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Well, my pretties, what have we here? It’s the long-awaited follow-up to Projekt’s compilation,\u00a0A Dark Cabaret<\/B>.\u00a0Huzzah!\u00a0Selling over\u00a015,000 units, that\u00a02005\u00a0release\u00a0introduced the world to the Dark Cabaret genre, drawing\u00a0on the aesthetics of decadent, risqu\u00e9 German\u00a0Weimar-era\u00a0cabarets,\u00a0burlesque\u00a0and\u00a0Vaudeville\u00a0shows mashed with the stylings of post-1970s\u00a0goth\u00a0and\u00a0punk\u00a0music. Projekt’s Sam Rosenthal coined the “Dark Cabaret” term in the late 90s, and thus he is the ideal person to compile\u00a0A Dark Cabaret 2<\/B>, a delightfully\u00a0dark and\u00a0delicious collection featuring 12 artists: fan favorites and\u00a0new acts soon to be legendary.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Voltaire opens the set with “Coin Operated Goi,” his humorous parody of The Dresden Dolls’ track which opened\u00a0DarkCab1<\/B>. Boston is well-represented with HUMANWINE and Boston Phoenix’s Best Live Artist of 2011, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys; both acts are rollicking and scorching, bringing energy to the late night burlesque. Darlings of\u00a0DarkCab1<\/B>, Katzenjammer Kabarett are reborn as KatzKab, inciting the listener to “Join Us” on an\u00a0infectious previously-unreleased track of quirky experimental pop with an 80s electropunk edge.\u00a0Black Tape For A Blue Girl present their\u00a0emotionally charged, theatrical, bold & raucous,\u00a0shanty “Sailor Boy;” Jill Tracy seduces with “In Between Shades,” a\u00a0dark, elegant netherworld full of hidden passageways, wonder cabinets and opium dens. Newcomer Adrian H and The Wounds slithers into our lives with the gravelly-vocalled, sinfully soulful “Bad Man.” \u00a0Enigmatic Italian band-leader Simone Salvatori brings Spiritual Front’s “Song For The Old Man;” while\u00a0Unextraordinary Gentlemen’s “Black Iron Road” travels the cold, shaded streets of a Victorian Purgatory in this mix by the\u00a0legendary Barry Adamson.\u00a0\u00a0Twenty-five years on and Eva is back for another waltz through Amsterdam’s dark underbelly on Attrition’s “A’dam & Eva (the resurrection).”\u00a0The winner of the “Is that Amanda Palmer or what!?!?!” prize goes to England’s\u00a0Birdeatsbaby with their\u00a0schizophrenic hymn \u2018The Trouble\u2019\u00a0(the video has over 89,000 views on YouTube!).\u00a0Pop noir veterans\u00a0ThouShaltNot bring the disc to a ghastly conclusion with their Tin Pan Alley excursion into supernatural insanity, “The Haunted Phonograph.”
Sordid, seductive, catchy and fascinated with the darker side of life, this release is a truly delectable confection. Is that a hint of bitter almond in the meringue? \u00a0Put on your sexiest flapper dress or Gatsby-esque paper boy hat as\u00a0A Dark Cabaret 2<\/B> puts a new twist on an old fashioned beat; it is\u00a0dark and twisted, sassy to sinister, a\u00a0mesmerizing combination of old styles made new. \u00a0<\/p>\n
Conceived, compiled & created by Sam Rosenthal, Spring 2011
Cover image: John-Riley Harper, website<\/A>. Model: Courtney Edwards.<\/p>\nThis item is out of print, and here for historical reasons.<\/h3>\n
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Voltaire opens the set with “Coin Operated Goi,” his humorous parody of The Dresden Dolls’ track which opened\u00a0DarkCab1<\/B>. Boston is well-represented with HUMANWINE and Boston Phoenix’s Best Live Artist of 2011, Walter Sickert and the Army of Broken Toys; both acts are rollicking and scorching, bringing energy to the late night burlesque. Darlings of\u00a0DarkCab1<\/B>, Katzenjammer Kabarett are reborn as KatzKab, inciting the listener to “Join Us” on an\u00a0infectious previously-unreleased track of quirky experimental pop with an 80s electropunk edge.\u00a0Black Tape For A Blue Girl present their\u00a0emotionally charged, theatrical, bold & raucous,\u00a0shanty “Sailor Boy;” Jill Tracy seduces with “In Between Shades,” a\u00a0dark, elegant netherworld full of hidden passageways, wonder cabinets and opium dens. Newcomer Adrian H and The Wounds slithers into our lives with the gravelly-vocalled, sinfully soulful “Bad Man.” \u00a0Enigmatic Italian band-leader Simone Salvatori brings Spiritual Front’s “Song For The Old Man;” while\u00a0Unextraordinary Gentlemen’s “Black Iron Road” travels the cold, shaded streets of a Victorian Purgatory in this mix by the\u00a0legendary Barry Adamson.\u00a0\u00a0Twenty-five years on and Eva is back for another waltz through Amsterdam’s dark underbelly on Attrition’s “A’dam & Eva (the resurrection).”\u00a0The winner of the “Is that Amanda Palmer or what!?!?!” prize goes to England’s\u00a0Birdeatsbaby with their\u00a0schizophrenic hymn \u2018The Trouble\u2019\u00a0(the video has over 89,000 views on YouTube!).\u00a0Pop noir veterans\u00a0ThouShaltNot bring the disc to a ghastly conclusion with their Tin Pan Alley excursion into supernatural insanity, “The Haunted Phonograph.”
Conceived, compiled & created by Sam Rosenthal, Spring 2011
Cover image: John-Riley Harper, website<\/A>. Model: Courtney Edwards.<\/p>\n