Streaming’s algorithms make it easy to avoid whole discographies – so in the interest of deeper listening, our writers dedicate time to the ones who might have got away

On Día de Los Muertos, the noted avant-garde artist Diamanda Galás released two major works: a new, harrowing piano variation and a remastered version of a key album from the plague years.

Diamanda Galás · You Must Be Certain Of The Devil · Song · 1988

Vinyl LP pressing. Diamanda Galas's All the Way is a collection of radical re-workings of traditional and jazz standards such as "All the Way," "You Don't Know What Love Is" and "The Thrill Is Gone" (made famous by Chet Baker). It also includes a solo piano interpretation of Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight, and live voice and piano interpretations of the American traditional "O Death" and the country song, "Pardon Me I've Got Someone to Kill." The album includes both electric live performances (recorded in Paris, Copenhagen, and East Sussex) and studio recordings made in San Diego, CA.

Featuring music by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galás, David Dunn and others, this compilation of experiments from 1970s Southern California is an essential collection, finds Antonio Posci...