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Release Date: 07/31/07
5th album contains a duet with The Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer. It brings to mind images of a mariachi skeleton band.
Aurelio Voltaireâs 5th album from 2007. âItâs a Halloween party in a digipak,â Voltaire comments about his most hilariously irreverent CD to date. Years in the making,Ooky Spookycontains a duet with The Dresden Dollsâ Amanda Palmer, a track from a Cartoon Network movie (âBilly and Mandyâs Big Boogie Adventureâ) plus his crowd-pleasing songs about zombies, devils and dancing skeletons. In fact necrophilia, cannibalism, the undead, blasphemy, sacrilege, going to hell in a handbasket and bombing New Jersey are just a few of the charming topics covered within.
Back are the violins and cellos but new to the Voltaire sound is a horn section that brings to mind images of a mariachi skeleton band. But there is no doom and gloom here, mind you. The album bounces along with a mixture of klezmer, swing and ska that brings to mind such spooky-fun classics as Oingo Boingoâs âDead Manâs Partyâ or âHellâ by the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Voltaireâs love for Cab Calloway is evident in the song âCannibal Buffetâ (which seems straight from a Betty Boop cartoon) and more so in âLand of the Deadâ which Voltaire wrote for the opening credit sequence of the Cartoon Network movie âBilly and Mandyâs Big Boogie Adventure.â
As serious as it gets onOoky Spooky is âStuck With You,â a duet with The Dresden Dollsâ Amanda Palmer. Itâs about a bickering married couple, but even on this one kittens are drowned, Korean bayonets are employed and skeletons sing to each other from side-by-side coffins. âI got all of the serious songs out of the way on Then And Again,â comments Voltaire, âspecifically so that Ooky Spookycould be a non-stop party of fun songs about the undead and hell and devils and skeletons and all of the other fun stuff thatâs so close to my heart.â
CD in 4-panel digipak with 8-page lyric booklet.
Label: Projekt |
Genre: Alternative/Punk |
Run Time: 42 mins |
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