GALAS, Diamanda - Saint Of The Pit - Vinyl (LP + poster)
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Diamanda GALAS
Saint Of The Pit
Intravenal Sound Operations US
LP + poster Cat: ISO 008LPRel: 28 Oct 24
Experimental/Electronic Side 1 - Track 1. La Treizieme Revient (The Thirteenth Returns) Side 1 - Track 2. Deliver Me Side 1 - Track 3. L'Heautontimioroumenos (1857) (Self-Tormentor) Side 2 - Track 1. Artemis (1854) Side 2 - Track 2. Cris D'aveugle (1873) (Blind Man's Cry)
The 1986 sonic pentad by Diamanda Galas, Saint Of The Pit, is the second of two records forming the devised, pestilent occult rite - in her terms, the "plague mass" - known as the Masque Of The Red Death. In clairvoyant dialogue with the first part (The Divine Punishment), both records, in symbiosis, are said to possess an innate correctitude, with saintly playback "possible at maximum volume only." When we oblige by Galas' command, we find ourselves thickly immersed in the kind of sonic esoterics that only the most adept of oneiromancers might be able to swallow and integrate into their mantic: waspish whispers, dulotic dirges, heathen hums. Galas' episcope is a dissenting, idolatrous projection in sound and vision, with 'Artemis' and 'Deliver Me' spanning red-robed, sectarian vocal operatics, not to mention their backing, low-noted, open piano chord strikes. The *eschaton* of the record is, of course, is its quintessential fifth star-point: 'Cris D'aveugle (Blind Man's Cry)', on which Galas, the occult visionary, profanes the lyrical votive candle wax with blasphemous talk of nailed eyes and desecrated caskets.
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