The Singer

by Diamanda Gal谩s

The Singer cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 27 April 1992
  • Label: Mute
  • Country: United States
  • Length: 46:10
  • Community rating: 3.78/5 from 5 ratings

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Stripping back the heavily layered, avant-garde electronics of her previous works, the virtuoso vocalist delivers an intensely raw collection of gospel, blues, and soul standards. Accompanied largely by her own stark piano playing, her multi-octave wails and terrifying vocal techniques transform traditional American music into harrowing meditations on death and the AIDS crisis.

Genres

Descriptors: Avant Garde, avant-garde, dissonant, experimental, theatrical, piano, female-vocals

Tracklist

  1. My Love Will Never Die (3:55)
  2. Reap What You Sow (3:40)
  3. Were You There When They Crucified My Lord? (5:16)
  4. Gloomy Sunday (3:01)
  5. Balm in Gilead / Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (5:40)
  6. Insane Asylum (4:53)
  7. I Put a Spell On You (4:29)
  8. Let My People Go (4:59)
  9. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean (3:10)
  10. Judgement Day (7:01)

Credits

  • M - plated by
  • Willie Dixon - written-by
  • Mike Bloomfield - written-by
  • Nick Gravenites - written-by
  • Roy Acuff - written-by
  • Laszlo Javor - written-by
  • Rezs艖 Seress - written-by
  • Sam Lewis - written-by

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