From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V9 #79 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, May 5 2004 Volume 09 : Number 079 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Hearing the samples: my very early review ["Steve O'Hearn" ] Re: WOM [Leslie Osborn ] Re: Hearing the samples: my very early review [Dr Dirk Pilat ] Re: Video. [pineking@gwi.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 02:15:44 -0400 From: "Steve O'Hearn" Subject: RE: Hearing the samples: my very early review Wow - so the lady's finally really and truly back - at least partially? I honestly didn't believe any of it until I read this email from you. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Desianto F. W. Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 11:08 AM To: basia@smoe.org; basia2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Hearing the samples: my very early review Hello all, After listening to the sample clips at http://www.wom.de I'd like to give you my very early review. 1. Ordinary Day : Basia sings backing vocal 2. I Never Meant To: Basia sings backing vocal 3. Wrong Side of the Street: Basia sings backing vocal 4. La Luna: Basia sings lead vocal 5. Say the Words (I don't know why the title isn't written as "Never Say the Words"...): Basia does duet 6. Golden Days: Basia sings backing vocal 7. Ronnie's Samba: Basia sings lead vocal - I already, really, love this song even before I listen to it completely. It has "Third Time Lucky" style. 8. Kaledioscope: Basia sings backing vocal - this song, IMHO, has the "swing" taste.... 9. Slip & Sliding: Basia sings backing vocal but I think she might do duet in this song.... 10. Matt's Mood III: instrumental Unfortunately, there's no clip of "Ordinary Day - Remix" but I think it's not so different from the original version. That's all of my very early review. I'm not sure whether or not my "raw guess" is 50% true - maybe less than 20%. But now we have to be sure that this album is really worth waiting for. Czesc, Desianto F. W. Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 12:00:42 +0200 From: "Ray" Subject: Matt's Mood review on Polish shopping site http://www.merlin.com.pl/sklep/sklep/strona.towar?oferta=301381&ret=wys50008663 The band Matt Bianco was established by Basia Trzetrzelewska, Mark Reilly and Danny White in the Eighties in 20th Century. [Ray: makes them sound ancient :P] Now they return with the original line up and with new material. Matt's Mood is an album featuring 10 songs subtly mixing jazz with latino rhythms and pop of highest quality. For instance, Ronnie's Samba is a subtly jazzy samba [Ray: wow, that's surprising], Slip & sliding brings back the memories of Antonio Carlos Jobim's music, La luna masterfully mixes cha-cha with pop and Wrong side of the street is a nice reminiscence of Nina Simone's blues-y singing. There are more of such wonderful fragments on the album. Amongst the new musicians you can find the sax player, Ronnie Ross. Beautiful, cocktail music! [Ray: what IS cocktail music? Sounds like an insult to me :P] And a big sleeve picture: http://www.merlin.com.pl/images_big/14/9819938.jpg (-) Ray -=[ www.raysown.com + www.wearetechnologic.com ]=- I'm always anxious thinking I'm not living my life to the fullest, y'know? Taking advantage of every possibility? Just making sure that I'm not wasting one second of the little time I have. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 03:44:10 -0700 (PDT) From: "Desianto F. W." Subject: Re: Matt's Mood review on Polish shopping site Hello Ray, Is this the famous Ray Navaira?... ;-) Where have you been? How are you? How's your new apartment?.. :-) Desianto F. W. ================================== Ray wrote: http://www.merlin.com.pl/sklep/sklep/strona.towar?oferta=301381&ret=wys50008663 The band Matt Bianco was established by Basia Trzetrzelewska, Mark Reilly and Danny White in the Eighties in 20th Century. [Ray: makes them sound ancient :P] Now they return with the original line up and with new material. Matt's Mood is an album featuring 10 songs subtly mixing jazz with latino rhythms and pop of highest quality. For instance, Ronnie's Samba is a subtly jazzy samba [Ray: wow, that's surprising], Slip & sliding brings back the memories of Antonio Carlos Jobim's music, La luna masterfully mixes cha-cha with pop and Wrong side of the street is a nice reminiscence of Nina Simone's blues-y singing. There are more of such wonderful fragments on the album. Amongst the new musicians you can find the sax player, Ronnie Ross. Beautiful, cocktail music! [Ray: what IS cocktail music? Sounds like an insult to me :P] And a big sleeve picture: http://www.merlin.com.pl/images_big/14/9819938.jpg (-) Ray - -=[ www.raysown.com + www.wearetechnologic.com ]=- I'm always anxious thinking I'm not living my life to the fullest, y'know? Taking advantage of every possibility? Just making sure that I'm not wasting one second of the little time I have. Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 09:07:34 -0700 From: "William N. Schnaitter" Subject: Re: Hearing the samples: my very early review We have heard over the past year or two (? Not sure) that Basia had been recording (at her own home/studio?) and was at least close to having a CD full of material and might actually be shopping for a label. This Matt Bianco CD falls well short of that. Is there possibly still a "Basia" CD coming? Anyone know or heard anything? - -Bill Steve O'Hearn wrote: > Wow - so the lady's finally really and truly back - at least partially? I > honestly didn't believe any of it until I read this email from you. > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-basia@smoe.org [mailto:owner-basia@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > Desianto F. W. > Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 11:08 AM > To: basia@smoe.org; basia2@yahoogroups.com > Subject: Hearing the samples: my very early review > > Hello all, > > After listening to the sample clips at http://www.wom.de I'd > like to give you my very early review. > > 1. Ordinary Day : Basia sings backing vocal > 2. I Never Meant To: Basia sings backing vocal > 3. Wrong Side of the Street: Basia sings backing vocal > 4. La Luna: Basia sings lead vocal > 5. Say the Words (I don't know why the title isn't written as > "Never Say the Words"...): Basia does duet > 6. Golden Days: Basia sings backing vocal > 7. Ronnie's Samba: Basia sings lead vocal - I already, really, > love this song even before I listen to it completely. It has > "Third Time Lucky" style. > 8. Kaledioscope: Basia sings backing vocal - this song, IMHO, > has the "swing" taste.... > 9. Slip & Sliding: Basia sings backing vocal but I think she > might do duet in this song.... > 10. Matt's Mood III: instrumental > > Unfortunately, there's no clip of "Ordinary Day - Remix" but I > think it's not so different from the original version. > > That's all of my very early review. I'm not sure whether or not > my "raw guess" is 50% true - maybe less than 20%. But now we > have to be sure that this album is really worth waiting for. > > Czesc, > > Desianto F. W. > Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 10:31:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: Matt's Mood review on Polish shopping site Glad to "hear" you, Ray! :-D > Beautiful, cocktail music! [Ray: what IS cocktail > music? Sounds like an > insult to me :P] I imagine it can be but not in this case it seems. :-) I tend to think of it like swingin' bachelor-pad, swanky 1960s airport terminal music. How's that for grossly subjective? So far the responses to the samples seem kind of...disgruntled? Personally, I liked them a ton. Kind of an amalgam of modernized '60s lounge music (a la Pizzicato Five or Swing Out Sister, or the soundtrack to Lupin the Third or Cowboy Bebop even!), combined with Manhattan Transfer vocal arrangements, maybe a little Shakatak in there, and some of the jazzier sounding Michael Franks. And Brazil '66. At least that was my impression based on mere seconds. :-P I really like the retro sound; it seems to me that all three have been flirting with the campy lounge sound for a while but not going with it all the way. This is. And, it's not a Basia record so I don't expect it to sound like one, and it *has* been ten years, so I imagine she has changed, herself (where were you ten years ago?!). Maybe we will hear these supposed solo albums, maybe we won't. But in the meantime we will have a really cool collaboration between three excellent musicians, and a recording that on first listen sounds like it was a lot of fun to make. They all sound great and look great in a jpeg (does Basia ever age?!). And all will be getting greater exposure (Mark) and be back on the scene (B and D) and that works for me. The Japanese are gonna eat it up. All we need is a US release date and we'll be sorted. - --Leslie (resigning herself to shelling out anyway) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 19:55:27 +0200 From: Mondony Subject: Re: Matt's Mood review on Polish shopping site Ray, "Ronnie's samba" is an "hommage" to Ronnie Ross who died in 1991. Mondony Ray a icrit: >http://www.merlin.com.pl/sklep/sklep/strona.towar?oferta=301381&ret=wys50008663 > >The band Matt Bianco was established by Basia Trzetrzelewska, Mark Reilly >and Danny White in the Eighties in 20th Century. [Ray: makes them sound >ancient :P] Now they return with the original line up and with new material. >Matt's Mood is an album featuring 10 songs subtly mixing jazz with latino >rhythms and pop of highest quality. For instance, Ronnie's Samba is a subtly >jazzy samba [Ray: wow, that's surprising], Slip & sliding brings back the >memories of Antonio Carlos Jobim's music, La luna masterfully mixes cha-cha >with pop and Wrong side of the street is a nice reminiscence of Nina >Simone's blues-y singing. There are more of such wonderful fragments on the >album. Amongst the new musicians you can find the sax player, Ronnie Ross. >Beautiful, cocktail music! [Ray: what IS cocktail music? Sounds like an >insult to me :P] > >And a big sleeve picture: > >http://www.merlin.com.pl/images_big/14/9819938.jpg > > (-) Ray > -=[ www.raysown.com + www.wearetechnologic.com ]=- > I'm always anxious thinking I'm not living my life to the fullest, > y'know? Taking advantage of every possibility? Just making sure > that I'm not wasting one second of the little time I have. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 23:27:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Subject: WOM Hello Guys, Here is Misi from Hungary. I tried to listen the samples from the german web site, www.wom.de, but the lin is not work. Is it just my problem? Please try again for me. Thank you! Michael Major Hungary-Sopron ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 14:34:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Leslie Osborn Subject: Re: WOM > Hello Guys, > > Here is Misi from Hungary. I tried to listen the > samples from the german > web site, www.wom.de, but the lin is not work. > Is it just my problem? Please try again for me. Hi! :-) You need to have Real Player on your computer to listen. Download it from www.real.com. Look for the free Real One Player. - --Leslie __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 May 2004 09:43:32 +1200 From: Dr Dirk Pilat Subject: Re: Hearing the samples: my very early review On 5 May 2004, at 04:07, William N. Schnaitter wrote: > > We have heard over the past year or two (? Not sure) that Basia had > been > recording (at her own home/studio?) and was at least close to having a > CD > full of material and might actually be shopping for a label. This Matt > Bianco > CD falls well short of that. Well, as far as I know, Basia unfortunately didn't get a distributor or a label for that mystical list of songs. Matt Bianco gave her her first big break, mixing her outstanding voice with Mark Reilly's. WHo knows, maybe she will generate enough steam that she can record under her own name again. On the other hand, she lives a very comfy life in Biggin Hill: Maybe she's just sick of the life as a feature recording artist? D ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:02:58 +0200 From: Mondony Subject: Video. I put, on my website, a video where we can see Basia singing "Freeze Thaw", in 1988, on a french TV. Here is the link : http://perso.club-internet.fr/mondony/index12.htm Leslie, you made a good analyze of the "Matt's Mood 2004" sound !!! Mondony ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 19:20:21 -0400 From: pineking@gwi.net Subject: Re: Video. Mondony, This is truly a bonus to any Basiaphile - excellent! Phil Date sent: Wed, 05 May 2004 01:02:58 +0200 From: Mondony To: basia@smoe.org Subject: Video. Send reply to: basia@smoe.org > > I put, on my website, a video where we can see Basia singing "Freeze > Thaw", in 1988, on a french TV. Here is the link : > http://perso.club-internet.fr/mondony/index12.htm Leslie, you made a > good analyze of the "Matt's Mood 2004" sound !!! > > Mondony ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V9 #79 **************************