Gitante Demone

With Love and Dementia (Cleopatra)
by Angela Dauthi

She’s gorgeous. She’s deadly. She was legendary with Christian Death. She has a voice that can make angels fall. Gitante Demone was recorded in France, and she sang with love and dementia. She started the show as a torch singer, playing “Gloomy Sunday” and sounding for all the world like a tortured goddess, drinking in a bar, waiting for the one person who can worship her properly. The darkness of strings creep in later songs, as Gitante’s natural erotica seeps from her skin, singing of domination, loneliness, innocence and perversion.

Rozz Williams from Christian Death sings with her at the end of the show, but the real attraction is Gitante Demone. Her voice soars and plunges, quavers like a mournful siren keening over the sailors she just lured to their watery doom. A silken sound, enough to wetten thighs and harden crotches, a sound of skin against skin, just tempered with pain, a pervading of helplessness, the body dominating the brain, coercing and seducing the mind into acts of depravity of the darkest aspects in the soul. She pants, moans, gasps, and I can imagine her leather-clad body, glinting in the soft candlelight as we embrace. What would my boyfriend say?