Diamanda Galas - Saint of the Pit (2024 Remaster) '2024

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The Saint of the Pit, Diamanda Galás’ fifth studio album and the
second in her trilogy, The Masque of the Red Death, is an urgent record. Its
theme is essentially passion, in the sense of suffering, although here, and
unlike the passion of Christianity, there is little to offer solace. Re-released
on Galás’ own Intravenal Sound Operations (ISO) after its initial
release on Mute in November 1986, The Saint and the Pit is a masterpiece of
witnessing, forged from grief and fury during the HIV-AIDS epidemic. While its
precursor, The Divine Punishment (originally Mute, now ISO), released only five
months before in June 1986, invoked Old Testament laws around the clean and the
unclean, as a way of raging against the inhumanity of systemic neglect of people
with HIV-AIDS, this album is focussed on a more interior response. The Saint of
the Pit was an urgent record and now, nearly 40 years on, it remains an urgent
record because, ultimately, its major theme is not limited to HIV-AIDs, but
profound suffering. It is this music’s capacity to bear witness, to wrap
a humanity around another’s pain, to hear that anguish, that gives The
Saint and the Pit its continuing relevance.



Tracklist:
1-1. Diamanda Galas - La Trezième Revient (The Thirteenth Returns) (05:04)
1-2. Diamanda Galas - Εξελόυμε (Deliver Me) (07:18)
1-3. Diamanda Galas - L'Heautontimoroumenos (1857) (Self-Tormentor) (06:52)
1-4. Diamanda Galas - Artémis (1854) (05:01)
1-5. Diamanda Galas - Cris D'Aveugle (1873) (Blind Man's Cry) (12:17)

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