David E. Williams with others (most significantly, Jerome Deppe on guitar)
Influences
As a child:
Mel Brooks, Monty Python, World War II, the Roman Catholic Church, Planet of the Apes and piano lessons.........
As a tortured teenager and beyond:
Rush, Pink Floyd, Beatles, King Crimson, Tangerine Dream, Joy Division, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico, Lou Reed (especially BERLIN), Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel, John Lydon (especially FLOWERS OF ROMANCE), Al Stewart, The Smiths, Bob Ezrin, Charles Bukowski, Kurt Vonnegut, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Nabokov, Eugene Ionesco, T.S. Eliot, Russell Edson, W.D. Snodgrass, Edward Gorey, Diane Arbus, David Lynch, Leni Riefenstahl, Liliana Cavani, Martin Scorsese.........
Post 1990:
Swans, Nick Cave, Arvo Part, Henryk Gorecki, Scott Walker, Jimmy Webb, Lee Hazelwood, The Carpenters, Michael Murphey's "Wildfire", the concepts of noise and minimalism, Lucifer, Prometheus, Patton, the epiphany that is cultural pessimism and the delicate majesty of ducks and geese.
Sounds Like
What comes next for goth has-been recast as seminal neofolk icon?
Though he's dabbled in neo-Weimar cabaret, abrasive electronics and even film scores, David E. Williams is best known for electro-symphonic pop and a lyrical humor so dark that it's not really funny. Some might call it gallows humor, but "gas chamber humor" is a bit more accurate for his love songs rife with murder, abuse and obscure references to eating. Williams has been described as "Barry Manilow's evil twin" (Jim Knipfel, NY Press), "Liberace with a brain tumor" (Michael Moynihan, Blood Axis) and "Andrew Lloyd Webber in the final stages of cerebral cancer" (Headpress, U.K.). In 2007, Old Europa Cafe Records released THE APPEAL OF DISCARDED ORTHODOXY, a double CD of 38 artists covering Williams' songs. Beyond his solo work, he has collaborated with a diverse spectrum of underground luminaries that includes Bleiburg (martial ambient), Deathpile (power electronics), Naevus (post punk folk noir), Nazi UFO Commander (Neuschwabender trance), Thomas Nola (decadent music hall) and, most famously, Rozz Williams, the former Christian Death lead singer for whom Williams arranged and produced the posthumous live CD ACCEPT THE GIFT OF SIN. PAYPAL purchase of all releases available at www.davidewilliams.com/catalog.html
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108 are the diabolical passions that beset us and we must battle to become Buddha. 108 is a magic and exoteric number in many mystic religions and cultures. All you need to discover about the real nature of this world: pure fiction! Two cover songs about the diabolic passions from great Italian artists of the 70’s like Biglietto per l’Inferno and Franco Battiato.
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As the lotus grows in mud without showing any traces that might betray its origins, its leaves and its stem, while floating in water not wet, so it `s also the wise man who lives in the world, but is not of the world...
Dear Friend, finally it is out! The LONG expected release of our EP "Interrupted (Triptych I)" !!!
"you wonder why get interrupted / was life too fast / the nights too long / you give a fuck / get interrupted / you want no break / keep speeding on..."
Watch the music video, created by the young & wild Japanese video artist Yukihiro Taguchi. Be Surprised! You will also find some wicked REMIXES on Youtube and iTunes ;-)
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NEROFOSCO "MITHRASLITURGIE" OUT ON NOV.7th EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH OUR MYSPACE AND OLDEUROPACAFE! PLS SPREAD! THANKS FOR ADDING US AND PAYING ATTENTION TO OUR SOUNDSCAPES.
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