Errors-To: ecto-owner@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #1074 ecto, Number 1074 Saturday, 9 April 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Milla - The Divine Comedy Nirvana fwd: Thine Eyes Spoke to Susanne today... pretenders Precious things and other stuff Re: poetry assignment Re: Milla - The Divine Comedy Re: Ein April Klaus :) Mure More Milla, & Margot ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 18:34:12 -0300 (EDT) From: Karen Rauch Subject: Re: Milla - The Divine Comedy On Thu, 7 Apr 1994 lcliffor@bbn.com wrote: > > Wow - an album from the star of the sequel to The Blue Lagoon???? She > was also Chaplin's child bride in Chaplin... > > Laura I believe she was also in Kuffs with Christian Slater and Dazed and Confused, the movie without a plot. Karen ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 19:00:32 -0300 (EDT) From: Karen Rauch Subject: Nirvana I don't know all the details; just that Kurt Cobain shot himself. When I first heard it on the radio, I thought it was an elborate joke. So I wasn't really paying attention to the explanation. I just wanted to mention that now Nirvana's reputation is going to rocket. Death seems to work wonders for popularity. Their music is sure to become even more cultish than previously. Karen ======================================================================== Subject: fwd: Thine Eyes Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 16:54:33 PDT From: Eli Brandt This looks ectopical. I'd have ordered the tape already, except that I notice that the e-mail address of the band is the same as that of the reviewer... > From: jester@sage.cc.purdue.edu (Jester) > Subject: The Net Industrial/EBM/Goth/Cyberculture Band Listing v2.1 SONIC BOOM [...] > Thine Eyes _Thread_ > > Side A: > 1) Intro > 2) Cocytus > 3) The Ascent > 4) Nobody's Taint > 5) Circle > > Side B: > 1) Threadbare > 2) Once Despised > 3) Suspirios > 4) Semaphore Thunder[Signals of Distress] > > This band reminds is sort of a Coil/Miranda Sex Garden/Dead Can Dance > mixture. Crooning, and beautiful feminine vocals, alongside strong male > vocals, interspersed with the occasional sample, lead the listener into > dream world. The swaying, almost magical movement of the electronic > orchestration, mixed with the wave motions of the vocals entice the ears > into an aural sensation of chaos and paradise. Almost anything from this > tape would make for an excellent soundtrack. The pieces, instead of having > the usual silence between tracks, flow effortlessly from one to the next, > as if they were constructed as one original track. Traditional ambience it > isn't, but the drug induced psychedelic trips, and walks outside the fringes > of reality are amongst sensations experienced. > > I was very impressed with what I believe is the debut release from this > Oregon Quartet. This is one of the few tapes I own that I could play for > hours and hours, over and over, and never get bored with it. > > Thine Eyes is: > Laird Sheldahl > Jeni Sheldahl > Tanner Volz > Rian Callahan > > Produced by Thine Eyes > A Flavor of Tears Production > All songs copyright 1994 Arts Industria Sound > > Thine Eyes Contact: > Thine Eyes > P.O. Box 30041 > Eugene, OR 97403 > > Contact: > Arts Industria Sound > 425 La Monte Terrace > South Bend, IN 46616 > > Tapes $6.50 ppd. > Canadian orders, Add $1.00 > Foreign orders Add $2.50 > > E-mail: jester@sage.cc.purdue.edu Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu finger for PGP key. CD purchase of the week: _The Speckless Sky_ ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 20:17:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Spoke to Susanne today... Hi Folks, Yes it has been quite a week. Sorry, Dave, about your Grandma. Sorry too about Kurt Cobain. And the vibes go on...; it did seem like a long week. I just wanted to pop in and tell you all about the call I got from Happy's manager Susanne White today. Seems they are really hoping this fanzine thing will work out. It would be a good thing for Happy to have a Fanzine, believe it or not it could bring her some clout in the music industry. Susanne called today to ask me to ask all of you to please support Sharon's efforts in bringing Rhodeways to fruition. It seems the response thus far has been zilch. Zero. Nada. Nothing. Sharon is a true fan and though she lacks computer access at the moment will be doing her best to join us in the future. She was hoping that we ectophiles would be the base of the new fanzine, and that it might spread out from its core to a wider distribution than the net can do at this time. I confess that I too have ignored this fanzine. I understand that Jessica has been hoping to get Ecto into the print world for some time, and feel her disappointment in Rhodeways starting up. Yet I hope we can all pull together, for this is for Happy most of all. Please, folks, if you can spare the money, let's try to get Rhodeways going. Sharon has already invested in stationary and printing, and would be more than happy to receive any snailmail from us with any input whatsoever. Should you find it in your hearts to subscribe, please feel free to enclose a letter on the topic of your choice. I for one can go a ways toward explaining Ectosynchronicity; others here have other experiences to share... Perhaps an article on driving the entourage around Detroit would be fun. Perhaps Doug can offer to be the editor of the Rhodeways/Ecto classifieds...or a contributing editor... Please give it some thought, folks. It would mean a lot to Susanne, so I have a feeling it might mean a lot to Happy too. The address is: Sharon Nichols PO Box 1951 Provo, Utah 84603 and subscriptions are $15.00/yr, with hopes for four issues a year. I'm sure if we all put something into it, Rhodeways will turn out to be a tolerant beacon of great music, as Ecto is now. Thanks for bearing with me, and may we all have a better week next week. Bob, who is not on AG's payroll... ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 17:44:17 PDT From: Neal Copperman Subject: pretenders The San Diego Union-Tribune announced that the Pretenders would be playing at the fairgrounds here on June 16. It's there first tour in something like 8 years. So Pretenders fans, keep your eyes open! NEal ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 21:31:29 EDT From: kosky@saul.cis.upenn.edu (Anthony Kosky) Subject: Precious things and other stuff Jeff/Meredith wrote: > >Re: Tori live >>I do think "Precious Things" loses 100% of its intensity when delivered piano- >>only > >I loved the rendition on the MTV interview from '92, but the song wasn't >nearly so strong a couple of weeks ago here in DC. > Speaking authoritatively, as someone who's seen Tori three times this tour and is considering becoming a groupy (:-)), she seems to have mellowed out Precious Things quite alot this time round. During the LE tour I remember it being at least as intense as the album version, and listening to the live version on the Crucify Ltd Ed confirms this. Actually, overall her performances seem to be less intense and a bit more delicate this time round. Less writhing on the piano bench too. She is still utterly wonderful of course. Vickie wrote: >Vickie (whose mind in blanked out because she's listening to Penguin Cafe >Orchestra, which is even harder music to describe than Boiled In Lead's... >it's *very* hard to concentrate when you're listening to an instrumental >group with song titles such as "Music For A Found Harmonium," "Salty Bean >Fumble," "Prelude and Yodel," and "Telephone and Rubber Band" :-)) I have one of their albums, Signs Of Life I think, on vinyl somewhere. I remember getting it when it came out, and liking it alot, but never felt moved to get any others somehow. I think I'd better dig it out again. Bob wrote: > A recent conversation with Susanne yeilded a request for me to check on >your response to the Rhodeways fanzine announcement made here recently. >Have any of you subscribed? I confess to being in the nope category at >the moment, but I do intend to subscribe. Just curiosity, I guess. Can someone fill me in on this please? It sounds interesting. --Anthony (who's-not-sure-how-long-he'll-be-able-to-keep-up-with-ecto -this-time-round,-but-is-enjoying-being-back-on-it) ======================================================================== From: jzitt@ssnet.com (Joseph Zitt) Subject: Re: poetry assignment Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 22:35:51 -0400 (EDT) > This ear I'm stuck. There's so many to choose from!!! What do > you folks think I should use? Remember this is for 8th grade > so Icicle is out o fboSuggestions?? Here's a list, off the top of my head: Leonard Cohen: First We Take Manhattan Toy Matinee: Remember My Name Julee Cruise: Falling (lyrics by David Lynch) Sinead O'Connor: Troy Madonna: Oh Father David Bowie: Loving the Alien Peter Gabriel: Don't Give Up Jimi Hendrix: Little Wing King Crimson: 21st Century Schizoid Man Barry Manilow: Mandy (sappy, but it hit me right between the eyes in eighth grade) Joseph Zitt: That's What I Mean (I was just singing this to myself on the way home and had the egotistical pleasure of thinking that's a really *good* lyrics. I can send you a tape and lyric sheet.) And a few true ringers: Brian Eno/801: Miss Shapiro Talking Heads: I Zimbra King Crimson: Thela Hun Ginjeet Yes: (the first track from Tormato; I forgot the name) Pink Floyd: Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With A Pict. Nirvana: Smells Like Teen Spirit (actually, Tori version of this might fit the bill well) Magma: (anything) Cocteau Twins: (almost anything) Stone Temple Pilots: Creep Happy Rhodes: The secret final track. Big B-)s on the above list. ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 21:24:08 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Milla - The Divine Comedy > Strange days, when a new album from the remains of what, ten years ago, I > would have sworn was the greatest rock band in existence can be eclipsed > by a release from yet another new female singer/songwriter. > > Tuesday saw the US release of The Divine Comedy, the debut album by Milla > Jovovich. Yikes! Wow! Milla *sings*? If it's as good as you say it is, Anthony, I hope that people take it seriously. Milla's early acting roles - especially "Return To the Blue Lagoon" and "Kuffs" - won't make it easy for her. > I'd heard a promo CD from this album some months ago, and been > awaiting this album eagerly since. I haven't managed to find out much > about Milla, other than that she's Russian and is also a model/actress. She's American-born, though. What label is this one on? > -Anthony (the-one-who-isn't-Australian) - Anthony (one-of-the-ones-who-is) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 21:14:18 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Ein April Klaus :) Meredith performs a MegaKlaus: > >name of the song. He said it's set in the jungle or something and that she's > >naked and covered in mud. I think he's pulling my leg. Is this Sarah, and if > > This has already been answered: "Into The Fire". It was the first Sarah > video I ever saw, and indeed the first time I'd ever gotten a good look > at what she looks like (granted, I got a better look than I'd bargained > for... ;). _Solace_ had just come out, and I was barely familiar with her > music, and one night I taped 120 Minutes for some reason and there she was. Were MTV being particularly brave that night, or are they not as censorship-happy as I've been led to believe? Hmmm. It's strange to me what's considered acceptable for US television and cable. On one hand, any kind of expletive is taboo (in Australia we regularly get programs and films containing all manner of profanity, including the dreaded four-letter twosome), but other things you'd think would be more offensive to delicate sensibilities seem to be fine. I notice the video for "Longview" by latter-day Sex Pistols afficionados Green Day has the word "shit" in the first verse censored, but not the ones in the chorus (they don't really pronounce the "t" in those, which I assume means that if Sarah had sung "bullshih" on her MTV performance she'd have been fine..., and the line "when masturbation's lost its fun..." is intact. Strange. I'm still after a look at any Sarah videos anyone may have, so if there's anyone around with a handy compilation, I *can* play NTSC tapes... :-) > I'm trying to keep a tally of the people who love _FtE_ who also like _Touch_ > better than _Solace_, as well as of those who love _Solace_ but don't really > like _FtE_. I'm noticing that the people who really really like _Solace_ > aren't at all impressed by _FtE_, and the people who really really like _FtE_ > aren't all that impressed by _Solace_, like me. Interesting. That was very Escheresque of you, Meredith! :-) For the record, I love FtE, I love Solace, and I love most of "Touch" - the latter loses me with "Uphill Battle" and to an extent with "Ben's Song" but also contains a few of what I think are her finest moments, especially "Sad Clown" which for some reason moves me beyond words every time I hear it. "Touch" is wonderfully epic-sounding for the most part, and as I think someone said here a while ago, hearing that voice over the chaos behind it is an experience that no other album can offer. Musically, by the way, I think "Solace" is more complex, lush, and appealing than the somewhat dryer FtE... About Tori: > I do think "Precious Things" loses 100% of its intensity when delivered piano- > only, but I also think every single one of her other songs would be massively > disappointing with a band. I disagree. Umm... so there! > Do you really think Tori could stand to keep > herself within the intrinsic constraints of a band? She'd still be trying to > play with the rhythms, and then the drummer would try to keep up (or down) > with her, and soon you'd have a musical train wreck, or Tori would get really > frustrated and not have any fun with it at all. Or she could keep herself to a strict tempo. She does this to great effect on her records, and more often than not the pacing of the song in strict measures adds to it rather than detracts. I know this is a contentious issue, but I am of the persuasion that would prefer less of the wandering tempos... > It's awful, though- I really can't watch anything that has Mary Steenburgen in > it, because the entire time I'm just going, "Wow, does she ever look like Kate > Bush!" and not paying any attention to what's going on in that particular scene. Yes, but Mary can act.... (ducks for cover) :-) - Anthony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 8 Apr 94 21:30:16 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Mure More Milla, & Margot > I heard about the album a couple days ago; it's reviewed in the same > Rolling Stone that has a Jane Siberry one-page-picture-and-interview. (It > has Smashing Pumpkins on the cover.) They gave it a 3 1/2, I think, and > yes, they made the inevitable Kate-Bush-comparison. (I'm beginning to > think that's required for any female singer/songwriter who doesn't do > dance-music tripe...) Must be a standard function key on the RS editor's word-processor. The INSERT KATE BUSH COMPARISON key. :) For those not on my Margot Smith mailing list, here's what Rolling Stone in Australia had to say about Margot's album this month. Apologies to those who've already got this... > Date: Tue, 29 Mar 94 04:50:45 +1100 > From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) > To: margot-list@xymox.apana.org.au > Subject: Margot in Rolling Stone and some news [Assorted news deleted] A review of "Sleeping With The Lion" appears in this month's Australian edition of "Rolling Stone" (Issue 495, April 1994, page 91). It's one of those reviews that leave you with the distinct impression that the writer didn't spend a great deal of time with the record; anyway, here it is as it appeared in the magazine. Rolling Stone's maximum boffo rating for an album is five stars. <<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>> Sleeping With The Lion Margot Smith EMI * * 1/2 While Australia has no shortage of rock bitches and pop princesses, there aren't too many arty female singer/songwriters. Margot Smith could make up the numbers but, for several reasons, "Sleeping With The Lion" doesn't totally convince. The producers Smith has chosen to captain her debut are established musical identities in their own right. That might be a part of the problem. Eddie Rayner (Split Enz/Makers) has an unarguable pop sense but, from the opening track ("Fall Down"), has Smith's words surrounded by identikit "Time And Tide"-era keyboard cascades and percussive rattles. Certainly not bad, just distracting from what should be the main focus. Producer two has a tendency to impose even more of himself. Steve Kilbey gets co-writing credits on the four tracks he produces, with "Adored" in particular sounding for all the world like a Church outtake with a new voice. (Sample lyric: "Yes, you are adored/By a multitude of whores/Selling their stories at the door.") Smith's voice is a cooly affecting tool but perhaps too long a stint in covers bands has left hints of others - a Kate Bush warble on "Just", a bit of Sinead angst here and there, even a little Rickie Lee Jones slur on the atmospheric "Torch Song". As a well-wrought pop construction which will garner some attention, the album works. To have been something more worthy, it could have done with a touch of the feral attitude the cover art suggests Smith might have lurking. - ROSS CLELLEND <<<<<<<<<<<>>>>>>>>>>> A few points about the above: the crack about "too long a stint in covers bands" is mystifying. Perhaps Clellend was thinking of someone else; just to be sure, I asked Margot, and she confirmed that she has never been in a covers band; she has done some vocal work years ago with a band that played a couple of covers during a set of original material, but that's all, and it's unlikely that Clennend would have seen them anyway - he's based in Sydney! And a cover band who do Kate Bush, Sinead O'Connor and Rickie Lee Jones songs is something I would quite like to see. :) The "sample lyric" seems to be trying to imply that Steve Kilbey had a hand in the lyrics. He didn't. And finally, if Split Enz's "Time And Tide" contains any of these suposed "identikit keyboard cascades and percussive rattles", I can't find them! There, I feel better now. :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From anthony Wed, 30 Mar 94 22:02:18 +1000 Received: by xymox.apana.org.au (V1.17-beta/Amiga) id <11hw@xymox.apana.org.au>; Wed, 30 Mar 94 22:02:18 +1000 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 22:02:18 +1000 Message-Id: <9403310802.11hw@xymox.apana.org.au> X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 2.253) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) To: margot-list@xymox.apana.org.au Subject: And the winner is... ...The Badloves :-( The award for Best New Artist at the ARIA Awards, for which Margot Smith was just announced a couple of minutes ago; unfortunately, as feared, throwback 70s Robbie Robertson fans The Badloves picked up the award. Ah well - as someone accurately pointed out on Ecto the other week, this award is often the kiss of death for an artist. Expect to see Margot in the nominations next year for her second album. The fact that she and "Sleeping With The Lion" were nominated at all is a terrific achievement given that the album received almost no press coverage and zero advertising, and Margot was not disillusioned in the slightest about the fact that she probably would not win. Just to correct my post of a couple of days ago, Directions In Groove were not nominated in this category; my mistake. The other nominated act was a band no-one seems to have ever heard of called (I think!) The Robertson Brothers. Congratulations to Margot on getting this far; tomorrow, the world! :-) - Anthony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From xymox.apana.org.au!anthony Wed, 30 Mar 94 22:33:56 +1000 Received: by xymox.apana.org.au (V1.17-beta/Amiga) id <11pq@xymox.apana.org.au>; Wed, 30 Mar 94 22:33:56 +1000 Received: by xymox.apana.org.au (V1.17-beta/Amiga) id <11pl@xymox.apana.org.au>; Wed, 30 Mar 94 22:31:31 +1000 Date: Wed, 30 Mar 94 22:31:31 +1000 Message-Id: <9403310831.11pl@xymox.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <9403310802.11hw@xymox.apana.org.au> (from anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan)) (at Wed, 30 Mar 94 22:02:18 +1000) X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 2.253) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) To: margot-list@xymox.apana.org.au Subject: Re: And the winner is... > The award for Best New Artist at the ARIA Awards, for which Margot Smith was > just announced a couple of minutes ago; Me and my brain didn't meet there... read that "...for which Margot Smith was nominated, was just announced..." - Anthony -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- >From xymox.apana.org.au!mrgreen@mame.mu.OZ.AU Thu, 31 Mar 94 14:27:54 +1000 Received: by xymox.apana.org.au (V1.17-beta/Amiga) id <1203@xymox.apana.org.au>; Thu, 31 Mar 94 14:27:54 +1000 Received: by xymox.apana.org.au (V1.17-beta/Amiga) id <11ze@xymox.apana.org.au>; Thu, 31 Mar 94 14:27:32 +1000 Received: from yarrina.connect.com.au (yarrina.connect.com.au [192.189.54.17]) by zikzak.apana.org.au (8.6.8.1/8.6) with SMTP id XAA24249; Wed, 30 Mar 1994 23:09:23 +1000 Received: from sungear.mame.mu.OZ.AU by yarrina.connect.com.au with SMTP id AA09256 (5.67b8/IDA-1.5 for ); Wed, 30 Mar 1994 23:43:14 +1000 Received: from circlip.mame.mu.OZ.AU (root@circlip.mame.mu.OZ.AU [128.250.210.5]) by sungear.mame.mu.OZ.AU (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id XAA21606 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 1994 23:43:02 +1000 Received: from circlip.mame.mu.OZ.AU (mrgreen@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by circlip.mame.mu.OZ.AU (8.6.4/8.6.4) with ESMTP id XAA25844 for ; Wed, 30 Mar 1994 23:42:58 +1000 Message-Id: <199403301342.XAA25844@circlip.mame.mu.OZ.AU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Mar 1994 22:02:18 +1000." <9403310802.11hw@xymox.apana.org.au> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 1994 23:42:37 +1000 From: matthew green To: margot-list@xymox.apana.org.au (Mailinglist 'margot-list') Subject: Re: And the winner is... >...The Badloves :-( i think ``blah'' is the appropriate comment. siiiiiigh. >From anthony Sat, 2 Apr 94 20:57:56 +1000 Received: by xymox.apana.org.au (V1.17-beta/Amiga) id <12q9@xymox.apana.org.au>; Sat, 2 Apr 94 20:57:56 +1000 Date: Sat, 2 Apr 94 20:57:56 +1000 Message-Id: <9404030657.12q9@xymox.apana.org.au> X-Mailer: //\\miga Electronic Mail (AmiElm 2.253) From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) To: margot-list@xymox.apana.org.au Subject: April fooling... :) This is a copy of an April Fool's gag I posted to Ecto (the Happy Rhodes mailing list) yesterday; I meant to post it here as well but a change of feed site yesterday afternoon distracted me. So here it is anyway, just for your amusement... apologies to those on Ecto who've already received this. ***BEGIN INCLUDE*** > From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) > Subject: Margot signs to Maverick! > Date: 1 Apr 1994 19:34:40 +1000 > Organization: Xymox UUCP System, Melbourne Australia > Lines: 58 In what is a real coup for an Australian artist, Margot Smith yesterday inked a five album deal for the world outside of Australia with Madonna's Maverick Recording Company. This deal virtually guarantees her music will be heard extensively throughout the world. The first audible result of the new deal will be a single to be recorded in Ibiza, Spain, a song called "Give Me That Funky Man-Beast, Baby". This song, co-written by Madonna, Margot, and UK television presenter Jonathan Ross, will be produced by Robert John "Mutt" Lange, famous for his work on records by Def Leppard, AC/DC, and Bryan Adams. Mixing duties will be handled by the Pet Shop Boys with additional dance mixes by the Aphex Twin. This single will appear on the forthcoming album, "The Lion Sleeps Tonight", which will also include a new cover of the song that makes up the album title, with Michael Stipe, Natalie Merchant, and Ozzy Osbourne on guest vocals in what is being described as "a humourous step forward for female vocal music". Production for the album apart from the aforementioned single is being handled by Greg Martin, famous for his production work with The Sneddleys, John Smith (no relation) and death-metal punk superstars Hammer Of The Mods. Greg's brother, George, has also produced a couple of things before, and he will be assigned tape op status for this album. A spokesperson for EMI Australia, when contacted about the new deal, album and single, said "That sensitive female vocal stuff is just so hard to promote. So when Margot put out her first album, we decided not to bother. This new record promises to have all the ingredients for a worlwide number one, especially if we can get her to wear leather in the video clip. Margot's going to be bigger than Mariah Carey before too long!" A spokesperson for Mariah Carey declined to comment, saying that the squeaky diva was busy in the studio working on her next album with George Clinton and his engineer, Sally Martin. Happy April Fool's Day, Ecto! :-) (And apologies to Margot, by the way!) ***END INCLUDE*** -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)