From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V3 #228 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 Sunday, October 18 1998 Volume 03 : Number 228 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Holding that phone... ["Leslie Brown" ] Re: basia-digest V3 #227 [Richard216@aol.com] London, Warsaw, Detroit! ["Leslie Brown" ] Yeah, there's more, sorry ["Leslie Brown" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:24:37 PDT From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Holding that phone... >Whoa. Hold the phone. What's this about Basia having a child?! I think I >missed something. Could someone please direct me to the interview that piece >of information was taken from? So "Perfect Mother" was autobiographical, >then? "People say, 'She's too young,' / Should a child have a child." I >always assumed it had something to do with someone she met in her homeland >during the time between LWNY and Sweetest Illusion. Interesting. Gee, and no one jumped on the chance to answer this one. I'm surprised. Well, from what info I gleaned from the list archives, basically she had a son in her late teens sometime and a shotgun wedding which didn't last long. The only time she ever talked about it was on the Lauren Hutton show (WHICH I'M STILL LOOKING FOR- hint hint!) in 1995, but I was perusing the Polish radio interview and of the few words i could make out, she was talking about him a bit then. Maybe someday I'll get ambitious and look up some words to get the gist of what she said- the whole interview would probably be quite interesting. Anyway, sounds like one of those delicate situations she just wanted to keep to herself. I tend to be of the thought that she just wanted to keep him out of any unwwanted attention. A good mom thing to do. From what I understand he (her son) was actually on the list for a while, but only posted a couple of times. He probably got freaked out with all the dissection of his mother and all- hell, I would be! As for 'Perfect Mother', the inspiration comes up in ye olde Free Press interview (which I'm about to post! hee!) but didn't she say on Lauren Hutton that it was semiautobiographical? Seems like I remember reading a post to that effect. Oh well, who knows? I hate to speculate on this sort of thing too much 'cause it just seems so personal. I'm pretty impressed that she even went into the whole thing on TV., myself. - -Leslie the marzenia@hotmail.com girl ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 12:13:42 EDT From: Richard216@aol.com Subject: Re: basia-digest V3 #227 OK OK OK, You got my interest. Is "Perfect Mother" about Basia, or about Basia's mother and her situation when she concieved Basia. Wasn't Basia's mother quite young when Basia was born?? The album that "Perfect Mother" was in was written when Basia returned to her homeland, sooooooo you figure it out. I really don't know just speculation. Does anyone have the answer???? Richard from Ohio ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:39:41 PDT From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: London, Warsaw, Detroit! Submitted for your approval.... POLISH HEART Basia's Homeland Always Remains Near and Dear by Gary Graff- Free Press Music Writer c 1994 Detroit Free Press, only posted for informational purposes, add your disclaimer here. While the band Basia was recording its new album last year, the London-based duo of Basia Trzetrzelewska and Danny White got used to visits from executives of their American record company. They were a concerned bunch. Basia's first two albums, "Time and Tide" and "London Warsaw New York" were million-sellers. But the duo hadn't released anything since 1990 and had blown five deadlines for its third effort, "The Sweetest Illusion." "Record companies *can* be effective in putting on pressure and rushing you," says Basia, 34, with a chuckle. "This time we resisted it. You would think, 'Oh they should trust us by now'...I think they thought wwe were taking vacations all the time, but we *were* working." Basia and White actually indulged in a bit of professional training. White took piano lessons, becoming so disciplined that he now requires a piano in his hotel rooms.m Basia, meanwhile, took voice lessons with classical trainer Tona de Brett. She was traveling too, mostly to her native Poland to visit her family and to soak up experiences that inspired many of "The Sweetest Illusion's" songs. "Normally I'd just get to go over Christmas for a few weeks," explains the singer, who emigrated to London 13 years ago and now lives with trumpeter Kevin Robinson. "This time I wanted to hae some quality time with my family and my friends and have some private life...to participate in all the important events in my family life where normally I always used to send a note or flowers and stuff." By her estimation, Basia travelled to Poland three or four times each of the past three years. The occasions were happy (weddings, births) and sad (the funeral of her older brother). Ultimately, they were productive. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 09:54:16 PDT From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Yeah, there's more, sorry This is what happens when you hit 'Send' instead of 'Save Draft' Doh! >Submitted for your approval.... > >POLISH HEART >Basia's Homeland Always Remains Near and Dear >by Gary Graff- Free Press Music Writer >c 1994 Detroit Free Press, only posted for informational purposes, add >your disclaimer here. > >While the band Basia was recording its new album last year, the >London-based duo of Basia Trzetrzelewska and Danny White got used to >visits from executives of their American record company. > >They were a concerned bunch. Basia's first two albums, "Time and Tide" >and "London Warsaw New York" were million-sellers. But the duo hadn't >released anything since 1990 and had blown five deadlines for its third >effort, "The Sweetest Illusion." > >"Record companies *can* be effective in putting on pressure and rushing you," says Basia, 34, with a chuckle. "This time we resisted it. You would think, 'Oh they should trust us by now'...I think they thought we were taking vacations all the time, but we *were* working." > >Basia and White actually indulged in a bit of professional training. >White took piano lessons, becoming so disciplined that he now requires a piano in his hotel rooms.m Basia, meanwhile, took voice lessons with classical trainer Tona de Brett. > >She was traveling too, mostly to her native Poland to visit her family and to soak up experiences that inspired many of "The Sweetest >Illusion's" songs. "Normally I'd just get to go over Christmas for a few weeks," explains the singer, who emigrated to London 13 years ago and now lives with trumpeter Kevin Robinson. "This time I wanted to have some quality time with my family and my friends and have some private life...to participate in all the important events in my family life where normally I always used to send a note or flowers and stuff." > >By her estimation, Basia travelled to Poland three or four times each of the past three years. The occasions were happy (weddings, births) and sad (the funeral of her older brother). Ultimately, they were >productive. A new song called "Prayer of a Happy Housewife came from a discussion with her sister, a homemaker and mother of two. "She Deserves It" was written for a close friend who had been divorced and was entering another relationship. "Perfect Mother" ws inspired by a nephew's girlfriend who gave birth when she was just 18. And the album's first single, "Yearning," is a summing up of Basia's feelings about living away from her homeland. "All the Poles whool live away from home, we try to create little Poland in our houses," says Basia, who dresses up her own with Polish paintings, cutlery, and other mementos. She also keeps traditional Polish costumes, one of which she wears in the "Yearning" video. "We try to create that atmosphere, that feeling you had when you grow up. We all want to go back and die in Poland." So Basia is anxiously awaiting the seven shows the band will perform later this month in Poland- which will give her family its first chanceto see her in concert. "I keep thinking about it all the time," she says. "It's going to be very emotional to me. I only hope people wont mind when I sing in English; normally they're not very happy when Polish artists do that, but they know this is how I record, so I think they'll allow me." - -------- Well then! What could I possibly add to that! - -Leslie, creating little Detroit in her apt., sans cutlery ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V3 #228 ***************************