Your Kisses are Like Fire
Voice and piano: Diamanda Galás
Technical manager: Kamal Ackarie
Sound designer: Jasen Hattams
Lighting designer: Nigel Edwards / Jaspal Bulhar
Press: Isabelle Deconinck / La PR
Associate Producer: Sarah Ford / Quaternaire
Management Just in Time – Mauro Diazzi
Playlist >
A la sierra de Armenia (Made famous by La Niña de los Peines)
Amours perdues (Joseph Kosma / Georges Neveux - Made famous by Juliette Gréco)
Amsterdam (Jacques Brel / G. Jouannest)
Anoixe Petra (Lefteris Papadopoulos / Mimis Plessas - Made famous by Marinella)
A Soul That's Been Abused (Ronnie Earl)
Die Stunde Kommt (Ferdinand Freiligrath / Diamanda Galás)
Eight Men And Four Women (Deadrie Malone / Diamanda Galás - Made famous by O.V. Wright)
Fernand (Jacques Brel / G. Jouannest)
Heaven Have Mercy (Philippe Gérard / Jacques Larue - made famous by Edith Piaf)
La chanson des vieux amants (Jacques Brel / Gérard Jouannest)
O Death (Traditional)
Si la muerte (Miguel Huezo Mixco / Diamanda Galás)
Ta Fila Sou Eina Fotia (Mohamed Abdel Wahud / Manolis Angelopoulos) Original composition from Enta Omri, which was made famous by Oum Kalsoum
Ter Vogormia (Marar Yekmalian / Diamanda Galás)
The Desert (Adonis [Ali Ahmad Said] / Diamanda Galás)
Yparko (Pithagoras / Hristos Nikolopoulos - made famous by Stelios Kazantzidis)
A piercing voice pushes through the space and strikes the eardrum of the listener unabated until it reaches a vibration that borders on threatening. Diamanda Galás immediately casts a spell on her audience with her urgent, emotion-packed voice. She rails against the misery in the world: against the AIDS epidemic, genocide in Armenia, torture, and the death penalty—first and foremost, death. Death, dying, guilt, sin, atonement and punishment: these are the recurrent themes in the work of Diamanda Galás. In her most recent concert program, Ta Filia Sou Eina Fotia (Your Kisses Are Like Fire), she uses the extraordinary power of her voice in conjunction with a thrashing, awe-inspiring piano style, the agony of which leaves the public and the artist equally purged.