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ARTIST
GALAS, DIAMANDA
TITLE
Saint of the Pit
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
INTRAVENAL SOUND OPERATIONS
CATALOG #
ISO 008LP
ISO 008LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
9/20/2024
LP version. Includes eight-page booklet with lyrics and translations and 14x19 inch poster."
Saint of the Pit
,
Diamanda Galás
' fifth studio album and the second in her trilogy,
The Masque of the Red Death
, is an urgent record. Its theme is essentially passion, in the sense of suffering, although here, and unlike the passion of Christianity, there is little to offer solace. Re-released on Galás' own Intravenal Sound Operations (ISO) after its initial release on Mute in November 1986,
Saint of the Pit
is a masterpiece of witnessing, forged from grief and fury during the HIV-AIDS epidemic. While its precursor,
The Divine Punishment
(originally via Mute, now ISO), released only five months before in June 1986, invoked Old Testament laws around the clean and the unclean, as a way of raging against the inhumanity of systemic neglect of people with HIV-AIDS, this album is focused on a more interior response.
Saint of the Pit
was an urgent record and now, nearly 40 years on, it remains an urgent record because, ultimately, its major theme is not limited to HIV-AIDs, but profound suffering. It is this music's capacity to bear witness, to wrap a humanity around another's pain, to hear that anguish, that gives
Saint of the Pit
its continuing relevance. Remastered by
Heba Kadry
in 2024. Vinyl pressed at RTI, packaged in a printed euro inner sleeve with lyrics and translations and 18 x 24-inch poster."
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