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Diamanda Galás with John Paul Jones

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A collaboration between American avant-garde vocalist Diamanda Galás (born August 29, 1955, San Diego) and English multi-instrumentalist John Paul Jones, documented on the 1994 album The Sporting Life (Mute Records). The record pairs Galás' blues-tinged vocal experiments with Jones' restrained, analog instrumentation.

Diamanda Galás was born August 29, 1955 in San Diego and is of Greek descent; she has a history of avant-garde vocal work and activism including public engagement with AIDS-related themes. The Sporting Life was released by Mute Records in 1994.

The reviews present The Sporting Life as Diamanda Galás' blues-leaning, more measured phase, recorded with John Paul Jones' restrained, analog instrumentation. Critics praise Galás' extraordinary presence and Jones' class while noting thin lyrics and a disturbing visual aesthetic. The album (Mute Records, 1994) is framed as an intense, unsettling but refined entry in her oeuvre.

For:Listeners of avant-garde vocal music, experimental blues, dark art-music, and fans of Diamanda Galás or John Paul Jones.

 Distanced from previous physical and sensory experiences in which her voice was used as an exceptional synthesizer of horror, she chose here different garments and concrete timbres, made of few and more measured Icarian Flights.

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