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Malediction & Prayer
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 5016025611638
Format: Import, Live
Label: Mute
Manufacturer: Mute
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Mute
Release Date: February 17, 2002
Studio: Mute
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Editorial Review:
You'd have to look long and hard to find a more unclassifiable artist than Diamanda Galas. Her mesmerizing voice sounds something like Tina Turner, something like Janis Joplin, and something like Jessye Norman. It's hard to pay attention to what she's actually singing at first; Galas's voice is that compelling, from the deep, heavy notes of "Iron Lady" to the high, shivering pitches of "The Thrill Is Gone." She takes everything from French writer Baudelaire's "Abel et Cain" to legendary bluesman Son House's "Death Letter" and makes them her own, the thundering chords and deep growls of her piano complementing her astounding voice perfectly. Love her or not, Diamanda Galas will provoke a deep-seated response such as few vocalists can aspire to. --Genevieve Williams
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Just amazing
You can never tell whatcha might get with Diamanda, but I love that in her.
This album absolutely blew me away, nothing I thought it would be and I love the fact that I got chills from the softness you can actually hear in her voice on most of the tracks, it's a definate top cd of mine.
Rating: - STILL LISTENING TO DIAMANDA
I wrote a review awhile back in 2001 and my view of this cd hasn't changed. I still very much enjoy this cd. Since then, I have bought her two other subsequent releases: "La Serpenta Canta", and oh I forgot the title of the other cd. Oh well, check this cd out; I'm sure Diamanda would appreciate it.
Julius-Allan
Rating:  - Scary...
...I first heard of Diamanda Galas more than 15 years ago, and before her music I knew about her outspoken nature. I read in a magazine about how she wanted to f--- a man because she wanted one to know what it was like to be raped. Okay...a few years later at a conference about AIDS she proclaimed one of the big problems about the disease was she couldn't get laid easily anymore (though someone else on the panel said he'd be glad to oblige her).
Anyway...the shocking blue madness of ... Read More
Rating: - crystalline horror
When you've listened to Galas before, and felt chills down your spine from the cries on Vena Cava or Litanies of Satan, this will probably surprise you. Unmistakenly Galas, with her voice somewhat richer, deepened in musical texture, the songs nevertheless are sometimes actually beautiful to listen to, instead of little musical displays of horror. Both the recording and the music are, in want of a better word, clear. Dark sides are, of course, crucial to this clearness.
Rating: - Shocking
Hopefully You've never listened to Diamanda Galas before.
If that's you, and you've just stumbled upon this album, be prepared for a strange musical experience.
This is a compilation of Diamanda Galas tracks performed LIVE. There is a great difference between this album and her studio releases. A lot of raw emotion is captured here that would've otherwise been tamed down in the studio.
It will SHOCK you!
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