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The album consists of two pieces: \"\u003cem\u003ePanoptikon\u003c\/em\u003e\", which was inspired by Jack Henry Abbott, whose 1981 autobiographical book \u003cem\u003eIn the Belly of the Beast\u003c\/em\u003e chronicled his experiences in the prison system, and \"\u003cem\u003eSong from the Blood of Those Murdered\u003c\/em\u003e\", a work dedicated to the political prisoners who were tortured and executed during the 1967-74 Greek military junta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe album, originally released in 1984 on the label Metalanguage (founded by Henry Kaiser and Larry Ochs in 1978), has long been out of print. It is now available for the first time on CD. 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It explores an eclectic range of material; rembetika, soul, ranchera, country and free jazz, and her passionate eviscerations reveal their hidden kinship. Four of the songs-O Prósfigas, La Llorona, Let My People Go, and Ánoixe Pétra are for and by the forsaken, outcast and debased; the other three are hardboiled love songs. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Concert features select recordings taken from performances at Thalia Hall in Chicago, and Neptune Theatre in Seattle from 2017. The songs are drawn from disparate sources. Diamanda is of Maniati Greek and Middle-Eastern Greek\/Egyptian origin, but she was born near the border of San Diego and Mexico, hearing the corridos, ranchera, and ballades daily, so the album draws deeply from both sources. Crucial to her performance are song types with ancient roots, primarily the amané, a vocal improvisation of Anatolian Greek origin. Amanés can be defined as a last prayer to the mother by a dying soldier, with the word amané itself possibly deriving from the Greek word mana, mother. Echoes of amanés can be heard in the Adhan, the Islamic call to prayer, but in origin it is a primal lament, expressing grief and loss. 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