Label: Mute U.S.
Category: Music
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Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1
UPC: 724596903728
EAN: 0724596903728
ASIN: B000003Z4Q
Release Date: 1996-10-22
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Artist: Diamanda Galás
Label: Mute U.S. Category: Music Average customer rating:
Format: Live Media: Audio CD Number Of Discs: 1 UPC: 724596903728 EAN: 0724596903728 ASIN: B000003Z4Q Release Date: 1996-10-22 |
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The Scariest Cd, I have ever heard in my life!.......2007-04-10
Um yeah.......2003-11-02
Venture if you dare but be warned.......Mummy ain't here to save you
Do be careful..........2003-08-03
Ambient Diamanda.......2002-05-17
It's not that it doesn't bear close scrutiny. As usual, Galas has unleashed another psychological assault on us that is without peer in non-classical music anywhere that I know of. Consider the last track, "Hee Shock Die". At first glance, it is 7 minutes of Galas auditioning for (and being a shoe-in) for the next cackling witch role in some Hollywood movie. It's all the more surprising, since Galas laughing, however sarcastically, is a rare thing to hear in her music. The only discernible words, meanwhile, are "Okay go" and "Kick my head." Then more of that, now a bit disturbing, laughter. What a chilling shock it is to realize that one is actually hearing 3 people in a room, two of which are torturing the third, and laughing, laughing, laughing as they do. Yikes. And for those who think that Galas is just randomly laughing, note the modulations of the laughter--from the "Deliverance"-style inbred hickness on the one hand, to the hints of Nazi German laughter and the Japanese or Vietnamese POW camp laughter. These details are there if you can stand to listen closely.
Only Diamanda Galas can take us to such places; at least, I know of no one else who does. And not because she is morbid or fixated, focussing on a creature trapped in a space and repeatedly subjected to torture, as the liner notes tell us, but because those darkest corridors of the human psyche are still at work in other countries and in our backyard. And are, moreover, at the heart of the human condition, as the quotation from Job reminds us as well, since in one sense we are all creatures trapped in the cage of the earth, that are repeatedly subjected to tortures. The fact that Galas depicts this, and transforms it into art and artistic expression is, by the way, the refutation of the apparent hopelessness of our condition. As always, her work is about overcoming, creating meaning out of senseless suffering, and so forth.
Meanwhile, I still like to listen to this, one of Galas' most challenging works, as background screams. My mood doesn't call for this often, of course, but when it does, only Diamanda'll do.
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