Diamanda Galás

All the Way + At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem

 ^{Diamanda Galás — All the Way + At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem}  ↔★••→   All the Way and At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem are Galás’ first albums since 2008.
↔★••→   Live at St. Thomas the Apostle documents Galás’ volcanic May 2016 performance at St. Thomas the Apostle church in Harlem NY, described by the New York Times as “guttural and operatic, baleful and inconsolable, spiritual and earthy, polyglot and wordless, nuanced and unhinged.” The concert, produced by Intravenal Sound Operations and Red Bull Music Academy, was composed exclusively of what Galás calls “death songs”.    © Diamanda Galas performs on the opening night of Antony's Meltdown at the Royal Festival Hall Photograph Matt Kent Redferns 
Location: New York, New York
Album release: March 24, 2017
Record Label: INTRAVENAL SOUND OPERATIONS
Duration:     41:08 + 56:47 + ? => 97:55
Tracks:
All the Way:
01 All The Way     7:17
02 You Don’t Know What Love Is     6:23
03 The Thrill Is Gone     7:20
04 Round Midnight     4:16
05 O Death     10:55
06 Pardon Me I’ve Got Someone To Kill     4:57
At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem:
01 Verrá la more e avrá tuoi occhi     8:51
02 Anoixe Petra     5:20    
03 Angels     5:09
04 Die Stunde Kommt     9:40
05 Fernand     5:40
06 O Death     10:06
07 Amsterdam     6:29
08 Artemis     5:32
09 Let My People Go
© 2017, Diamanda GalasCredits:
↔★••→   Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi
Text: Cesare Pavese
Music: Diamanda Galás
↔★••→   Anoixe Petra
Text: Lefteris Papadopoulos
Music: Mimmis Plessas
↔★••→   Angels
Music: Albert Ayler
↔★••→   Die Stunde Kommt
Text: Ferdinand Freiligrath 
Music: Diamanda Galás
↔★••→   Fernand
Text: Jacques Brel
Music: Gérard Jouannest
↔★••→   O Death
Traditional
↔★••→   Amsterdam
Text: Jacques Brel
Music: Gérard Jouannest
↔★••→   Artemis
Text: Gérard de Nerval
Music: Diamanda GalásReview
by Evan Minsker, JANUARY 19 2017
↔★••→   Avant~garde icon Diamanda Galás’ last album was 2008’s Guilty Guilty Guilty. This year, the singer and composer release two new records on the same day. All the Way features re~worked versions of traditional and jazz standards; At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem was recorded at the titular New York church during last year’s Red Bull Music Academy.
↔★••→   All the Way is a collection of radical re~workings of traditional and jazz standards such as “All the Way”, “You Don’t Know What Love Is”, and “The Thrill Is Gone” (made famous by Chet Baker). It also includes a solo piano interpretation of Thelonious Monk’s “Round Midnight”, and live voice and piano interpretations of the American traditional “O Death” and the country song, “Pardon Me I’ve Got Someone to Kill”. The album includes both electric live performances (recorded in Paris, Copenhagen, and East Sussex) and studio recordings made in San Diego, CA.
↔★••→   Live at St. Thomas the Apostle documents Galás’ volcanic May 2016 performance at St. Thomas the Apostle church in Harlem NY, described by the New York Times as “guttural and operatic, baleful and inconsolable, spiritual and earthy, polyglot and wordless, nuanced and unhinged.” The concert, produced by Intravenal Sound Operations and Red Bull Music Academy, was composed exclusively of what Galás calls “death songs”.
↔★••→   http://pitchfork.com/
Bandcamp: https://diamandagalas.bandcamp.com/releases_____________________________________________________________

Diamanda Galás

All the Way + At Saint Thomas the Apostle Harlem

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