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An open, miked concert grand piano alone on a dark stage under a row of blue lights

Diamanda Galás

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Piano on stage
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My World Is
Empty Without You

№ NMU 190502 · blog singlerel. May 8, 19984 min 26 s · stereo · Mute
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The Supremes’ Motown heartbreak, taken by Diamanda Galás to the edge of a scream. It is the third song on Malediction and Prayer, recorded live on her Concert for the Damned tour between November 1996 and June 1997 – voice and piano only, among songs by Phil Ochs, Son House, Willie Dixon and Shel Silverstein, poems by Baudelaire and Pasolini, and “Gloomy Sunday”. Here the empty world is not a sigh but a sentence.

Diamanda Galás (voice, piano). Written by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland. Recorded live on the Concert for the Damned tour, November 1996 – June 1997; produced by Diamanda Galás. Released by Mute (STUMM 163) and Asphodel, May 8, 1998. Sources: Wikipedia, Malediction and Prayer, Diamanda Galás – Topic on YouTube. Photograph: a concert grand on stage, opened and miked, July 26, 2018, by Dejan Krsmanovic, CC BY 2.0. Wikimedia Commons.

№
NMU 190502
artist
Diamanda Galás
title
My World Is Empty Without You
writers
Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier, Eddie Holland
first by
The Supremes (Motown, 1965)
also sung by
José Feliciano (1968); The Afghan Whigs (1991)
from
Malediction and Prayer (1998)
label
Mute
photograph
Dejan Krsmanovic, piano on stage, 2018. CC BY 2.0.
filed
May 2, 2019
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