From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V9 #48 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 Wednesday, March 24 2004 Volume 09 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Funny for Basia fans: Prozak for Lovers [Ben Combee ] Re: basia-digest V9 #44 ["Desianto F. W." ] Re: Funny for Basia fans: Prozak for Lovers ["David Higginson" ] Re: PlanetBasia Group ["Barry" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 03:22:29 -0600 From: Ben Combee Subject: Funny for Basia fans: Prozak for Lovers I just was browsing CDBaby, and I found this page: https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/prozak This is a band that does bossa nova-style covers of rock and punk songs. I listened to a few samples and couldn't stop laughing. While not exactly Basia, I'd guess this could be appreciated by the fans on this mailing list. BTW, BasiaWeb isn't dead... I've got new web site software here, and a standing project to port all the content to it and make it ready in time for the new Matt Bianco album. Hopefully, this will give it a much more modern look while still preserving the photos and archives from the ten years since the site was put online. - -- Ben Combee Techwood Broadcasting Foundation, Austin Bureau Chief ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:20:39 -0800 (PST) From: "Desianto F. W." Subject: Re: basia-digest V9 #44 - --- Time Voyagers wrote: > > > Hey, Desianto, or may I call you Desi? Don't be sad. Some of us are > still around and still receiving the emails, but I'm like the quiet > guy at a party. I know that some of us are still around and write just a few words not so often. However, there are also some of us who don't show up at all now. Maybe they had quit from the list. It's OK if they quit because they're too busy (actually, I doubt this excuse because it doesn't take a lot of time to read the messages in the list, except if you're VERY busy). But if they quit or remain silent forever because of me, I do apologize. I didn't mean to hurt them. > I'm sitting here contemplating and patiently waiting for Basia to > come back to us. I think we knocked on her window pane often enough > and she heard us. Yeah, and maybe next time she would sue us for her broken window pane because we knocked it really hard and so frequently... :-D So, we have to prepare some money to pay for it.... (just kidding) > You, my friend, have been one of Basia's most loyal fans in that you > have helped keep this group alive. She should thank you for helping > stir the pangs of hunger for her music. I still listen to her albums > of the past continually. Thank you very much for that. But I think there are still some more loyal fans than me, who search for info about Basia restlessly and give valuable info that keep us hanging on. Frankly, IMHO they deserve your compliment more than I do. > While I'm waiting, I've been spending some time enjoying other > artists. My favorite in that group is Sarah Brightman and was > fortunate enough to see her in concert twice during her current tour > just wrapping up. She's in Europe next, and then Asia. Her show is > incredible. You're so lucky, having various excellent tastes of music. On the other side, I have very limited tastes of music, maybe because of my naivety, but the current trends of music give me no choices but waiting for Basia or listening to my older collection. Some of my friends said that my ears are older than me - I can imagine I have loose ears while my face is still firm and young... :-) BTW, has Sarah Brightman released a new album recently? > I also just saw Mary Black, the Irish singer, in concert here in my > hometown. I have eclectic tastes. Thanks to my son, we've discovered > Do As Infinity from Japan, and I also just purchased a wonderful > Middle Eastern compilation of music that fuses jazz, middle eastern > tradition, and easy listening sounds in an album titled Sahara Lounge. > "Songs from Iran, Lebanon, Morocco, Lebanon, Algeria, Turkey, Egypt, > United Arab Emirates, and a couple of Western locales emerge > transformed by clubby synth vamps and anchored by feisty, two-ton > bottoms." I have an old Arabian Music album, released in 1970's. I really love the songs in it. It changed my perspective of Arabian music. I used to think that Arabian music is so monotonous so everybody listening to it will fall asleep. You can't blame me because most of Arabian style songs that I heard in Indonesia (usually made by Indonesians) are so monotonous and (sorry) boring. But this album gives me some energetic wonderful songs. Some titles such "The Sheik of Araby" are maybe familiar enough to westerners. The orchestras playing/recording those songs are Kai Warner Orchestra and Ron Goodwin Orchestra. Well, maybe they're not the famous ones but they did a great work. > One point I'd like to make is that too few record companies control > too much of the world's music. And too few media giants own too many > radio stations. The world is so full of rich music and it is up to > people like us to demand better and discover new ways that every > artist can be heard....and, of course, that Basia does not have to > battle giant record companies to make new music for us. Music is the > great language that can communicate love, peace, and a better world > that everyone can understand. That's the bad side of music "industrialization" (anybody has a better term?). They tend to make money as fast and much as possible. How? I'm sure that you know better than me. While, on the other side, some talented artists who hold their ways and patterns tightly are put aside because they're considered as "can't follow the world's trends". Sadly, music business is no longer a pure music business nowadays. Many other business are related to music, e.g. automotive, clothes/fashion, shoes, food, cosmetics, etc. You can see, "Singer A drives a very expensive Mercedes-Benz, wearing clothes from a famous designer, eats at a famous franchise restaurant, use famous branded cosmetics,..etc..etc..." It's OK if she/he doesn't lose her/his loyalty to music but most of them tend to hope the money from the companies which the products are used or consumed and put thier music at the last number because they think that they do "free advertisements" of the products. This is, IMHO, how the junk music comes. BTW, the recent international jazz show/concert in Indonesia was Bali Jazz on February 13-14, 2004, featuring some Indonesian jazz musicians such as Idang Rasyidi, Bubi Chen, and Krakatau Band which played ethnic jazz, combination of jazz and gamelan music. There are also Saskia Laroo from the Netherlands (I'm sure that Ben "not Combee" and Marc know her), Yoshiko Kishino from Japan (maybe Teruhiko Shibuya knows her), and Tots Tolentino from the Philippines though he was born in Baltimore Maryland (do Odillon Jose and Joe know him?). They played some beautiful songs. I watched the performance from TV. The only song that is familiar to me is "Girl from Ipanema" sung by Saskia Laroo. I can't remember other titles because I was too excited to pay attention to them. One title that I can remember (except GFI) is "After the Rain" (or something like that) played by Yoshiko Kishino. > Regards, > > Fred Well, that's all. Have a nice day everybody! Desianto F. W. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:02:48 -0000 From: "David Higginson" Subject: Re: Funny for Basia fans: Prozak for Lovers Thats good news Ben. BTW. How is the Basia video project (Pt2) coming along. Have you had the time to work on it? Dave - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Combee" To: Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:22 AM Subject: Funny for Basia fans: Prozak for Lovers > > I just was browsing CDBaby, and I found this page: > > https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/prozak > > This is a band that does bossa nova-style covers of rock and punk songs. I > listened to a few samples and couldn't stop laughing. While not exactly > Basia, I'd guess this could be appreciated by the fans on this mailing list. > > BTW, BasiaWeb isn't dead... I've got new web site software here, and a > standing project to port all the content to it and make it ready in time > for the new Matt Bianco album. Hopefully, this will give it a much more > modern look while still preserving the photos and archives from the ten > years since the site was put online. > -- > Ben Combee > Techwood Broadcasting Foundation, Austin Bureau Chief ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:17:26 -0600 From: Ben Combee Subject: Re: Funny for Basia fans: Prozak for Lovers At 01:02 PM 3/23/2004, you wrote: >Thats good news Ben. > >BTW. How is the Basia video project (Pt2) coming along. Have you had the >time to work on it? I have much better equipment to do this all now, and can actually produce a DVD version of everything. However, it's just not been on my radar -- too many Palm OS-related projects (see http://palmos.combee.net/). I think I may be in the mood to work on it more once I do the site redesign, but I don't want to publish any timelines until I feel committed to finishing it. - -- Ben Combee Techwood Broadcasting Foundation, Austin Bureau Chief ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:52:21 -0500 From: Subject: RE: PlanetBasia Group It's more than likely Yahoo being slow.... I deleted it yesterday around noon EST.... Wonder if there's a 30-day timeout or any such animal? - -----Original Message----- From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Barry Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 12:35 AM To: basia@smoe.org Subject: Re: PlanetBasia Group Has someone else here already started it up again? I was going to do it, I already manage a few groups and wouldn't mind adding another. But when I tried to set it up, it told me the name was already taken. If it's just Yahoo being slow to get the old group deleted, I'll wait. Otherwise please let us know if you've started it up again. Barry "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 22:13:10 -0600 From: "Barry" Subject: Re: PlanetBasia Group > It's more than likely Yahoo being slow.... I deleted it yesterday around > noon EST.... Wonder if there's a 30-day timeout or any such animal? It's probably something like that. I looked up the group on Yahoo and found the name, but when I tried to join (to see what would happen), it told me the group didn't exist. I will try to set it up again later on, I couldn't get anywhere with Yahoo to find an answer. They're too big to care about each person and their problems. Barry "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V9 #48 **************************