A man of frequently-criticized vocal skills, David audaciously accepted the challenge of singing this classic of 19th century German Romanticism. With help from an internet MIDI file, he also transformed the original piano accompaniment into a driving electronica, prefigured nearly two centuries earlier by the relentless ostenato of Schubert’s original composition.

Based in both Danish and German folklore, Goethe’s lyric tells the story of a little boy travelling by horse with his father. The boy is haunted by an Elf King who tempts him to a land of flowers and song (not to mention the Elf King’s dancing daughters!) As any good child would, the boy tells his father about this Elf King character, but the father dismisses him with talk of fog and rustling leaves.

Since you’re on this website, you probably already know or have figured out that by the end of the song, the father is left holding a dead child.

OEC 100 celebrates the 100th release and 25-year anniversary of Rodolfo Protti’s Old Europa Café Records with 101 artists on this 7-CD box set. Wow!

Order from http://www.oldeuropacafe.com/main.php?nav=pd&prdct=8470

“I’m in Love with the Ambulance Driver
(1987 4-track demo version)” on
A Taste of Lapin / Disques de Lapin

From Disques De Lapin: “Celebrate Spring and reincarnation in style with this delightful Disques de Lapin compilation. Whether it's the 1987 cassette demo of the David E. Williams hit "I'm In Love With The Ambulance Driver", a rare old O Paradis track, Miss Moonshine's take on the standard "It's Only A Paper Moon", or one of the other 13 outstanding numbers, you'll be choking on this chocolate rabbit for decades.

Other acts include: cosmic internationally unknown windchild Stavo Craft, time-travellers The Universes, Barcelonan dance-hall gods Comando Suzie, guitarist extraordinaire Jerome Deppe, depressing creeps Thomas Nöla et son Orchestre, erotic trumpeteer Eric Dahlman and the well-dressed Shiva the Destroyer. Also introducing promising new acts Oval Portraits, The Puntice Reflection and Polly Eurothane...and more? Hear them now, idolize them later.

This release is a silk-screened CD-R in a vintage 45 sleeve with artwork and treats inside. No two are alike. “

Order here: http://www.eskimofilms.com/atasteoflapin.html

“Heart-Shaped Box” on
Montage of Heck: A Sinister Tribute to Nirvana
DIY project on several indy labels
with free download at
http://www.divshare.com/download/3632964-004!

From Mr. Williams: “If you ever wanted to know how I sound doin’ the Cobain blues, you are hereby informed that I just covered “Heart-Shaped Box” for Montage of Heck: A Sinister Tribute to Nirvana. Organized by the fellow from Selbstmorder, this release is available from a number of labels, distributors and even as a free download for all you kids who weren’t even born when that mythic shotgun married that mythic skull.

As for me, I had just turned 30 when Kurt (OR SOMEONE ELSE!) pulled the trigger, and I was having a bit of a breakdown myself: every time I looked at another human being, I automatically envisioned them with their entrails exposed. Seriously. It was a real problem and you can verify it with people who knew me at the time.

I remember being slightly irritated when I read that a contributor to Kurt’s depression was the fact that his loser punk rock friends in Seattle made fun of him for buying a Lexus with his newly earned dough. My advice would have been to drive over them… forward, back… then drive over them again.

Well, a lot of people have written a lot of songs. And some of them are good. I guess I have to sing as many as possible since I’m the voice of a generation.

For now, I really do “wish I could eat your cancer when you turn black.”

ONLINE REVIEWS OF
THE APPEAL OF
DISCARDED
ORTHODOXY:
A TRIBUTE TO
DAVID E. WILLIAMS

Judas Kiss by Lee Powell
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1108&Itemid=30

Judas Kiss by Simon Collins
http://monkeyhouse-recordings.co.uk/JK2CMS/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1069&Itemid=30

Compulsion Online by Tony Dickie
http://www.compulsiononline.com/news86.htm

The double CD was also named one of two compilations in the “Best Works Anno 2007” by Occidental Congress!

http://www.occidentalcongress.com/best_works/Playlist2007.htm

$25 postpaid in U.S. and Canada

€25 postpaid in Europe and elsewhere

NOLA/ WILLIAMS
LOVE PARADE
CONTINUES UNABATED!

Thomas Nola’s performance DVD, En Vivo, includes great audio and video of D.E.W. singing lead vocal on T.N.'s piano version of "Sandra Lindsey", as well as the lads singing a duet together on T.N.'s "Henry Pelham". The recording is from Nola's October 2007 appearance in Philadelphia at Germ Books.

Buy the DVD here:
http://www.eskimofilms.com/envivo.html

D.E.W. SET LISTS FROM
BOSTON (JANUARY 25) AND
PHILADELPHIA (FEBRUARY 5)

Boston, January 25, 2008
Jacques Cabaret Underground

1. Sandra Lindsey
2. in sickness and in sickness
3. Sarah’s Booted Boy
4. The Ballad of Bob Crane
5. Beautiful Brownshirted Man—lead vocal by Jerome Deppe
6. Bad Day Anyway
7. Here Comes the Cold Narrator
8. Gossip Séance (Séance Gossip)
9. Grey Balloon Masquerading
10. Kill Yourself in Cape May
11. White Noise – a song from Jerome’s solo project! He sang lead vocal.
12. Hymn to the Genius of Idi Amin
13. Pumpernickel Crust – Jerome and David duet
14. Summer Wasn’t Made for You and Me
15. I’m in Love with the Ambulance Driver

Jerome Deppe played electric guitar on 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 10, 11 and floor tom on 8 (our audience participation number). Yet another new version of “Bad Day Anyway” has arisen: vocal, piano and a kind of shimmery noir guitar part.

Pre-recorded synth tracks were used on 1, 2, 3 and 13. David used Thomas Nola’s Yamaha piano on most of the others, a synth organ on 10 and a synth choir on 11.

Philadelphia, February 4, 2008
The Balcony at the Trocadero

1. in sickness and in sickness
2. Sandra Lindsey
3. Sarah’s Booted Boy
4. The Ballad of Bob Crane
5. Beautiful Brownshirted Man—lead vocal by Jerome Deppe
6. Bad Day Anyway
7. Here Comes the Cold Narrator
8. Gossip Séance (Séance Gossip)
9. Grey Balloon Masquerading
10. Kill Yourself in Cape May
11. White Noise – a song from Jerome’s solo project! He sang lead vocal.
12. Hymn to the Genius of Idi Amin
13. Pumpernickel Crust – Jerome and David duet
14. Summer Wasn’t Made for You and Me
15. Wise Up—David’s cover of Aimee Mann song from the movie Magnolia!
16. I Was a Fool in Love
17. I’m in Love with the Ambulance Driver

Instrumentation was similar to Boston, except that Jerome brought along an acoustic guitar for 9, 10, 11.

WHAT’S GOING ON IN MAY???
www.myspace.com/davidewilliams