Composer, pianist, activist, and shamanistic chanteuse Diamanda Galas joined Kurt Gottschalk on The Brother Lucy Show yesterday morning for an engrossing conversation about vocal music from Greece, Anatolia, and Turkmenistan. If you were sleeping in, you can still hear this special interview by clicking this link for streaming mp3 or this link for streaming RealAudio .~~
Composer, pianist, activist, and shamanistic chanteuse Diamanda Galas joined Kurt Gottschalk on The Brother Lucy Show yesterday morning for an engrossing conversation about vocal music from Greece, Anatolia, and Turkmenistan. If you were sleeping in, you can still hear this special interview by clicking this link for streaming mp3 or this link for streaming RealAudio .~~
posts #4, #5, and #6 to Halloweenmy Halloween-themed contribution to Sunday Under Covers is a song infamously tagged as a suicide song, covered by an artist enthroned with the most unnerving vocal terror (Terrorizer magazine).Gloomy Sunday has existed since the 1930s, as the original composition of the Hungarian pianist Rezsö Seress and soon rewritten by the Hungarian poet László Jávor. In the
I certainly appreciated a recent post about all of the different versions of the Screamin' Jay Hawkins tune. Some I knew of, others I'll have to seek out. The first time I heard the tune was when Diamanda Galás recorded it for The Singer . Speaking of Diamanda, one thing I've always appreciated about Halloween has been it being the only day of the year I can listen to her and receive compl..