Diamanda Galás Defixiones • Will And Testament
2003 2x CD
Avantgarde
Experimental
Contemporary

Main image
Mute, Mute
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.

Discs:
Correct playback at maximum volume only.

Back cover:
Printed in EU.

Discs:
Made in EU.

Ⓟ & Ⓒ 2003 Mute Records Limited.
Barcode: 724359358826 (Scanned)
Barcode: 0 724359 358826 > (Text)
Label Code: LC5834
Rights Society: bel BIEM
Other: 0724359358925 (Catalogue #, disc 1)
Other: 0724359359021 (Catalogue #, disc 2)
Matrix / Runout: [Sonopress logo] 50905302/CDSTUMM205-1 01 (Disc 1)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L0 30 (Disc 1)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 0755 (Disc 1)
Matrix / Runout: [Sonopress logo] 50905332/CDSTUMM205-2 02 (Disc 2)
Mastering SID Code: IFPI L0 30 (Disc 2)
Mould SID Code: IFPI 0757 (Disc 2)



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