Dala - Live in Concert - Girls from the North Country - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Original London Cast of Girl from the North Country. Conor McPherson's critically-acclaimed Girl from the North Country has been captivating audiences and critics since it opened here at The Old Vic in July. Simon Hale's arrangements of Bob Dylan's classic and lesser-known songs have been hailed as 'ravishing' and today we are incredibly excited to join Sony Music Entertainment with the of the Official London Cast Recording. Featuring music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, the album was recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios

Berlin Voices - About Christmas [COMPACT DISCS] date 09/28/2010

Diamanda Galás In Concert is not simply a live album. With nothing but a piano and the full expressive range of her extraordinary voice, Diamanda Galás strips away the comforting patina of time, tradition and stylistic convention to expose and express the raw human emotion that is the living heart of a song. It explores an eclectic range of material; rembetika, soul, ranchera, country and free jazz, and her passionate eviscerations reveal their hidden kinship. Four of the songs-O Prósfigas, La Llorona, Let My People Go, and Ánoixe Pétra are for and by the forsaken, outcast and debased; the other three are hardboiled love songs. 'In Concert' features select recordings taken from performances at Thalia Hall in Chicago, and Neptune Theatre in Seattle from 2017. The songs are drawn from disparate sources. Diamanda is of Maniati Greek and Middle-Eastern Greek/Egyptian origin, but she was born near the border of San Diego and Mexico, hearing the corridos, ranchera, and ballades daily, so the album draws deeply from both sources. Crucial to her performance are song types with ancient roots, primarily the amané, a vocal improvisation of Anatolian Greek origin. Amanés can be defined as a last prayer to the mother by a dying soldier, with the word amané itself possibly deriving from the Greek word mana, mother. Echoes of amanés can be heard in the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, but in origin it is a primal lament, expressing grief and loss. The origins of the amané are archaic; it's spirit is urgent and timeless. CD is packaged with an 18x24 inch poster and eight page booklet with lyrics and translations.