Errors-To: owner-ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu From: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@athos.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #211 ecto, Number 211 Thursday, 9 April 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: A Quick Note lonely eyesores and loreena swap SM, DCD, Bulgarian Choir Delayed remembrances ectorrents One more thing... Vickie will be off-line ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 15:29:06 -0400 From: gb10@gte.com (Gregory Bossert) Subject: Re: A Quick Note Meredith asks: > Anybody going to see Tori Amos there [at the Iron Horse] on the 27th? Tori at the iron horse?? hmm... is that the 27th of april?? hmm hmm. i have actually only been to the club once, but it's an awfully nice memory -- sounds perhaps a bit more pleasant than "the bottom line"... hmmm. and then inquires: > did Sarah really have Medieval music on before she came out on > stage? as jessica says, Sarah played those mysterious voices of bulgaria before the show, though the music just before the band came on (while they were lighting the candelabra) was from Peter Gabriel's "Passion". > I asked for the half of the ticket in Philly that said HAPPY RHODES > on it. And they gave it to me. Hah. *i* have two completely untouched tickets to the philly concert... HAH! of course, i actually paid for three or four (it's a long story...) then again, i got into the Albany show for free... it all goes to show (now, if it *stayed* to show, i might have a clue what it was showing... ;) if i haven't confused the lot of you, try this: footah! -greg -- gb10@gte.com -- "close they eyes, i wake in much surprise i run and jump on sunbeams dancing by" -- HR ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 08 Apr 1992 16:13:22 EDT From: gcarre@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: lonely eyesores and loreena swap keep those stories and playlists coming...great stuff About getting the Lonely as an Eyesore video or cd. Sub Rosa is having a 4AD sale, the cd is $17 and the video is $27.99 (US). Postage for US orders: $3 for 1st item, $1.25 for 2nd, and .75 for each additional. mail to: Sub Rosa US P.O. Box 15492 Kenmore Station Boston, MA 02215 about Euro-ectophiles getting Loreena McKennitt material. I've been trying to get a hold of the Rainbirds CD's and may be interested in other euro releases. How about a swap as I can get Loreena's material here easily (as well as Sarah M.) Any takers? ____ / \ { o o } geoff carre --the ecto-lurker =||||============||||= gcarre@kean.ucs.mun.ca | | ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 14:48:52 CDT From: vishal@ra.csc.ti.com (Vishal Markandey) Subject: SM, DCD, Bulgarian Choir Wassup!!! Jeff writes: > I _finally_ found a copy of Sarah McLachlan's _Touch_, after over a month > of searching my usual CD haunts. > > On the one hand, I want to say that it was worth the wait. > > On the other hand I want to wail and moan and gnash my teeth for missing out > on this truly superb album for the last 3 years. > > It's really hard to compare to _Solace_; they're completely different. I'd > definitely put them on the same pedestal, though. I got _Touch_ when it was released all those years ago, and loved it!! But, but, I haven't heard _Solace_ yet!! I have seen it in the stores, but there is always something else to buy!! It is on my list though... Woj writes: > Eigrah Nitsrik sez: >>Being me im wondering if anyone has a (semi)complete discography of >>Dead Can Dance - > > dead can dance > garden of the arcane delights (ep) > spleen and ideal > within the realm of a dying sun > the serpent's egg > aion > passage in time > >>Any suggestions for a first album etc?? > > um, personal favorites are _the serpent's egg_ and _garden of the arcane > delights_. I'd like to point out that the import CD for _Dead Can Dance_ has the _Garden of the Arcane Delights_ EP appended at the end. _Passage in time_ is a great intro to DCD, IMHO. It is a collection of songs (greatest hits, ha!!) from previous releases, plus two new songs. In other news, I went to the Bulgarian Choir concert this Saturday. I'm sure most of you have seen them already, so I won't bore you with details, but those of you who haven't please do! They are something else!! Later! - Vish ======================================================================== Date: 8 April 1992 14:54:55 CDT From: Subject: Delayed remembrances I finally remembered that the act that was on Stuart Rosenberg's program the other week was Maestro Subgum. (Don't feel badly about not having heard of them; neither had I before or since.) Personal to Greg, Woj, all those who taped the Sara MacLachlan concert complete with static, and all other beleagured recordists on ecto: Your accounts of glitches in your recording sessions have given me sustenance through all the batteries that fizzled at the wrong moment, multipath dis- tortion everywhere I turn, large parts of shows lost when I forgot that power from a given outlet (into which my equipment was plugged) depended on wall switches being thrown just so, cassettes that needed to be flipped just when the good stuff was going on, pause switches that I was unaware had inadvertent- ly been thrown,_ ad infinitum_, _ad nauseam_. Like the rest of us, I grieve for the parts of Happy's concerts that were never immortalized due to these unexpected errors (or Acts of Goddess, as some of our friends might term them); yet I find it comforting to know that I am not alone in these travails. While still on the subject of Happy's concerts, the accounts of her banter _in re_ one of the musicians' hat eventually reminded me of a memory of a few years back (as premature senility like mine is wont to do :-) ). On the after- noon of my 38th birthday, I visited Reckless Records, and ended up buying a copy of _Melody Maker_ along with my stash of cassettes. It was from that issue that I first learned of the existence of a number of the artists that we on ecto enjoy, one of whom was Victoria Williams. The contents included a profile of her, which started out describing her outside a structure (I forget what it was) in either England or the southern U.S. (I again forget which), commenting actively on the world she was watching go by. Most relevant to the issue at hand, the article started out by quoting her remarks to a passer- by: "That's a great hat, sir...That's a very happy hat," or something to that effect. I happened to be talking to Vickie yesterday, and she noted that she had just composed an article for r.m.gaffa, which she'd been on the verge of posting when I called. To those who may get to read it later than they other- wise might have on account of this delay: she read it to me over the phone, and believe me, it was worth waiting for :-). With regard to Vickie's query the other day about the translation of certain French titles, it looks to me like "Aux Aurores" probably means some- thing on the order of "to/toward the dawn," while "un Automne a Leroy" looks like it would translate freely as "an autumn with Leroy." Not bad, methinks, for an amateur translator whose last formal instruction in French was in app- roximately the second grade :-). For those who may be feeling philanthropic, to the extent of wanting to support college radio: WHPK, the University of Chicago's station, is having a fund drive through the weekend. Pledging could win you a trivial premium (generally a single in the format of your choice). To pledge, call (312) 702-8424. The odds are that I've now forgotten something else I'd come into this posting session meaning to write down. If I ever think of it, I'll let you know. Mitch Pravatiner ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 19:22:53 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu Subject: ectorrents sez: > Several days earlier, I was listening to WZRD (flagship station of the >Suspended in Gaffa radio network), as is my custom when in its reception area >(which I usually am not), when they played a band called Screwdriver doing >a cover of the song that June Tabor sang on the HGP tape. screwdriver? or swervedriver? i've heard and heard of the later, but the former is a new one to this ear. swervedriver is a not-quite-as-good-as-my bloody-valentine band that captured college radio ears (why i suspect that what you heard was them), but not mine. i didn't buy the album though, so i dunno if it was really them or not doing the song. > There's still time for y'all to get in on Greencorp's sale on Genuine >Chrome tape, as Doug seems to have. second that motion. excellent quality tape at an excellent price. the sale price that nitch advertises seems to be the old price - i would surmise that they are increasing the costs come may. still, at $1.20 a tape (including case, labels, inserts and shipping for 100 cassettes), it's a price that can *not* be beat. >Have others of you had availability problems of this sort with Loreena, at >least those of you who are south and west of the Maritimes? i believe that her releases are available only from the canadian quinlan road productions label. american record stores likely to carry that label quickly approach nil. i've heard that _the visit_ (loreena's latest) will be on warner brothers in america very soon now though. MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu sez: >I asked for the half of the ticket in Philly that said HAPPY RHODES on it. >And they gave it to me. Hah. and walking in right behind her, i didn't even have to ask. ha ha. >I hear the Iron Horse is trying to get Sarah for May or early June- she's >listed on their "upcoming events" list. keep us posted on that one - i'll certainly be there since i missed the nyc show (grumble grumble - it's almost as bad as missing a KaTe Kon!). >Medieval music is >wonderful. If the other stuff I'm into didn't exist, that would be the only >thing I listened to. Anybody else like it too? yeah (but you already knew that). i was sent a copy of a release by the fyre and lightning consort. it's more renaissance than medieval, but it is still quite good. there's a number of groups along those lines, but they always seem to be small and affiliated with a college or institution. just yester- day, i received the new cd's we bee catalog and in the classical section, i noted a cd called _music of the crusades_ by the early music consort. that's another one for you i guess - never heard it myself. maybe i'll pick it up someday. -- woj - i'll be slipping you the midnight fish, honey watch me drown... ======================================================================== From: kyrlidis@athena.mit.edu Subject: One more thing... Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 21:25:10 EDT Hi, While reading the Globe review of Sarah's concert, I realized that there was another bit of information we neglected to report (I think). When Greg was telling Sarah about how he bought 'Solace' as an import a few days before the american release, only to find there was an additional track on the american version, she told us that Nettwerk (her canadian label) is putting together a compilation of Donovan covers, and 'Wear your love like heaven' was recorded for thatm and will be included on that disc. I forget if she told us when this would be released, and who else would be on it. (it would be funny if 'Lord of the reedy river' found its way on ThaT disK). Angelos +=====================================+ |'My ears have parasites'-hApPy RhOdEs| +=====================================+ ======================================================================== From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) Subject: Vickie will be off-line Date: Wed, 8 Apr 92 20:42:40 CDT Chris here, Vickie will be off the net until further notice; actually, until she gets a job. I have been forced to realize that the net is as addictive an activity as any imaginable and, In Alcoholics Anonymous parlance, I was the "facilitator" - providing her with something that was interfering with her ability to lead a normal life. I hope it dosen't sound like I am over-dramatizing the situation, but Vickie lost her job at Rose Records because she would try to live by "hacking hours", waking up one morning, going to work, coming home and being on the computer until 7am, going to work and then coming home and crashing until the next morning. Not a way to keep a job unless you work at a profession that dosen't require public contact, and you are the only person who can do your job. In the months since Vickie lost her job, she has had a handful of interviews, and those only after threatening to take the computer away or actually doing so. I believed that she was avoiding looking for work because she wanted to go to the concerts, and that she would seriously hunt for work after she returned from Philly, but she has fallen back into her old habits; stay up till 5 or 6 am, and sleep till 2 pm. Any job-hunting book will tell you that people calling about an ad in the paper after noon are routinely disregarded. It is almost impossible for a couple to survive on one income these days, and doubly so when the one wage-earner is a free-lancer. I have tried every tactic I can, and this is the only one that works. When you try to discuss something for two hours and all you get is "I don't know", you get frustrated. She has *trained* me to be a hard-ass. This probably looks like washing dirty laundry in public, but Ecto is, so to speak, her "drinking buddies". A "long blue fuzzy vickie" would take a half a day to write. A compilation tape would take a day or more to assemble. I have become *so* tired of looking at the back of her head. Those Ectophiles I know personally know that I love Vickie very much and have a fairly long temper. I just want to be happy and succeed in my goals; our relationship is a partnership and Vickie has been refusing to do her part. She will be back when she has a job, and some small amount of perspective. Chris Williams of Chris'n'Vickie (or Vickie'n'Chris) katefans@chinet.chi.il.us P.S. Vickie being off the Net means that we will _both_ be off the net, and any mail will just pile up, so please unsubscribe "katefans" from ecto and the digest. ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is a README file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me (or leave in the incoming directory, just let me know) things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@athos.rutgers.edu)