Despite being born and raised in the US, she almost never performs in the US. The majority of her album and artwork sales are in Europe. I have to be in Belgium to hear her perform live. She's been gracing audiences with her beautiful voice since 1982 and yet the US still shows her no love.. except for occasional appearances in Chicago & NY.

WOW! a Diamanda thread, i made one months back & it died fast lol.

Diamanda is incredible, one of the best piano players of the past few decades. She is a bad ass chick, her voice is one of the best to ever do it imo, she has soul, she has rock, she has gospel she's got it all.

But she's weird, not like manufactered GaGa weird or hell even Bjork weird..

Her type of screaming & yodel type singing is a big turn off for some people, some people i showed her music to get it, and some say wtf is this shit??

She was in LA few years my friend said & that she was amazing.

Never heard of her. What, in your opinion, is her best album?

yanowha said:

Never heard of her. What, in your opinion, is her best album?

Divine Punishment...

But to be honest her music is really not for everyone but try it out

yanowha said:

Never heard of her. What, in your opinion, is her best album?

LOL. I was kinda not expecting any responses to this thread, because I realize she's an acquired taste. I love her, but I have a very wide taste in music.

Her best selling albums are probably The Divine Punishment, then Litanies of Satan and Plague Mass.

My personal favorite is Defixiones : Will & Testiment (an awesome collection of interesting songs and interpretations of poems). Her most accessible album is probably "The Singer".

Gunsnhalen said:

WOW! a Diamanda thread, i made one months back & it died fast lol.

Diamanda is incredible, one of the best piano players of the past few decades. She is a bad ass chick, her voice is one of the best to ever do it imo, she has soul, she has rock, she has gospel she's got it all.

But she's weird, not like manufactered GaGa weird or hell even Bjork weird..

Her type of screaming & yodel type singing is a big turn off for some people, some people i showed her music to get it, and some say wtf is this shit??

She was in LA few years my friend said & that she was amazing.

I've taken friends to see her perform and their first impression is that it must be some kind of joke, but then when they realize she's 100% serious about her music and her performance they leave with an appreciation (some more than others).

I saw her live here in NY every Valentine's Day for a few years.

But she is a tough pill to swallow. I have to be in a very specific mood to play any of the Diamanda albums I own.

Her vocal delivery and performance style have just never rubbed me the right way. I do respect her non the less.

sextonseven said:

I saw her live here in NY every Valentine's Day for a few years.

But she is a tough pill to swallow. I have to be in a very specific mood to play any of the Diamanda albums I own.

same here

...Who?

Maybe that's the problem; I have no idea who the fuck she is.

BECAUSE

ScarletScandal said:

BECAUSE

I was introduced to Diamanda Galas around the same time I was introduced to Lisa Gerrard/Dead Can Dance, very, very different artists, but ones who trodded a kindred early '80s post-punk, experimental sound and gothic vice in a whole lot more accessible fashion. ("Gothic," that is, in a substantive literary sense; not in the conforming-to-nonconformity corpse-painted suburban teenage sort of way). That said, I took the path of least resistance and fell madly in love with DCD, but slept on Diamanda.

Knowing a bit more about Diamanda's work these days, I think she's an impressive pianist and a ferocious vocalist. Her output definitely would be worth getting to know... but in small doses at a time. I could see really digging her in concert, but struggling through an entire album.