Gitane Demone: Life After Death (Cult Epics Review)

What Kizmit it is to follow Christine's review of S&M Hunter, with Gitane Demone: Life After Death. This DVD features a brief window into the leather and rubber laden life of Gitane Demone. Demone is a throaty bohemian singer that has worked with many Industrial legends such as Rozz Williams and Christian Death, EXP and others. Life After Death is a fitting title for this DVD for most of the footage features now deceased musician and artists, not to mention Industrial music itself has become a uncredited source to many current musicians financial gain.

Gitane Demone is still very much alive despite the title of the DVD. Life After Death features European live performances and interviews with Demone. The opening interview for VPRO Dutch television, reveals some of Demones early life/death experiences, and allows her to set the stage for her fascination with death, sexuality and independence, themes that are seen and heard later in her music performances. The Cinema Verite style footage of Demone finds her with bleached blonde hair, fetish garb and other S&M paraphinalia, while she sings Jazz standards for VPRO radio one minute and follows that with straight rock industrial performances in shady German night clubs in the next chapter.

The folks over at Cult Epics have delivered the goods once agian with this DVD. The DVD package for Life After Death contains a biography booklet with foreword by Demone (August 27, 2008), demo recordings on CD and a double DVD disc of pure live debuachery with one of the great Mistresses Gitane Demone. If you have ever been curious and even frightened by S&M, fetish culture, or the strangely evocative sounds of Art rock, Jazz Ballads and/or Industrial, Miss Demone will guide you into this world.