Diamanda's next CD, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, will be released in February. Diamanda's decision to work with a great new mastering engineer, for getting the sound right, makes this necessary. Mute doesn't do releases in December and January, so February has been guaranteed. We'll keep you posted!

http://www.diamandagalas.com/news.htm

 

[Glice]

Good news. A new year, and already a record for me to buy. Plus whatever the Fall put out, obviously.

[Dead-Air]

I only hope she focuses on what she can do with her remarkable vocal technique and lays of pretending to be a "serious" singer with smarmy piano ballads and such, as well as the horrible trait of doing spoken word sections where she repeats the same phrase over and over as if it somehow sounds new the 18th time. She can be a very mixed bag.

[luxinterior]

What a woman.

[Everyneurotic]

bonus, will definitely listen to it.

Diamanda Galás

Top Five Revenge Films

http://www.filminfocus.com/essays/to...enge-films.php

 

Diamanda Galás’s new album, Guilty Guilty Guilty, will be released worldwide by MUTE U.K. on March 31, 2008

Diamanda Galás’s much-anticipated compilation of tragic and homicidal love songs, Guilty Guilty Guilty, will be released worldwide by MUTE U.K. on March 31, 2008.
In her 17th album – the first since 2004 –the dark queen of extended vocal techniques turns standards from jazz, blues, and country music into her own musical genre. Using the full extent of her vocal arsenal and a virtuosic piano technique, Galás carves songs of doomed love into haunting works that promise to rip your heart out. Featured on the album are her much acclaimed reinterpretations of Ralph Stanley’s reaper song, “O Death”; O. V. Wright’s “8 Men and 4 Women”; “Long Black Veil” made popular by Johnny Cash; “Time (Interlude)” sung by Timi Yuro; Tracy Nelson’s “Down So Low”; her signature rendition of “Autumn Leaves”; and the favorite “Heaven Have Mercy”, made famous by Edith Piaf.
Guilty Guilty Guilty delves into the grief and outrage of those whose love has been shattered. Sophisticated vocal weaponry combines with a driving, sometimes jaw-dropping, percussive piano style to conjure up raw emotions ranging from fleeting happiness to the terror brought upon by the death of love. With this new album, the avant-garde diva reaches into the heart of blues to take it to new, unheard-of places of lonesomeness, occasionally breaking into Middle Eastern scales or the ululating wail of the Amanes (improvised lamentation from Asia Minor).

“Horror is Galás’s great subject and her performances are an attempt to dramatize it,” writes Greg Kot in The Chicago Tribune (October 2007). “But her music is also defined by empathy, an embrace of the abused, the underdog.”
Guilty Guilty Guilty’s tracks were recorded at “Diamanda’s Valentines Day Massacre,” the Knitting Factory, New York City, February 14, 2006 (7:30 pm & 10:30 pm), except for “Long Black Veil,” recorded at Tonic, New York City, March 20, 2006, and “Interlude (Time),” recorded at Auckland Town Hall, Auckland, New Zealand, October 25, 2005. Recording and mixing engineer is Blaise Dupuy.

[terminal pharmacy]

it was originally slated for november

[PAULYBEE2656]

excellent news!!!!!! bring on the goths