From: owner-ecto-digest To: ecto-digest@ns2.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto-digest V2 #339 Reply-To: ecto@nsmx.rutgers.edu Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, 9 January 1996 Volume 02 : Number 339 The Ecto digest is now being generated automatically. Please send problems and questions to: ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Cheri Villines Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 23:46:59 -0600 (CST) Subject: jewel in KC? hi all :) do any of you KC ecto-heads happen to know if Jewel is still scheduled to play at the Hurricane on Feb. 13th? ticketmaster doesn't know anything about it and apparently neither does the Hurricane. i was told to call the club back in a couple of days for more info. i am trying to get together with a couple of friends for the show, but this requires planning for the future on my part, hard to do with nothing to go on. perhaps the Jewel website would help? does anyone know the URL? thank you much :) cheri ------------------------------ From: "Robert I. Stewart" Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:03:50 +0200 (GMT+0200) Subject: Re: Neile's Top Discs of 1995 > From: Neile Graham > Date: Thu, 4 Jan 1996 08:33:41 -0800 (PST) > > Jennifer Ferguson -- Hand Around the Heart > > I fell in love with "Suburban Hum" on Vickie's > Femme Music Sampler and had been looking for > Jennifer Ferguson ever since. It took me a while > and a lot of email exchanges with someone in South > Africa who was looking for some American recordings > but I finally got this. It seems to be a compilation > of her work. At first I thought it was going to be > pretty conventional, but her songs always take an > unexpected turn, and her songs and her voice have a > warmth that is catching. Delightful. Points for > sentimentality without sappiness. Hand Around the Heart is a sort of "greatest hits" album - most of the songs are not very recent. It is pretty hard to get hold of her stuff, even here in South Africa - she's not really *that* popular here. It took me many months of hard searching to find that CD (I still haven't found any of her other recordings). She does appear on local TV in various concerts. She is a very interesting woman. Very unconventional. Very strange :) At the moment she is following a career in politics, so I don't know how much new music she has been working on. Let me know if you ever need someone here to look for her stuff again. I'd be glad to help. By the way, is the person you got the CD from also on ecto? I don't know of any other South African ectophiles - it would be nice to get in touch with one. Robert (harry_) Robert Stewart (email: csaris@upe.ac.za) Department of Computer Science, University of Port Elizabeth PO Box 1600, Port Elizabeth, 6000, South Africa Tel: +27 41 5042712 Fax: +27 41 5042323 URL: http://www.cs.upe.ac.za/staff/csaris ------------------------------ From: Laurel Krahn Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 22:35:03 -0800 (PST) Subject: Flash Girls in NYC & Boston A couple of rare east coast appearances for the Flash Girls... (Go see 'em if you can. Really. Fiddle, guitar, vocals, with humor and heart and all sorts of stuff. Worth trudging thru snow). The acoustic gothic folk duo, The Flash Girls, appear this Wednesday, January 10th, at the Sidewalk Cafe in New York City. Show starts at 7:30pm. You might want to contact the venue just to double check things.... particularly with this crazy weather. The Flash Girls (and roadie) plan to be there, but you never know. Sorry I don't have a phone number or address for the venue. The Flash Girls also perform, this Friday, January 12th, at Arisia, a Science Fiction and Fantasy convention in Boston. Will Shetterly and Emma Bull (who is one half of the Flash Girls) are Guests of Honor at the convention. Arisia is at the Boston Park Plaza hotel; for more information about attending you can send email to bgoodman@arisia.org. There is an Arisia webpage, but I don't have the URL handy (and my access is limited tonight, so). There's a link to it from the FlashGigs page located on the Flash Girls webpage (http://www.player.org/pub/flash/flash.html). Also of note, Boiled in Lead also plays on Friday night at Arisia. Flash Girls are opening for them. Should be a treat, who knows, they may jam a bit together... (one hopes all of the BiL bandmembers will make it thru sleet and snow to the con). Sorry for the short notice on this stuff... The Flash Girls second album, MAURICE AND I, has been named to a couple of ten best lists for Minneapolis area local albums. Quite a feat considering the quality and quantity of stuff released by Minnesotan artists this year. Best, Laurel (lakrahn@imho.net) Krahn Virtual Home: http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/u/lakrahn/ Signal-to-Noise: http://www.apocalypse.org/pub/signal-to-noise/ ------------------------------ From: "Joseph Zitt" Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 01:27:41 +0000 Subject: Re: Male artists Hmmm.... off da toppa my mouse: David Bowie, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, King Crimson, David Sylvian, NIN, Leonard Cohen, John Cale, ELP, Robert Fripp, Joy Division, John Lennon, Led Zeppelin, Martin Page, Mike Oldfield, Prince, Todd Rundgren, Eric Satie, John Cage, Pink Floyd, Magma, Yes, Warren Zevon, and Frank Zappa. That's, however, intentionally *not* looking at my records/CDs, and leaving out those none of whose works ever remotely resembled true Ectotude (whatever that would be). - ---------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: "Joseph Zitt" Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 01:27:41 +0000 Subject: Re: yes medley, life on mars On 8 Jan 96 at 13:05, MJM wrote: > (Life on Mars is one of my very favorite Bowie songs, and > I'd *love* to hear Happy cover it.) Well, it sure ain't Happy, but check out Barbara Streisand's album "Butterfly": she does a *killer* "Life on Mars" on it. Really! - ---------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: "Joseph Zitt" Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 01:27:41 +0000 Subject: Re: more on diamanda (& yoko) --indirectly On 8 Jan 96 at 11:40, Charley Darbo wrote: > I bought Yoko's _Rising_ over the weekend. Trying to find language > for it keeps taking me back to the recent Diamandiana: I'm still trying > to find a theory of truth (read: art) that encompasses both beauty and > horror. Congrats on getting and appreciating the Yoko album! I spent about an hour this afternoon at work (after getting more done this morning than I had in the previous month (due to the end of a head cold, a sudden bright idea, and having temporarily run out of some medications that, all good and necessary qualities aside, tend to slow me down a little), I felt I could spare the hour) try (and I think succeeding) to explain and promote the new album to a coworker, and the more i got into talking about it the more I felt like I grokked what she's up to. I rushed home and almost put it on, but then realized that I was even more eager to listen to the Kurt Schwitters CD that I had picked up. I've been engaged in a long and verbose discussion of art with someone (whose identity I actually don't know) over email, so I've been thinking about this a lot. I actually try not to use the term "art" much, since I find it hard to find anything at all that doesn't have any artistry in it ("Even Gollum may have his uses" or something like that). Whether it's through intent or craft, something works. ("There is a crack in everything / that's how the light gets in" -- a line by Leonard Cohen that I've heard quoted in several completely unrelated situations recently). My fave theory of art (only somewhat tongue-in-cheek): "You can get away with anything as long as you make it seem intentional." I think I've been in performance for too long, and been burned by performers too many times, to look for truth much: the most effective performers are, in a sense, the most accomplished liars. Nobody cares how a singer is really feeling as long as he can put that cry in his voice when singing the blues. Does Diamanda really feel the anger when she performs "Plague Mass" for the 1000th time? Perhaps, perhaps not -- what matters is that she has learned how to portray anger in a way that communicates it to the audience. I have found that I often perform poorly when I too effectively evoke in myself the emotions that led to the creation of a piece -- what is necessary is almost a form of dissociation, in which I can observe the emotion in action and replicate it. This also is something I try very hard *not* to do when not on stage, since, while I'm quite interested in artifice in performance, I'm compulsive about truth in real-life communications. ...which has gotten me burned as often as not. Oh well. - ---------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: abehrend@direct.ca (ariane behrend) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 1996 01:23:00 -0800 Subject: Fav. male artists/bands John Mann/Spirit of the West !!! Dobb and Dumela (another Vancouver band) Toad the Wet Sprocket Liam O'Maonlai/Hothouse Flowers Peter Gabriel Sting Oysterband now for my Oz section: (for some reason I seem to love Australian male vocalists) Things of Stone and Wood ! My Friend the Chocolate Cake Not Drowning, Waving Midnight Oil Crowded House Tim Finn ALT Johnny Clegg and Savuka !!! (Felis Strates mentioned 'Asimbonanga' -what a *great* song!!!) Does anyone know what happened to these guys!??? (How about you lurking South Africans!? ;)) Ariane ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Ariane Behrend ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Vancouver, Canada ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ The waves are perfect and the sun will always shine, ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ But there's got to be more to death than surfing all the time ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Dar Williams ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ------------------------------ From: Emmy May Lombaerts Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 11:28:12 +0100 (MET) Subject: Voices ariel_b@pipeline.com (Ariel Brennan) wrote: >I know the feeling, kind of. I'm actually getting pretty jaded. Very few >things come into my life and change my world, at this point. I'm beginning >to think I've run out of musical goddesses to discover. :) But hey, last >time I thought that, I found Ani... I've never even heard any of her stuff yet :( Gosh, there's so much Ecto-music I still have to catch up with, not too mention older stuff I'd like to rediscover. And then when the Ectophilic Wallet Syndrome hits (big grin to my IRC-pal Piquet :) ), well, life can be so tough :) >TAFKAP? The Artist Formerly Known As Prince, or whatever they're calling him these days. I used to be a pretty big fan of his when "Purple Rain" was mega. To some extent, I still like him. >I only have one album from each of >those artists though, and I realized recently that I really have NO musical >gods, just goddesses. I guess it's just because I tend to only like female >*voices*. The same goes for me.. Most of the CDs I have, have female vocals. There are very few male singers who can affect me the way Kate, Happy, Tori or Heather do. Emmy. Emmy May Lombaerts lombaeg@mail.interpac.be http://www.ping.be/~ping2242/emmy.html o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o 'This is not a conclusion, not a revolution, just a little confusion' Tori Amos o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o ------------------------------ From: Felix Strates Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:27:19 -0600 (CST) Subject: Re: Fav. male artists/bands On Tue, 9 Jan 1996, ariane behrend wrote: > Johnny Clegg and Savuka !!! (Felis Strates mentioned 'Asimbonanga' -what a > *great* song!!!) Does anyone know what happened to these guys!??? (How about > you lurking South Africans!? ;)) Still together, AFAIK. Their latest (at least, American released) album was Heat, Dust & Dreams in '93. A compilation came out last year, though. There's a web site with clips from all the tracks. The Best of Johnny Clegg & Savuka http://www.iuma.com/GMO/html/Clegg,_Johnny-S.html There's also a best of compilation of his previous group, Juluka, with samples on the web. The Best of Juluka http://www.iuma.com/GMO/html/Clegg,_Johnny-J.html The Juluka disc has one of the few songs I've heard that makes me almost believe I can dance, "Zodwa." Unfortunately, it doesn't have either of my two favorite Juluka songs. They're both on the US release of Scatterlings, "Spirit is the Journey" (Spirit is the Journey Body is the bus I am the driver From dust to dust...) and Digging for Some Words (I'm digging for some words beneath the stones in Zimbabwe...). - - - - - - - - - - Felix Strates 'Tis true, there's magic in the web... flx@creighton.edu http://bluejay.creighton.edu/~flx/ --Shakespeare Othello - - - - - - - - - - ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 01:36:37 EST Subject: Re: vernon vs. amos woj says of a Nan Vernon song: >just noticed that matthew seligman - bassist extrordinaire - is all >over this record. he also played on a couple songs from _little >earthquakes_. Ah, the reappearance of one of my favorite bassists! Matt Seligman was in the original Thompson Twins, and met Thomas Dolby when the latter came in to do some keyboards on their second album; the result was some fine bass playing on a lot of Dolby's recorded output and also the excellent live video. It's funny that woj should mention this now, as just a couple of days ago I was looking through the credit list for Little Earthquakes and thinking that Ian Stanley (who produced a few tracks on it, as well as "Sugar") really knows how to hand pick musicians. I still stand by my suggestion, too, that Tori should try working with him again, even if only for a one-off track for a film or similar. I liked the results of their collaborations a lot; Tori had nothing but praise for him, by the way, but I suspect now that she's moved into self-production there'll be no turning back. :-) - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au http://daemon.apana.org.au/~anthony/ Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 14:31:24 EST Subject: Re: What ever happened to Gary Potter replied to Dr Dave: >>Can anyone give me any information on an Australian group called >Martha'sVineyard or their lead vocalist Peggy Van Zalm? As far as I know they >only released one CD in America. It was released in 1989 by rooArt and is >titled Martha's Vineyard. The only song that got airplay was Old Beach Road. >Did she/they do anything else? How can I get it?< > >Martha's Vineyard were from my home town/city of Perth in Western Australia. >Unfortunately they only released one cd, which sold quite well. I dont know >why they broke up. Relying on my memory which can sometimes be vague, I think >I saw a copy of a solo cd put out by Peggy in a 2nd hand store recently. I >dont have any idea of the title or label. Would you like me to try and locate >it for you Dave? Well colour me amazed, as they said in some long-forgotten cheesy action movie I probably saw on late-night TV when I should have been writing. :) I honestly never imagined that Martha's Vineyard had been heard of outside Australia - in fact, most people here never heard of them! They were a band who looked like they were going to do big things but mysteriously vanished into the ether without any indication as to why. And their self-titled album (Garry is correct, it was their only album) is still one of my favorite Australian albums of the last ten years. Trivia note (you knew this was coming, didn't you? :-) - the Martha's Vineyard album was produced by Nick Mainsbridge, who's been lurking in studios for years but recently worked on the Max Sharam album with Daniel Denholm. Martha's Vineyard got their record deal when they submitted a tape to the RooArt label for possible inclusion on one of their (seemingly now discontinued) "Young Blood" series of CDs; RooArt promptly signed them. The track on the compilation, "Unravelling", is also on the album in the same form. Why the band broke up was never really documented, though I did speak to a former band member when he arrived in his next band, and he implied that it was personal differences that undid the whole thing. Lead singer and guitarist Peggy Van Zalm has released one solo album to date, which if I recall correctly came out either late in 1994 or early 1995. A quick call to a distributor friend reveals that the album was called "Shine", was released through tiny independent distributor Natural Symphonies (a "new age" distributor, no less!) and carried the catalogue number PJ11CD. It's still in the catalogue and still available for ordering. I recall a review at the time of release that was fairly enthusiastic about the album, but I've never come across a copy. I also put in a call to RooArt just now to see if they knew any other info, but my helpful RooArt contact is at a business lunch. :-) If I glean any more info, I'll post it. A track from Martha's Vineyard is highly likely to appear on the Australian Ectostuff tape that, at the suggestion of woj, I'm currently compiling for the tape dubbing project. Oh, and Garry, if Dave doesn't want that second hand Peggy Van Zalm CD, I do! :) - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au http://daemon.apana.org.au/~anthony/ Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Tue, 9 Jan 96 14:48:07 EST Subject: Re: Re[2]: Okay okay, here's mine Ariel replied to me... >>:-) I have tried, really tried to like Alanis' album. People (not Warner, >>thankfully) telling me that "If you like Tori Amos, you'll love Alanis >>Morrisette" didn't help. But honestly, I can't see what all the fuss is >>about. > >I don't get the Tori comparison. I'm a huge fan of both artists (I'm >currently obsessing over "Caught A Lite Sneeze", which is an incredible >song that I want to be cremated with), but I don't catch any similarity. >Weird. What I was referring to was the way that, every time a new female artist turns up, someone always tries to recommend them to me by saying that they're "just like Tori Amos". What they probably mean is that, just like Tori Amos, she's, well, female and has an opinion. I find it quite amusing - people never make such blanket comparisons about male artists. >Apparently, Alanis is one of those artists that gets compared to everyone >though. People saying she's the new Liz Phair, or Tori Amos... I've heard a >few people say she sounded like Ani DiFranco, and one person say she >sounded like Sarah McLachlan (!?!?!). Yipes! If I ever heard such a gutteral drawl coming from the mouth of Sarah McLachlan, I'd be out of the building within seconds. :-) >>* Her voice sounds like Gary Numan on a bad day. > >Who? Gary Numan was a UK pop person of the late 70s and early 80s, who was a member of Tubeway Army before goign solo (and he's still going!). His voice sounded like an artificially synthesised robot on mogadon, which is exactly what Alanis sounds like. :-) >>* She's taken Ugly Vocal Mannerisms (as pioneered by Tori at early live >>shows) to new, ridiculous extremes. > >Eh? Sorry, couldn't resist the Tori barb there. :) What I meant by *that* was the kind of vocal manipulation Tori seemed extra-fond of on her early tours, seeming to pronounce lyrics in silly ways for no apparent reason. Like in "Silent All These Years" - she'd sing, "Years goooo byeee....", etc. And it wasn't like it was spontaneous either. I saw both of the Little Earthquakes shows and umpteen TV appearances during her first Australian visit, and she did exactly the same spontaneous things every time! >>Good point about the lack of subtlety. Listening to Alanis is like being >>whapped about the head with a dance-remixed brick. > >Well, I appreciate the lack of subtlety. I like any approach that works, >including "in your face" bluntness. In fact, I tend to prefer the blunt >approach, but I still get to adore Tori, Kate Bush, Sarah McLachlan and >Jane Siberry as goddesses of music and life. :) Yeah, but it doesn't sound... *genuine*. It sounds to me like anger-by-numbers,perpetuating the age old myth that in order to convey anger in music you must make vengeful statements in as ugly a voice as possible. It's the subtlety in anger that makes it effective in music. By the third track on Alanis' album, it was a case of, "Alright, so you're pissed off. Now what?" >>I strongly suspect that Madonna and her A&R gang at Maverick were looking >for >>something to make up for them missing out on Hole. Alanis is the Courtney >>it's OK to like. Both annoy the hell out of me, but for different reasons. > > > Uh, let's not start the whole Alanis-as-corporate-puppet thing here? >Please? I beg you? Don't worry, I won't. :-) I don't agree with the corporate puppet thing, anyway. Everyone's got free will, and the ability to exercise it. Hence Al Jourgenson's claims that the first Ministry album "With Sympathy" was forced upon him by Arista are a little hard to swallow, and ditto for "Y Kant Tori Read". Everyone has a developmental stage, it's just that some artists develop in public. I don't for a second think that Alanis' music comes from anyone except herself; I was just pointing out the irony of her signing to Maverick, whose entire A&R policy seems to be geared towards making Madonna look cool. - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au http://daemon.apana.org.au/~anthony/ Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 96 00:58:04 EST Subject: Re: ...like the snow The icicle-encrusted Meredith said: >Greetings from the frozen and blizzard-plagued Northeastern United States. >Anthony H. and Chris Boek, be warned -- if we win the Lottery, we're moving >to Australia until April, and we'll need a place to stay. ;) Well, you're more than welcome! We might even have our Summer by then. :-| But I do have to say I don't envy you who are living on the East Coast of the US at the moment (yep, it made headline news here, and boy oh boy did it look cold) and as for those in California - give us back our Summer weather!!! Thank you. :-) >So we finally found Tori's new single, "Caught A Lite Sneeze". I think we >must have listened to it 10 times on repeat while cleaning the house yester- >day. Wow, what a great song. I haven't got the release singles yet (anyone in the UK wanna save me a copy of the Limited Edition one? Pleeeeeeeease? :-) but I've had the album for a few weeks now on cassette, and got a three-track promo CD yesterday with "Caught..." on it and two other tracks from the album. I have to admit that when I first played the album I was *massively* disappointed. However, something clicked after the third or fourth listen, and hearing the tracks I have on CD as opposed to the aural crud of Warner Australia's cassette does a lot for them. I think I'm really going to like this album, and I'm glad I've had a chance to get to know it before reviewing it. Shame about the lack of orchestration, though. But honestly, "Caught..." is not the strongest track on the album. It is, though, pretty much the only obvious single, apart from maybe "Talulah". Anyway, those who've been wondering, I'll report in detail on the album in the next few days. > I was talking to a friend of mine last night, >and we were trying to imagine what this tour is going to be like. Will she >have a harpsichord on stage? Will she have some Rick Wakeman-like setup >so she can play the piano and the harpsichord simultaneously? Will she use >backing tracks again? Maybe she could use a... band! :-) OK, OK, I'll stop now. >I NEED _Boys For Pele_, and I need it NOW. Waah! It's probably better that you wait for a CD copy rather than try and decipher it from a cassette. A lot of this album doesn't work at all on cassette - there's too much super-subtle, ultra-quiet nuance in there. It's quite wonderful. :-) - - Anthony - -- - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au http://daemon.apana.org.au/~anthony/ Physical mail: P.O. Box 40, Malvern 3144, Victoria, Australia "The red sky was bleeding glimpses of heaven, in sections of seven..." - Rose Chronicles reaching lyrical perfection on "Awaiting Eternity" - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Yngve Hauge Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 18:29:37 +0100 (MET) Subject: Re: ...like the snow I recently read an interview with Tori Amos in a norwegian mag about her new album. She is definitly going to have both instruments on stage at the same time as the recording of the instruments was done that way. The technician Mark Hawley had to invent some kind of box to get the sound right. Ok, I'll try to translate the facts right :) The microphones (maybe someone wants to know :) is done with the following microphones : Vocals - Neumann M49 (she got it modified to fit her singing) Piano - Neumann U87 The Harpsichord (or Cembalo if you want) - Neumann KM 140 the first one is out of production and she only could find one in a proper condition. In addition to the mentioned microphones two sound-microphones (resonnance I guess ...)are used. Hmmm, whatever - just the info I wanted to know :) So back to the invention - It has the shape of a little room - six feet high and 4 feet deep and 1.5 times the the tangents of the piano - placed inside the studio. Tori herself is sitting in the middle so that she can reach everything. The instrument-cases are placed outside the box so that they can be miced separately. This had to be done cause she wanted to do the vocals and the playing at the same time. They had really huge problems to get the sound of the instruments and the vocals to sound like they should. And she was going to produce the album herself so they needed something to make it easier. As she says it herself in the interview - she can't sing without playing ... hugs, Yngve ________________________________________________________________ Yngve Hauge | __ ___ __ | | _ www: http://ulke.himolde.no/~yngveh/ |-- | | | ||-- |_||| |_ Irc-nick: One Alien |__ |__ | |__|| | |||_|_ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V2 #339 ************************** ======================================================================== Please send any questions or comments about the list to ecto-owner@nsmx.rutgers.edu