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    "ORDERS FROM THE DEAD" SONG ABOUT GENOCIDE IN SMYRNA

    Assyria Times
    April 8 2010

    The song Orders from the Dead is out with Rotting Christ concerning
    the Genocide of Smyrna and now people can download a high quality
    wav file from the Diamanda Galás website www.diamandagalas.com

    Orders from the Dead receives its second incarnation by Galás' Greek
    brothers Rotting Christ. Sakis Tollis, who is the composer and producer
    of the band, is from Epirus, which, like Mani, is a primary home of
    the death lament in Greece. Sakis' orchestration of his powerful band
    and the Epirotean female singers he chose takes Orders from the Dead
    into a different place than the original and Galas likes that. "It
    should be different, rather than the way it was originally."

    Galás performs original text and that of the great Anatolian Greek
    writer Dora Soteriou--in English and Greek, and collaboration of now
    the three different Greeks--Galás, Soteriou, who was the witness in
    Smyrna, and Rotting Christ, whose recording illustrates the terror
    of war, including genocide, slams back the Smyrnaic Genocide into
    the faces of the doubters, revisionists and anti-Greeks in America,
    Britain, and Turkey. Greeks have always documented their history
    with the zeal of those who know they have only centuries, and now,
    decades, left before extinction.

    For Galás, Rotting Christ's request to cover Orders from the Dead
    is a further testimony that her efforts and those of all Greek,
    Assyrian, and Armenian Genocide activists will not be silenced by
    the Turkish/American/British and Israeli power conglomerate. When
    Defixiones received its premiere in Los Angeles it was not reviewed,
    although there were scores of journalists there. When its completed
    version was premiered in the UK and in Australia all major papers
    condemned Galás for performing the work in the original languages in
    which it was written, Greek, Armenian, Assyrian, and Turkish. About
    Rotting Christ, Diamanda has said, "My brothers have come. My brothers
    have come." Like the Greek boat her father's relatives saw while
    fleeing the Turks on the shores of Smyrna, Sakis appeared and said,
    "May we join you, sister?"

    Orders from the Dead by Diamanda Galás, Mute Records 2004 Interpreted
    By Rotting Christ, Lead Vocals Diamanda Galás, Accompanying vocals:
    Epirotean funeral singers >>From Rotting Christ's new CD AEALO,
    available here: www.season-of-mist.com 2010 Drawing: D. Galás,
    Graphic: M. Daley Blaise Dupuy, engineering for 2004 Orders from the
    Dead, available at www.diamandagalas.com/defixiones
    From: Baghdasarian
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