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ecto-digest         Sunday, December 28 1997         Volume 03 : Number 118



                               Today's Subjects:
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  Iris DeMent?                       [Neal Copperman <elan@access.digex.net>]
  Not Iris DeMent, but Vyktoria Pratt Keating       [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>]
  Re: Vyktoria Pratt Keating          [Philip David Morgan <philipda@li.net>]
  Re: Not Iris DeMent, but Vyktoria Pratt Keating  [Philip David Morgan <phi]
  Re: Vyktoria Pratt Keating           [Joseph Zitt <jzitt@humansystems.com>]
  Sessions                               [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)]
  Donnette Thayer on the web                 [Sue Trowbridge <trow@slip.net>]

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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 03:21:11 -0500 (EST)
From: Neal Copperman <elan@access.digex.net>
Subject: Iris DeMent?

I'm coming out of my long hiatus from working on ectophiles guide entries,
and the page I started on is for Iris DeMent.  Anyone care to throw out
some comments for addition to the page?  (I'll assume that anything said
is fair game to grab, unless anyone says differently.)  I've got
positive comments from Mitch and Vickie, mostly directed at Infamous
Angel, and my unpleasant experience of seeing Iris in concert.  Nothing
on any of the albums that follow, where nothing includes comments and
information about them.

Also, anyone know anything about Vyktoria Pratt Keating?  I'm sure I've
heard her name somewhere, and this was the likely place.  I saw her do a
round robin concert with Lisa Cerbone and Jane Brody and was pretty
favorably impressed.

Neal

np: EDA Cafe (Cindy Lee Berryhill and Elizabeth Hummel, live somewhere or
other)

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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 09:12:10 EST
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: Not Iris DeMent, but Vyktoria Pratt Keating

Hi, Neal et al!

I did a little research and found the following about Vyktoria:

<<Vyktoria Pratt Keating - April News

New Age acoustic songstress Vyktoria Pratt Keating is proud to announce the
release of her new album, This Guardian At Noon, on her very own label,
Diaphanous Records.

This Guardian At Noon is the much-anticipated follow-up to Keating's first
album, 1993's award-winning Blue Apples. Blue Apples was initially released
independently by Keating, but gained a new life and countless new accolades
and admirers in 1995 when it was picked up by 1-800-PRIME-CD and re-
distributed nationwide through Borders Books & Music and Tower Records. Now
Keating is back to blazing her own trail again with a new, self-created label,
Diaphanous Records, a new CD, This Guardian At Noon, and a new image and
style, as Vyktoria, that distinctively display her unique approach to life and
her art.

This Guardian At Noon was recorded and mixed by Christian Quick at Stillness
Sound Facility in Warrenton, VA in December 1996. Christian, who co-produced
the album along with Vyktoria, also played many of the instruments on This
Guardian At Noon, including bass, sitar, keyboards, and percussion.

Christian and Vyktoria took an experimental approach in making This Guardian
At Noon and worked together late into the long winter nights to spontaneously
create many of the musical moods that appear on the CD. To gather fresh,
unusual ideas, they played entire songs backwards and sampled sounds as
diverse as crickets and "flying saucers" to help them achieve a personal and
natural, yet otherworldly, effect. This Guardian At Noon combines multi-
layered acoustic guitar, chimes, dumbek, flute, bells, and drums, along with
Vyktoria's signature ethereal vocals, to present the listener with a lush
musical feast for the ears.

Vyktoria's spirituality comes to the forefront more than ever on This Guardian
At Noon, weaving a metaphysical tapestry of healing, hope, and expanding
awareness, while also displaying some of her most powerful and progressive
songwriting yet; multi-dimensional, spiritually-tuned sound holograms, the
enlightening beauty of dreams, the positive awareness of entrainment, the
mystery of ufos, the mysticism of St. Germain, and the environmental
devastation of oil spills are just a few of the subjects explored to their
depths here. This Guardian At Noon has been a long time coming for Vyktoria,
but now the time is right to share her refreshing and futuristic vision with
the rest of the world!


Visit the This Guardian At Noon page to read lyrics, listen to sound files,
and find out how to place an order for the CD. >>

For a list of other VPK sites, here you go:   
<A HREF="http://www.metacrawler.com/crawler?general=%22Vyktoria+Pratt+Keating%
22&target=&method=2&region=0&rpp=20&timeout=10&hpe=10">Metacrawler query:
"Vyktoria Pratt Keating"</A> 

*hugs and kisses*

Jill :D

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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 11:47:00 -0500
From: Philip David Morgan <philipda@li.net>
Subject: Re: Vyktoria Pratt Keating

Hello, everyone:

Please disregard the last query....a search engine
run eventually brought me to:

http://www.mothersea.com/vpk/

(site moved off AOL).

Very nice design, really...

Philip David
12/27/1997

np: _Hydrogen Jukebox_ (Philip Glass/the late Alan
Ginsberg, Nonesuch).

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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 11:38:18 -0500
From: Philip David Morgan <philipda@li.net>
Subject: Re: Not Iris DeMent, but Vyktoria Pratt Keating

Hello, Jill:

On the subject of Vyktoria Pratt Keating:


> Vyktoria's spirituality comes to the forefront more than ever on This Guardian
> At Noon, weaving a metaphysical tapestry of healing, hope, and expanding
> awareness, while also displaying some of her most powerful and progressive
> songwriting yet; multi-dimensional, spiritually-tuned sound holograms, the
> enlightening beauty of dreams, the positive awareness of entrainment, the
> mystery of ufos, the mysticism of St. Germain, and the environmental
> devastation of oil spills are just a few of the subjects explored to their
> depths here. This Guardian At Noon has been a long time coming for Vyktoria,
> but now the time is right to share her refreshing and futuristic vision with
> the rest of the world!
>
> Visit the This Guardian At Noon page to read lyrics, listen to sound files,
> and find out how to place an order for the CD. >>

Sounds nice, but could you provide the URL for that page? The one at the end of
your post didn't work.

Many thanks,

Philip David
12/27/1997

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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 12:49:15 -0600
From: Joseph Zitt <jzitt@humansystems.com>
Subject: Re: Vyktoria Pratt Keating

Philip David Morgan wrote:

> http://www.mothersea.com/vpk/

"mother sea"?! Makes me wonder who her influences are!

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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 14:35:25 -0600
From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)
Subject: Sessions

  Tonight:  SIBERRY and kd lang.  bye,

                        KrW

 "Help me, Mr Wizard!!!" "Drizzel drozzel druzzel drome, time for this
one to come home."    also:zzkwhite@ktwu.wuacc.edu

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Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 18:45:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Sue Trowbridge <trow@slip.net>
Subject: Donnette Thayer on the web

Quite a lovely, well-designed site! Worth checking out: the Q&A section
("In the Net") which features anecdotes about working with Steve Kilbey
and even a few choice items about Donnette's days in Game Theory. 

http://church.sausage.com/dthayer/

- --Sue Trowbridge
  trow@slip.net

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