In a message dated 17/10/2002 20:33:24 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I've heard that Diamanda Galas has a seven-octave range as well. I'm pretty sure she's had operatic training, even if she doesn't sing opera.>> I don't know about her range, but she's a singular talent. I have one of her albums, The Singer, which is pretty mainstream - compared to a lot of her stuff: I don't play it, not because it's not good, but because I don't want the neighbours to call the police and tell them someone is being murdered in my flat. << I love Yma Sumac. I've never heard the Amy Camus story, but that doesn't make her music any less cool (maybe MORE cool!). I think she was touted as Andean, not Polynesian. >> She was truly exotic, even if she was called Amy. I had a compilation of hers years ago, and the music sounded like a soundtrack from one of those politically dodgy Tarzan films of the 30s/40s. More recently, she was heard on the truly fabulous "Stay Awake", a collection of newly recorded versions of songs from Disney films, which included Suzanne Vega doing a gorgeous unaccompanied take on the title song, Los Lobos with a rollicking I Wanna Be Like You, Bonnie Raitt with a sweet Baby Mine, Tom Waits with a truly bizarre Heigh Ho, and Ringo Starr with a rendition of When You Wish Upon A Star which would bring a smile to the most jaded soul. Azeem in London NP: Portishead's second album - now this is pretty scary. I missed Beth Gibbons's one-off gig last night, sad to say.
