Track listing
- A1 La treizième revient 5:03
- A2 Ε ξελόυ με 7:18
- A3 L'heauton Timoroumenos 6:48
- B1 Artémis 5:01
- B2 Cris d'aveugle 12:15
- Total length: 36:25
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Saint of the Pit [p]
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The first track literally sounds like entering some kind of haunted house or amusement park ride (against your will, at the begging of your friends, more than slightly uncomfortable). Then things get just as screwed up or more than you thought they would. Ah, French, the language of love.
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A fine Gospel album
So you want your parents to leave you the hell alone??So you want your siblings to leave you the hell alone??
So you want your dog to leave you the hell alone??
Play this.
warning DO NOT fall asleep while listening to Saint of the Pit can produce REALLY fucked up nightmares.
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Not as challenging as Diamanda's past work. The first track is an instrumental piece, and after that nothing gets really weird until the last song, which sounds like an audio recording of an exorcism. This record shows off the more 'normal' side of Diamanda's voice well, though ("Εξελόυμε (Deliver Me)," "Artémis"). Saint of the Pit is not unenjoyable, and the atmosphere it conjures is effectively creepy. It's just, overall, less striking than some of Diamanda's other work. 3.5
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A1
La treizième revient
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A2
Ε ξελόυ με
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A3
L'heauton Timoroumenos
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B1
Artémis
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B2
Cris d'aveugle
I don't know whether to say that this record pans out as it should, given that combination - the way it sounds makes complete sense, even after only a few seconds of thought, but I guess I was just hoping for something a little more spectacular. Instead the music takes a backseat to Galás' voice, as always; but here, she seems a little more willing to play a part than be the star. It could simply be that I'm used to her vocals by now, but I wouldn't describe anything here as particularly screeching until the last track, "Cris d'aveugle" - while the rest isn't exactly 'pretty', not in the way that most neoclassical darkwave tends to be, it certainly seems that way in comparison to most of her work. The other thing worth mentioning about these tracks is the opener "La treizième revient", which has some horror-movie style circus organs; it reminds me of the first song on L'eau rouge by Young Gods, although that may just be because I listened to that recently. So I suppose that this would seem to be among the best Galás albums to start with if you want a gentle introduction, perhaps second only to The Singer, but I'd still recommend throwing yourself in at the deep end. This feels more like a fine addition to come around to later.
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Diamanda Galás, an interesting female subject, almost of a modern-day siren offering a plate of Greco-Darkwave to synchronize to her own operatic and nihilistic styles, a result finding itself at a level of a haunting, catacomb-ish approach, a lot more so than ordinary darkwave.
"La treizième revient" sets up the mood and elevates you down in pitch-black chambers with the use of tame but effective organs where then the infamous voice herself appears within "Ε ξελόυ με". At this time, this is where production here really shines, as stereo-cooperation could've have been more effective. Fluttering and screeching individually and sequentially fill your left ears, and your right ears. This is as if you stumbled into a nest of bats without seeing a damned thing, and with Galás's vocals adding to the layers really add a moment of unease and fear.
Galás from here on in fully demonstrates her vocals with devilish-high pitches, chanting, choking and demonic with operatic styles with levels of dismal and demise and piano-work lies through the background. "Cris d'aveugle" adds more with industrial-style percussion beats between gaps that accompanies a layered chorus as voices stockpile on one another.
It's an album that really does throw you into a pit, like the Greek underworld, as Galás stares at you down like a right-hand servant of Hades himself. The album was really about the demonstration of the many numerous vocals Galás could provide to stimulate a varied sense of phobias and not much else. The instrumentation just feels like an amplifier, that would have little meaning if her vocals weren't present. Regardless, it's all done effectively in the end that should satisfy the needs of the next horror victim.
8.5/10 ---(Great)
"La treizième revient" sets up the mood and elevates you down in pitch-black chambers with the use of tame but effective organs where then the infamous voice herself appears within "Ε ξελόυ με". At this time, this is where production here really shines, as stereo-cooperation could've have been more effective. Fluttering and screeching individually and sequentially fill your left ears, and your right ears. This is as if you stumbled into a nest of bats without seeing a damned thing, and with Galás's vocals adding to the layers really add a moment of unease and fear.
Galás from here on in fully demonstrates her vocals with devilish-high pitches, chanting, choking and demonic with operatic styles with levels of dismal and demise and piano-work lies through the background. "Cris d'aveugle" adds more with industrial-style percussion beats between gaps that accompanies a layered chorus as voices stockpile on one another.
It's an album that really does throw you into a pit, like the Greek underworld, as Galás stares at you down like a right-hand servant of Hades himself. The album was really about the demonstration of the many numerous vocals Galás could provide to stimulate a varied sense of phobias and not much else. The instrumentation just feels like an amplifier, that would have little meaning if her vocals weren't present. Regardless, it's all done effectively in the end that should satisfy the needs of the next horror victim.
8.5/10 ---(Great)
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This is some weird shit. Still kinda intriguing. Sounds like she's being excorcised.
Recommended.
Recommended.
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One of my top handful of albums ever made. "Cris d'Aveugle" is simply sublime
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23 Apr 2024
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A1
La treizième revient
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A2
Ε ξελόυ με
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A3
L'heauton Timoroumenos
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B1
Artémis
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B2
Cris d'aveugle
23 Apr 2024
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A1
La treizième revient
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A2
Ε ξελόυ με
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A3
L'heauton Timoroumenos
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B1
Artémis
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B2
Cris d'aveugle
21 Apr 2024
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