Diamanda Galás
Encyclopedia
Diamanda Galás is an American
avant-garde
composer
, vocalist, pianist
, organist
, performance artist and painter
.
Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls. Her works largely concentrate on the topics of AIDS
, mental illness
, despair, injustice
, condemnation, and loss of dignity
. She has worked with many avant-garde composers, including Iannis Xenakis
, Vinko Globokar
and John Zorn
.
parents. She studied a wide range of musical forms before moving to Europe. She made her performance debut at the Festival d'Avignon
, in France
, in 1979, performing the lead in the opera Un Jour comme un autre, by composer Vinko Globokar
, based upon Amnesty International
's documentation of the arrest and torture of a Turkish woman for alleged treason.
Galas' first album was The Litanies of Satan, released in 1982. Her second album, "Diamanda Galas", was released in 1984.
Diamanda Galás' work first garnered widespread attention with The Masque of the Red Death, an operatic trilogy which includes The Divine Punishment, Saint of the Pit and You Must Be Certain of the Devil. In it, she details the suffering of people with AIDS. Shortly after the recording of the trilogy's first volume began, her brother, playwright Philip-Dimitri Galás, became sick with the disease, which goaded Galás to redouble her efforts. Philip-Dimitri Galás died in 1986, just before the completion of the trilogy.
In 1988 Galás joined ACT UP
, the AIDS activist group.
In 1989 Galás took part in Stop the Church
, a demonstration at Saint Patrick's Cathedral to protest John Cardinal O'Connor
's opposition to the teaching of safe sex, as well as abortion education. It was organized by Act Up
and WHAM
and was the largest demonstration against a religious organization in American history. Galás was one of 43 people to infiltrate the church, posing as a parishioner. Soon after services began, she, along with other demonstrators, walked quietly to the center isle of the church and lay down, while others chanted, blew whistles and shouted. She was arrested and charged with trespassing and disrupting a religious service. After appearing in court several times, she was granted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD).
In 1990 Galás performed at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
in New York
, the recording of which was released in 1991 as Plague Mass, in which she criticized the Roman Catholic Church
for its indifference to AIDS
.
Galás also sings in a Blues
style, interpreting a wide range of blues songs with her unique piano and vocal styles. This aspect of her work is perhaps best represented by her 1992 album, The Singer, on which she covered
Willie Dixon
, Roy Acuff
, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins
, as well as Gloomy Sunday
", a song written by Hungarian
pianist and composer Rezső Seress
in 1933 and translated into English by Desmond Carter
.
In 1993 Galás released Judgement Day, a video of her performances, and Vena Cava, a live album, recorded at The Kitchen
in 1992.
In 1994 Galás collaborated with Led Zeppelin
bassist
John Paul Jones
, a longtime admirer of the singer. The resulting record, The Sporting Life, was released the same year. She was also featured on the soundtrack for Oliver Stone
's Natural Born Killers
.
In 1995 Galás contributed her voice to the eponymous album of British synth-pop duo, Erasure
, at the invitation of the lead singer, Andy Bell
.
Galás has published one book, The Shit of God, in 1996. It contains many of her original writings. Also in 1996 Galas released Schrei X, a live recording.
In 1997 Galás contributed vocals to the album Closed on Account of Rabies
, a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe
which also included Iggy Pop
, Debbie Harry
and Marianne Faithfull
, lending their voices to the tales of the legendary author. Galás' reading of "The Black Cat
" was the longest recording on the compilation.
In 1998 Galás released Malediction and Prayer, which was recorded live in 1996 and 1997.
In 2000 Galás worked with Recoil
, contributing her voice to the album Liquid. She's the lead vocalist on the album's first single, "Strange Hours", for which she also wrote the lyrics, and can be heard on "Jezebel" and "Vertigen" as a backing vocalist.
In August, 2004 Galás released the album Defixiones, Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead, an 80-minute memorial to the Armenian
, Greek, Assyrian
and Hellenic victims of the Turkish genocide
. Defixiones refers to the warnings on Greek gravestones against removing the remains of the dead. In December 2004 Galás released, La Serpenta Canta a live album including material recorded between May 1999 & November 2002.
In 2005 Galás was awarded Italy's prestigious Demetrio Stratos
International Career Award.
In 2008 Galás released Guilty Guilty Guilty.
Galás' vocals from her song "Orders from the Dead" were used on the album Aealo
by Greek black metal
band Rotting Christ
, released in February 2010.
In 2011 she collaborated with Soviet dissident
artist Vladislav Shabalin for "Aquarium", a sound installation inspired by the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
. The event took place at Leonhardskirche in Basel (Switzerland) from 12 to 19 June.*http://www.shabalin.it/aquarium/en/
during the closing credits. "Le Treizième Revient" and "Exeloume" appear on the soundtrack to Derek Jarman
's The Last of England. She contributed vocals to Francis Ford Coppola
's 1992 film Dracula as a group of female vampires, as well as John Milius
's 1982 film Conan the Barbarian as the voice of a witch. Excerpts from Galás' "I Put a Spell On You", "Vena Cava", "The Lord is My Shepherd", and "Judgement Day" can be heard in Oliver Stone
's Natural Born Killers
.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
avant-garde
Avant-garde
Avant-garde means "advance guard" or "vanguard". The adjective form is used in English to refer to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics....
composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...
, vocalist, pianist
Pianist
A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...
, organist
Organist
An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists...
, performance artist and painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
.
Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", with her three and a half octave vocal range. She often screams, hisses and growls. Her works largely concentrate on the topics of AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
, mental illness
Mental illness
A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture. Such a disorder may consist of a combination of affective, behavioural,...
, despair, injustice
Injustice
Injustice is the lack of or opposition to justice, either in reference to a particular event or act, or as a larger status quo. The term generally refers to misuse, abuse, neglect, or malfeasance that is uncorrected or else sanctioned by a legal system. Misuse and abuse with regard to a particular...
, condemnation, and loss of dignity
Dignity
Dignity is a term used in moral, ethical, and political discussions to signify that a being has an innate right to respect and ethical treatment. It is an extension of the Enlightenment-era concepts of inherent, inalienable rights...
. She has worked with many avant-garde composers, including Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis
Iannis Xenakis was a Romanian-born Greek ethnic, naturalized French composer, music theorist, and architect-engineer. He is commonly recognized as one of the most important post-war avant-garde composers...
, Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.His work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann...
and John Zorn
John Zorn
John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, arranger, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn is a prolific artist: he has hundreds of album credits as performer, composer, or producer...
.
Biography
Diamanda Galás was born and raised in San Diego, California, to Greek OrthodoxEastern Orthodox Church
The Orthodox Church, officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the second largest Christian denomination in the world, with an estimated 300 million adherents mainly in the countries of Belarus, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Georgia, Greece,...
parents. She studied a wide range of musical forms before moving to Europe. She made her performance debut at the Festival d'Avignon
Festival d'Avignon
The Festival d'Avignon, or Avignon Festival, is an annual arts festival held in the French city of Avignon. Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, it is the oldest extant festival in France and one of the world's greatest...
, in France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
, in 1979, performing the lead in the opera Un Jour comme un autre, by composer Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar
Vinko Globokar is a French avant-garde composer and trombonist of Slovene descent.His work is noted for its use of unconventional and extended techniques, closely allying him to contemporaries Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann...
, based upon Amnesty International
Amnesty International
Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organisation whose stated mission is "to conduct research and generate action to prevent and end grave abuses of human rights, and to demand justice for those whose rights have been violated."Following a publication of Peter Benenson's...
's documentation of the arrest and torture of a Turkish woman for alleged treason.
Galas' first album was The Litanies of Satan, released in 1982. Her second album, "Diamanda Galas", was released in 1984.
Diamanda Galás' work first garnered widespread attention with The Masque of the Red Death, an operatic trilogy which includes The Divine Punishment, Saint of the Pit and You Must Be Certain of the Devil. In it, she details the suffering of people with AIDS. Shortly after the recording of the trilogy's first volume began, her brother, playwright Philip-Dimitri Galás, became sick with the disease, which goaded Galás to redouble her efforts. Philip-Dimitri Galás died in 1986, just before the completion of the trilogy.
In 1988 Galás joined ACT UP
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical research and treatment and policies to ultimately bring an end to the disease by mitigating loss of health and...
, the AIDS activist group.
In 1989 Galás took part in Stop the Church
Stop the Church
Stop the Church was a demonstration by members of ACT UP and WHAM held on December 10, 1989 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York. Approximately 4,500 protestors joined in what was the largest demonstration against a religious organization in US history...
, a demonstration at Saint Patrick's Cathedral to protest John Cardinal O'Connor
John Cardinal O'Connor
John Joseph O'Connor was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1984 until his death in 2000, and was created a cardinal in 1985...
's opposition to the teaching of safe sex, as well as abortion education. It was organized by Act Up
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power
AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power is an international direct action advocacy group working to impact the lives of people with AIDS and the AIDS pandemic to bring about legislation, medical research and treatment and policies to ultimately bring an end to the disease by mitigating loss of health and...
and WHAM
Women's Health Action and Mobilization
Women's Health Action and Mobilization is an American activist organization based in New York City, established in 1989 in response to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Webster vs...
and was the largest demonstration against a religious organization in American history. Galás was one of 43 people to infiltrate the church, posing as a parishioner. Soon after services began, she, along with other demonstrators, walked quietly to the center isle of the church and lay down, while others chanted, blew whistles and shouted. She was arrested and charged with trespassing and disrupting a religious service. After appearing in court several times, she was granted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal (ACD).
In 1990 Galás performed at the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, officially the Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, is the cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of New York...
in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
, the recording of which was released in 1991 as Plague Mass, in which she criticized the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
for its indifference to AIDS
AIDS
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus...
.
Galás also sings in a Blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...
style, interpreting a wide range of blues songs with her unique piano and vocal styles. This aspect of her work is perhaps best represented by her 1992 album, The Singer, on which she covered
Cover version
In popular music, a cover version or cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording of a contemporary or previously recorded, commercially released song or popular song...
Willie Dixon
Willie Dixon
William James "Willie" Dixon was an American blues musician, vocalist, songwriter, arranger and record producer. A Grammy Award winner who was proficient on both the Upright bass and the guitar, as well as his own singing voice, Dixon is arguably best known as one of the most prolific songwriters...
, Roy Acuff
Roy Acuff
Roy Claxton Acuff was an American country music singer, fiddler, and promoter. Known as the King of Country Music, Acuff is often credited with moving the genre from its early string band and "hoedown" format to the star singer-based format that helped make it internationally successful.Acuff...
, and Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Jalacy Hawkins , best known as Screamin' Jay Hawkins was an American musician, singer, and actor...
, as well as Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy Sunday
"Gloomy Sunday" is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933, as "Vége a világnak" . Lyrics were written by László Jávor, and in his version the song was retitled "Szomorú vasárnap"...
", a song written by Hungarian
Hungary
Hungary , officially the Republic of Hungary , is a landlocked country in Central Europe. It is situated in the Carpathian Basin and is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine and Romania to the east, Serbia and Croatia to the south, Slovenia to the southwest and Austria to the west. The...
pianist and composer Rezső Seress
Rezso Seress
Rezső Seress was a Hungarian pianist and composer. Some sources give his birth name as Rudolf Spitzer.Rezső Seress lived most of his life in poverty in Budapest, when, being Jewish, was taken to a labour camp by the Nazis during the Second World War...
in 1933 and translated into English by Desmond Carter
Desmond Carter
Herbert Desmond Carter was a British lyricist who worked with George and Ira Gershwin, Ivor Novello, and others, and also wrote one of the first English language versions of the notorious "suicide song", "Gloomy Sunday"....
.
In 1993 Galás released Judgement Day, a video of her performances, and Vena Cava, a live album, recorded at The Kitchen
The Kitchen
The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art and performance space located at at 512 West 19th Street, between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City...
in 1992.
In 1994 Galás collaborated with Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin were an English rock band, active in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Formed in 1968, they consisted of guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant, bassist/keyboardist John Paul Jones, and drummer John Bonham...
bassist
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
John Paul Jones
John Paul Jones (musician)
John Paul Jones is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. Best known as the bassist, mandolinist, and keyboardist for English rock band Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a solo career and has gained even more respect as both a musician and a...
, a longtime admirer of the singer. The resulting record, The Sporting Life, was released the same year. She was also featured on the soundtrack for Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
's Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 crime/black comedy film directed by Oliver Stone about two victims of traumatic childhoods who became lovers and psychopathic serial killers, and are irresponsibly glorified by the mass media...
.
In 1995 Galás contributed her voice to the eponymous album of British synth-pop duo, Erasure
Erasure
Erasure are an English synthpop duo, consisting of songwriter and keyboardist Vince Clarke and singer Andy Bell. Erasure entered the music scene in 1985 with their debut single "Who Needs Love Like That"...
, at the invitation of the lead singer, Andy Bell
Andy Bell (singer)
Andrew Ivan "Andy" Bell is the lead singer of the English synthpop duo Erasure. He also has a solo career, with the albums Non-Stop and Electric Blue.-Early life:Andy Bell originates from the Dogsthorpe area in Peterborough...
.
Galás has published one book, The Shit of God, in 1996. It contains many of her original writings. Also in 1996 Galas released Schrei X, a live recording.
In 1997 Galás contributed vocals to the album Closed on Account of Rabies
Closed On Account of Rabies
Closed On Account of Rabies is a double-CD with poems and tales of Edgar Allan Poe performed by various artists, and produced by Hal Willner...
, a tribute to Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American author, poet, editor and literary critic, considered part of the American Romantic Movement. Best known for his tales of mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the detective...
which also included Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and actor. Though considered an innovator of punk rock, Pop's music has encompassed a number of styles over the years, including pop, metal, jazz and blues...
, Debbie Harry
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...
and Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Evelyn Faithfull is an award-winning English singer, songwriter and actress whose career has spanned five decades....
, lending their voices to the tales of the legendary author. Galás' reading of "The Black Cat
The Black Cat (short story)
"The Black Cat" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. It was first published in the August 19, 1843, edition of The Saturday Evening Post. It is a study of the psychology of guilt, often paired in analysis with Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart"...
" was the longest recording on the compilation.
In 1998 Galás released Malediction and Prayer, which was recorded live in 1996 and 1997.
In 2000 Galás worked with Recoil
Recoil (band)
Recoil is a musical project created by former Depeche Mode member Alan Wilder. Essentially a solo venture, Recoil began whilst Wilder was still in Depeche Mode as an outlet for his experimental, less pop-oriented compositions...
, contributing her voice to the album Liquid. She's the lead vocalist on the album's first single, "Strange Hours", for which she also wrote the lyrics, and can be heard on "Jezebel" and "Vertigen" as a backing vocalist.
In August, 2004 Galás released the album Defixiones, Will and Testament: Orders from the Dead, an 80-minute memorial to the Armenian
Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...
, Greek, Assyrian
Assyrian genocide
The Assyrian Genocide refers to the mass slaughter of the Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac population of the Ottoman Empire during the 1890s, the First World War, and the period of 1922-1925...
and Hellenic victims of the Turkish genocide
Turkish genocide
Turkish genocide may refer the following genocides perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th Century:*Armenian Genocide*Assyrian Genocide*Greek genocide...
. Defixiones refers to the warnings on Greek gravestones against removing the remains of the dead. In December 2004 Galás released, La Serpenta Canta a live album including material recorded between May 1999 & November 2002.
In 2005 Galás was awarded Italy's prestigious Demetrio Stratos
Demetrio Stratos
Efstratios Demetriou better known as Demetrio Stratos was an Italian lyricist, multi-instrumentalist, music researcher, and co-founder, frontman and lead singer of the Italian progressive rock, jazz fusion band Area – International POPular Group.Born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, of Greek...
International Career Award.
In 2008 Galás released Guilty Guilty Guilty.
Galás' vocals from her song "Orders from the Dead" were used on the album Aealo
Aealo
Aealo is the tenth full length album by Greek black metal band Rotting Christ. The CD was recorded between July and October 2009 at Lunatech Studios in Katerini, Greece....
by Greek black metal
Black metal
Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
band Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ is a Greek black metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene.- Line-up :...
, released in February 2010.
In 2011 she collaborated with Soviet dissident
Dissident
A dissident, broadly defined, is a person who actively challenges an established doctrine, policy, or institution. When dissidents unite for a common cause they often effect a dissident movement....
artist Vladislav Shabalin for "Aquarium", a sound installation inspired by the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Mexico
The Gulf of Mexico is a partially landlocked ocean basin largely surrounded by the North American continent and the island of Cuba. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United States, on the southwest and south by Mexico, and on the southeast by Cuba. In...
. The event took place at Leonhardskirche in Basel (Switzerland) from 12 to 19 June.*http://www.shabalin.it/aquarium/en/
Film work
Galás has often worked in the film industry. She was the voice of the dead in The Serpent and the Rainbow. A cover of the Schwartz-Dietz song "Dancing in the Dark" appears in Clive Barker's film Lord Of IllusionsLord of Illusions
Lord of Illusions is a 1995 American horror film, written and directed by the British author, filmmaker and artist Clive Barker. The film is based on his earlier short story, The Last Illusion , and it presents Barker's signature character Harry D'Amour onscreen for the first time. It stars Scott...
during the closing credits. "Le Treizième Revient" and "Exeloume" appear on the soundtrack to Derek Jarman
Derek Jarman
Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman was an English film director, stage designer, diarist, artist, gardener and author.-Life:...
's The Last of England. She contributed vocals to Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors...
's 1992 film Dracula as a group of female vampires, as well as John Milius
John Milius
John Frederick Milius is an American screenwriter, director, and producer of motion pictures.-Early life:Milius was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Elizabeth and William Styx Milius, who was a shoe manufacturer. Milius attempted to join the Marine Corps in the late 1960s, but was rejected...
's 1982 film Conan the Barbarian as the voice of a witch. Excerpts from Galás' "I Put a Spell On You", "Vena Cava", "The Lord is My Shepherd", and "Judgement Day" can be heard in Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Stone became well known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, for which he had previously participated as an infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on...
's Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers
Natural Born Killers is a 1994 crime/black comedy film directed by Oliver Stone about two victims of traumatic childhoods who became lovers and psychopathic serial killers, and are irresponsibly glorified by the mass media...
.
Discography
- 1982 - The Litanies of SatanThe Litanies of SatanThe Litanies of Satan is the debut album of avant-garde performer Diamanda Galás.-Track listing:Side A:#"The Litanies of Satan" – 17:48Side B:#"Wild Women with Steak-Knives " – 12:04...
- 1984 - Diamanda GalásDiamanda Galás (album)Diamanda Galas is the self-titled second full-length album by avant-garde performer Diamanda Galás, released by Metalanguage Records. The album is now out of print and consists of two lengthy compositions.-Musical Style:...
, re-released as "Panoptikon" - 1986 - The Divine PunishmentThe Divine PunishmentThe Divine Punishment is the third full-length album by avant-garde performer Diamanda Galás, and the first installment of her "Masque of the Red Death Trilogy" about the AIDS epidemic...
- 1986 - Saint of the PitSaint of the PitSaint of the Pit is the fourth full-length album by avant-garde performer Diamanda Galás, and the second installment of her "Masque of the Red Death Trilogy" about the AIDS epidemic. In this installment, she focuses on musical settings of poems by French Decadents.-Track listing:-Personnel:*F. M...
- 1988 - You Must Be Certain of the DevilYou Must Be Certain of the DevilYou Must Be Certain of the Devil is the fifth album by avant-garde performer Diamanda Galás, and the third installment of her "Masque of the Red Death Trilogy" about the AIDS epidemic. The selections from this installment are rooted in American gospel music....
- 1989 - Masque of the Red Death Trilogy: The Divine Punishment, Saint of the Pit, and You Must Be Certain of the Devil
- 1991 - Plague MassPlague MassRecorded live in concert on October 12 and 13, 1990 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City.-Track listing:-Personnel:*Kurt Munkacsi - Producer*Blaise Dupuy - Producer*Rory Johnson - Executive Producer...
(Live) - 1992 - The Singer
- 1993 - Vena Cava (Live)
- 1994 - The Sporting LifeThe Sporting Life (album)The Sporting Life is an album by singer Diamanda Galás and multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones, recorded in London and released in 1994.- Track listing :#"Skótoseme" – 6:27#"Do You Take This Man?" – 6:09...
, with John Paul JonesJohn Paul Jones (musician)John Paul Jones is an English multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, composer, arranger and record producer. Best known as the bassist, mandolinist, and keyboardist for English rock band Led Zeppelin, Jones has since developed a solo career and has gained even more respect as both a musician and a... - 1996 - Schrei X (Live)
- 1998 - Malediction & PrayerMalediction & PrayerMalediction and Prayer is an album by Diamanda Galás, featuring live recordings from her concert tour "Malediction and Prayer: Concert for the Damned." It was released in 1998 by Asphodel Ltd.-Track listing:# "Iron Lady" 4:44...
(Live) - 2003 - La Serpenta Canta (Live)
- 2003 - Defixiones, Will and Testament (Live)
- 2008 - Guilty Guilty Guilty (Live)
- 2009 - The Cleopatra Set (Live)
Further reading
- Batchelder, Edward. "The Politics of Disquiet: Diamanda Galás in conversation with Edward Batchelder." New Music Box — "People & Ideas in Profile." November 1, 2003. Interview and accompanying video.
- Bluefat.com (eds.). "The Woman who knows too much: A conversation with Diamanda Galás, avenging queen of the damned." Interview from March 2008.
- Fischer, Tobias. "Interview with Diamanda Galás." tokafi, August 24, 2005.
- Golden, Barbara. "Conversation with Diamanda Galás." eContact! 12.2 — Interviews (2) (April 2010). Montréal: CECCanadian Electroacoustic CommunityFounded in 1986, La Communauté électroacoustique canadienne / The Canadian Electroacoustic Community is Canada’s national electroacoustic / computer music / sonic arts organization and as such is dedicated to promoting this progressive art form in its broadest definition: from “pure” acousmatic...
. - Hellenism.net (eds.). Interview with Diamanda Galás. July 2009.
- Sound installation "Aquarium"http://www.shabalin.it/aquarium/en/. 12–19 June 2011.