"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
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: 2010 Drawing: D. Galás,
Graphic: M. Daley Blaise Dupuy, engineering for 2004 Orders from the
Dead, available at
From: Baghdasarian