Nervous Cabaret

NERVOUS CABARET’s live performances are bloodily moving: by turns Ellington, Post punk, Led Zeppelin and vaudeville orchestra. The song writing of Elyas Khan, described by fans as “royalty in dirty disguise", is an eclectic mix of musical influence ranging from Duke Ellington to Ethiopique, clubland to music hall, that crashes from violent to fragile in a seemingly endless variety of arrangements and orchestrations.
NERVOUS CABARET’s latest release Drop Drop (US Release Nov 2009) is poetic and relevant taking inspiration from a wide spectrum of experiences: an imaginary conversation with surrealist painter Max Ernst, run-ins with Brooklyn gang members, a cemetery in Paris, Russian movies, the Lost Boys of the Sudan, Sexopolitico fantasies, memories of adolescent love aches, and burning embers.
NERVOUS CABARET play around NYC/USA and the European festival circuits alongside Sonic Youth, Tarif de Haidouks, Alain Bashung, Animal Collective, Jamie Lidell, among others. As a solo artist Khan shares stages with the likes of French sensations Mademoiselle K, Nouvelle Vague and Sebastien Tellier.