From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #77 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Monday, April 27 1998 Volume 03 : Number 077 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [Samurai27 ] Covering Basia ["John Joseph Palcher" ] Basia songs that speak to me [Brian Cundieff ] Re: Covering Basia [STeknology ] Re: basia-digest V3 #76 [Richard216 ] Basia CD's at BMG ["Phil Hall" ] Poster Sized BNW ["Gene Allen Garris, Jr." ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 09:03:20 EDT From: Samurai27 Subject: Re: I hear what you are saying about her music and I agree. I just have a hard time waiting for someone even with her quality taking over two years to get back to working on someting. I don't think any performer works totally on their one songs. Look at Peter White. He does original work yet he knows to stay in the public eye you must include covers on your albums. If it was not for this list, I am not very sure that her spirit would still remain. I know, I know . Her spirit lives forever. Know one loves her more than I but reality to stay alive you have to publish. I am in the field of Information technology and have written a book , articles and made presentation. Once you stop doing that, you loose your spirit and you stop thinking. She has been given a beautiful gift, together with her personality makes her an ideal person to produce art. Sorry got alittle long winded. What is my point? Oh all I am saying is there is also a part of managing one's career. I am not sure she is doing that. It is almost like whe has gotten tired of the whole process. This was evident with the fact that her last cd was simply recording of her last concert. Thats okay as long as she came back with another in a quick time frame. I believe she has to include covers on her next project along with new work and get it out to her fans. Regards, Denis with one "N" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:11:22 +0900 From: "John Joseph Palcher" Subject: Covering Basia I understand Phil's and Denis's point about Basia's productivity. I mean, I guess no one is as disappointed as I am about the lapses of productivity. I was assuming she was now on four-year cycles, but it looks like the cycles are getting longer and longer. But I assume that Basia herself is reluctant to do other people's material. She probably thinks that "I have to take things my own rate. Everybody expects me to produce, and even do other people's work, but that's just not my style." She'll have to do stuff totally on her terms, and not totally work on other people expectations or the quality of her work will diminish. We, her fans, must be very important for her, but we aren't her whole life, so can it be unfair of us to be so antsy in anticipation for her new work? At least, that's my humble opinion. :) I think it's strange that we (including especially myself) that we expect that are favorite artists to produce song after song, album after album, in a timely fashion. In Japan, artists usually release one album a year, like clockwork. And in Hong Kong it's more often than that--two or three, sometimes more. I wonder how and why they produce so many more songs than Western artists. When people talk about her doing "covers," do you mean remakes of famous songs, or just singing new works written by other songwriters? Actually, I remember hearing her say to the audience during her concert that I attended in Cincinnati, where her manager or record company said to her (talking about the release of "Sweetest Illusion") whether or not she think that people would remember after four years. She laughed at that. Who'd imagine we'd be waiting this long again. take care, guys joe ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Joe Palcher ICQ #4618534 Words of wisdom from Joe: "Don't cook with Styrofoam in the oven. It'll melt. I found this out the hard way." ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Apr 1998 14:22:32 -0500 From: Brian Cundieff Subject: Basia songs that speak to me - ---------- From: Diane F. Fisli[SMTP:dfisli@flash.net] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 1998 01:17 To: basia@smoe.org Subject: PW CD's, Basia CD's in Japan, &tc >What is the Basia song that speaks to YOU? Which song(s) do you identify >with? Which song(s) bring you to another time, another place... I agree with what Diane said about "Yearning." That song gets me in a major way. The orchestration, the lyrics, and of course, those rich, resonant vocals... Whenever I hear that song, I just have to stop whatever I'm doing, sit down, and let it wash over me. A special favorite of mine is "An Olive Tree." That's just about the happiest song I've ever heard. I just can't be depressed while listening to it. - -Brian* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:26:27 EDT From: STeknology Subject: Re: Covering Basia Hi all: I'm Karen from Oregon. I see/read the frustration from people here--I too have been waiting for her new project to hit the shelves. Patience not being one of my usual virtues, I have to say that *any* amount of time waiting for Basia is worth it--look at the results! Dang! That woman sets my soul on fire with her voice, rhythms, lyrics and incomparable style. Four years, five, six years--does it really matter when the result is something like "Sweetest Illusion"? :) Karen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 10:43:09 EDT From: Richard216 Subject: Re: basia-digest V3 #76 From Now On is on the Time and Tide album and is the last selection on side one. Very nice to play on the guitar, of course I can't sing like that. :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 17:09:16 -0000 From: "Phil Hall" Subject: Basia CD's at BMG I see BMG (the record club) now stocks the SONY catalogue. The flyer listed three of Basia's (T&T, LWNY, and BOB) not including TSI. Is this the 1998 event we have been waiting for? Phil ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 26 Apr 1998 23:39:39 +0000 From: "Gene Allen Garris, Jr." Subject: Poster Sized BNW I would like to get a poster sized or even smaller picture of the cover for Basia's Brave New World CD. ANy tips? - -Gene - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- garris@radia1.com http://www.radia1.com/garris I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. - -Job(30:29-31) on spending the summer in Columbia SC. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #77 **************************