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Dark cabaret is a music genre that blends the aesthetics of the decadent, risqué German Weimar-era cabarets and 1920s burlesque and vaudeville shows with the morbid, gloomy stylings of post-1970s-goth culture, gothic rock, punk, deathrock, and darkwave music. Deathrock (or Death Punk) is a term used to identify a fusion of Punk rock and Gothic rock which incorporates elements of horror and spooky atmospheres A list of Musical artists who pertain to the Dark cabaret genre A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany ( ˈbʊndəsʁepuˌbliːk ˈdɔʏtʃlant is a Country in Central Europe. The term Weimar Republic ( ˈvaɪmarɐ repuˈbliːk is used by historians to signify the democratic and Republican period of Germany from 1919 to 1933 Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring Comedy, Song, Dance, and Theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue &mdash a Restaurant Burlesque is theatrical entertainment of broad and parodic humor which usually consists of comic skits (and sometimes a strip tease) Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s The goth subculture is a contemporary Subculture found in many countries This article is about the musical style of gothic rock For the goth scene in general see Goth subculture. Deathrock (or Death Punk) is a term used to identify a fusion of Punk rock and Gothic rock which incorporates elements of horror and spooky atmospheres Dark Wave, also written as Darkwave, is an Umbrella term which refers to a movement that began in the late 1970s coinciding with the popularity of New Wave Dark cabaret music usually features passionate, deep female or male vocals, in a style influenced by Marlene Dietrich's singing or the singing in a Kurt Weill operetta. Marlene Dietrich maɐˈleːnə ˈdiːtrɪç (December 27 &ndashMay 6) was a German -born American Actress, Singer and Entertainer WikipediaWikiProject Composers#Lead section --> Kurt Julian Weill ( March 2, 1900 &ndash April 3, Operetta is a genre of light Opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter The vocals are usually accompanied by a sparse piano accompaniment, along with strings (cello or violin) and other instruments such as the accordion or trumpet. The piano is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard that produces sound by striking steel strings with Felt covered hammers The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member The accordion is a portable box-shaped Musical instrument of the hand-held Bellows -driven free-reed aerophone family sometimes referred to as a Squeezebox Influential Dark Cabaret artists include Rozz Williams, The Dresden Dolls, and Voltaire. Rozz Williams ( November 6, 1963 – April 1, 1998) born Roger Alan Painter was an American Deathrock vocalist most The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston Massachusetts. Voltaire (real name Aurelio Voltaire Hernández)
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History of dark cabaret
- See also: List of Dark cabaret artists
1970s and 1980s
Nico's 1974 album The End is an example of early dark cabaret, especially in songs such as "You Forgot To Answer" and "Secret Side". A list of Musical artists who pertain to the Dark cabaret genre Christa Päffgen ( October 16, 1938 ? &ndash July 18, 1988) was a German Singer - Songwriter, fashion model The End is an album by Nico, released in 1974 The album is titled The End Other contributors to the 1970s early dark cabaret sound were Klaus Nomi, Marc Almond, Kate Bush and The Virgin Prunes. Klaus Sperber ( January 24, 1944 - August 6, 1983) better known as Klaus Nomi, was a German Countertenor noted Marc Almond (born Peter Mark Sinclair Almond on 9 July, 1957 in Southport, Lancashire, (now in the county of Merseyside Kate Bush (born Catherine Bush on 30 July 1958 is an English singer songwriter musician and Record producer. The Virgin Prunes was an Irish Gothic rock band The band formed in 1977 and disbanded in 1986 after the departure of member Gavin Friday. Furthermore, the Pink Floyd-performed "The Trial", from The Wall, might also (arguably) be classified as dark cabaret. Pink Floyd are The Wall is a Rock opera presented as a Double album by the English Progressive rock band Pink Floyd, released in late
Nina Hagen's punk opera style, and Lydia Lunch's 1980 album, Queen of Siam contributed to the dark cabaret sound. Nina Hagen (born Catharina Hagen on March 11, 1955) is a singer from Berlin, Germany. Lydia Lunch (born Lydia Koch on June 2, 1959 in Rochester New York) is an American Singer, Poet, In 1985 the Swiss darkwave group The Vyllies released the dark cabaret song The Food Prayer on their album Lilith. The British rock band Siouxsie and the Banshees also made a contribution to dark cabaret's style with the song Peek-a-Boo from the 1988 album Peepshow. Siouxsie & the Banshees were a British rock band which formed in 1976 " Peek-a-Boo " is a song written produced and recorded by English rock band Siouxsie & the Banshees. Peek-a-Boo's video-clip is a vaudevillian, schizophrenic and scary puzzle.
1990s
Seattle-based art rock band, Salon Betty, brought a sexy, sardonic twist to the genre in 1994, with their single "Last Cigarette" and their album, The Big Hair Sex Circus, released on iMusic. Salon Betty is the raucous and sleazy dark cabaret art rock project formed by singer songwriter and performance artist Betty X during years of 1994 to 1997 In the same year, the German darkwave group Ghosting released the track Let Me Stay on their album "Songs from Fairyland". In 1995, Rozz Williams, the former lead singer of Christian Death, took the style in a darker direction on the Triple X Records release Dream Home Heartache in collaboration with fellow Christian Death alumna Gitane Demone. Rozz Williams ( November 6, 1963 – April 1, 1998) born Roger Alan Painter was an American Deathrock vocalist most Christian Death is an American Deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1979 Triple X Records is a Los Angeles based record company They are (or have been the label for bands such as Bo Diddley, The Vandals, Jane's Addiction Dream Home Heartache is am experimental Gothic rock / Dark cabaret collaboration album featuring Rozz Williams and Gitane Gitane Demone is a singer and musician She was a member of Christian Death in the 1980s and is currently a solo artist The first recorded usage of the term "Dark Cabaret" was in a description of this album in a late 1990s mail-order catalog from Projekt: Darkwave. This is the article for the record label You might be looking for Pro-jekt, ProjeKct, Project Pitchfork, or Projekt Revolution
Several songs by British goth outfit Sex Gang Children, such as "Christian Circus Joe", "Arms of Cicero", and the jazzier "Psychic Sarah" fused the cabaret style with a post-punk art-goth sound. Sex Gang Children were an early Gothic rock group that formed in the early 1980s in Britain. In 1997 Rozz Williams and Eva O, recording as Shadow Project, released the album From the Heart, which included the cabaret-styled songs "Lying Deep" and "Bitter Man". Eva Ortiz (born 1961 better known as Eva O is a Music artist most notable for her previous works in Christian Death and a band she formed with her then Shadow Project is a Gothic rock / Deathrock band formed in the early 1990s with Rozz Williams and Eva O.
Danny Elfman's dark cabaret influence can be heard in his collaborations with Oingo Boingo and his scores and character voices in the films The Nightmare Before Christmas, Chicago, and Tim Burton's Corpse Bride. Daniel Robert Elfman (born May 29, 1953) is an American Musician, who is famous for composing scores and songs for Tim Burton Oingo Boingo was an American New Wave band They are better known for their influence soundtrack contributions and high energy Halloween concerts The Nightmare Before Christmas (also known as Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas) is a 1993 stop-motion Fantasy Chicago is a Musical film adaptation of the satirical stage musical Chicago, the film explores the themes of
The burlesque orchestra Apartment helped to pioneer the queer dark cabaret movement in Chicago. Burlesque is theatrical entertainment of broad and parodic humor which usually consists of comic skits (and sometimes a strip tease) Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States. Founded in 1997 by arranger/vocalist Christine Heinisch and lyricist/vocalist Caila Lipovsky, the schizoid and absurdist lyrics combined with the off-kilter, circus-like arrangements to create a theatrical and melodramatic performance. The band played in the art-punk and burlesque scenes of Chicago's northside for several years. Art rock is a term describing a subgenre of Rock music that tends to have "experimental or avant-garde influences" and emphasizes "novel sonic texture Chicago (ʃɪˈkɑːgoʊ is the largest City by population in the state of Illinois and the American Midwest of the United States.
Following her 1996 debut solo album Quintessentially Unreal, San Francisco-based singer/pianist Jill Tracy released her second CD, Diabolical Streak, in 1999. The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city Jill Tracy is a singer pianist Composer, and Performance artist based in San Francisco. Diabolical Streak garnered two California Music Awards nominations as well as the SIBL international Grand Prize for songwriting. Canada's Shift magazine called the album one of the "Top 10 Neo-Cabaret albums of all time. Shift was a Canadian magazine devoted to technology and culture "
2000s
San Francisco's Rosin Coven created theatrically-styled cabaret with macabre tunes, a goth atmosphere, and bizarre performances with Jill Tracy and other musicians at the annual Edwardian Ball, which was held in memory of Edward Gorey. Rosin Coven is a theatrical music ensemble based in San Francisco USA Jill Tracy is a singer pianist Composer, and Performance artist based in San Francisco. Edward St John Gorey ( ca February 22, 1925 &ndash April 15, 2000) was an American Writer and Artist
Nicki Jaine (album Of Pigeons and Other Curiosities and single "Revue Noir", her collaboration with chief of Projekt label Sam Rosenthal) and Amoree Lovell (especially in demo songs "Dark Town Sally" and "High Maintenance/Low Tolerance") are also examples of the genre. This is the article for the record label You might be looking for Pro-jekt, ProjeKct, Project Pitchfork, or Projekt Revolution This article is about the Israeli footballer For the American musician see Projekt Records and Black Tape for a Blue Girl. Amoree Lovell is a Portland Oregon -based pianist vocalist and songwriter whose work combines elements of goth and Ragtime.
Bricktop's at the Parlour was a Los Angeles club in the mid 2000s that featured many dark cabaret acts and performance artists including The Ditty Bops, Cabinet of Curiosities, Jill Tracy and Janet Klein. Bricktop’s was a Los Angeles Club in the “Russian Quarter” inspired by Weimar cabarets Manhattan speakeasies and Parisian salons The Ditty Bops is an American band from Los Angeles California. Jill Tracy is a singer pianist Composer, and Performance artist based in San Francisco. The walls of the Parlour Club were painted by artists Dame Darcy and Anthony Sunseri. Dame Darcy is an American Graphic artist, Cartoonist, and Musician.
London cabaret act the Tiger Lillies have implemented dark themes and imagery, but do not typically convey a "dark sound. The Tiger Lillies are a three-piece band formed in 1989 and based in London. " Nonetheless, A Gorey End, their 2003 release featuring the Kronos Quartet and posthumous lyrical contributions from Edward Gorey, helped to create of the genre by earning a Grammy nomination. Kronos Quartet is a String quartet founded by Violinist David Harrington in 1973 Edward St John Gorey ( ca February 22, 1925 &ndash April 15, 2000) was an American Writer and Artist
In 2000 Lexicon Magazine, in a review of Voltaire's Almost Human CD, used the descriptive term "goth cabaret". Voltaire (real name Aurelio Voltaire Hernández)
In 2006 Italian neoclassic band Ataraxia records new album "Paris Spleen", strongly inspired by french chanson and cabaret influences with their traditional dark sound. Ataraxia is an Italian neo-classical band who combine modern technology with archaic instrumentation over various media A chanson ( French for " Song " from Latin cantio) is in general any lyric -driven French songs usually Polyphonic Madame Bistouri and CircuZ KumP drama company collaborated to the recording and staging of this project. In 2006, Italians Spiritual Front crossed bounds of their "suicidal pop" on album "Armageddon Gigolo" to cabaret sound mixed with Dark/Apocalyptic folk. Spiritual Front is a dark folk band from Rome Its members describe their music as "nihilist suicide pop" Neofolk is a form of Folk music -inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles
Another Italian martial/dark folk band Ianva records in 2005 mini-cd "la ballata dell' ardito" with cabaretish songs and cover version of Jacques Brel's "Amsterdam". Jacques Romain Georges Brel (ʒak bʀɛl in French (8 April 1929 &ndash 9 October 1978 was a Belgian Singer-songwriter. In 2006 Ianva releases the full length "Disobbedisco!", with many other cabaretish songs (see "Tango della Menade"). Italian dark folk band Calle Della Morte used cabaret and chanson elements on "Tardo Autunno" (2003) (especially on tracks "Tardo Autunno" and "Ballerino Di Tango Si Uccide") and on "Gente Di Malaffare" (2005) too.
The Dresden Dolls have garnered mainstream attention. The Dresden Dolls are an American musical duo from Boston Massachusetts. In, September 2005, Projekt Records released a compilation called A Dark Cabaret featuring songs such as "Coin-Operated Boy" by The Dresden Dolls, "Evil Night Together" by Jill Tracy, "Simon's Sleeping" by Pretty Balanced, and "Flowers" by the late Rozz Williams. This is the article for the record label You might be looking for Pro-jekt, ProjeKct, Project Pitchfork, or Projekt Revolution A Dark Cabaret is a compilation album released by Projekt Records. " Coin-Operated Boy " is a single by The Dresden Dolls duo taken from the self-titled debut album The Dresden Dolls. Jill Tracy is a singer pianist Composer, and Performance artist based in San Francisco. Pretty Balanced is an American "piano Chamber rock " band based in Columbus Ohio. Rozz Williams ( November 6, 1963 – April 1, 1998) born Roger Alan Painter was an American Deathrock vocalist most The Dresden Dolls also appeared in "The Onion Cellar", a dark Cabaret musical production. The Onion Cellar is a play that premiered at Zero Arrow Theatre (a venue used by the American Repertory Theatre) in Cambridge Massachusetts The show opened and closed in Boston. World/Inferno Friendship Society is also a cabaret band. The World/Inferno Friendship Society (commonly referred to as " World Inferno " or " The Inferno " is a Cabaret punk band
Since the genre began attracting mainstream attention, other DIY dark cabaret acts have appeared from across the globe, such as "Doctor Steel", the UK based Mister Joe Black and the Carnival and California underground acts like Oakland based band Vermillion Lies and Los Angeles locals Harlequin Jones.
Related genres
The term "Dark cabaret" is applied to a wide range of bands who may also fall into genres such as Punk Cabaret, Gothic-Americana, Punk opera, Neo-burlesque, Gothic Ragtime, Vaudeville, Apocalyptic folk, Neo-folk, Psych folk and others. Neo-Burlesque (or "New Burlesque" is the revival and updating of the traditional Burlesque performance Vaudeville was a Genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s Neofolk is a form of Folk music -inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles Neofolk is a form of Folk music -inspired experimental music that emerged from post-industrial music circles Psychedelic folk or Psych folk is a Music genre that is a blending of Folk music and Psychedelic rock or pop The genre crossovers and blending can make it difficult to define the genre of dark-cabaret-influenced bands.
As the modern Deathrock movement has moved further away from its roots into electronic territory, some bands from the Deathrock movement such as the Deadfly Ensemble (Lucas Lanthier of Cinema Strange’s solo-project) have used the cabaret style. Deathrock (or Death Punk) is a term used to identify a fusion of Punk rock and Gothic rock which incorporates elements of horror and spooky atmospheres In 1999 Cinema Strange appears on "Goth Oddity: A Tribute To David Bowie" with "Time" - track with the cabaret-style piano lines.
Katzenjammer Kabarett who once referred to themselves as "deathrock cabaret", (which Two Ton Boa also belong), are other examples. Recently Katzenjammer have began to refer to themselves as "post-punk cabaret", in recognition of their widely varying influences. Post-punk was a popular musical movement in the mid to late 1970s following on the heels of the initial Punk rock explosion of the early 1970s
Deathrock band Deadchovsky on album "Decadence Revolution" (2004) used cabaret elements, especially on track "Le Sandwichier Glauque De Montmartre". Xyra & Verborgen created in 1998 new music genre classificated as "Cabaret Rock Nouveau - Goth Art Rock". Schizowave formed by Russian-born singer and a classically trained piano player Lena Potapova in early 2004 created own dark sound, inspired by cabaret, jazz and theatre.
In 2008 the synthpop-junk projekt shemale ZERO released the song "Paramour", which allegorizes an unique mix of 8bit-punk and dark cabaret.
Blues infused dark cabaret band Harlequin Jones even beg the question if blues cabaret will become yet another amalgamation fitting of the variations of dark cabaret.
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