From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V10 #295 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, December 1 2005 Volume 10 : Number 295 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Eno by Bracewell in GQ (UK) [KWil632057@aol.com] [AVALON] Re: please cease the public discussion of someone not here to defend himself [Duarte Mendonca ] [AVALON] Great, greater, greatest [Jocelynfiske@aol.com] [AVALON] Brian Eno Rocks the Casbah! Independent review [Chandla911@aol.c] [AVALON] Didn't see this b4 the gig - interesting [Chandla911@aol.com] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 05:57:38 EST From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Eno by Bracewell in GQ (UK) A nice article by Michael Bracewell (Roxyism will be out in January) on Eno and Ferry - The Lennon and McCartney of Avant Garde! in this months GQ And did I see Lucy's Wilkins and Theo performing with Rod Stewart in the telly the other day? J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:18:58 -0500 From: Duarte Mendonca Subject: [AVALON] Re: please cease the public discussion of someone not here to defend himself Coleen, I will end the discussion on my part here. I've said what I wanted to say. Maybe I am too harsh. I wish Daniel the best of luck and hope sincerely his situation improves, if that is in fact the case. I suspect however that I have saved someone from wasting their time and money burning 20 CDs for someone who will provide nothing in exchange but sorry excuses. I too am surprised. Surprised by the rigid defence of Daniel's behaviour. I too have had extremely sick family members (breast cancer), pet pass way, financial ups and downs, personal issues, etc.. but I have always honoured my commitments, and didn't solicit large trades from Avalonians that I had no ability or intention of fulfilling. Now when is that new Roxy album coming out? regards Duarte ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:36:06 -0500 (EST) From: Colleen Matan Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: please cease the public discussion of someone not here to defend himself On Wed, 30 Nov 2005, Duarte Mendonca wrote: > Coleen, > I will end the discussion on my part here. I've said what I wanted to say. > Maybe I am too harsh. I wish Daniel the best of luck and hope sincerely his > situation improves, if that is in fact the case. I suspect however that I > have saved someone from wasting their time and money burning 20 CDs for > someone who will provide nothing in exchange but sorry excuses. Do you honestly think that Daniel is still out there, off the list and in secret, trying to bilk CDs from people? And even if he were, a simple "Just a head's up that I had been trading with Daniel and he hasn't held up his end of the bargain so I'm letting you all know there may be a problem" would have sufficed, no? Instead of posting private emails with private details to the list and deciding that although Daniel indicated he was dealing with a lot, it really wasn't enough to justify our expectations. > I too am surprised. Surprised by the rigid defence of Daniel's behaviour. First, as I have said before, I am not defending or excusing his behavior. But for a number and variety of reasons I'm not going to allow people who are not here to defend themselves to be bashed on the list. Private email is the only way to contact Daniel as he's not reading the list. Second, I guess I'm old-fashioned, but I don't believe the purpose of Avalon is to attack one another. > I too have had extremely sick family members (breast cancer), pet pass way, > financial ups and downs, personal issues, etc.. but I have always honoured my > commitments, and didn't solicit large trades from Avalonians that I had no > ability or intention of fulfilling. Everyone reacts in different ways to stressful situations. To expect another person to react exactly as you would is to put unfair expectations on that person. Some people just shut down completely when they are overwhelmed. Bashing them behind their backs neither helps them nor resolves the issue at hand. Colleen ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 14:29:31 -0000 From: "Colette Robertson" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Eno by Bracewell in GQ (UK) So it was Lucy then! I only caught the very end of the performance and was willing the camera to go back for another sweep past the violinist on the end but it didn't. Rod Stewart seems to be morphing into Max Wall as he gets older!! Cheers, Colette - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of KWil632057@aol.com Sent: 30 November 2005 10:58 To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Eno by Bracewell in GQ (UK) A nice article by Michael Bracewell (Roxyism will be out in January) on Eno and Ferry - The Lennon and McCartney of Avant Garde! in this months GQ And did I see Lucy's Wilkins and Theo performing with Rod Stewart in the telly the other day? J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:01:10 -0500 From: "krnchse" Subject: [AVALON] New Roxy Album on Amazon? http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/3882439548/qid=1133365776/sr=11-1/ref=sr_11_ 1/104-1852884-7844766?n=283155 Check out the enlarged photo.I'm sure that is our Bry' behind the Covergirl and Andy is hiding in the shadows to the right.John O'B does a nice job as the MC.My Christmas list has just got bigger.................. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 20:21:06 EST From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Great, greater, greatest Just back from Franz Ferdinand at Ally Pally and can't believe they had the audacity to introduce THEIR Paul Thompson as THE GREAT Paul Thompson. Football chant along now with me everyone: "One Great Paul Thompson, There's only one Great Paul Thompson, One Great Paul Thooooooompson. There's only one Great Paul Thompsooooon" And repeat 'til end. That'll teach the REAL GPT not to frantinize and get pally outside Ally Pally (see Paul's site for pic). Non the less, the scrawny stylists ugly ducklings were magnificent, and, do you know what? I think I worked out why everyone loves this de Souza stompin' marching band. They have a real knack of writing hooks where you imagine (and soon learn) that you know all the lyrics to the chorus. Make it up and sing along - everyone can become an instant Franz Ferdinand aficionado. Just look at Matinee, Take me Out, or Auf Achse (you can see her, you can't touch her, you hear her, you can't hold her, you want her and you can't have her, you want to but she won't let you.) They were so self-assured for a second album band (can you believe they stuck their Virginia Plain right in the middle of the set and got away with it), much more confident than I remember a 1973 Roxy in the same position. I also thought that, just as Simple Minds ripped off a far superior Magazine to become a stadium favourite, I can see Franz Ferdinand holding court soon in the same way, even though it were but yesterday when I saw them in some small out of the way venue. What a string of live events I've got to look forward to. FF tonight, Anthony and the Johnsons on Monday and the magnificent, untouchable darkness that is The League of Gentlemen Xmas Panto on Friday (they're behind you!). Now if only some lightweight called TGPT (TRGPT, The Real Great Paul Thompson) hadn't had to cancel on Thursday - it would have been a full house. Bingo! (Bango!) Jocelyn ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 02:50:24 EST From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Brian Eno Rocks the Casbah! Independent review It's rare for Brian Eno to grace a British stage now-adays, especially in the context of rock music. You are more likely to encounter his work in art galleries than in the lager-and-concrete grunginess of a rock venue like the Astoria. In recent years, though, he has also involved himself in humanitarian causes such as the charity War-child, and, since 9/11 and the launch of that piratical ship of state The War on Terror upon an unbelieving world, his voice has been prominent in the Stop the War movement, and tonight's gig is a fundraiser for the charity. Befitting our modern fractal realities, Bring Our Troops Home banners hang beside posters for the launch of the new Girls Aloud album. Punters pay in cash only at the door, and there's a Stop-the-War sign-up stand behind the mixing desk, but other than a brief opening address delivered by Eno about the humanitarian waste and pointlessness of the occupation, the stage is cleared of rhetoric or exhortation, and the raw spirit of the music holds reign. Imogen Heap's intricate one-woman electronica opens the show, with a short set orchestrated from what looks like the contents of a hi-fi showroom c2012, the banks of electronica twinkling around her like digital fairy lights. Heap has come to prominence via the use of her music on the cult television show The OC and the hit American indie film Garden State, and her shimmering, semi-translucent musical universe is without easy compare. Her dreamlike set segues well into Sawhney's short, beautifully textured and largely instrument performance, with Sawhney on guitar accompanied by a percussionist and Eno, standing at the back wearing the bemused-cum- impish countenance of a past master of benign disruption, and adding sweeping, poetic techno textures to Sawhney's Arabic-style picking. Eno resumes his station on a raised platform in front of a row of laptops and gizmos as Rachid Taha's crack seven-piece band storm the stage and play merry hell with the next two hours. Eno calls Taha's music the emanation of "punk Arab consciousness", and from the Arabesque opening of "Mamachi", from Taha's most recent album, Tikitoi (Who Are You?), the packed Astoria audience get a pure emanation of that consciousness in action. Taha has visited Britain frequently over the last few years, but this is surely one of the best concerts he has delivered. He takes the stage in a skinny black suit and leather trilby, saluting both his musicians and the crowd, twisting his body at the microphone as the song mutates into a driving Arabic rock beat. The opening salvo includes the pounding "Shuf [Look]" and the superb "H'asbu-Hum" ("Ask Them for an Explanation"). Taha looks like an archetypal rock'n'roller, and the band's guitarist Noel Delfin knows all the moves, but the music has almost nothing, apart from volume and mass, to do with the long tradition of Anglo-American Blues-based rock - the very foundations of the beat are quite different. Eno knows this, and throughout the set adds atmospheres and textures to heighten and sharpen Taha's sound - high, keening oscillations, deep bass notes, minimal "root" sounds, such as the fantastically effective but simple two-or-three-note keyboard riff that plays underneath the song "Medina". For the night's grandstanding conclusion, the Clash legend Mick Jones strides on in a skinny black suit and plays probably the most exciting guitar he has delivered in years. He and the band are brilliant on Taha's definitive take on "Rock the Casbah", for which the audience goes berserk, and Jones chops out some supremely dirty punk chords through the four encore performances, concluding with a pounding, tribal "Tikitoi". Then, after much bowing and salutations to the crowd, Taha and his boys bid farewell. Best wishes Richard Mills n/p Burt Bacharach - At This Time ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2005 03:21:43 EST From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Didn't see this b4 the gig - interesting BRIAN ENO: TAKING THE WORLD BY STORM Brian Eno rarely plays live, but this Sunday he'll be on stage at a charity gig, playing punk Arabic music. He explains why. I will be appearing on stage with Rachid Taha at a benefit concert on Sunday, singing live backing vocals in Arabic (Rachid has helped me with the pronunciation). It is mainly to raise money for the Stop the War Coalition, but it also shows that a bunch of Muslims and so-called Christians can quite easily work together on projects like this. I rather like the flyer we sent out, with a picture of Rachid looking like a dirty Arab giving me a big kiss on the cheek. I also support Rachid's music for its ability to disrupt. It's not because it makes a specific political statement, but I think it would probably be the greatest social revolution in America if American kids started liking Muslim music, like they once loved Elvis or reggae. You can't imagine how happy it makes me feel when I am up there playing this punk Arabic music, live with Rachid's band. I don't often perform live these days - - the last time I was on stage in Britain was about four years ago, with the Brazilian Caetano Velos - because being on stage doesn't interest me generally. But I have played with Rachid, who is an Algerian-born singer-songwriter, three times this year in Paris, Moscow and St Petersburg. I have enjoyed that more than any other stage experiences I've ever had. This is because it is great being in a big band - there are seven in Rachid's - without much responsibility. There is so much energy to this new music - I call it "punk Arab consciousness" - and I just wish all those guitar bands doing Talking Heads remakes would wake up and listen to what's going on in the rest of the world. I don't expect you will see a concert quite like this for some time. Mick Jones will be coming on for Rock The Casbah, because of course, Rachid recorded his own version, Rock El Casbah. The line-up for this concert - with Nitin Sawhney and Imogen Heap - is pretty amazing. A friend of mine, the guitar player Leo Abrahams, will also be appearing. His guitar feeds into my processors, and then I can do things that no guitar has ever had done to it before. It sounds like live cut-and-paste with Arabic inflections. I've been experimenting a bit with this sound with Herbie Hancock this year, originally for his album Possibilities, but the track wasn't used in the end. It was probably too weird for them. My involvement in this concert isn't really so much about politics as it is humanitarian. There is a tragedy unfolding. It's quite as bad as some of the other awful tragedies that have happened this last year, the tsunami and the earthquakes, but it is one we created. I really think we should be trying to do something about it. The reason I really resent this war, apart from the fact it has hurt a lot of people and caused chaos in the Middle East, is that it has so far cost at least two-hundred-billion dollars. According to the World Health Organisations estimates, for that amount of money we could have eradicated malaria from the planet, given everybody on the planet clean water, given every Aids victim in the world the best treatment available. We could have done all those things and we still would have had change. Is this how we are going to spend our resources in the future - on these ridiculous vanity projects? I have never used my own music as a mechanism of protest. I am not interested in using music in that way - but I think all music has a political dimension because it suggests a way of being. Just as reggae suggested a world where you chill out, in a society in which is desperately driving consumers to be obedient workers in order that they earn enough money to buy goods, Rachid's mix of punk Arabic music says: "Let's take the world by the scruff of the neck, the whole of it, and shake it up". People may think that because Rachid is a Muslim, he is therefore knee-jerk anti-American, but actually he is anti-Arab as much as he is anti-American. He is very coherent when he talks about the failings of the Arab states. His music makes people think: "Do I live in the little world of white rock'n'roll, or do I live in this big world where everything gets absorbed and thrown back out? What a lot of Arabic music is about is a different way of moving your body - there is a spinning and whirling motion, rather than stomping and getting down. If you listen to some of the melodies in Rachid's tracks, they are very complex. To try to remember them as a Western musician is very hard. They are very elaborate. It is a whole different way of thinking about music. So instead of polarising the West against the Islamic world, Rachid's music merges the two. This is accepting and surrendering to each other's sensibilities - and if we can do this through music, surely we can try to do that in the world. The Stop the War Coalition benefit concert is at the Astoria, London, on Sunday. www.independent.co.uk Best wishes Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V10 #295 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest