Chords for [Friday On The Turntable] Rozz Williams & Gitane DeMone - Dream Home Heartache (Christian Death)

Hey guys, what's up?
This is Brett.
Welcome to this week's episode of Friday on the Turntable.
Today I'm gonna be doing a long overdue feature on
two great artists, Roz Williams and Jaton Damone.
Their one and only collaborative
album, Dream Home Heartache.
For those of you unfamiliar with the names Roz and Jaton,
they were both members of the LA death rock, goth rock,
post-punk, whatever you want to call them,
band called Christian Death.
I have behind me their third album, Ashes.
And Roz and Jaton appeared on two albums together, the second and the third one,
Catastrophe Ballet and Ashes.
Jaton had
joined the band prior to the Catastrophe Ballet album, I think back in 1983 is when when she joined.
And then when Roz left the band after the Ashes album, she continued on in Christian Death up until I think about
1990.
And then one on a solo career, Roz formed several different musical
side projects, one of them being Shadow Project.
And then the two of them
reunited in the
early 90s.
And in Europe, they actually recorded this album in a few days,
Dream Home Heartache, named after for the opening track in Every Dream Home Heartache,
which is of course a cover song of the Roxy Music song from the For Your Pleasure album.
Phenomenal cover version.
This album is really unique, you know, for those of you guys that are familiar with Christian Death,
_ this album is in a much different style.
If you're familiar with
the song Lament from Ashes, it's almost a slight touchstone
where it's a duet and there's an accordion.
It almost has a German beer hall sound to it.
And this
album is more of a cabaret torch song.
They bring back the accordion on the song A World Apart.
They duet.
Sometimes they just trade off on songs, just some spoken word.
There's a another cover on this one of Jimi Hendrix's Manic Depression, which they really dissect.
They bring it into a very minimalist _ style.
Jaton singing the main parts and then smack in the middle of the of the track, there's a whole
spoken word section from Roz in there, which elevates it to a whole different level.
And the vinyl version actually includes a bonus track.
And it's a second version.
It's a previously unreleased version of Manic Depression.
_ _ _ My favorite tracks on this one are a song called Flowers, which is a piano,
heart-wrenching, soul-bearing
song sung by Roz.
And it's a
_ struggle with
addiction.
And he just lays it all out in that song and the lyrics on that one.
And that's probably my favorite song of his.
It's just so emotional.
It's over six minutes long and just intense.
At one point my band, Audra, because we've played together with Jaton several times,
really an amazing musician and a great voice and a really nice person.
I'm gonna post a link down below because
there's a video on YouTube of her and my band performing a song from our first album called You're So Pretty.
But what was I getting at there?
Oh, but back in 2007 we had
started recording a covers album.
We actually finished it and then we never released it.
But we actually recorded a version of the song Flowers and it'll probably remain unreleased.
But it's an amazing song.
Moon Without a Tear, which is a really gentle, almost lullaby-esque song with Jaton on vocals.
Beautiful.
And the title track, their version of the Roxy music song is just outstanding.
It's Ros-led.
It's very minimal.
Like the Roxy music song,
it explodes at the end and Jaton comes in with her backing vocals and it's just a, it's a,
it's untouchable.
It's a great, great version.
Let me think of a few other things.
So back in 1995,
they toured for this album and sadly they came to Arizona.
I still have my flyer here and they came, they were gonna come to a venue here called the Nile Theatre and
my band had played there several times and my brother and I, we, we went down there.
A call ahead of time.
Are they there?
Are they gonna be playing?
Yes, come down.
And the show was canceled and apparently
the venue didn't even, it was canceled in advance.
So they made us go down there for nothing.
But sadly, but I still have my flyer of it.
And Ros Williams passed away on April 1st of
1998.
So he is definitely a sad loss and no longer with us.
Put it out in a very short,
34 years, he put in an amazing body of work.
The Christian Death Albums, The Shadow Project, all of his little solo excursions and,
and,
and this beautiful record right here.
A few other things I want to mention.
Jaton has a new album came out [Ab] last year called The
Reflecting [G] Shadow.
It's, it's up on her Bandcamp page.
So please show some support for Jaton.
Perhaps you didn't even know she had a new album out.
_ [N] And
this album also can be purchased on her Bandcamp page.
I will have a link down for that below and
let me see what else I want to talk about.
Oh, yeah, as I was going through my collection
and sifting through the CDs [Eb] I found,
my band was on a label called Project Records and Back and I think this was
2002 [N] or something.
They released an album of Dark Cabaret and we have a track on there called Cabaret Fortune Teller.
But the Roz and Jaton song Flowers is actually on this as well.
Oh, and I sang for a band called Black Tape for a Blue Girl
and there's a song that I sang on that too called Knock Three Times.
And then back in the early 2000s
we were asked to contribute to a Roz
tribute album.
This is called The Tongue Achieves the Dialect and we did a [Gm] version of
The Glass House or This Glass [N] House from the second Christian Death album, Catastrophe Ballet.
And there was a vinyl release of it, which I also have, but our track wasn't included on the vinyl release.
But definitely something cool.
_ Yeah, so Roz and Jaton, Dream Home Heartache.
What else can I say about it?
It's such an interesting album and it's such a cool sound.
It's not what you'd expect.
_ _ Yeah, beautiful.