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
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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.
Sandra Lindsey is very dark, like straight bean Godiva chocolate, except with necrophiliac mentioning. I like it (the song)! The Book was a must read. Thank you for keeping it weird and yet right.
oh a great influence indeed, and that will be very obvious in new material. and yes, kateter is catheter and rok is rock. and jandek is jandek, i guess :)
Ball de bastons (Catalan for "stick dance") is the name of a ritual weapon dance spread throughout Europe and the rest of the Iberian area (cossiers in Mallorca, Portuguese pauliteiros, Aragonese palotiau, Basque ezpatadantza and Spanish paloteo or troqueado). English and Welsh Morris dances are well-known relatives to these traditions. Most melodies are based on easy 2/4 rhythms. Instrumentarium includes tabor pipe, shawm or bagpipes. Some of these tunes as Villano de Zamora were strikingly popular grounds among European Renaissance and Baroque composers. Various different traditions are encompassed in the phrase, but normally the dancers will all carry one or two sticks (bastons) traditionally of holm oak, about 40-50 cm long and 5 cm thick. In the most common set, two opposite rows of dancers elaborate some patterns of stick-clashing. Sometimes, a peculiar chief character directs the movements and changes. The dancers may wear white skirts or short trousers, as well as red ribbons and ornaments.
:) When I was a child I used to dance that dance ;)
Dear David, how are you? I was so happy to read an your interview in Italy... ok, the last question was silly, but the rest is absolutely amazing and I was happy becauseit was like to have a letter from you, your answers are so good :) I was just sad to know about your girlfriend and her disease, I hope you are feeling ok now... I send to you a strong hug, I know maybe it doesn't mean too much, but at least I try..! Have a nice week my dear, you are awesome! Love, Dani Ps: Rozz would have loved "cats that looks like hitler"... I'm in love with this website!!! :=)
aaaaa ehehe well i've said before, i'm too shy and soft-spoken to be played at loud volumes! but, OKAY. i'll become rich and buy lots of books from you : ) (but really, wouldn't it be cool to make music that induced puking??) ehehe that's quite an analogy, can i quote you on that? mm i don't know dall or barton.. but i was watching a bit of a documentary on tom petty the other day..
see... i knew you'd puke upon hearing my cd! it's okay, i puke at it too.. in fact, i'm puking right now just thinking about it. we can still be friends : )
