Diamanda Galás’s much-anticipated compilation of tragic and homicidal love songs, Guilty Guilty Guilty, will be released by Caroline Records in the USA and worldwide by MUTE U.K. on March 31, 2008.
In her 17th album – the first since 2004 –the dark queen of extended vocal techniques turns standards from jazz, blues, and country music into her own musical genre. Using the full extent of her vocal arsenal and a virtuosic piano technique, Galás carves songs of doomed love into haunting works that promise to rip your heart out. Featured on the album are her much acclaimed reinterpretations of Ralph Stanley’s reaper song, “O Death”; O. V. Wright’s “8 Men and 4 Women”; “Long Black Veil” made popular by Johnny Cash; “Time (Interlude)” sung by Timi Yuro; Tracy Nelson’s “Down So Low”; her signature rendition of “Autumn Leaves”; and the favorite “Heaven Have Mercy”, made famous by Edith Piaf.
Guilty Guilty Guilty delves into the grief and outrage of those whose love has been shattered. Sophisticated vocal weaponry combines with a driving, sometimes jaw-dropping, percussive piano style to conjure up raw emotions ranging from fleeting happiness to the terror brought upon by the death of love. With this new album, the avant-garde diva reaches into the heart of blues to take it to new, unheard-of places of lonesomeness, occasionally breaking into Middle Eastern scales or the ululating wail of the Amanes (improvised lamentation from Asia Minor).
18/3/2008 - London / UK - Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
20/3/2008 - London / UK - Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
11/4/2008 - Santander / Spain - Universidad de Cantabria - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
15/4/2008 - Paris / France - Cité de la Musique, Concert Hall - La Serpenta Canta
19/4/2008 - Murcia / Spain - Auditorio, Victor Villegas - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
06/5/2008 - Braga / Portugal - Theatro Circo de Braga - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
08/5/2008 - Porto / Portugal - Casa da Musica - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
10/5/2008 - Lisbon / Portugals - Aula Magna - Guilty, Guilty, Guilty
15/5/2008 - Rome / Italy - Accademia Santa Cecilia - You're my Thrill
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