Nervous Cabaret is an American punk-cabaret band from

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, which formed in 2002.

History

The singer Elyas Khan's stage creation ''Fragmented Devotion To You'', an operetta he conceived, wrote, and scored the surrounding music for, debuted at the 2001 DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, and was the final stage in the development of his band Nervous Cabaret. The band has also performed with

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and Sxip Shirey at the

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in Brooklyn and Jil Is Lucky at

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theatre in Paris, France Additionally, Nervous Cabaret performed on the same stage with

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at Les Escales Festival in

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, France. Nervous Cabaret also supported

on tour at the Bijou Theater in Knoxville, Tennessee, as mentioned on p. 210 of Tara Prescott and Aaron Drucker's book ''Feminism in the Worlds of

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'' (Gaiman is Palmer's husband). In 2008, Nervous Cabaret was invited to perform at the

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museum in Paris.

Band members

* Elyas Khan vocals, guitar, bass, electronics * Fred Wright cornet, recorder * Brian Geltner drums, percussion, organ * Greg Wieczorek drums, percussion * Don Undeen baritone saxophone, clarine * Sam Kulik trombone

Discography

* ''Nervous Cabaret'' 2005 (France)

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(released in the United States in 2006); produced by Kenny Siegal; recorded at Old Soul Studios in Catskill, New York; mixed by

Bryce Goggin Bryce Goggin is an American record producer and sound engineer. His career began in the early 1990s, working at Baby Monster Studios. He first received note for mixing the album ''Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain'' by Pavement. He has since worked with ...

at Trout Studios in

, New York; mastered by

Greg Calbi Gregory Calbi (born April 3, 1949) is an American mastering engineer at Sterling Sound, New Jersey. Biography Greg Calbi was born on April 3, 1949, in Yonkers, New York, and raised in Bayside, Queens, New York. He graduated in 1966 from Bisho ...

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in New York City, New York * ''Drop Drop'' 2007 CD /

(released in the United States in 2009); produced by Kenny Siegal, recorded at Old Soul Studios in Catskill, New York; mixed by

at Trout Studios in

, New York; mastered by Fred Kevorkian at

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in New York City, New York * ''Ecstatic Music for Savage Souls'' 2003 EP/ ELab Recordings; produced and mastered by Danny Kadar

References

External links

Nervous Cabaret's music on Bandcamp
{{DEFAULTSORT:Nervous Cabaret American post-punk music groups Musical groups established in 2002 Musical groups from Brooklyn Naïve Records artists

History

Band members

Discography

See also

References

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