanda Galás Recorded and mixed by Edward Cosla, mastering by Armin Molaee First recorded using synthesizer and musicians in 1988 Berlin, this version for voice and piano reflects Galás' Mikrasian background intuitively, Black Sea region- Pontos- the dromos/makam of the song is used as an improvisational tool for the death lament. Photo: Kristofer Buckle 2010 Graphic: Miah Daley Thanks Garth MacNeil Download available exclusively on this site as a high quality .wav file for $4.
	DANCING IN THE DARK performed by Diamanda Galás, voice and piano (Composed by Moman/Penn, Published by Screen Gems EMI Ltd) From Clive Barker's BEING MUSIC 1999 SONGBOOK SERIES Recorded and mixed by Blaise Dupuy 1994 Diamanda Galás was asked to record an interpretation of the Moman/Penn DANCING IN THE DARK by Clive Barker, for the end-titles of his film LORD OF ILLUSIONS in 1994. The point of Clive's extraordinarily eclectic album is that he uses music which inspires him emotionally when he paints at night. It is rare to hear Fred Astaire, Rachmaninoff, She Who Must Be Obeyed, Stephen Sondheim, Judy Garland, let alone Diamanda on the same music program. BEING MUSIC contains 16 such tracks. "When [Galás'] recording first came in, the production offices came to a halt while I played it, over and over, astonished at Diamanda's sheer creative courage. It's an audacious rediscovery of the power and darkness in the lyrics of the song,which seems to suggest that the lovers are dancing at the End of Things." Clive Barker, from BEING MUSIC 1999, the album of music that inspired a book of over of Barker's 150 paintings. FREE DOWNLOAD CLICK HERE
	ORDERS FROM THE DEAD receives its second incarnation by Galás' Greek brothers ROTTING CHRIST. Sakis Tollis, who is the composer and producer of the band, is from Epirus, which, like Mani, is a primary home of the death lament in Greece. Sakis' orchestration of his powerful band and the Epirotean female singers he chose takes ORDERS FROM THE DEAD into a different place than the original and Galas likes that. "It should be different, rather than the way it was originally." Galás performs original text and that of the great Anatolian Greek writer Dora Soteriou--in English and Greek, and collaboration of now the three different Greeks--Galás, Soteriou, who was the witness in Smyrna, and Rotting Christ, whose recording illustrates the terror of war, including genocide, slams back the Smyrnaic Genocide into the faces of the doubters, revisionists and anti-Greeks in America, Britain, and Turkey. Greeks have always documented their history with the zeal of those who know they have only centuries, and now, decades, left before extinction. For Galás, ROTTING CHRIST's request to cover ORDERS FROM THE DEAD is a further testimony that her efforts and those of all Greek, Assyrian, and Armenian Genocide activists will not be silenced by the Turkish/American/British and Israeli power conglomerate. When DEFIXIONES received its premiere in Los Angeles it was not reviewed, although there were scores of journalists there. When its completed version was premiered in the UK and in Australia all major papers condemned Galás for performing the work in the original languages in which it was written, Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, and Turkish. About Rotting Christ, Diamanda has said, "My brothers have come. My brothers have come." Like the Greek boat her father's relatives saw while fleeing the Turks on the shores of Smyrna, Sakis appeared and said, "May we join you, sister?" GREEK TRANSLATION ORDERS FROM THE DEAD by DIAMANDA GALAS, MUTE RECORDS 2004 INTERPRETED BY ROTTING CHRIST, LEAD VOCALS DIAMANDA GALÁS, Accompanying vocals: Epirotean funeral singers From ROTTING CHRIST'S new CD AEALO, available here: www.season-of-mist.com 2010 Drawing: D. Galas, Graphic: M. Daley Blaise Dupuy, engineering for 2004 ORDERS FROM THE DEAD, available at www.diamandagalas.com/defixiones LISTEN HERE (Right click to download) Αλέξανδρος Μήτσιου Alexandoes Mitsiou, Root of Overthrow Hella ΣΧΟΛΙΑ - ΕΥΓΕ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΑΝΙΑΤΙΣΣΑ DIVA DIAMANDA GALAS & ΣΤΟΥΣ ROTTING CHRIST! ΘΕΡΜΑ ΣΥΓΧΑΡΗΤΗΡΙΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΠΡΟΙΚΙΣΜΕΝΗ ΣΥΝΑΓΩΝΙΣΤΡΙΑ DIAMANDA GALAS ΚΑΙ ΣΤΟΥΣ ΜΕΤΑΛΛΙΚΟΥΣ ROTTING CHRIST! Η DIAMANDA ΕΧΕΙ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΚΑΤΑΓΩΓΗ ΑΠΟ ΤΗΝ ΜΑΝΗ, ΚΑΘΩΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΡΜΕΝΙΚΕΣ ΡΙΖΕΣ, ΕΙΝΑΙ ΔΙΕΘΝΩΣ ΚΑΤΑΞΙΩΜΕΝΗ ΑΟΙΔΟΣ ΚΑΙ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΟΣ, ΚΟΡΥΦΑΙΑ UNDERGROUND ΓΟΗΤΕΥΤΙΚΗ DIVA ΚΑΙ ΕΝΘΕΡΜΗ ΕΛΛΗΝΙΔΑ ΠΑΤΡΙΩΤΙΣΣΑ! ΕΥΓΕDIAMANDA KAI R.C.! ΠΑΝΤΑ ΤΕΤΟΙΑ ΠΑΙΔΙΑ ΤΗΣ INTERNATIONAL UNDERGROUND ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ! ME AΓΑΠΗ, ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ ΜΗΤΣΙΟΥ & ΤΗΕ ROOT OF OVERTHROW! For the original ORDERS FROM THE DEAD, composed and performed by Diamanda Galás in 2002, go to the DEFIXIONES page which has the performance and the English text, written by Galás.
	Diamanda has never performed ALL THE WAY in public. This live recording of Diamanda Galas on voice and piano was done in NYC at CMS rehearsal studios in February 2006. It was the first and only take. Blaise Dupuy used vocal distortion and short delays on the piano, at Diamanda's request. Postproduction and mixing was done in February 2010 by D E F in Paris. Diamanda and D E F enjoy a long-distance working relationship where each settles in for a 48 hour patch and D E F's mixes go back and forth from Paris to NYC. "It is like being alive," Diamanda states. The photo is the Wolfmoon, taken by Richard Morrison on January 29 2010. When Diamanda first saw it, she felt it had a lot in common with her decades' long interest in this song as an all or nothing anthem. With hovering Mars making the Moon ever brighter, we at Intravenal Sound Operations feel that ALL THE WAY speaks for us. There is no greater love than that which burns us and then passes without remorse. Lyrics by Sammy Cahn. Music by James Van Heusen. Live voice and piano by Diamanda Galás Graphics by Miah Daley Available exclusively on this site as a high quality .wav file for $3.
	BALM IN GILEAD was performed by Diamanda Galás at the Knitting Factory in the mid-90's and recorded and mixed by Blaise Dupuy. The work is part of her ongoing AIDS performances which began in 1984 in San Francisco. Photo by Richard Morrison. "Les Catacombes, Montparnasse, Paris" Artwork by Alamgir Bhuiya.
	THE BLACK CAT Free download for the "holidays"! "Galás' rendition of 'The Black Cat' is as intense an excursion into the ambiance of homocidal insanity as one is likely to encounter this side of a jail cell. Even more gratifying to Poe scholars is the fact that Galas groks Poe's bizarre but highly disciplined mentality. GK Chesterton said that madhouses were not stocked so much with empty-head people as with people who think too much" -- Michael A.Hoffman, Amazon.com Read by Diamanda Galás Recorded at Sorcerer Sound Studio, NY Mixed at the Looking Glass Studio, NY Recording Engineer: Blaise Dupuy Mix Engineer: Martin Brumbach Music Production: Hal Wilner, using excerpts composed by O.Sieben, G.Walters, J.Cacavas, and K.Levinsky. Photo by kristofer buckle; processing by alamgir bhuiya CLICK TO LISTEN (Right click to download)
	O DEATH PERFORMED LIVE BY DIAMANDA GALÁS, VOICE, AND IMPERIAL CONCERT GRAND AT THE ALL TOMORROW'S PARTIES FESTIVAL AT CAMBER SANDS. Recorded in November 2006. Live mixing by Blaise Dupuy. Post-production and final mix by D E F. Photo by Richard Morrison. Font: Alamgir This legendary performance, done at the invitation of Mars Volta, is unparalleled by any soloist since Jimi Hendrix. Period. Voice and piano are one ax. Forget singer-songwriters. This is a new tradition for voice and piano that has never been heard before and never will again. The festival tech crew noticed there was blood on the keyboard after her performance. Galás said, " Yeah, it felt right, that show. Probably broke a few fingernails. Nice night." Jazz writers and blues writers cannot hear her music as directly contributing to their research, although they will one day, but the Greeks can hear the amanes singing that fronts the work -- making it close only to Ethiopian singing, which combines the inheritance of Byzantium from the Greek and Coptic churches with the Blues, as Galás does here. For Galás it is a natural inheritance of a Greek Egyptian/Smyrnaic and Maniate blood – and an American homeland. Critics, take note. Study. This is the Professor. Her father and Johnny Otis would be proud. Available exclusively on this site as a high quality .wav file for $3.
	Diamanda Galás' cover of Gloomy Sunday is currently the most famous and infamous interpretation that exists. It is currently world-renowned, and inexplicably banned in Thailand, which amuses Galas, since she suggests it must be the only thing there that is banned. This performance is from Galás' concert in Paris in the Spring of 2008 at Theatre La Villetté "If there is anyone in our....era closer to being judged as a modern " classic," I don't know who it is. [Galás] is one of the most original artists musical culture has produced in the last thirty years."--Mark Grant, New Music Box, 2007 Ken Hypes: live performance engineering D E F: recording and post-production. Photo by Kristofer Buckle Exclusively available here as a high quality .wav file for $2.00
	"...A voice of the disposessed that dances across octaves and cuts like a knife." - Petra Davis, from Diamanda Galás: Judge Jury and Executiioner. PLAN B, May 2008. We are very thrilled to offer the fervent, soaring You Don't Know What Love Is. A nightmare anthem of a love affair, in which day and night are equal and there is no ending. This is the third song to be released from Diamanda's April 15 2008 concert at La Villette in Paris. Engineered & mixed by D E F. Exclusively available here as a high quality .wav file for $3.
	"I don't like passive people or those who talk out of both sides of their mouth." -Diamanda Galás The follow up single of Intravenal Sound Operations' new digital first online releases. Here exclusively, as a high quality audio .wav file download for $2. Phenomenal befits her incomparable rendition of Pardon Me, I've Got Someone to Kill, dedicated to "Big Dick" Harlow and recorded April 15 2008 at Cité de la Musique, Concert Hall in La Villette, Paris. Live concert engineer: Ken Hypes. Mixing + post-production: D E F. New singles to be released monthly. Some will be included in her forthcoming Cleopatra Set.

Courageous, vampiric, scorching, magnificent: performer Diamanda Galás execution of A Soul That's Been Abused was recorded live at La Villette, Paris. It is this year's first release on her Intravenal Sound Operations label. Only available here as a high quality digital .wav audio file for $2.

New songs will be released monthly, creating the standout Cleopatra Set: a collection of the most electrifying, previously unreleased performances and exceptional re-interpretations. In the words of Antony Hegarty of The Johnsons, "She strives for excellence with each breath, her singing is unrivalled, she is Olympic in her skill and quite simply, she stands alone."

Recorded on April 15 2008 at Cité de la Musique, Concert Hall in La Villette, Paris. Live concert engineer: Ken Hypes. Mixing + post-production: D E F.

We got turned-out upon hearing this, and so are sharing this kickin' jawdropping electronic dance mashup by Virtual DJ from Holland. Click HERE for this limited free download of I PUT A SPELL ON YOU by Diamanda Galás vs. IDEALISTIC by Digitalism. Virtual DJ's mashups are at http://masheduniverse.blogspot.com.

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