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DIAMANDA GALAS: THE OTHERWORDLY DIVA TACKLES ARMENIA
By Nicole Gluckstern
San Francisco Bay Guardian, CA
Oct 18 2006
Leave it to the Germans to invent one multisyllabic word for something
we English speakers can only express in full sentences.
Dubbing the multilingual, three-and-a-half-octave vocal acrobatics of
Diamanda Galas Schreioper (shriek opera), they've captured both the
technical virtuosity and the theatrical quality of her performances.
Something akin to a one-woman force of nature, the classically trained
musical extremist has long turned to the dark side for inspiration,
revealing demonic sympathies with her 1982 Litanies of Satan and
creating pieces on the AIDS epidemic for a trilogy of mid-'80s
recordings.
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.ph p?entry_id=1899&catid=85&volume_id=254& ;issue_id=257&volume_num=41&issue_num=03
By Nicole Gluckstern
San Francisco Bay Guardian, CA
Oct 18 2006
Leave it to the Germans to invent one multisyllabic word for something
we English speakers can only express in full sentences.
Dubbing the multilingual, three-and-a-half-octave vocal acrobatics of
Diamanda Galas Schreioper (shriek opera), they've captured both the
technical virtuosity and the theatrical quality of her performances.
Something akin to a one-woman force of nature, the classically trained
musical extremist has long turned to the dark side for inspiration,
revealing demonic sympathies with her 1982 Litanies of Satan and
creating pieces on the AIDS epidemic for a trilogy of mid-'80s
recordings.
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.ph p?entry_id=1899&catid=85&volume_id=254& ;issue_id=257&volume_num=41&issue_num=03