Track Listing: Disc 1: Ter Vogormia, The Desert Part I, The Desert Part II, Sevda Zinciri, Holokaftoma, Ter Vogormia (reprise), The Eagle of Tkhuma, Orders From The Dead.
Disc 2: Songs of Exile: Hastayim Yasiyorum, San Pethano, Je Rame, Epistola A Los Transeuntes, Birds Of Death, Anoixe, Todesfuge, Artémis, See That My Grave Is Kept Clean.

Through out time, there have always been creative individuals who are compelled to show society’s injustices. Resolute, they confront us with the mirror that shows our dark and ignoble nature. Diamanda Galas is one such artist.

With her latest work, Diamanda gives testament to the Armenian, Assyrian, and Anatolian genocides from 1914-1923.

This is still a very controversial issue as the Turkish government still denies their culpability, and these crimes have yet to be officially recognized by many western democracies.

This just fuels Diamanda’s fire. Her four-octave voice eloquently documents the rage and suffering incurred on the innocents of these atrocities. There is no particular track that stands out. This is a work that must be heard completely. It is not a pleasant listen by any means but it is a compelling and moving one. An Australian critic has described the experience as though having, “one’s soul scoured.” It’s an apt description, and it’s worth your while to introduce yourself to Diamanda Galas. I also recommend you visit her website, at www.diamandagalas.com
(Review - KM)

I have always been fascinated, perplexed, entranced, bewitched by Diamanda Galas, though I haven’t listened to her music or paid her much attention for the past few years, and now this! Oh my, where to begin? Accompanied for the most part only by a remarkably effective acoustic piano, which at times manages to evoke the oud and other Arabic instrumentation with veracity, her voice ranging from near operatic beauty to something like... well, take one part French chanteuse, one part Bedouin tribesman, one part pre-Bolshevik Russian anarchist, one part catacomb nun, and God only knows what else; steep and stew and season the mix for an interminable length of time in the bowels of hell; at this point you might attain something approximating what she does with her voice.

And the songs themselves: though occasionally in Spanish, French, and even English, they are more often in what sounds like a dialect spoken only by evil Djinns of the Centuries BC, blended with some sort of underground Latin from great antiquity such as might be used in a Satanic mass. At times she “devolves” to what could only be described as “serpentspeak” or “dragonese”. How and why do I seem to know what they mean?!

As the poet once said, “Poetry is indispensable, but to what I cannot say...” So too is Diamanda Galas. She somehow manages to convince you that she is indispensable, relevant, beautiful, and very fine which, of course, she is... and more. But how or to what we can only guess at. She is most definitely an artist... and one of unique caliber. If, however, your bent runs to ambient pop and siren song and other more acceptably prettythings, be forewarned; you may find yourself recoiling in horror from this heady brew of the sacred and the profane.
(Reviewed - AF)

Track Listing: Standing In The Rain, Life Of Sin, Ranjipur, Eleven Eleven.

Great band name! Angsty gothboi rock‘n’roll, but decidedly more manly about it than most such. The goth universe tends to go heavy on the drama, and this band snakes its way in there quite nicely. Vaguely reminiscent of Sisters of Mercy and other classic darkrock bands of yore. I will probably be listening to it some, since I like mannish gothboi music and this stuff does rock.

Track Listing: Let Me Tell You Something, Going Under, The One, Illuminate, Conflict, Ever, Truth, Obsession, Carve into You [2003 edit], Eternal, Passage, Conflict [cyberDJ medley].

“Blecchh!” and “Huh?” It’s okay, I’ll elaborate here: I haven’t been too happy with the direction Steve and Kristy have been taking in last couple of years and this unfortunately, is no exception. It hasn’t produced anything particularly notable on this CD. While I didn’t mind the tracks “Going Under,” “The One,” and “Carve Into You,” this is countered with such aural detritus as, “Eternal”, “Truth,” and their cover of Animotion’s nauseous “Obsession.” I hated this track when it first came out, and I dislike it even more, cover or no cover! Compounded by heavy use of filtered vocals that create the schmaltzy ambience of Euro/Anthem trance. It smacks of glitzy fashion runways, or Raver- Jocks, pumping their fists in the air. It’s like Giorgio Moroder trying his hand at Darkwave. Speaking of Giorgio, “Passage” definitely sounds like something he might do, ‘nuff said.

Falling into the “Huh?” category, are: “Let me tell You,” and “Conflict,”(yes, yet another re-mix)! There’s the potential with these songs here, but it gets muddled up in the Electronica curds that may have you picking them out of your ear.

All right maybe I’m being a harsh. Perhaps fans of Spock or And One might like this, but believe me, this ain’t no “Panzermensch!” This effort by Azoic disappointed me. Perhaps it’s just a phase, we’ll just have to wait and see.
(Review - KM)

Heavy, synth driven, drum ‘n’ bass loops with sexy female vocals for the most part. There are some male vocals as well, generally malformed by electronic manipulation. Overall it made me feel sweaty and horny, but not in a bad way (is that good?). The vocals, especially the female, have a certain emotional viability that is, for me, often utterly lacking in this sort of music.

There is one instrumental offering of prettiness swathed in huge string pads that put me in mind of Frank Zappa’s “ointment with little bells” assessment of new-age music, there in case you feel the need to relax in the hot tub in between dancing your ass off at the party I suppose. I found myself enjoying some tracks, while being more or less indifferent to others. In all fairness though, I don’t favor the club/dance genre much to begin with, except for the kinds of things someone like St Eve will do with (or to) it...so take this review with a grain of salt. If this genre is your cup of tea, then this group is probably better than many.
(Review - AF)