Galas, Diamanda
Diamanda Galas In Concert
'Diamanda Galás In Concert' is not simply a live album. With nothing but a piano and the full expressive range of her extraordinary voice, Diamanda Galás strips away the comforting patina of time, tradition and stylistic convention to expose and express the raw human emotion that is the living heart of a song. It explores an eclectic range of material; rembetika, soul, ranchera, country and free jazz, and her passionate eviscerations reveal their hidden kinship. Four of the songs - 'O Prósfigas,' 'La Llorona,' 'Let My People Go,' and 'Anoixe Pétra' are for and by the forsaken, outcast and debased; the other three are hardboiled love songs.