Saint of the Pit

by Diamanda Gal谩s

Saint of the Pit cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 17 November 1986
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 36:32
  • Community rating: 3.95/5 from 6 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Functioning as the second installment of her devastating 'Masque of the Red Death' trilogy, this avant-garde vocal work confronts the horrors of the AIDS epidemic. Gal谩s utilizes highly manipulated, multi-octave screams and dark ambient synthesizers to construct a terrifying, apocalyptic elegy inspired by the 19th-century poetry of Baudelaire and Corbi猫re.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, atmospheric, funereal, scary, experimental, avant-garde, theatrical, female-vocals, dissonant, vocal, operatic, piano

Tracklist

  1. La Trezi猫me Revient (The Thirteenth Returns) (5:04)
  2. 螘尉蔚位蠈蠀渭蔚 (Deliver Me) (7:19)
  3. L'Heautontimoroumenos (1857) (Self-Tormentor) (6:49)
  4. Art茅mis (1854) (5:02)
  5. Cris D'aveugle (1873) (Blind Man's Cry) (12:17)

Credits

  • John Dent - lacquer cut by
  • PAG - plated by
  • F.M. Einheit - performer [chains], drums
  • Charles Baudelaire - written-by
  • G茅rard De Nerval - written-by
  • Tristan Corbi猫re - written-by

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