From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #83 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 Friday, April 2 1999 Volume 04 : Number 083 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: French interview. [Gorskiceap@aol.com] Perfection [Meg Evans ] Catchup time... ["Leslie Brown" ] Lil' interviews for ya'll ["Leslie Brown" ] Breaking it down..... ["Leslie Brown" ] Olive tree experience [mondony@club-internet.fr] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 09:25:22 EST From: Gorskiceap@aol.com Subject: Re: French interview. Want to send the French interview my way? I'd be happy to give it a shot. Although I think we've seen some real French folks on the list, haven't we? ~Marianne ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 08:51:48 -0600 From: Meg Evans Subject: Perfection Good morning, all At this point I'm not sure WHO to attribute this inquiry to: >>She said she worked in Chicago with two groups of dance-music, one >>called Devotion. She did not give the name of the second. Wasn't one of the bands Basia worked with in Chicago called Perfect? I recall reading that some time ago. Meg ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:33:44 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Catchup time... Well! Now I am beginning to breathe a little easier, being almost squared away, so I actually have time to post some stuff I've been meaning to elaborate on. Prepare to read a lot of posts. (LOL) Alrighty- I got the Inner Shade album last week, and I gotta tell you guys, it's the s@#*&t. Yes, that good. If you even remotely like British soul-jazz, and if you even remotely dig Basia sidemen ;) , run right out and pick this bad boy up. To make this more Basia related, the band is actually not so much a Bluey Maunick project (altho' he produced it and wrote most of the songs) but the work of bassist Randy Hope-Taylor and flutist/saxophonists Ed Jones and (mighty easy on the eyes) Chris De Margary. You may remember these folks (except Ed Jones, but I'm sure it's only a matter of time LOL) from the band. Well, they have a little blurb inside giving their musical idea behind the record (i.e., creating an atmosphere using the instruments more cooperatively instead of having tons of solos) and a little background on the trio, for example that they've worked with Steve Winwood, Us3, and Basia. Yup, it says that. :) Meanwhile back at the ranch, Kevin "The Man" Robinson (LOL) arranged horns along with Bluey and this other guy on trombone (sorry, the disc isn't with me, so I'm doing this from memory) , cause apparently Fayyaz "Go Fiz Go" Virji (LOL) was too busy. Or something. But the horns are of course great, even without the solos. Or any co-composing. As for the music, some of the songs are characteristically Incognitolike, but most are something better. There's definitely more of a jazz bent than the 'cog albums, as well as some drum 'n bass influence. One song, Mood To Mood, just kicks the crap out of most of what I've heard this year. Starts out as this jazzy vocal deal, very smooth, then heads into bossa nova territory, then goes buck wild into drum 'n bass. Wow! So, in short, buy it. All of you. - --Leslie (you know, Basia has some good looking band members! LOL) Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 14:58:13 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Lil' interviews for ya'll The whole chart thing came up earlier, and while compiling info I realised my turntable is a piece of crap and needs to die. (my source was ye olde Countdown America on vinyl) So I thought I'd better pass these along because who knows how long it will be til I find a replacement. :( This is in March 1990 I believe. It's a addendum to the 'New Day For You' origin story posted back in September. Basia and Danny on actually having two albums under the same name: B: I used to be with all sorts of bands, but always never longer than eight months, and then I'd find something better or do something which was more suitable for me... D: We never experienced that sort o'thing (His accent was on a roll that day- L.) B: Yes, exactly, this is new to us- D: Exactly, because we've never had a second album, when we used to sing with Matt Bianco we left after the first album. This is the first time we've had the benefit of... uh... B: ...developing a career... D:...developing fans, and then all of them going in a short span of time to buy the album. (Gosh, I'd be afraid to mediate these guys! LOL) Basia explaining to we American radio listeners on life after Communism in Poland: "Obviously I'm very excited about it because all my friends and family live there and I visit them often, and for the first time in nine years (remember this was 1990-L.) I see them smiling and looking a bit more optimistic. The change is obvious in their eyes- people don't feel that scared anymore, sort of supressed, where now they feel much more positive, they think more hopefully, they find the energy to try some things they were afraid to even think of before. They support very much the government they chose themselves, and it's just a lot of wonderful atmosphere that I've never seen before." Finally, Basia on teenage rebellion! (LOL) "My father was quite an autocratic person I would say (laughs). We all had to do what he wanted us to do, and I had to, you know, when I finished high school I had to go to university and all that but after a year of studying mathematics (laughs) I know there's no way I'm going to do that for the rest of my life, I just...the love for music was to big. So when I got offered this work in a professional band in Poland, I just told him, I'll do it just for summer... (laughs) summer holidays, then we'll see. (laughs) And of course I got drawn into it and I stayed in the band and I had to be disobedient (laughs again) and do what I really wanted instead of what he wanted me to do." Just throw a few more 'you knows' in there and you'll get an idea of what they sounded like. Well, there it is. Now for the chart thing... - --Leslie (thank the stars for rebellious kids! Otherwise a Dr. Barbara Trzetrzelewska may have been known for astrophysics or something, and we would all be sitting around talking about Celine Dion instead (big ) Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 01 Apr 1999 16:05:29 PST From: "Leslie Brown" Subject: Breaking it down..... Alright, we are talking about two charts here. Billboard is one, which Basia has done okay on. Time and Tide and Cruising for Bruising were the only songs to chart on the singles chart, at 23 and 26, respectively. London Warsaw New York got to #11 on the pop album chart, I'm not sure about Time and Tide. However, T&T got pretty high on the Contemporary Jazz album chart (a category that apparently has forgotten our hero) at #2! Yeah! TSI was at #27 peak position on the pop album chart, and then plunged due to the ignorance of the American record buying public. LOL. The live album, Brave New Hope, and the best of did not chart (altho' for a little EP Brave New Hope did pretty well, from what I understand) Oh, and the remix(es) for Drunk on Love were number 1 for club airplay in 1994. The remix of Cruising for Bruising was also on that chart but it's beyond me as to where. Now, the Promises/New Day for You curiousity was on the Radio and Records chart. New Day for You was #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, while Promises hit a whopping #4. Their charts are based on airplay, not sales. So apparently those songs were played a lot. On the countdown I have, Cruising for Bruising was at #9 that week, but had been at #5 the week before. Whew! Although on Ray's charts, I think everything makes more sense! ;) - --Leslie "Charts Really Suck, You Know That?" Brown (I went on a tirade on charts with a friend yesterday. Recurring theme!) Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 03:49:14 -0800 From: mondony@club-internet.fr Subject: Olive tree experience A true story... Three years ago, I took my holidays near Nice, in the south of France. I have to tell you (...you know...) that "An Olive tree" is my favourite song. I translated the song aroud me. Family and friend, really thought I was silly. Nobody, around me, heard about this custom. Yet, I'm a famous sceptic, feet-on-the-groud (as the same as...Basia and my mother...). I thought to myself "...it's not expensive...you don't risk the tree to fall in love with you, so, why don't you try ?? " Nobody on the right, nobody on the left, I embraced the tree, huging the trunk. Since 3 years I have my exams and I find a job and happiness. Unfortunately, no news, no calls and no letters from the tree. Could some fans give me history of the song (true story ???) or informations. Hope I read you soon. Faf. Many thanks, Leslie, for the interview. ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #83 **************************