[mod.music.gaffa] Diamanda Gallas

Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU.UUCP (01/12/87)

Really-From: "ROSSI J.A." <rossi@nusc.ARPA>


Since I've been getting LH, I have occasionally gone out and bought stuff
mentioned here.  Some of it I found that I like (Cocteau Twins, Robyn and the
Egyptians, Surfers, etc.) some of it I have found extremely boring (Depeche
Mode, Windham Hill, etc).  What I find most frustrating, however, is a total
innability to find some things at all.  Well, it happened again this weekend.
After reading the recent commentary on Diamanda Gallas, my curiosity peaked.
I figured I just had to hear this amazingly evil francophone for myself.  So
I again ventured to every record store I can think of in SE Connecticut and
alas, not a trace.  So, could somebody give me some idea where I can find
representative samples of her stuff (possibly mailorder), the name of a
record label, the country of origin etc.  Thanks in advance.

Also, The questions concerning this weird mail I've been getting lately from
Doug Trainor (SP?) in that otherwise incomprehensible message I sent on
vocal ranges, were serious ones.  Will somebody please fill me in on the
meaning of the strangely coloured shapes which could be seen by obliterated
people, outside some cabin, near some cool lake, presumably in the DC area.
And also, did Hofmann also see these coloured shapes, even in a presumably
non-drugged state, which he maintains he is always in? 

John
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Love-Hounds-request@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (01/13/87)

Really-From: hogge@p.cs.uiuc.edu (John Hogge)

>/* ---------- "Diamanda Gallas (SP?)" ---------- */
>Really-From: "ROSSI J.A." <rossi@nusc.ARPA>

>Since I've been getting LH, I have occasionally gone out and bought stuff
>mentioned here.  Some of it I found that I like (Cocteau Twins, Robyn and the
>Egyptians, Surfers, etc.) some of it I have found extremely boring (Depeche
>Mode, Windham Hill, etc).  What I find most frustrating, however, is a total
>innability to find some things at all.  Well, it happened again this weekend.
>After reading the recent commentary on Diamanda Gallas, my curiosity peaked.
>I figured I just had to hear this amazingly evil francophone for myself.  So
>I again ventured to every record store I can think of in SE Connecticut and
>alas, not a trace.  So, could somebody give me some idea where I can find
>representative samples of her stuff (possibly mailorder), the name of a
>record label, the country of origin etc.  Thanks in advance.

Ah, another Galasite on the way.  (It is "Galas".)  "The Divine Punishment,"
in all its majesty, is distributed in the US by Rough Trade, 326 6th Street,
San Francisco, CA 94103 (415) 621-0410.  They'd probably have the second
album too, "Saint of the Pit."  Both albums are on Mute Records.

Heh heh heh heh ....
--John