Name: Broken Gargoyles
Brand: Diamanda Galas

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ISO007LP

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black

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Discs

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2022-09-23

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Shellshock

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

ISO007

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Deluxe CD with Lyric and Art Booklet.

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2022-09-30

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

Diamanda Galas

Genre GB

Modern Composition

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Intravenal Sound Operations

Employing a vast array of advanced vocal and instrumental techniques, <i>Broken Gargoyles</i> is arguably Galas’ most intellectually, sonically and viscerally formidable work to date. The album finds the visionary artist deftly probing the weaving, warping transformation on the nervous systems of her post-traumatic soldiers and dying diseased.

Composed in 2020 during the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the first presentation of<i> Broken Gargoyles</i> featured verses by German poet Georg Heym, "Das Fieberspital" and "Die Dämonen der Stadt." The work was finalized in 2020 in collaboration with the artist and sound designer Daniel Neumann. In "Das Fieberspital" Heym describes the horrific state of people suffering from yellow fever who live in paralyzing fear of death and swirling delirium owing to their brutal treatment and isolation in medical wards in early 20th-century Germany.

"Die Dämonen der Stadt" also addresses such grim portents of World War I; in this poem, the god Baal observes (like a gargoyle) a town from a rooftop of a city block at nighttime and lets a street burn down during dawn. The final incarnation of the work was played as a sound installation at the Kapellen Leprosarium (Leper’s Sanctuary) in Hanover, Germany.

Broken Gargoyles

Music GB