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V.A. (VARIOUS ARTISTS) (COMPILATIONS) - Twisted Cabaret Vol. 1

Format: CD + DVD Label & Cat.Number: Volvox Music VOLDVD903 Release Year: 2010 Note: compilation with "New Cabaret" influenced music & acts "using, altering or diverting the codes and rules of Weimar Cabaret": TIGER LILIES, BABY DEE, DRESDEN DOLLS, RESIDENT (!), LITTLE ANNIE, DE KIFT, LEGENDARY PINK DOTS, ARANOS, and many more; special edition comes with DVD feat. music videos & live performances of all presented groups!! Price (incl. 19% VAT): €20.00 Warning: Currently we do not have this album in stock! More Info " 'Twisted Cabaret Volume 1's' goal is to unite some of the most important modern artists who are using, altering or diverting the codes and rules of Weimar Cabaret. The time when burlesque, darkness and comedy appeared in Cabarets is now ended, but its legacy and influence on some modern artists is still prevalent, particularly when times are unkind to satire and auto derision. Each in their musical style, the selected artists revive a polemic that opposes the standardization of, the mind, customs and way of life. Far from the popular comic cliché or excessive glamour, Twisted Cabaret sets out to be at the same time poetic and thoughtful. Uniting well known artists as 'The Residents', 'The Legendary Pink Dots' or 'The Dresden Dolls', Twisted Cabaret Vol.1 also introduces emergent artists of this genre, where the "Packaging" is as important as the content. As well as having rich and qualitative content(s), we have also favoured an esthetical mix of old iconography, but with a modern style. Two versions will be available: a regular digipack audio CD and a Deluxe Edition which will include the regular audio CD, plus an additional DVD of music videos and live performances of the artists presenting different (the other) sides of their work. TRACKLISTING: 01. THE TIGER LILIES - START A FIRE 02. BABY DEE - THE EARLIE KING 03. EVELYN EVELYN - HAVE YOU SEEN MY SISTER EVELYN 04. THE REAL TUESDAY WELD - THE SWEETEST SONGS 05. THE DRESDEN DOLLS - BANK OF BOSTON BEAUTY QUEEN 06. BUDAM - DA DA DA DIE 07. LE MAXI MONSTER MUSIC SHOW - J'AURAIS AIM� 08. THE RESIDENTS - THE DYING OILMAN 09. KOKUSYOKU SUMIRE - GEKKO RENKA 10. KATZENJAMMER KABARETT - SAYLOR SANDHAM'S SISTER 11. VERMILLION LIES - BONNIE & CLYDE 12. LITTLE ANNIE - SIT ON DOWN 13. DE KIFT - KNOECK 14. THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - MAN OR MOUSE 15. ARANOS - NEW GUITAR 16. MARCELLA PUPPINI AND THE FORGET ME NOTS - WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO YOUR FACE? 17. EL TIGER COMICS GROUP & JOEL HUBAUT - VAPAMOU RIRE 18. LITTLE WHITE RABBITS STILL BLEED - BALLOON ANIMAL SUICIDE (BIG BLUE RIBBONS) DISC #2: 01. THE TIGER LILLIES - THE FREAKS, LOBOTOMY, TOGETHER FOREVER 02. BABY DEE - THE DANCE OF DIMINISHING POSSIBILITIES 03. EVELYN EVELYN - ONLY WANT ME CAUSE THEY WANT MY SISTER 04. THE REAL TUESDAY WELD - THE THEATRE DREAMS 05. THE DRESDEN DOLLS - GOOD DAY 06. BUDAM - CLAP HANDS 07. LE MAXI MONSTER MUSIC SHOW - ET ALORS 08. THE RESIDENTS - HARRY THE HEAD 09. KOKUSYOKU SUMIRE - BEAUTIFUL VIOLET FOREVER 10. LITTLE ANNIE - YESTERDAY WHEN I WAS YOUNG 11. DE KIFT - BEGUINE 12. THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - THE WEDDING FEAT. AMANDA PALMER 13. THE LEGENDARY PINK DOTS - 15 FLIES 14. ARANOS - JULIO CRUZ 15. MACELLA PUPPINI AND THE FORGET ME NOTS - MONSTER MAE 16. EL TIGER COMICS GROUP & JOEL HUBAUT - VAPAMOU RIRE 17. LITTLE WHITE RABBITS STILL BLEED - MUNCIE MAYHEM (WHO'S GOT THE MOAY)" [label info] "Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome… Ah, cabaret! I'm sure most of the Vital readers of a certain age (read 35+) will know the famous 1972 movie featuring Liza Minelli in her prime (and little else). Set in a Berlin nightclub during the crisis of 30's the movie is full of campy provocative playfulness, with a hint of bare flesh and has since become something of a synonym for stylish decadence. A bit like dancing on a volcano. It is no surprise that, considering the symbiosis between the crisis in Berlin in the 30's and the current financial crisis, cabaret (and everything it stands for) is actual again. Hence the release of this wonderful package entitled Twisted Cabaret ("twisted" no less). So bring on the woman-with-the-beard, the midgets, the sexy dancers in stockings, the blade swallowers et al. The great thing is that Volvox have realized you need a visual component to fully capture that spirit. Most of the songs on the CD are repeated and visualized in clips on the DVD, which is a great thing, as it is hard (well, harder) to get that "cabaret-feeling" merely from the music. So what's on offer? It's pleasing to note that Volvox music have managed to combine a number of bigger names with (for me) total unknowns. So we get The Residents (there are indeed "cabaret"-elements in their Harry the Head), the Dresden Dolls (definitely cabaret and such a pleasure to watch - they split up, but it remains a joy to see Brian Viglione hit his drums - hard and with style) and the Legendary Pink Dots (not too sure about their cabaret-level, but they serve up Man or Mouse; a beautiful new audio track and two, admittedly rare, but hardly cabaretish live tracks on the DVD). Then there are the surprises. I'd never heard of The Tiger Lilies, but they are great. Their video captures the whole spirit of this release. There is stand-up cabaret with the "twins" Evelyn Evelyn, there is more sisterly music with Kokusyoku Sumire (nicely dressed) from Japan, De Kift (from Holland) surprise with a great, almost tango-like, Beguine (OK, more like a beguine then) and Knoeck on the audio CD and I love the Real Tuesday Weld. Joël Hubaut makes a surprise appearance looking very cabaretish (and slightly worrying). Besides all this fun, there is the odd disappointment. Budam sounds and looks like Tom Waits (he even uses a Waits-title "Clap Hands"), but isn't and you'd really have to like Aranos. Still, in all, Volvox have managed to produce a great theme-based compilation, well-presented and professionally presented. There are the odds and sods that don't make sense considering the theme of the package, which is a shame, but not that distracting. Volvox are compiling volume 2 as you read this and are inviting acts to contact them for inclusion. I wonder if there is enough true "cabaret" in this genre to fill up a second volume, but fingers crossed. If you like the weird and wonderful and Berlin 1930's is your schtick - look no further." [Freek Kinkelaar, Vital Weekly] www.volvoxmusic.om "Seit Charlotte Rampling in Cavanis Sadiconazista-Film Der Nachtportier diesen Song von Friedrich Hollaender im KZ um ihr Leben sang, klingt bei mir Cabaret beklemmend pervers wie Macabaret. Darüber schiebt sich das Großstadt-Triptychon von Dix und der Conferencier im Kit Kat Club plärrt grinsend seine Zoten. Hinter dem Rücken deutscher Abgrundsvergessenheit hat sich aber anderswo etwas entwickelt, Dark Cabaret getauft oder "Brechtian punk cabaret", das den Spirit von vor 1933 mit anderen Mitteln, mit Postpunk-, Gothik- oder bloßer Nostalgie-Attitüde wieder aufgreift. Versammelt auf Twisted Cabaret Vol. 1 (Volvox Music, VOL0902/0903, CD + DVD) sind die stilprägenden The Tiger Lillies aus London als Brandstifter mit groteskem Zündstoff, The Dresden Dolls aus Boston und das französische Katzenjammer Kabarett mit den ‚erwachsenen‘ Altstimmen von Amanda Palmer bzw. Mary Komplikated. Little Annie bietet einen ihrer Songs from the Coal Mine Canary und eine verboten glaubwürdige Version von Aznavours ‚Yesterday When I Was Young‘. Irritationsveteranen wie The Residents und unverwüstlichen Tänzern über Abgründen wie The Legendary Pink Dots mit dem herzensbrecherischen Edward Ka-Spel als ‚Man or Mouse‘ (unter lauter Schafen) stehen Baby Dee zur Seite, hinter deren rauer Schale eine Seele steckt, die in Kilogramm gewogen werden kann, und Aranos als Stehgeiger mit einer heißen Kartoffel im Mund. The Real Tuesday Weld steuern im 3/4-Takt fingerdick Patina bei, die großartigen Marcella Puppini and The Forget Me Nots lassen Männer Männchen machen. Dazu krähen die kessen Mädels von Kokusyoku Sumire Tango Balkanese oder, halb Geisha, halb Rokoko, Enkaschlager, dass die Perücke stäubt. Vermillion Lies spielen kriminellen Rock‘n‘Roll aus Oakland, als männliches Gegenstück kurbeln die Muncie Bros. aus Indianapolis aka Little White Rabbit Still Bleed Red ihre Klappsmühle, während Evelyn Evelyn sich schwuder & bresterlich eine Gitarre teilen. Mit The Maxi Monster Music und dem Schellackgesang ihrer üppigen Bearded Lady zu Singender Säge und Zweifingerklavier und der theatralischen eL TiGeR CoMiCs GRouP mit ihrem heiseren Chansonier Joel Hubaut treten weitere Franzosen auf, De Kift verblüffen mit holländischem Rap zu Blasmusik und Slide Guitar, der toteslüsterne Budam von den Färöer Inseln stimmt einen morbiden Humptatawalzer an. Fehlen bloß die World/Inferno Friendship Society und Daniel Kahn & The Painted Bird. Einige der Lieder sind exklusiv, einige rar, nicht wenige glamourös oder fatal, aber alle stellen sie seltsame Sachen mit Herz oder Hirn (soweit vorhanden) an. Von den Blauen Engeln und Seeräuber Jennies ganz zu schweigen. Die besten unter diesen Galgenliedersängern und Pfeffermühlenfatalisten können jederzeit die bad alchemystischsten Zeilen, die ich kenne, unterschreiben: Wenn ich mir was wünschen dürfte, möcht ich etwas glücklich sein, denn wenn ich gar zu glücklich wäre, hätte ich Heimweh nach dem Traurigsein. Was singt Amanda Palmer da auf der DVD? I want all the details of the pain and misery, und Ka-Spel, für den sie sich ans Klavier setzt, würzt nach mit Asche und 15 toten Fliegen. Aber die DVD ist eh schon wegen The Tiger Lillies Freakshow unbezahlbar." [Rigo Dittmann / Bad Alchemy]