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| 1. Litanies of Satan |
| 2. Wild Women With Steak-Knives (The Homocidal Love Song for Solo Scream) |
Litanies of Satan,Diamanda Galas,Fine Line Records,Experimental,No Wave,Rock,Rock/Pop
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ASIN: B000026ZJC |
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Uneven but technically interesting.......2004-05-07
The titular song builds and descends several times as Diamanda interprets Baudelaire's poem as an invocation. Though the poem could be read timidly as a long plea for respite, she unwaveringly shrieks the pain that brings someone to side with her tormentor. Eventually she identifies with her subject and speaks with his voice. At the climax, the relationship resembles schizophrenia until a single voice emerges from the din bringing the event to a (somewhat unsatisfactory) close.
"Wild Women with Steaknives" lacks the power of "Litanies of Satan," but being less ridden with effects her voice and style are free to speak for themselves. In this regard her later work shows growth as the song is interesting more on a technical level than an emotional one. Schrei X is an evolution of the "Wild Women" sound that succeeds emotionally although being more vocally minimalist.
Of all of Diamanda's albums, I have difficulty determining the message behind this one. Rarely (if ever) does she sing without intent, but the two songs on this disc fail to cohere like her later work. The album The Singer has a similar problem. In both cases, it seems more like she's trying out a singing style to see how it fits. Once comfortable, she begins to use the style as a medium as opposed to an exercise. Plague Mass serves as a better introduction to this side of her music, while Malediction & Prayer better covers the more melodic aspect.
The Litanies Of Satan ~ Diamanda Galas.......2002-02-25
"I am not talking about steak....".......2001-04-11
WWWSK is an aural "exploration" for lack of a better word, of a woman in the throes of schizophrenia. Mixing glossolalia, reverb, spatial delay, signal processing, and multi-tracking, Galas brings out the many complex layers of this woman's psyche. There is much terror and humor in her "words", sometimes the two emotions colliding in the same sound-space. You will understand what I mean only upon hearing it numerous times. Each listening brings a new experience to the listener.
What is so amazing to me is that I have been playing this for more than 11 years, and it still sounds and is BEYOND the avant-garde in music. To call her art "music" is in many ways a disservice. What Galas does is so much more. Her compositions take the listener into places of the human experience most of us will never know. It is her unique ability to communicate psychological, emotional and psychical states of consciousness with such force and clarity that keeps her from being merely 'categorized' for the comfort of art and music critics alike.
She will continue to drag the art, music and social critics kicking and screaming into the future that is her particular style of Expressionism.
"O, Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere..."
Majestic and Grotesque -- A Great Place to Start.......2000-08-26
scary!.......1998-10-03
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Litanies of Satan
Masochistic Religion Manufacturer: Truly Diabolic ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B00008FWZ9 Release Date: 1998-02-03 |
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Litanies of Satan
Diamanda Galas Manufacturer: Dead Line ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Punk
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ASIN: B000008FV2 Release Date: 1992-04-01 |
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Litanies of Satan
Diamanda Galas Manufacturer: Emi ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General
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ASIN: B000026CXT Release Date: 1999-07-15 |
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Uneven but technically interesting.......2004-05-07
The titular song builds and descends several times as Diamanda interprets Baudelaire's poem as an invocation. Though the poem could be read timidly as a long plea for respite, she unwaveringly shrieks the pain that brings someone to side with her tormentor. Eventually she identifies with her subject and speaks with his voice. At the climax, the relationship resembles schizophrenia until a single voice emerges from the din bringing the event to a (somewhat unsatisfactory) close.
"Wild Women with Steaknives" lacks the power of "Litanies of Satan," but being less ridden with effects her voice and style are free to speak for themselves. In this regard her later work shows growth as the song is interesting more on a technical level than an emotional one. Schrei X is an evolution of the "Wild Women" sound that succeeds emotionally although being more vocally minimalist.
Of all of Diamanda's albums, I have difficulty determining the message behind this one. Rarely (if ever) does she sing without intent, but the two songs on this disc fail to cohere like her later work. The album The Singer has a similar problem. In both cases, it seems more like she's trying out a singing style to see how it fits. Once comfortable, she begins to use the style as a medium as opposed to an exercise. Plague Mass serves as a better introduction to this side of her music, while Malediction & Prayer better covers the more melodic aspect.
The Litanies Of Satan ~ Diamanda Galas.......2002-02-25
"I am not talking about steak....".......2001-04-11
WWWSK is an aural "exploration" for lack of a better word, of a woman in the throes of schizophrenia. Mixing glossolalia, reverb, spatial delay, signal processing, and multi-tracking, Galas brings out the many complex layers of this woman's psyche. There is much terror and humor in her "words", sometimes the two emotions colliding in the same sound-space. You will understand what I mean only upon hearing it numerous times. Each listening brings a new experience to the listener.
What is so amazing to me is that I have been playing this for more than 11 years, and it still sounds and is BEYOND the avant-garde in music. To call her art "music" is in many ways a disservice. What Galas does is so much more. Her compositions take the listener into places of the human experience most of us will never know. It is her unique ability to communicate psychological, emotional and psychical states of consciousness with such force and clarity that keeps her from being merely 'categorized' for the comfort of art and music critics alike.
She will continue to drag the art, music and social critics kicking and screaming into the future that is her particular style of Expressionism.
"O, Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere..."
Majestic and Grotesque -- A Great Place to Start.......2000-08-26
scary!.......1998-10-03
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ASIN: B00005Q3J7 Release Date: 2001-01-01 |
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Album Description
Toronto's Masochistic Religion have masterfully pulled off their most ambitious project to date, a soundtrack to the work of nineteenth century French poet Charles-Pierre Baudelaire. Indeed, the band succeeds in capturing the haunting and disdainful essence of Baudelaire's poetry, the very overpoweringly grim air that caused the poet much persecution. Often referred to as a Goth band, yet never allowing limits to be imposed on their music, the band's latest effort creates thick, almost suffocating atmosphere out of diverse instrumentation that is both refreshing in it's primarily organic composition and unnerving in it's effectiveness. And while the music can generically be described as darkly powerful and brooding, etc., each track has a distinct life and essence of it's own, avoiding the pitfalls of a disc filled to capacity with repetition. Obvious influences span from sixteenth century chant to romantic and modern classical, to gothic rock, and while basic rock moldings are avoided, the music has definite structure that ebbs and flows with a life of it's own, instead of simply taking a back seat to a poetry reading. Piano, violin, cello, simple percussion, and an occasional guitar and keyboard comprise the bulk of the pieces, mingling eerily with poetry recitations taking shape in the shifting guises of delicate children's chatter (which is especially creepy), deep resounding male and female voices muted whispers, and hissed growling. Reminiscent in tone of a more morose Current 93, this disc should be welcomed by anyone craving something new in dark music, but weary of overused cheesy keyboard orchestrations of the predictable structure that puts the rock into gothic.from Carpe Noctem
written by Andrew Corson
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Litanies of Satan
Diamanda Galas Manufacturer: Fine Line Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Punk
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ASIN: B000000IHK Release Date: 1995-10-31 |
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Uneven but technically interesting.......2004-05-07
The titular song builds and descends several times as Diamanda interprets Baudelaire's poem as an invocation. Though the poem could be read timidly as a long plea for respite, she unwaveringly shrieks the pain that brings someone to side with her tormentor. Eventually she identifies with her subject and speaks with his voice. At the climax, the relationship resembles schizophrenia until a single voice emerges from the din bringing the event to a (somewhat unsatisfactory) close.
"Wild Women with Steaknives" lacks the power of "Litanies of Satan," but being less ridden with effects her voice and style are free to speak for themselves. In this regard her later work shows growth as the song is interesting more on a technical level than an emotional one. Schrei X is an evolution of the "Wild Women" sound that succeeds emotionally although being more vocally minimalist.
Of all of Diamanda's albums, I have difficulty determining the message behind this one. Rarely (if ever) does she sing without intent, but the two songs on this disc fail to cohere like her later work. The album The Singer has a similar problem. In both cases, it seems more like she's trying out a singing style to see how it fits. Once comfortable, she begins to use the style as a medium as opposed to an exercise. Plague Mass serves as a better introduction to this side of her music, while Malediction & Prayer better covers the more melodic aspect.
The Litanies Of Satan ~ Diamanda Galas.......2002-02-25
"I am not talking about steak....".......2001-04-11
WWWSK is an aural "exploration" for lack of a better word, of a woman in the throes of schizophrenia. Mixing glossolalia, reverb, spatial delay, signal processing, and multi-tracking, Galas brings out the many complex layers of this woman's psyche. There is much terror and humor in her "words", sometimes the two emotions colliding in the same sound-space. You will understand what I mean only upon hearing it numerous times. Each listening brings a new experience to the listener.
What is so amazing to me is that I have been playing this for more than 11 years, and it still sounds and is BEYOND the avant-garde in music. To call her art "music" is in many ways a disservice. What Galas does is so much more. Her compositions take the listener into places of the human experience most of us will never know. It is her unique ability to communicate psychological, emotional and psychical states of consciousness with such force and clarity that keeps her from being merely 'categorized' for the comfort of art and music critics alike.
She will continue to drag the art, music and social critics kicking and screaming into the future that is her particular style of Expressionism.
"O, Satan, prends pitie de ma longue misere..."
Majestic and Grotesque -- A Great Place to Start.......2000-08-26
scary!.......1998-10-03
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