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    Jun 18, 2020 2 minutes
    Reviews editor: Vanessa Baird
    Words: Louise Gray and Malcolm Lewis

    De-formation: Piano Variations

    by Diamanda Galás (Intravenal Sound Operations LP, CD + digital)

    diamandagalas.com

    ★★★★★

    If ever there was an artist for these strange times, then truly Diamanda Galás – singer, pianist, composer – is the one. That said, Galás has never stopped being relevant., her highly idiosyncratic setting of Baudelaire’s poem, Galás has established herself as a voice that calls for the restoration of humanity to the oppressed, the marginalized and the plague-ridden.

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