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Diamanda Galas does Gloomy Sunday

Posted over 4 years ago
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 same decade, it also bore two English translations: the oft covered of them by Sam M. Lewis, and a seldom heard one by Desmond Carter, supposedly the gloomiest of the English-language versions. (Wikipedia)raised as a Greek Orthodox American, Diamanda Galás covered the Desmond Carter variation for the album The Singer in 1992.
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Comments (8)

  1. poebegone
    poebegone says Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, will be proud of me for namedropping Diamanda Galás, John Zorn, and Ennio Morricone in one breath. another gloomy Sunday cover, Metamorfosi (La Classe Operaia Va In Paradiso) featuring Diamanda Galás on vocals, from the album, The Big Gundown: John Zorn Plays the Music of Ennio Morricone: ~bGI1dcCL02z.mp3~
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  2. Marigold
    Marigold says This is pretty fitting Halloween music. It is down right erie. Freaky erie.
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  3. scotfree
    scotfree says I wish I had listened to this while it was still light outside. |||||||||||| (o) (o) u 0 ~~
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  4. scotfree
    scotfree says I seem to have jumped the gun on my little diagram. If I had payed proper attention, I would have noticed that it had to be more than three floors down. Try again: |||||||||||||| .(o)-(o) .....u .....O
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  5. poebegone
    poebegone says Mike, no one like Diamanda to make you enjoy only 2/3 of your lazy weekend breakfast. Scott, hey, nice graphic. hmm, i wonder how i can do one with an evil third eye...
    Permalink posted 10/28/2007
  6. walkingthecow
    walkingthecow says the emotion in her singing is what makes the song do it for me. her dynamics are awesome.
    Permalink posted 10/30/2007
  7. Girlcrawl
    Girlcrawl says Finally attended a Galas concert in the early '90's, and that performance remains a vivid experience. Admire her greatly both as an artist and a rather brilliant woman intellectually. Superb post!
    Permalink posted 10/30/2007
  8. poebegone
    poebegone says Pat, indeedy. she is a singer performer artist individual of the most awe-inspiring kind. Girlcrawl, she is most certainly one to see performing live. bet you're not kidding about "vivid".
    Permalink posted 11/01/2007

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