Artist: Diamanda Galas
Genre(s):
Trance: Psychedelic
Vocal
Industrial
Alternative
Avantgarde
Discography:
La Serpenta Canta (CD 2)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 8
La Serpenta Canta (CD 1)
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Defixiones: Will and Testament (CD 2)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
Defixiones: Will and Testament (CD 1)
Year: 2003
Tracks: 8
Schrei X
Year: 1996
Tracks: 24
Scheri X
Year: 1996
Tracks: 24
The Sporting Life
Year: 1994
Tracks: 11
The Divine Punishment - Saint Of The Pit
Year: 1994
Tracks: 7
Vena Cava
Year: 1993
Tracks: 8
The Singer
Year: 1992
Tracks: 10
Plague Mass
Year: 1991
Tracks: 10
Masque Of The Red Death (CD 2) - You Must Be Certain Of The Devil
Year: 1989
Tracks: 8
Masque Of The Red Death (CD 1) - Divine Punishment - Saint Of The Pit
Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
You Must Be Certain Of The Devil
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
You Must Be Certain Of Devil
Year: 1988
Tracks: 8
The Litanies Of Satan
Year: 1988
Tracks: 2
The Divine Punishment
Year: 1986
Tracks: 7
Malediction and Prayer
Year:
Tracks: 12
A ferociously confrontational van performing artist noted for her bawling, four-octave vocal range, Diamanda Galas was born and elevated in San Diego, California. The daughter of Greek Orthodox parents, her singing was roundly discouraged, although her prowess as a classical piano player was nurtured; finally, her strict upbringing resulted in a reckless, drug-fueled early days prior to her ingress into the University of California's music and visual liberal arts syllabus.
Galas made her playing debut in 1979 at France's Festival d'Avignon, which light-emitting diode to an invitation to accept the lead role in composer Vinko Globokar's politically-charged opera Un Jour Comme un Autre. In subsequent solo performance-art pieces like Wild Women With Steak Knives and Tragouthia apo to Aima Exon Fonos, Galas further honed her unequalled, smashing vocal style, elysian by the Schrei ("scream") opera house of German expressionism (a bod employing a system of four microphones and a series of echoes and delays).
Galas made her recorded debut in 1982 with The Litanies of Satan, a provocative put to work comprised of a outspoken adjustment of a verse form by Charles Baudelaire. After the prison-themed performance piece Panoptikon (documented on a self-titled 1984 release), she began development a trilogy of albums known collectively as The Masque of the Red Death; released independently betwixt 1986 and 1988 as The Divine Punishment, Saint of the Pit and You Must Be Certain of the Devil, the three records catalogued Galas' litany against the AIDS epidemic, which claimed her blood brother, dramatist Philip-Dimitri Galas, in 1986.
With 1990's The Singer, she made her outset elusive advances into the realm of pop music; reprising some of the same creed material which snaked through The Masque of the Red Death, the track record too featured her covers of Willie Dixon's "Insane Asylum" and Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You." 1993's Vena Cava, an a cappella cause, preceded 1994's The Sporting Life, a collaborationism with previous Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones. A track record of Galas' 1994 receiving set work Schrei X followed in 1996, in tandem bicycle with her number one rule book collection, The Shit of God. She returned two years later with Malediction and Prayer.
