#guy peters

[garadinervi]

Hydra Ensemble, Vistas, (CD – Limited edition of 200, Digital album), nwoj0051, A New Wave Of Jazz, 2022

Recorded at Worm, 16 April 2021, by Vincent Denieul

Lucija Gregov: cello Nina Hitz: cello Gonçalo Almeida: double bass Rutger Zuydervelt: electronics

Sleeve notes: Guy Peters Layout: Rutger Zuydervelt Executive label director: Dirk Serries

[christopherhiggs]

Diamanda Galás - "Litanies of Satan" (1982)

Litanies of Satan is the most horrifying, frightening, confrontational and extreme album I have ever heard.

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Litanies should be approached with caution if you're not used to artists that break down barriers between genres, notions of what constitutes art and what noise and basically question your notions of what constitutes music itself.

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Spanning several octaves and an endless array of possibilities, it's a weapon and cure that more often than not makes use of its most extreme potential: Galas does not only switch from singing to moaning. Instead, she screeches, shrieks, breathes, hollers, purrs, bellows, whispers, rattles, rambles, spits, stutters, cries, tells, scats, inhales as if suffocating and almost vomits her sounds and words.

-- Guy Peters