Diamanda Galás has announced a live album that captures performances from 2017. The recordings on Diamanda Galás in Concert were taken from sets at Chicago’s Thalia Hall and the Neptune Theatre in Seattle. The record arrives June 14 via Intravenal Sound Operations. Galás has shared the lead single from the project: a cover of Ronnie Earl’s 2005 ballad “A Soul That’s Been Abused.” Hear it below.
In a press statement, Galás explained why she covered: “A Soul That’s Been Abused”:
The seven songs on Diamanda Galás in Concert feature Galás alone at the piano, singing a range of love songs, Greek traditional music, and the Mexican folk piece “La Llorona.” The former category includes Johnny Paycheck’s “Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone to Kill” as well as “She,” penned by Bobby Bradford, who played cornet and trumpet with Ornette Coleman.
Galás, who is of Greek descent, eulogizes the victims of the Greek genocide of the early 20th century with her rendition of “O Prósfigas,” popularized in 1977 by Greek singer Manolis Angelopoulos.
Revisit “The Music That Made Diamanda Galás.”
Diamanda Galás in Concert:
01 O Prósfigas (Live)
02 A Soul That’s Been Abused (Live)
03 La Llorona (Live)
04 She (Live)
05 Let My People Go (Live)
06 Pardon Me, I’ve Got Someone to Kill (Live)
07 Ánoixe Pétra (Live)
Source : Pitchfork
