The Dresden Dolls have garnered mainstream attention. 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. In 2006 Ianva releases the full length "Disobbedisco!", with many other cabaretish songs (see "Tango della Menade"). In 2006, Italians Spiritual Front crossed bounds of their "suicidal pop" on album "Armageddon Gigolo" to cabaret sound mixed with Dark/ Apocalyptic folk.Īnother 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". Madame Bistouri and CircuZ KumP drama company collaborated to the recording and staging of this project. In 2006 Italian neoclassic band Ataraxia records new album "Paris Spleen", strongly inspired by french chanson and cabaret influences with their traditional dark sound. In 2000 Lexicon Magazine, in a review of Voltaire's Almost Human CD, used the descriptive term "goth cabaret". London cabaret act the Tiger Lillies have implemented dark themes and imagery, but do not typically convey a "dark sound." 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. The walls of the Parlour Club were painted by artists Dame Darcy and Anthony Sunseri. 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.īricktop'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. 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. Canada's Shift magazine called the album one of the "Top 10 Neo-Cabaret albums of all time." Diabolical Streak garnered two California Music Awards nominations as well as the SIBL international Grand Prize for songwriting. The band played in the art-punk and burlesque scenes of Chicago's northside for several years.įollowing her 1996 debut solo album Quintessentially Unreal, San Francisco-based singer/pianist Jill Tracy released her second CD, Diabolical Streak, in 1999. 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 burlesque orchestra Apartment helped to pioneer the queer dark cabaret movement in Chicago. ![]() 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".ĭanny 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. 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. ![]() 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. 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. In the same year, the German darkwave group Ghosting released the track Let Me Stay on their album "Songs from Fairyland". ![]() Seattle-based art rock band Salon Betty contributed to the genre in 1994, with their single "Last Cigarette" and their album, The Big Hair Sex Circus, released on iMusic.
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