La Serpenta Canta

Galas, Diamanda

Genre: music4me > Alternative > Indie

Format: 2 CD

Released: Mon 1 Dec 2003

Catalogue Number: CDSTUMM206

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Description:
'La Serpenta Canta' aka The Serpent Sings, is a song recital recruiting blues, R&B, Motown, southern soul, Country & Western and DIAMANDA GALAS' own "Baby's Insane" (from 'This Sporting Life', her duo album with JOHN PAUL JONES).

The songs are rendered in her own inimitable style spanning Eastern Orthodox liturgy, American roots and the rembetika songs of Greece and Asia Minor.

This set is sung by Galás accompanying herself on piano and is a collection of live recordings from around the world between May 1999 and November 2002.

"My voice," she says, "was given to me as an instrument of inspiration for my friends, and a tool of torture and destruction to my enemies. An instrument of truth." With its much-touted three and a half octave range, Galás' voice is the most powerful weapon in her self-designed musical armoury.

Details:

Distributors: CEVA Logistics, EMI Operations
Producer: Blaise Dupuy
Discs: 2
Release Year: 2003

Track Listing:

Disk 1
1.	(Intro)
2.	Ain't No Grave Can Hold My Body Down
3.	Dawson Creek
4.	Baby's Insane
5.	I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
6.	Lonely Woman
7.	Frenzy
Disk 2
1.	Blue Spirit Blues
2.	My World Is Empty Without You
3.	I Put a Spell On You
4.	At the Dark End of the Street
5.	Dancing in the Dark
6.	Dead Cat On the Line
7.	See That My Grave Is Kept Clean
8.	Burning Hell (Reprise)