David E. Williams
Gothic / Folk / Melodramatic Popular Song
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"darkly humored electro-symphonic pop"
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania
United States
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| Member Since | 5/2/2006 | | Band Website | davidewilliams.com | | Band Members | 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 | Check out this rocket pioneer and collector of D.E.W. performance DVD's:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=WernherVonBraun
| | Record Label | Old Europa Cafe | | Type of Label | Indie |
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Wotan Rains on My Plutocrat Piano
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CONCERT REPORT: Auf Wiedersehen, Herr Canady!
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D.E.W. interview in Zero Tolerance Magazine (UK glossy)
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 10PM - Jon Canady and D.E.W. perform irregular peculiarities
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| About David E. Williams |
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.
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