Diamanda Galás - Τραγούδια από το Αίμα Εχούv Φονός (High Quality)

Track 2 from the Self-Titled LP "Diamanda Galás" (Recorded in 1982-1983, Released in 1984) Diamanda Galás is an Avant-Garde musician and a visual performance artist. Most well known both for having what is know as one of wildest vocal ranges in music history, and Her commitment to addressing social issues and themes as diverse as the AIDS epidemic, mental illness, despair, loss of dignity, as well as political injustice, historical revisionism and war crimes, among much else (some of these themes are issues of which Galás herself witnessed in the past) . Galás has attracted the attention of the press particularly for her voice (a soprano sfogato ) and written accounts that describe her work as original and thought-provoking refer to her as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror", an "aesthetic revolutionary", "a mourner for the world's victims" and "an envoy of risk, honesty and commitment" Diamanda Galás Self-Titled LP is her 2nd studio output. A conceptual album to which it is received as one of her most politically charged. The album's first track, "Panoptikon" (named after Panopticon, a type of prison building designed to allow all areas of a prison to be seen from one vantage point), deals with imprisonment, isolation, torture and extreme alienation as well as homicidal mania and vengeance. It incorporates tape, electronic manipulations and distortion. It was composed by Diamanda Galas, with additional lyrics from In the Belly of the Beast by criminal and author Jack Abbott. "Τραγούδια από το Αίμα Εχούv Φονός" (Song from the Blood of Those Murdered), recorded in 1981, consists solely of vocals in numerous vignettes. The recording is similar in texture to "Wild Women With Steak-Knives" from her debut album "The Litanies of Satan" (1982), but when the latter was hysterical and loud,"Τραγούδια" is slow, ghoulish and mournful.The chanting was inspired by the tradition of Greek mourning rites, where women mourn the dead as well as seek revenge for the person responsible for the death. The words of "Τραγούδια" are sung in Greek and refer to the victims of the Greek junta regime that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974.

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