10-Dec-91 18:39:42-GMT,22163;000000000001 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA01596; Tue, 10 Dec 91 13:23:40 EST Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA22656; Tue, 10 Dec 91 13:23:37 EST Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 13:23:37 EST Message-Id: <9112101823.AA22656@athos.rutgers.edu> 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 Subject: ecto #78 ecto, Number 78 Tuesday, 10 December 1991 Today's Topics: *-----------------* misk Sounds of Silence What an evening. Try again..West India Company Info Bits Christmas catalog supplement #1 ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 15:36:05 CST From: vishal@ra.csc.ti.com (Vishal Markandey) Subject: misk Vickie, I mailed my HGP tape today. My contribution clocks in at exactly 2 minutes. Martin writes: > I've kept out of this until now, but I find I have to agree with what seems > to be the consensus... I definitely find Happy's music is more readily > accepted by people who are more caring, intelligent and "worldworn", if I > may put it that way... ie people who've been hurt and hurt bad. Yes. - Vish ======================================================================== Date: 9-DEC-1991 17:27:46.58 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Sounds of Silence Hi! Goddess, I can't imagine life without music. It's always surrounded me, and even my sister and brother, who are hearing-impaired, have stereos! It is my belief that people who do not like music and/or are not moved by it in some way are lacking in something fundamental. Last year I had a rather strange relationship with a guy on my study-abroad program. He hadn't brought a radio, Walkman, or tapes with him- he figured he wouldn't need them, and his tapes would still be there when he got home. Me, I packed one whole suitcase around the protection of my CD-box, and the other suitcase had more tapes and CDs in it than clothes. (Coming home, most of the boxes I shipped were filled with tapes.) I also had a Walkman so I could listen to stuff when I was in town (it eventually died, but was good while it lasted). I can't imagine not constantly being wired for sound. He listens to Classical music and Heavy Metal, and nothing in between. I asked him if he went to concerts, and he said yeah- he's never danced in his life, which if you know this guy is no huge surprise. He could deal with a silent year. I immediately took that as a sign there was a major problem here- and there was. I gave him a Walkman for Christmas with a tape of KaTe-Stuff in it, and he listened to it occasionally. He also got a radio so he could listen to Armed Forces Radio during the war, and I figured he was making headway. Still, music doesn't do anything for him at all. I've seen him stand in the middle of a disco blasting awesome music and not even twitch a muscle, while everybody else is bopping around like madmen. I can remember how my aunt's house smelled when I hear anything from Elton John's first greatest hits album, because that's where I was when I heard it at age four. Music is an integral part of my being, and I cannot understand how it can pass anybody by. He, on the other hand, can't understand why I let it affect me so much, and thinks I'm weird for doing so. Needless to say, we had lots of problems, and this was just the tip of the iceberg. He has severe emotional problems that he isn't aware of, and is not yet at the point in his mental development where he can realize that. Although there is much more to the situation than this, I see his lack of reaction to music as a symptom of his psychological problems. I'm not saying people who don't like music all have problems as severe as this, but I do think it's an indication something there isn't quite right. Maybe we're the ones with the problems, to bring a popular sociological mind- blower into it...but I don't think so. (Sorry if this is incoherent- I'm trying to work this out in my head as I type, and I've written too much academic bullsh*t this weekend to make any sense...) *-------------------------------------------------------* | Meredith Tarr | | *** | |"I want to be a scholar, but I really can't be bothered| | Ooh just gimme it quick, gimme gimme gimme"- Kate Bush| | *** | | mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu | *-------------------------------------------------------* ======================================================================== Subject: What an evening. Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 10:43:42 N From: Klaus Kluge I was leaving the office to visit one of my sisters for a pre-xmas gift swap. 'Ecto' and 'Rearmament' for her in my brief-case, I opened the car, inserted the key and noticed that there was some ice on the windscreen. So I got out again to scratch it off. When I closed the door the powerlock said 'click', locking all four doors and left me in the cold. What a nasty vehicle! Fortunately I had the keycard for our office in a pocket of my coat so I could go in again and phone my automobile club for help, as I had no tools and the car was in complete darkness. "Breaking" it took just 2 minutes, but I had to wait 90 minutes before the ADAC arrived. 90 minutes walking in the cold, risking frozen toes, which made me hum to Manfred Mann's Earth Bands "Circles". So I arrived nearly 2 hours later than planned, but it was a nice evening anyway, talking about my trip to Boston and the latest Happy-News (among other things, of course). Good luck was that I programmed the VCR in the morning to tape 'Brazil' for me. Talking about movies, I also got two more tapes from Kevin (or more precise one and a half), and on 'Automations' there is this song called 'She Likes Scary Movies'. Who might he be talking about? :) Klaus (felling a fuzzy blue warmth again) (4 days, and the tickets still haven't arrived :( ) ___ My frozen toes are beginning to melt | Klaus Kluge I think I'm catching a cold | kkluge@Materna.DE Got oil on my feathers and I can't fly | Countdown: 4 days I gotta get back to your love -+- Manfred Mann's Earth Band - "Circles" ======================================================================== Date: Mon, 9 Dec 91 17:08 CST From: vickie@chinet.chi.il.us (Vickie Ann Mapes) Subject: Try again..West India Company Vickie here. Things seem to be all screwed up with a system down the line from Chinet. I can't get anything to gaffa, and Ecto is sporadic. For some reason, posts to Ecto don't always go through gargoyle. Gaffa always does, and we haven't been able to find a way around it yet. In-coming mail is just fine, thank goodness. This is the second time within a month the same thing has happened. It's getting monotonous. Here's something I posted to gaffa that never made it. For fun, I'm leaving in a bit of the last bounce-back message. Check out the date of the original. Arggh! This is only one of many things I've mailed to gaffa. I was getting paranoid, thinking that Bill Wisner put me into the LH KILL file :-) but now I know it's just an everyday, average, downtime kind-of-thang. Aaaaaaaaaaassssss usual! Michael Hui, this was in response to your friend Mary. I don't have her original article anymore. Do you have her address? If so, could you please mail this on to her? I don't want her to think I was ignoring her. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Dec 91 05:40:16 CST From: uucp@tellab5.tellabs.com (UUCP) Subject: Warning From uucp We have been unable to contact machine 'gargoyle' since you queued your job. mail gargoyle!wiretap.spies.com!love-hounds (Date 11/30) Attempts will continue for a few more days. Date: Sat, 30 Nov 91 03:23 CST From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) To: love-hounds@wiretap.spies.com Subject: West India Company/Danielle/Bulgarian Angels Vickie here. Mary writes: > Hi there. Noticed both 'Les Mystere de Voix Bulgares' and 'West > India Company' in Vickie's 'RocketMan' lineup she posted a little > while back. > I was pleasantly surprised to see them both. Judging from the song > titles for the West India Company cuts, I'd say it was the 'New Demons' > album commissioned for La La La Human Steps. I saw 'New Demons' twice > here in Ottawa.... spectacular!! (FYI La La La Human Steps is an > alternative dance company based in Montreal that made a big > impact last year. They did some work with David Bowie. 'New Demons' > was the name of last year's work.) Yes, you're right! I'm glad someone else knows about this album/group/ dance troup. I was introduced to the dance troup when I saw a La La La Human Steps video on a Bette Midler Special ("Mondo Beyondo") and LLLHS danced to the song "My Shooting Star" in an empty, indoor swimming pool. It was an amazing thing to see, and it was an amazing thing to hear. Mondo Beyondo is on video so I would highly recommend it to those not familiar with LLLHS or WIC just to see that dance piece. The gravity-defying dance is incredible by itself, but the music is awe-inspiring too. Btw, within the video a woman is shown singing, but it's not the real singer. The real singer is named Asha Bhosle. I was introduced to West India Company by my friend Sue, who had a 7" of the song "Ave Maria" and we thought they had broken up until I saw the Mondo Beyondo credits listing WIC. I was ecstatic when I found this CD. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- West India Company _New Demons_ Editions EG, EG Records (EEGCD 61) 1989 Marketed and Distributed by Caroline Records, Inc. 114 E 26th, NYC 10001 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- This is in the liner notes of the New Demons CD: "The rich, strange and gorgeous music of the West India Company is the perfect counterpoint to La La La Human Steps' acrobatic hurricane. Their ground-breaking 1984 EP 'Ave Maria' has been judged by many commentators as being ahead of its time. The soaring voice on that EP was the wonderful Bombay film playback goddess Asha Bhosle, who also worked on the initial recording of 'New Demons' in London. Fine new discovery Priya Khajuria sings her parts for live performances of the show. This LP, the West India Company's debut, features both singers and is an inventive mix of the ultra-modern and the ancient. The West India Companuy's music has little to do woth the current British-Asian hybrid of Bhangra. They have more in common, at least in spirit, with Indian Film music - an exuberant mix of orchestras, disco music, jazz and folk tunes which veers wildly between the romantic, the epic, the sacred and the profane. The West India Company may or may not be the future of rock and roll, but their music's deranged intensity will amply reward the adventurous listener." It's possible that Priya is the one shown in the video, but it's definitely Asha's voice. I like that line "deranged intensity." :-) Yep! There's a 12" too, that I don't have. it's an extended mix of the song "O Je Suis Seul" and it's wild! Combines Dance, Indian, Opera and a few other things thrown in. Excellent! > La La La Human Steps is performing their new work here in Ottawa > this December. It'll be interesting to see what they're using > for music this time. Mary, please let me know when you find out details. Whatever it is, it's sure to be weird and wonderful. > BTW anybody out there ever heard of/listened to/like Danielle Dax? > I'd love to hear what you'd have to say. Oh yes, I love her music! On CD I have: 1) Up Amongst the Golden Spires (a Japanese import that "features tracks from her albums _Pop Eyes_ and _Jesus Egg That Wept_") 2) Dark Adapted Eye (another compilation, my very favorite) 3) Blast The Human Flower (her latest. Good, but not as good as 1 & 2, IMHO) 4) Big Blue (remixes, not great) > Also in regards to 'Les Mystere de Voix Bulgare', at least one of the > members of The Trio Bulgarka solos on the 1st release. I have the 4AD imports of the 1st Les Mystere release (on LP and CD) and neither give credits to soloists, but Yanka Rupkina is definitely one of them, and I think the other two (Stoyanka Boneva and Eva Georgieva) are on that LP also. I'm *still* waiting for Yanka's solo album... Mary, I love your taste in music! Vickie katefans@chinet.chi.il.us ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Strange goings-on. This wouldn't make it to Ecto either, but I'll keep trying. Chris got a message to gaffa last night. Probably a fluke :-? ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 05:41:48 CST From: VickieNoKidding Subject: Info Bits Hey folks, that mail demon sure is mean. I still don't trust it even though couple of things have appeared. I wanted to make sure that this post gets through. I talked to Kevin tonight for a few minutes and he packed that few minutes with a lot of info. They now have a keyboard player and she is none other than Martha Waterman, who played piano on "In Hiding"! She had wanted to go on tour but didn't like the thought of leaving her High School Junior son to go out on the road. Apparantly they've talked and he encouraged her to go for it. Her son plays percussion in a band and he must think it's so cool for his mom to be in such a situation. The band is now officially complete and serious rehearsals will start Dec 15. There is a review in the latest issue of _Dirty Linen_ magazine, which sounds like it might be obscure, but isn't at all. It's a very well-respected and excellent folk magazine, "folk" being misleading because they review all kinds of interesting music. Kevin said he thought the review was written by the same person who wrote the review in The Mac Report, because the wording is almost exactly the same. Very good! H&K just got an order in the mail, single order for Warpaint, from Cameron Crowe, who wrote _Fast Times at Ridgemont High_ and directed _Say Anything_ which did multiple wonders for the song "In Your Eyes" and Youssu N'Dour's career. YAY! YAY! YAY! Famous people are starting to come to her! I think we should print out Mitch's article about the educational value of Ecto (Fast Times at Boomdidiwana High) and send it to him. Seriously! KTCZ in Minneapolis is BOOMING! Requests for Feed the Fire have been rolling in at a WXPN rate!! Cathy and Jim, are you spearheading this effort? If so, great, it's working and keep it up! If not, join the fun! Bob Leonard, who is a friend of H&K's and is now road manager for New Kids, is coming back to Albany the 17th of Dec. and is going to take over efforts to book the tour. Bob is taking a big load off of Kevin's shoulders, since her knows all the tricks and hooks and nooks and crannies and contacts of touring. What a guy! Meredith, you will most likely be dealing with Bob, so I wanted to mention his name. In January (19th to 23rd) a huge European Music Conference is going on in Cannes, France. This is a serious thing, not fluffy and schmoozing like the CMJ partyfest. Kevin belongs to the American Independent Music Association and will be represented at the conference by IMA reps. This is a *VERY* big deal and could very probably mean the beginning of serious airplay, publicity and distribution in Europe (I'm assuming the UK is included in this). More as this develops, but...you heard it here first :-) Yay! This conference is geared toward all the major serious players in the European music scene, reps, buyers, publishers, distributers, radio, print (I imagine this is a big deal for magazines such as NME, Melody Maker, etc) and anyone else in the music business, to learn about and hear new artists and music. The music is taken very seriously, with rooms set aside to listen and talk to the various representatives. IMA is going to have a real chance at getting Happy seriously heard by all the different industry people. I will venture a guess that once Happy is heard a few times, a major buzz will start circulating around the conference. I can't even imagine what all might come from it. I'm tingling with excitement. True, I might be getting my hopes up for nothing, but I don't think so. MANY an American band/artist have started big in Europe and the UK before making it at home. I think they'd take her very seriously. Lordy, lordy! Speed, she is a picking up! In the next couple of weeks, Kevin will start to heavily push Warpaint in these places...Washington (WHFS, which has a new Program Director, the last one kept losing the CD), Denver (KBCO) and Boston (WFNX, which Kevin says will be the toughest nut to crack, but he's going to give it a try. Boston area Ectophiles, be on alert. I'll get more info on what Kevin has in mind) The tour may very well extend as far west as Minneapolis, which means they'd have to go right through Chicago, and I'll finally get to meet Happy and Kevin. That's almost too scary :-) Hopefully Bob Leonard will be able to set up a place in Chicago, possibly Schubas or Club Lower Links. Dan and Cathy, you might want to be thinking of places in the Mpls area that Happy could play. Kevin confirmed, "Aural Gratification" was stolen from a DJ he was listening to one night. If that DJ got the phrase from the Lou Reed song, then yes, it indirectly came from there. We'll never know for sure though. H&K are not religious, but come from a Christian background and do celebrate "Christmas" I won't finish the HGP until I have everyone's tape or selection accounted for. I set a deadline because some people need a deadline (Doug said that, I think) so do hurry and get your selection taken care of, but also, don't worry that I'd start without you. That especially means you Martin, no need for the sad face. Woj, I got your tape today, thanks! Have a good trip Klaus. Claudia, please let us know when Klaus gets there. Laura, I did get your letters (the Kinski obit) but I think my e-mail thanks went to la la land along with nearly everything else. Thank you for it. Whew, I'm all tuckered out. That's a bunch of information to type in at one go. I just called Kevin to tell H&K (didn't get to talk to Happy though) about Angelo's DID's in Pulse. I'll send them a copy. Kevin was thrilled (I would guess...Kevin has a very quiet and interesting way about him, especially when showing his excitement toward something) and immediately wanted to get a copy. Did I mention that Kevin writes and records music used in Sesame Street? If not, he does and he was pleased that his first residual check came in today. I can never keep track of when it's on, but his name is sure to be in the closing credits. Keep an eye out if you happen to run across the show. Someone ought to tape them. Those will be some strange collector's items in the years to come. I wish we had an Ectophile who lived in Albany. Kevin often does music for commercials and shows there, and Happy helps out every now and then. She told me that they recently finished the music for a local commercial and she sang the la la las. She refused to tell me what the product was. Our line of products are most certainly better. Happy and Kevin could do our commercials! Yeah! Mitch, what's the music budget?? Well, see ya'll later... VickieNoKiddingReally ======================================================================== Date: 10 December 1991 10:50:44 CST From: Subject: Christmas catalog supplement #1 After I posted the shopping guide yesterday, it occurred to me that after I first proposed the Walking Toast line of insulated/heated fashions, Vickie suggested that the top of the line should be the "Coat of Drears." Consider it added to the list. Mitch __________________________________________________________ 1927 Pan Am made the going great 1991 ======================================================================== Date: Tue, 10 Dec 91 12:39:29 EST From: David N. Blank-Edelman Subject: Info Bits > Boston (WFNX, which Kevin says will be the toughest nut to crack, but > he's going to give it a try. Boston area Ectophiles, be on alert. I'll > get more info on what Kevin has in mind) We're ready (he says, humming the theme to Mission Impossible to himself). Actually, it's not clear to me that FNX is the only game in town for Happy. Judging by her popularity on non-cutting edge (blech, do I hate that term/attitude) stations, I would also recommend he get other stations involved. I can provide a few suggestions, though i don't listen to radio very much. >Did I mention that Kevin writes and records music used in Sesame Street? Really? Could you be more specific? Sesame Street is a major part of my being. Peace, dNb ======================================================================== To join ecto, please send electronic mail to the following address: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu To have your thoughts included in the next issue, send mail to: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To subscribe to "Ecto", the printed fanzine, send $8 to: Ecto PO Box 11291 New Brunswick, NJ 08906 Ecto is issued 8 times/year, and will include photos and as much material from non-net members as we can get! Donations above the subscription cost are welcomed - all money goes to bringing you better issues! Your "humble pseudo-moderator" -- jessica (jessica@athos.rutgers.edu)