From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #319 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, 27 December 1995 Volume 02 : Number 319 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: maeldun@i-2000.com (Michael Doyle) Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 12:52:01 -0500 Subject: Poe OK, I've been meaning to mention Poe here for a while... anyone familiar? Those of you who trekked to the Atlantic web site for Tori's "Caught A Lite Sneeze" may have noticed the masthead link for "Poe Digital Photo Shoot." Well, the photo shoot is lame, but I've really grown to like her album, _Hello_. My discovering her was strange... I spotted _Hello_ in the used rack and immediately grabbed it, thinking, "I've been looking for this." But I had never heard her music - or even her name - before. I probably was confusing Poe with a band that had been mentioned favorably on the Cranes list. I listened to the disc in the store and, well, I didn't like it. Under someone else's recommendation and the sneaking suspicion that the album would grow on me, I eventually went back and bought it. Grow it did. The first couple of listens were painful. But once I was familiar with the songs, I was hooked. What does it sound like? Well, the track that is getting airplay right now, "Trigger Happy Jack" has some grungy kind of sounds, as do two others on the album. A couple are quiet singer-songwriter type things. But most of the songs are very trip-hoppy. Sounds like Portishead sung by Edie Brickell. The title track, "Hello" also is the only song I know of to mention modems. The song is about communication in general, with an emphasis on digital communication. Pretty cool. I am still amazed I like this thing - does anyone else? - - Mike Michael Doyle maeldun@i-2000.com =================================================================== "You sleep like a haiku: You're still; you move. It's that simple." - - C-Cat Trance ------------------------------ From: jeffy@wam.umd.edu Date: Tue, 26 Dec 95 16:37:58 EST Subject: "Musical Winds" A while back, you may recall, I requested songs having to do with sailing for a compilation my brother, sister-in-law, and I were planning to make for my dad's birthday. I provided my brother with most of the CDs, but he and his wife were responsible for selecting songs from the 30 or so CDs I gave them, as well as some of their own and some borrowed from friends. The tape never made it in time for Dad's birthday, and was eventually put off for a Hanukah present. I didn't even know what the track listing would be until a little over a week ago. The tracks selected are rather different from what I would have included, but I must say that the resulting tape works *quite* well. Perhaps I'll be in charge of Volume II, someday. For those who might be interested in the final project, here it is... SIDE 1: Sailor / Big Country Calypso / Suzanne Vega I Used to Be a Sailor / Tracy Chapman Dive/Cape Horn/Seven Seas (medley) / Sara Brightman Cool Change / Little River Band Never Been Gone (live version) / Carly Simon Kalerka / Rebecca Pidgeon Walk on Water / Marc Cohen The Tide Will Rise / Bruce Hornsby Ripples / Genesis SIDE 2: Farewell to Tarwathie / Custer La Rue and the Baltimore Consort Son of a Son of a Sailor / Jimmy Buffett Summer Breeze / Seals & Croft The Long Voyage / Hector Zazou, featuring Suzanne Vega and John Cale Wooden Ships / Crosby, Stills, and Nash The Wild, Wild Sea / Sting Madman Across the Water / Bruce Hornsby Riptide / Robert Palmer Summer Wind / Frank Sinatra with Julio Iglesias Sail Across the Water / Jane Siberry Oronoco Flow (excerpt) / Enya Thanks, Jeff, Scott, and Marcy Burka |Jeffrey C. Burka | "When I look in the mirror, I see a little clearer/ | | | I am what I am and you are you too./ Do you like | |jeffy@wam.umd.edu | what you see? Do you like yourself?" --N. Cherry | ------------------------------ From: Kerry White Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 16:10:46 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: My Top 10 Hello, On Tue, 26 Dec 1995, Michael Doyle wrote: > > 1. Ars Poetica, (self-titled) > A passionate, dreamy album that has become fully integrated into my heart. > It is now one of my top 5 albums *ever*. > Tell me more! Howzabout several knowledgeable 'philes coming at it from all sides? KrW It was the least I could do! And never let it be said that I didn't do the least I could do. ------------------------------ From: VNozick@tribune.com Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 17:14:14 -0800 Subject: Top 6 Is it really time for another end of the year list? It'll be tough, but here's a shot: In no particular order Melissa Ferrick, Willing to Wait She's been compared to Melissa Etheridge, but MF is much better, IMO. With this, her second album, she is starting to realize her potential. I can't wait to hear her next album. Happy Rhodes, The Keep A great chance to listen to early and unplugged Happy. Jane Siberry, Maria Two months ago, this would not have been on my list. But after seeing Jane perform many of the songs live, I've learned to appreciate this album. Sarah McLachlan, Freedom Sessions Yowza! Janet Jackson, janet. Great dance music. Okay, so it came out a year ago. But it wasn't until this year that it spent significant amounts of time in my CD player The Rainbirds, all of them Another oldie, but I didn't get my own copies of them until this year. Big thanks to the person who brought them to me (you know who you are). I'm sure I've forgotten a ton of great CDs. Call this the list of my favorites that I remember from work. :-P Still, this year has been lacking in good CDs. Am I just getting old? Best of the unheard from this year: Kate Bush, Milla, Tori Amos Biggest disappointments: Annie Lennox, Jewel, Natalie Merchant Worst artist of the year: tie between Mariah Carey (she should be crucified for Fantasy) and Alanis Morisette (worst post-Nickelodeon performance) Best concert: Jane Siberry in Chicago Best record store: Tower Records, because they're open on Christmas day Best city without a decent radio station: Chicago Valerie's favorite place she lived in in 1995: Chicago (hey, if you know me, this is a valid category!) Valerie's least favorite place she lived in in 1995: Washington, DC Valerie's favorite trip of 1995: Philadelphia to see Happy live Best sporting event of 1996: When NU wins the Rose Bowl Worst political miscue of 1995: The budget showdown. Best political screw-up of 1995: The Mel Reynolds tapes...'Did I win the lottery?' (snicker) Hmm...little of this has to do with music, does it? ==> Valerie ------------------------------ From: petite piquet Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 13:26:11 +1100 (EST) Subject: Re: xmas greetings and 2 questions On Tue, 26 Dec 1995, Neal Copperman wrote: > While browsing around the web, I tried checking on ani's tour schedule. > There are a lot of different schedules listed, and they all agree that > she will be around the western and norhtwestern parts of the US and > Canada from February through May. She was also in the US during > December. None of them have any mention at all of whether she is touring > or taking time off in January. Has there been some indication that she > is actually in AUstralia? (Not that the info I found is conclusive, but > they gave no hing of an Australia tour.) Yep, she's playing at Maleny (up in Qld) at the Maleny Folk Festival. Ummm, I don't know dates or anything, but I'm pretty sure she's been confirmed to attend.... geez, I don't really know very much, do I? :) sherlyn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= piquet the cat - piquet@geko.net.au; aka Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@geko.net.au " Allow me someday to touch you, the way that you've all touched me... I thank you for your expressions, your music has set me free... " - Happy Rhodes, 'Feed The Fire' ------------------------------ From: 32 flavors and then some Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 23:45:29 -0500 Subject: Re: diamanda galas recommendations/this mortal coil Kevin John Contzen sez: >hello everybody... i've been considering investing (the albums are about >$25 here) in some diamanda galas music... i haven't actually heard >anything by her, but from descriptions she sounds intriguing. does >anyone have any recommendations about where to start? ummm. well, there are two ways you can approach diamanda. you can dive right into to her tortured litanies by finding either _vena cava_ or _the plague mass_ - both are diamanda at her most dramatic, horrific and striking. if you can handle these, you can handle anything she has done (or will do). however, it'd be tough to spend that much on a wild card, especially taking a chance on her most difficult work. if you'd rather take an easier road, try _the singer_, in which her vocal histronics are somewhat tamed and her usual theme (the aids epidemic) somewhat avoided, or _the sporting life_, a colloboration with john paul jones which is quite a bit different from her other work, but an introduction to her vocal talents. >also, i bought this mortal coil's _filigree & shadow_ on thursday, fell >in love with it and bought the other two two days later. i definitely >think f&g is the best yeah, i agree. _it'll end in tears_ is a nice collection, but doesn't have the continuity. _blood_ has the continuity, but not the impact. >now i'm >looking for similar stuff (i also like dcd, kendra smith, lisa gerrard, >etc). any recommendations here? your best bet is to pick up some samplers from the projekt or hyperium labels. both labels have compilations which provide good overviews of what bands are around and since both labels are in that 4ad kind of vein, you'll probably find something you'll like. good compilations to try are the various _from across this grey land_ volumes from projekt and _heavenly voices_ and _from hypnotic..._ from hyperium. woj ------------------------------ From: Kerry White Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 23:18:54 -0600 (CST) Subject: Jewel plus Hello, I included Rare Gems:Jewel rarities in an order(request) from Tapes [Doug what *is* it called?] and found her to be ok, but too folkie for my taste. I saw her in WizoOz and was impressed and recorded her on Conan and really liked that! Now: is the Conan song typical or is she still a folkie at heart? Buzzed by eMpTyVee and caught a *mariachi* band doing _Zombie_, Strange!! I *like* the JLP cd, but wonder if Alanis is sick of YOK yet, esp doing it live. That's gotta get old fast!! YOK YOK YOK YOK YOK YOK YOK YOK YOK sorry! 8-) Happy Tape Gift: granted, it will be a while before the copies go out but, I wonder, A- Did it get to Happy on time? B- How many tapes were there? C- Did any filler make it? D- did she like mine best? E-........ KrW Commit senseless acts of kindness, and random acts of beauty! ------------------------------ From: ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:52:37 -0500 Subject: Re: Best of '95 On Dec 26, 1995 09:19:13, '"Matt Bittner" ' wrote: >Joan Osborne - relish > >A surprise for me. I listened to a couple of tracks at one >of the listening stations around town, and thought, "Nah." >Well, saw it at one of the used places, and decided to pick >it up. Hey all you Alanis fans, this is what "hard edged >female rock" should sound like. And it's blues tinged, as >well! If I had to pick a favorite song, I can't get enough >of "Spider's Web". Hey now, I like Joan Osborne as well, but this isn't "what hard edged female rock should sound like"; there's room for all styles in the genre. Personally, I prefer Alanis to Joan, but that's tastes. Anyway, I really ought to go shopping in used CD places sometime... >PJ Harvey - "the latest one" Isn't it called "To Bring You My Love" or something? >Lisa Germano - Geek the Girl > >Another used CD whim, again based on ecto-comments. I like >this, but unfortunately the more I listen to it, the less I >like it. It's a great concept disc, but maybe that's where >it fails for me. Don't know, maybe my opinion will change >back the other way over time. I agree. I liked it at first, but the more I played it, the more it wore on me. For me, it's great in theory, but falls flat in practice. :) >Nan Vernon - Manta Ray > >Once more, whim used CD buy. And once again, the more I >listen to it, the less I like it. Agreed again. Of course, I didn't like it much to begin with. ;X A - -- "I don't care, cause sometimes, I said sometimes, I hear my voice, and it's been here..." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 01:14:29 -0500 Subject: Re: Ah, the weekend's ectophillic acquisitions, plus! On Dec 26, 1995 11:20:20, 'Neal Copperman ' wrote: >> BLOW $160 ON CD'S! Hahaha. > >Always one of my favorite ways to spend a holiday. I failed for >Christmas, but I think I see something similar on the horizon for New >Years. Good idea. I think I'll do it again. >> Meryn Cadell "Angel Food For Thought" >> Thing is, I don't know if it qualifies as ecto-fare. > >I'm always amazed at how often people put qualifiers on their purchases >like that. It seems to me, and I've read it here before, that ecto-fare >is not a particularly limiting category. Except it is. Yes, ectophiles tend to have varied tastes, but here, it tends to be the female-singer-songwriter type stuff that gets *discussed*. So when I say I'm not sure it's ectofare, I don't mean I don't think anyone on Ecto will like it, I mean it's not the sort of stuff that normally gets discussed around here. There are occasional threads on non-standard ectofare stuff, but they're relatively rare and tend towards being short lived, as far as threads go. >And with threads covering NIN and >Diamanda (both of who have a decent following on ecto), it seems weird to >have to put disclaimers on artists like Meryn Cadell. Maybe I'm weird, but I tend to think Diamanda IS ectoish. I've admittedly never heard her, but from her descriptions, she seems to be pretty ectophillic, if Dead Can Dance is... ;> >If ani and Laurie >Anderson belong here, then Meryn and a host of others obviously do to. Not obvious. One thing most ectofare music has in common is that it's very musical, whereas Meryn isn't. It also tends to be pretty much... well, music, whereas more often than not, Angel Food For Thought is spoken word. If I worked in a music store, it'd be hard for me to decide whether to put it in rock/pop or spoken. >You can frequently find either disc >marked way down in the throwaway bins in used stores. At least, that was >true a year or so ago. I guess I haven't seen them as much recently. HMV had one copy of each, and they both cost $15, so I guess they're out of those bins. ;> A - -- "I don't care, cause sometimes, I said sometimes, I hear my voice, and it's been here..." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 01:04:58 -0500 Subject: Re: Yet Another Top Ten Of 95! On Dec 26, 1995 11:11:14, 'Neal Copperman ' wrote: >> 8. Lisa Loeb And Nine Stories - Tails > >I doubt I"m going to make a top 10 list this year, and this certainly >wouldn't be on it, but I had made some disparaging remarks about it after >reading over the lyric sheet, so I felt it deserved some comment now that >I"ve actually heard it. Okay, good idea. ;> >In fact, I think over time the lyrics would make >the album unlistenable for me, since I find myself really annoying >walking around humming "don't stultify". Strangely enough, I'm a COMPLETE lyrics person (to the point of actually ignoring the music half the time), and I have no problem with the lyrics at all. In fact, I find them really charming and better than most. And I'm not sure what everyone's problem with "Don't stultify" is, but it doesn't bother me... >Still, there are a few catchy >songs that aren't hampered by annoying verse. I think "Garden of Earthly >Delights" is one. Garden of Delights, no Earthly. ;> Re: Ani >Wow, there's a comment I wouldn't have expected to see emerge from >Ariel's fingers :) ;P >So who beats her in your book? (Not that I really >want to start a best guitarist thread, I'm just curious.) I actually haven't heard any guitarists better than Ani. Realize, of course, I don't generally listen to the guitaring; that's one of the things about Ani's guitar that impresses me. She MAKES me pay attention to the music. But that's only one of the things. ;> A - -- "I don't care, cause sometimes, I said sometimes, I hear my voice, and it's been here..." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 01:20:36 -0500 Subject: Re: My Top 10 On Dec 26, 1995 12:52:06, 'maeldun@i-2000.com (Michael Doyle)' wrote: >I can't do a top 10 list of 1995 releases. I acquired 28 discs this year, >but only a handful were released in 1995. !!!!! Only 28? By the gods, how do you survive? ;) I bought *125* discs this year, and would've bought more, if I didn't have to save up several hundred dollars for a tape recorder. A - -- "I don't care, cause sometimes, I said sometimes, I hear my voice, and it's been here..." - Tori Amos ------------------------------ From: "Joseph Zitt" Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:35:25 +0000 Subject: Top Ten of 1995 (or, like the lists of many others, the discs released in 1995 that I'm most glad that I had bought.) David Bowie: 1. Outside - -- I can't say that it's a *favorite* album -- I consistently skip over some tracks, and find the liner/story luridly grotesque -- but I keep returning to it, fascinated. It's the first time I've gotten that "What the hell was that?" feeling I look for from Bowie since Scary Monsters. Bits of it have lodged in my head and pop out at odd times, and it sparked Bowie to team up with Nine Inch Nails for a terrific concert. The first disc of a projected trilogy -- I am both eagerly awaiting and dreading what might come next. (That said, I think I *like* "The Buddha of Suburbia" better, and whished they'd released it here.) (Unknown Artists) Buddhist Chants: Harmony of the Soul - -- A cheap CD on the Special Music label. My purist ethnomusicological sensibility are offended by the mixing of synthesizer whooshes and hums with the voices, but my ears love it. Clannad: Themes - -- A compilation of most of what I'd heard and liked from the group. A favorite disc for those curling up under the bed and refusing to deal with reality moods. Marianne Faithfull: A Secret Life - -- Faithfull and collaborator Angelo Badalamenti were made for each other. Her voice and lyrics, world weary but not defeated, blend perfectly with his melodies and orchestration. Kurt Weill meets Sylvia Plath in group therapy to create a solemn blast of ravaged beauty. Lisa Gerrard: The Mirror Pool - -- Elisabeth Fraser meets Dmitri Shostakovitch? Unlike anything else I've heard, but intimately familiar and moving. Grateful Dead and John Oswald: Grayfolded - -- Oswald took twenty-five years of live recordings of the Dead's "Dark Star", and blended and reworked them into 2 CDs of electronic wizardry. At various times, multiple incarnations of the band play simultaneous variations, music shoots past at many times its normal speed, and Jerry Garcia holds the first note of the melody for over a minute. The apotheosis of Plunderphonics, and an unintentional but fitting farewell to the band. King Crimson: B'BOOM: Official Bootleg: Live in Argentina - -- After months of studio rehearsal and recording, and two studio recordings of this material, King Crimson hits the mark in an almost totally untweaked live recording. Strikingly clear and energetic, the furious and lyrical document they'd been building up to for the past fifteen years.. -- and this was the *first* set of concerts of the tour. I could kick myself for having missed them this time out. Sonia Dada: A Day at the Beach - -- A band that blew me away (as did October Project) at a memorable live concert in Philadelphia last year. Like the Neville Brothers with a broader sense of humour: if "Anna Lee" doesn't set you grinning, "Lester's Methadone Clinic" will. Chris Franke: Babylon 5 Soundtrack - -- OK, I probably wouldn't have bought it or listened to it if I weren't fanatically devoted to the show, but it works very well. Rather than the usual slapping together of themes that you find on most soundtracks, Franke has woven the music and sound cues of the show into four long electro/orchestral suites. Steve Reich: The Cave - -- The score to a mammoth live/video theater presentation. Reich and his wife and collaborator, video artist Beryl Korot, interviewed Jews, Moslems, and assorted Americans, asking them about Abraham, Isaac, Sarah, Ishmael, and Hagar, then wove the responses into looping tapestries of speech-derived images and sound. The musicians pick up the rhythms and tonalities of the speakers, and zoom off into post-minimalist variations. The Cave fulfills the promise at which Reich's prize-winning Different Trains only hinted: this time the music amplifies and adds meaning and context to the words, making them even more effective that the words or music alone would have been. (Even the most stringent of conflict-of-interest rules probably wouldn't make it necessary for me to mention that Korot is my stepmother's brother-in-law's cousin, but my father keeps nudging me to somehow use that for some bizarre nepotistic manouvering or other :-] ) - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ==== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Organizer, SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List \|| |/Joe Zitt's Home Page\| ------------------------------ From: gzverev@RPC.glas.apc.org (Russian Privatization Center) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 95 12:20:23 Subject: Yet Another Most played Of 95! Hard to figure it out but my stuff falls into three different categories - what I listen at home, at the office and on the road... Here it is with no particular order. Of course a small part of them I bought this year. Bel Canto - Birds Of Passage EBTG - Missing re-mixes Bossa Nova compilations This stuff above my wife played to death Gang Of Four - Mall (1991) Martha and the Muffins - all releases, their latest - Martha "Songs From The Trees" (1995) is children's album for adults. While the lyrics are rather naive the music is very interesting with million backgrounds and exotic sounds from mexican birds to tropical rains, different bell types, etc. The best gift for Xmas! Eyeless In Gaza - Fabulous Library (1993) This band started their new career with this album. New female brought them many things to discover. Roughly album might be compared to a mix of Tears For Fears, early China Crisis, Bel Canto, Anne Clark and their old stuff. It's Immaterial - Life's Hard And Then You Die (1986) Atmospheric dance-pop, male vocals. Same as all above - music include many instruments from violins, harmonica to god only knows what. A lot to dicover. Each time you listen looks new and different. Toure Kunda - all albums. This is west-african stuff (Senegal) General Public (oops, what's the album name? - bought it last month) Dave Wakeling and Ranking Roger (ex English Beat) got together again after six ears break. Produced by ex-Talking Head Jerry Harrison. Very intriguing stuff. I tend to think they implemented everything they were able to play. Harrison plays guitars, some drums and back vocals. Soul II Soul - Volume V Massive Attack - Protection Zap Mama - Sabsylma Weathermen - Glabal 851 Laurie Anderson - Bright Red Aswad - Rise and Shine Again Phillip Boa and Voodoo Club - all albums. This is german band with such guests as Marc Almond, Blain Reininger, and few other famous belgium performers. Sort of ecto meets guitar punk. Rather unusual sound. Yalla - Hitlyst Egypt compilation. This is my favorite from this country. 3 Mustaphas 3 - all of them. plus few russian CDs. Well, all others I played less than 5 times this year. Gleb ------------------------------ From: gzverev@RPC.glas.apc.org (Russian Privatization Center) Date: Wed, 27 Dec 95 12:49:06 Subject: Re[2]: My Top 10 > Only 28? By the gods, how do you survive? ;) I bought *125* discs this > year, and would've bought more, if I didn't have to save up several hundred > dollars for a tape recorder. > > A Can't resist to ask: How many of them you played more than twice? Gleb ------------------------------ From: damon harper Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 03:32:13 -0800 Subject: Re: Ah, the weekend's ectophillic acquisitions, plus! ok... i was going to wait and post about diamanda after i'd listened to the cd some more, but ariel prompted me to do so now :) >Maybe I'm weird, but I tend to think Diamanda IS ectoish. I've admittedly >never heard her, but from her descriptions, she seems to be pretty >ectophillic, if Dead Can Dance is... ;> i haven't heard much by her, and i know from the discussion here that she has albums out that are more musical than what i've heard, but i have to step in here. i was intruiged by the discussion of diamanda here, mainly because she'd been described as "frightening" and i tend to like music that a lot of people call spooky (hi ariane ;). anyway, i put _the plague mass_ on my list and lo and behold, there it was on christmas day looking like a return to the seventeenth century :P she *is* frightening! i looked through the booklet a bit and could hardly bring myself to listen to the thing, i was so spooked already. listened to it that night a tiny bit, but i was in one of those moods where *anything* new is definitely going to sound bad, and knew i was, so i stopped pretty quickly. anyway, kevin and i had a listen to it tonight, and while my jury is still out in some respects, i am very interested by it, *terrified* by a lot of it (but in a good way, rully), and almost certain it's something i want to keep around. not like i'd probably listen to it more than once a year, but it seems to have a certain significance or weight to it. keep in mind i haven't listened to the whole thing, nor very intently. her voice is amazing. and the things she does with it are scary. i may post more when i've listened more carefully. anyway, my point was that this *isn't* very musical stuff. it seems to be mainly chanting (usually repeating a line or two over and over for a while, then switching...), frenzied banshee screeching, and bizarre "speaking in tongues"-ish bits. sometimes heavy, echoey (well, it was done in a church), vaultish beats, but not too much else. again, i don't know what her other works are like, but i'd say that as far as musical content goes, she's more meryn than dead can dance. thematically, well... closer to dcd. more gothic. or old testament. or something :) >>If ani and Laurie >>Anderson belong here, then Meryn and a host of others obviously do to. > >Not obvious. One thing most ectofare music has in common is that it's very >musical, whereas Meryn isn't. It also tends to be pretty much... well, >music, whereas more often than not, Angel Food For Thought is spoken word. >If I worked in a music store, it'd be hard for me to decide whether to put >it in rock/pop or spoken. not sure how ani got in there, but as far as laurie goes... her later stuff has been more musical, and while she's always done things that i'd consider musical, a lot of her performances have been *mainly* spoken word. more so that what small amount of meryn i've heard. and laurie definitely *does* belong, dammit ;) and good god, i don't know where i'd put diamanda galas. the section with the big "DO NOT TOUCH UNLESS YOU ARE EITHER INCREDIBLY BRAVE OR BOTH DEAF AND BLIND" sign on it, maybe :P must listen more, but i think it takes a rare mood. also got hector zazou's "sahara blue", which so far i like not nearly as much as "chansons des mers froids" but which is still good, and veda hille's "path of a body", which affects me more and more each time i hear it... i cannot stress enough how wonderful this album is. i think it's worming its way slowly up to a very high position on my priority list (which shifts a lot according to my mood, of course :) again, i will probably say something more about these once i've had a bit more time to assimilate them into my blood stream. for diamanda that may take quite a while, however :) damon _/\_ Damon_Harper@mindlink.bc.ca __\ /__ "I'm proud to be a banker... Vancouver, BC, CANADA \ / Because I get to play with |/||\| other people's money!" http://www.dfw.net/~soulmate/damon/paukarut.html - Arrogant Worms ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #319 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu