The Litanies of Satan; Wild Women with Steak-Knives (The Homicidal Love Song for Solo Scream) From the debut album, The Litanies of Satan, by Greek-American avant-garde composer, vocalist, pianist, performance artist Diamanda Galás. Known for her expert piano as well as her distinctive, operatic voice, which has a three and a half octave range, Galás has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror". Galás often shrieks, howls, and seems to imitate glossolalia in her performances. Her works largely concentrate on the topics of suffering, despair, condemnation, injustice and loss of dignity. In this album Galás has interpreted poetry by Charles Baudelaire, Paul Celan, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Henri Michaux, Gérard de Nerval, César Vallejo, and Siamanto. Along with shining a spot light on Armenian, Greek, Assyrian and Hellenic victims of the Turkish genocide, Galás also worked as a prostitute at one point.
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