DIAMANDA GALAS - De-formation: Piano Variations LP World and then Don joined and

and then Don joined and all was right with the world

Official reissue of criminally overlooked Japanese jazz gem Mellow Dream (1977) by Hokkaido pianist wunderkind Ryo Fukui

” the album is a desert driver’s dream

like approaching the altar of some arcane temple

Looming towers of density slowly drift from one direction to another without a predictable destination

DIAMANDA GALAS - De-formation: Piano Variations LP World and then Don joined andDe formation: Piano Variations, a work for solo piano. Composed and performed by Gals in September 2019, the 21: 19 minute piece is based on the expressionist poem Das Fieberspital (The Fever Hospital). Written by German poet Georg Heym in 1912, Das Fieberspital's depiction of warehoused patients of yellow fever presaged the treatment and hiding of infected and damaged soldiers later in WWI. De formation depicts a march and delivery of maimed and