commissioned by Centre Vooruit commissioned by Wim Wabbes composed by, voice, piano, arranged by, producer, management [director of intravenal sound operations] Diamanda Galás created by Diamanda Galás design Rex Ray drawing [bird drawing] Robert Knoke editor [editorial assistance] Dick Harlow Productions hair Andrew Marlin liner notes [approaching necropolis] Richard Morrison make-up Mathu Andersen management [performance manager] Tessa Derfner music director [director of intravenal sound operations] Diamanda Galás photography by Austin Young presenter David Sefton producer [production assistant] Alison Brummer producer [recording producer] Blaise Dupuy project manager [intravenal sound operations] Maia T. Spilman project manager [mute records] Robert Schilling read by [recitations] Nicholas Bet-Gulawi read by [recitations] Shakeh Kadejian stylist Zaldy Distributed By Vital (2) Phonographic Copyright (p) Mute Records Ltd. Copyright (c) Mute Records Ltd. Recorded At Royce Hall Recorded At Metropolitan (9) Recorded At Arts International (2) Recorded At Aula Magna, Lisboa Mixed At Soutterain Studios Mixed At Intravenal Sound Studios Edited At Soutterain Studios Edited At Intravenal Sound Studios Glass Mastered At Sonopress Glass Mastered At Sonopress Issued as a digibook with a 40-page attached booklet which includes a libretto.
Track 1-7: Translated from Rising Star, Urmia, 1917, with excerpt from Assyrian Mass in the first mode (Quadmoyo).
The U.S. premiere of Defixiones was on November 29, 2001, at Royce Hall, UCLA. All but the following performances were recorded on that evening: Je Rame The Metropolitan, Medellin, Colombia, June 2002; Todesfuge Arts International, New York City, June 2002; See That My Grave Is Kept Clean Aula Magna, Portugal, September 2001.