From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #22 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, January 21 1998 Volume 04 : Number 022 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: this week's new releases [Neal Copperman ] Re: LM's Remix ["Neil K. Guy" ] Re: The Righteous Reader, 1/19/98 [Neal Copperman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:44:16 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: this week's new releases On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, meredith wrote: > Since I think I inadvertently deleted something of general interest last > week (the debut solo album by Sonia of Disappear Fear -- I can't figure out > why it wasn't on the list, so I must have accidentally toasted it), I'm > just going to send the entire list from now on. It shouldn't be too big at > a pop. I saw this in the store the other day, and the packaging turned me off so much I'd have trouble buying it. disappear fear was one of the bands that taught me the pleasure of seeing local musicians live, and I followed them through multiple incarnations and weird musical misteps. The last album contained those gushing quotes about Sonia being the Dylan of this generation, and this album contains at least three nauseatingly glowing and overstated endorsements. I hope this is not a trend for future packaging! Plus it just looked really sappy, though I'd welcome a return to more emotional and less political content in her music, since I think the former was always a strength, and the latter, while a passion, always seemed pretty simple (minded) and overstated. So there you go, a bad review of an album I haven't heard a single track off of. Neal np: Lisa Germano - Songs from the Love Circus ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 20:07:10 -0800 From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: Re: LM's Remix At 7:24 AM -0500 1/20/98, Heather Russell wrote: > I was just curious what ecto folk thought of the remix version of > Loreena's Mummer's Dance. > > People on the alt.music.lor-mckennitt ng seem to think it's sacrilege. I like it. It's fun, and holds together fairly well. However it's obviously a token dance remix in order to achieve a little radio station airplay. Sometimes you have a choice - either shorten or add a dance beat to a song if you want any radio station outside college radio or the CBC (in Canada) to play it. Or get zero spins. Some people are going to get hoity-toity about that concession to commercialism and the rules of corporate radio, whereas others simply won't like the sound. - Neil K. - -- t e l a computer consulting + design * Vancouver, BC, Canada phone: (604) 254-1002 * email: tela@tela.bc.ca web: http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 23:53:34 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: The Righteous Reader, 1/19/98 On Tue, 20 Jan 1998, Magenta wrote: > I`d > recommend sparing ourselves the masochism of having to watch four hours of > self-indulgence for the slim possibility that DiFranco or Fiona Apple > might win over ultra-commercial Meredith Brooks or cute-as-a-pie, > little-sister-imaged Abra Moore. But that would do away with a longstanding ecto tradition. First, herald whatever recognition that any artists popular in the ecto fold get in the nominations. Then, build up enthusiasm for new understanding and enlightenment from the Grammy crowd. Then be shocked and crushed when what appears to be the worst choice wins in every category. Who knows, maybe with Happy's album next year, she can be nominated for best new artist? And if she were to win, then she could proudly display her Grammy and place herself firmly in the lineage of Christopher Cross and Milli Vanilli. Can I be a cynic too? Neal np: Lisa Germano - excerpts from a Love Circus ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #22 *************************