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Za Bakdaz: The Unfinished Opera is a collection of songs German countertenor Klaus Nomi was working on up until his death in 1983. The album was released posthumously in 2007. The large majority of the tracks have never before been heard on an official studio release; the original sessions took place from 1979 to 1983, with the tracks completed ...
A performer of startling vocal ability and even more striking visage, Klaus Nomi had no peer—and due to his untimely departure, the world will never know how he might have applied those talents. When he left Earth on August 6th, 1983, Klaus Nomi took with him the resolution to his Magnum Opus—a work we had always assumed would be titled Za ...
Sep 30, 2009 · From Klaus Nomi's unfinished opera, "Za Bakdaz": the opera's Overture and first song, Cre Spoda,off the postumously released album ZA BAKDAZ. set to images from the East Germany...
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Feb 21, 2015 · Klaus Nomi. 11.7K subscribers. 192. 10K views 8 years ago. Provided to YouTube by The Orchard Enterprises Za Bakdaz · Klaus Nomi ...more. Provided to YouTube by The Orchard...
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Klaus Nomi • The Mission. OK, I'll bite—what's “Za Bakdaz”? Page Wood: It is the title of Klaus Nomi's Unfinished Symphony, or Operetta, or "Space Western". It was also a song from his show, and it's the title of this new release. Loosely translated, it means Heaven, or "Homeland for Nomis".
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Za Bakdaz, a suite of home-studio recordings circa 1979 restored by Page Wood and George Elliott, was released posthumously in 2007. Illness and death. Nomi died at the Sloan Kettering Hospital Center in New York City on August 6, 1983, as a result of complications from AIDS. He was one of the earliest known figures from the arts community to ...