From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #27 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, January 25 1998 Volume 04 : Number 027 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Defending Tara MacLean... [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu] you still do [sspan ] Re: Tara [Greg Dunn ] Re: Deanna Kirk [meredith ] this week in live music [meredith ] Dar Williams video [Valerie Nozick ] Re: venturing into the unknown [Richard Holmes ] Re: venturing into the unknown (fwd) ["Mark Anthony Miazga" ] Re: Defending Tara MacLean... [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu] Billy Bragg question [Rachel ] portishead [the american people ] Re: venturing into the unknown (fwd) [Silme@ix.netcom.com] Re: Deanna Kirk [Neal Copperman ] Music of Eleanor Hovda and Eve Beglarian 30 [the american people ] RE: A&B Sound [Riphug ] Dalbello on MuchMusic ["Kathy Clark and/or Ed Clark" ] sessions [kerry white ] Dar Williams chat is archived [Carolyn Andre ] grey eye glances [Andrew Fries ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 02:36:05 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Defending Tara MacLean... Um...okay...several opinions have been given the past couple of digests regarding Tara and her stage presence or lack-therof... so here's my response and opinion. :) Someone (sorry, can't remember who) wrote: "She writes too many ballads..." Yeah, maybe. _Silence_ does have quite a few on there, but I think that her earlier songs reflect sort of a certain time in her life (I'm not speaking for Tara, obviously, so I'm just guessing at this), when she was having a rough time (ever read interviews about her life? she's had a hard time), and she sort of used writing songs (as I do), to work through it, to figure things out, etc. She's said recently that she's healed quite a bit, and her songs are more hopeful now... There are some newer songs not on _Silence_, like "Jordan," "Pretty," and "Dry Land", that move a bit more away from the types of ballads found on _Silence_, and I think everyone will be blown away by her next album... Then Neile writes: "She is someone who I found so bland in recording that I can't listen to her." Wow, really. Have you bought her EP yet "If you see me". It has some amazing remixes on it, and she has grown a tremendous amount in the past year. She is simply amazing live now. Someone commented earlier about her lack of stage personality, and I think that if you've seen her in the last few months, you might not think that... she has a really cool way with the audience, is very cute and funny, and has power and emotion in her voice now... she's also incredibly soulful, imho. I think that _Silence_ is a good cd--for a debut, but look forward to her next cd because her voice and writing have grown so much. . . I did think _Silence_ was a bit overproduced, but she's now working with her fiance and guitarist, Bill Bell, so maybe that will change for the next album...who knows. I, personally, am addicted to Tara's music. :) Maybe it's just the stages I'm going through right now, or that I really admire her strength or because she was so damn nice to me when I met her, but... not a day goes by when I don't stick a live tape in my walkman for the way to class, or practice my vocals to the EP or LP... Wow...so late...must sleep... Jessica! 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu / songbird22@aol.com / http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess (under major constuction--check back) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:42:57 -0800 From: sspan Subject: you still do oh, let's see.. here's another one.. >Robert writes Lisa Loeb in 5 ways but I say just say no...it's >easier...really, that baby voice ugh...oh well, I think that it is >Low-eeb as in low eeb tide kinda thing...First of all, it's pronounced like lobe, I've never heard it any other way, and when I saw her live everyone pronounced it that way and she didn't seem to correct them... now, I could mention someone singing about her babysitter in a squeaky little voice here.. and then there's... >Valerie also says "Hell something made them popular"...haha yes it's >called a BIG FAT HUGE MONEYED PUBLICITY DEPARTMENTFunny.. Lisa wasn't even signed to a record label and had a #1 hit (only person to ever do that I may add) reason.. it was a good song. Oh yeah, and... >Celine Dion sings so sweetly, so empty, it's like a piece of candy when >you are starving and I don't believe her and I don't feel any emotion >and so I think of that when I think of comparing her to an Ani who is >raw and full of passion > As for the question of what makes Meredith more commercial than Fiona >or Sarah...hmmmm could it be the word BITCH used to draw attention to >an average song and get folks all riled up (unbelievable in this day >and age that it could still be so naughty to cuss..haha) just like >Allanis's first hit said FUCK haha and where would any of it be without >the shock value of 7th grade..I checked out quite a few Ani (everything about me is a gimmick) DiFranco web sites, and all of them prominently featured clips of Ani singing the infamous 'F' word.. they really seemed to focus on it.. she seems to rely quite a bit on '7th grade shock value' As for Celine, she has a marvelous voice, and I don't remember ever seeing a law that says you have to write your own songs to be a good singer. - -- ++ -dave- ++ + irc.Dal.net #Panic_Beach + + Maria McKee/Grey Eye Glances/Lisa Loeb + ++ ++ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 10:15:55 -0500 From: Greg Dunn Subject: Re: Tara Neile wrote: >She is someone I found so bland in recording that I can't listen to her. >The ballads and prettiness get on my nerves, and the disc flew in and out >of my collection. Wow, this is a red-letter day. Potentially scary job situation resolved in our favor (long story made short -- our site will not suffer job cuts)... and I have A rare difference of opinion with Neile. :-) Jessica's already given a strong defense, but I'd like to add a slightly different perspective. I first heard of Tara from Dan Stark, who went out of his way to hear her live and then forced a tape on anyone who would listen. :-) My first exposure to Tara was this short live performance, and I was totally blown away -- something that does not happen to me often. It was a totally emotive and often amusing presentation of her strongest material (including tunes not on the CD). She brought the small coffeehouse audience to a rousing ovation at the conclusion, marked by her impressive a capella "Silence". Toni and I drove 300 miles to see her in Detroit, under less than ideal circumstances, and had a chance to meet her afterward. Despite a mediocre sound system and incredibly annoying dance music coming from the downstairs hall, she once again floored me with her emotion and power. Talking to her, one finds out that she is less than fond of the CD's production (she is even more kind than I indicated; *my* opinion is that the production sucks badly) and was a little concerned that people listening to it would get a poor impression of her music. I believe this may be true for many listeners. :-) Anyway, having seen her live (and with her beau Bill Bell, the amazing accompanist) no fewer than 5 times, I think the EP does a much better job of capturing the essential Tara, though it absolutely fails to show the warm, sincere, and often hilarious person Tara at her best. That's the trouble with recordings. Anyway, I just wanted to encourage those who hadn't tried Tara's music, or who might be scared (or annoyed) away by her CD. Your mileage may vary; I'm a committed Tara fan. :-) >>Tough arrangements and booming production really helped McNarland, whose >>debut Sour Pie was much less catchy, less well written, and suffered from >>its low-fi homemade sound. Scary! I'll weigh in in favor of "Sour Pie" myself... I actually find "Stuff" overproduced (what is it today, Greg, down on studios or something?) but I like a lot of the new songs. Holly needs to find the right combination of arrangement and producer for her work. OK, that's enough for a Saturday morning. I just had to find something to do while we tried to find a cat who's been outdoors for 2 days. ;-) We did find her a few minutes ago; now to coerce her back inside... - -- | Greg Dunn | I really think it's better this | | gregdunn@indy.net | way; the more you suffer, the | | GregDunn@aol.com | more you show you really care. | | http://members.aol.com/gregdunn | The Offspring | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:18:51 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Deanna Kirk Hi! Valerie inquired: >Does anyone know anything about Deanna Kirk? I guess that's pretty much already been answered, but I just have to snidely point out that you'd have discovered her by now if you hadn't blown off that Jane Siberry show in December. ;> I saw her open for Jane at the Iron Horse, and she was very pleasant. I wasn't moved to buy her CDs like JeffW was, but it was a nice enough performance. She seemed terrified up there on stage, no clue why. I read somewhere that she used to own her own club in NYC, but I'm not sure of any details. >ps. It's pretty cool where I got this CD from. I was looking through the >cd collection of a coworker at my new job, and he had Susan McKeown and >the Chanting House in his collection! Needless to say, now we're trading >CDs furiously. Yeep -- how does he know about Susan McKeown? That's too cool. I urge everyone to check out the latest Susan McKeown tour dates, as Carolyn posted -- she's going to be doing some traveling over the next couple of months. And, she's going to be at one of my all-time favorite venues, The Buttonwood Tree in Middletown, CT at the end of April. Yay. :) +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | |***TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: trajectory-request@smoe.org***| +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 11:18:40 -0500 From: meredith Subject: this week in live music Hi! (I was watching the professional figure skating competition last night, and Oksana Baiul skated a mediocre-at-best program to Sarah McLachlan's "Possession". She didn't get very high marks for it, but I rate it a 10 for musical taste. :) Well, it took a couple weeks, but we finally got to our first live shows of the year this week. :) This past Sunday we headed up to the Iron Horse in Northampton to see Robert Fripp's "Soundscapes: An Evening of Space Music" show. It was one of the most singular live music experiences I've ever had. The show was scheduled to begin at 7:00, but at 6:40 Fripp came onstage and started various loops going with his heavily effect-ed guitars. The reaction of the SRO crowd was, in a word, "reverential" -- in fact, around 7:00 he stepped up to the mike and explained what he was going to be doing: making a lot of "bleeps and whistles" that were meant to be appreciated however we wanted to, either by talking amongst ourselves or however. He specifically stated that there was no need to sit in "reverential silence" throughout, but that's what most everybody ended up doing anyway. Well, with the exception of the people at the table next to us who were playing Hearts, anyway. :) I just zoned. It was the perfect background music -- I wished I had my laptop with me, so I could catch up on mail. :) Nice stuff. What made the entire evening worthwhile was after the music had ended, when Fripp stepped back up to the mike and asked if anyone had any questions. Thus began a conversation with the audience that lasted a good 45 minutes, and was quite insightful. I've seen very few interviews with him, and the ones I have seen haven't been very forthcoming with information. But he was very candid and thoughtful, and it was fascinating. As Tamar remarked afterwards, he's more of a guru than anything else. A very interesting -- and enigmatic -- man. Not to mention a damn fine musician. Thursday night we saw Veda Hille open for Freedy Johnston at the Bottom Line. As usual, Veda ruled. :) By the end of her set she had the entire audience in the palm of her hand. She concentrated on material from _Spine_, with a couple songs from _Here Is A Picture_ and "with no Caring" from _Path of a Body_. Nothing new, alas. She's going to be spending the next month on a secluded island writing, so hopefully we'll get treated with some new stuff when she comes back this way with the full band, probably in April. Yay. :) Next week is going to be one of those hectic weekends: Dar Williams at a WPKN benefit show on Thursday; Mila Drumke at Arlene Grocery on Friday (we're finally going to get to see her play!), and Merrie Amsterburg right here in New Haven (!) on Saturday. Cool. I think 1998 is off to a good start as far as live music goes... +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | |***TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: trajectory-request@smoe.org***| +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:18:14 -0500 From: Valerie Nozick Subject: Dar Williams video Audionet is showing Dar Williams' video for "What Do You Here in These Sounds?" exclusively this month. Thursday night was a chat (drat, missed that), but you can still see the video at http://www.events.audionet.com/events/darwilliams/ ==> Valerie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 09:38:21 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Holmes Subject: Re: venturing into the unknown Magenta <4dm@qlink.queensu.ca> writes, responding to Renee Canada : >> 'Til Tuesday(so I can hear more of Aimee Mann) > >Do NOT go into `Til Tuesday expecting Aimee Mann-solo-with-a-band. > The most acclaimed album in the `Til >Tuesday catalogue is Everything`s Different Now, from 1988, which I gather >would be the most like Aimee Mann`s solo material (despite years of >searching in Asia and North America, I have yet to see a copy of this in >any store). Welcome Home, the album in between the two, is quite bland. >If you just want a sample, there IS a greatest-hits package, released 1996 >if I remember correctly. I got a copy of Everything`s Different Now from the library, and I think I liked her live perfromances better - but will have to give it more listens -- definitely in the pop camp. On the subject of Aimee, what's your favorite album / song? >> Chantal Krevaziak(I know I totally mucked up her name) > >You only missed two letters -- the name is Chantal Kreviazuk. She`s from >Manitoba, Canada, up here in my country. > >Unfortunately, all I want to say is: Avoid her if you like Aimee Mann. >She has this squealy, excessively annoying voice, and her songwriting is >almost as uncrafted as Alanis Morissette`s. Little sense of melody, >poetry, or how the syllables of a lyric fit a melody. I got an early copy >of Under These Rocks and Stones and I`m still kicking myself over having >wasted the $14. I too had been very curious about Chantal and almost picked one up; so what's she sing about? Sometimes I can forgive lack of craft if the message and heart are there. It seems a lot of people here like her and I'm interested in the reasons... >> and i am also thinking of purchasing a PJ Harvey and a Radiohead album. >> Any personal favorites and why? > >PJ Harvey: Her first album, Dry, is the best, but not always easy to >find. For aggression and her lyrical coming of age, get 1993`s Rid of Me >-- ferocious performance, despite a third-rate production job by Steve `I >hate the human voice` Albini. I consider To Bring You My Love her worst >album, but by Harvey`s very high standards, that`s still pretty good. Wht about "4-track demos"? A lot of repeated material (understandable), less production, but also good. "To Bring You My Love" is the most "commercial" if anything she does could be called that; I like it as well but it is a marked style departure; about the time this one came out the PJ Harvey list got too noisy for me and I left.... - -Richard @ \@/ Richard A. Holmes (rholmes@cs.stanford.edu) @ | @ \|/ "There's a place representative @ | of the land where my creatures live @ , , | , , It embodies my will to be. @ ' ' ' ' This has nothing to do with destiny. @ I carry skills and schemes from the stars above to guide me. @ - Happy Rhodes, "Phobos" from Warpaint album @ @ Kiva / Kate Price \ Dar Williams / Renaissance \ Sheila Chandra / Laura Love @ Susan McKeown \ Sarah McLachlan / Libana \ Danielle Dax \ Dog Faced Hermans @ Loreena McKennitt / Kate Bush \ Tori Amos / Katell Keineg / Happy Rhodes @ Ingrid Karklins \ Sinead O'Connor / Jane Siberry / Pauline Oliveros ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 13:05:52 -0500 (EST) From: "Mark Anthony Miazga" Subject: Re: venturing into the unknown (fwd) > >> Chantal Krevaziak(I know I totally mucked up her name) > > > >You only missed two letters -- the name is Chantal Kreviazuk. She`s from > >Manitoba, Canada, up here in my country. > > > >Unfortunately, all I want to say is: Avoid her if you like Aimee Mann. > >She has this squealy, excessively annoying voice, and her songwriting is > >almost as uncrafted as Alanis Morissette`s. Little sense of melody, > >poetry, or how the syllables of a lyric fit a melody. I got an early copy > >of Under These Rocks and Stones and I`m still kicking myself over having > >wasted the $14. If anything, I'd say Alanis Morissette's strength is the crafting of her songs. She's a fantastic pop songwriter, with amazing senses of melody. Sometimes her lyrics are kind of elementary, but other times they are very moving. I love Aimee Mann and Alanis Morissette. Maybe I will check out CK if you compare her to Morissette... - -- Mark A. Miazga "The thing about the rat miazgama@pilot.msu.edu race is even if you win, Michigan State University you're still a rat." 206 East Akers Hall, M.S.U. -- Lily Tomlin East Lansing, MI 48825-1372 (517) 353-2083 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 12:51:58 -0500 From: Richard Subject: Re: Defending Tara MacLean... >From Jessica!: > She is simply amazing live now. Someone commented > earlier about her lack of stage personality, and I think that if > you've seen her in the last few months, you might not think that... > she has a really cool way with the audience, is very cute and funny, > and has power and emotion in her voice now... she's also incredibly > soulful, imho. I saw her perform on a sidewalk in Cambridge MA last September , and I don't think "stage personality" was an issue: She was warm, funny, confident , and the above-mentioned "power and emotion in her voice" was strong enough to rattle the windows at the law offices of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe a block and a half away. I agree that "Silence" is not the most scintillating CD , but having seen her live leads me to think that she's got quite a future in music. And she sure as hell gets around- She always seems to be performing *somewhere* at any given time, even headlined at good ole Raoul's here in Portland last summer... Richard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 13:36:54 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Re: Defending Tara MacLean... Richard writes: >>From Jessica!: > >> She is simply amazing live now. Someone commented >> earlier about her lack of stage personality, and I think that if >> you've seen her in the last few months, you might not think that... >> she has a really cool way with the audience, is very cute and funny, >> and has power and emotion in her voice now... she's also incredibly >> soulful, imho. > >I saw her perform on a sidewalk in Cambridge MA last September >electric guitar backup>, and I don't think "stage personality" was an Yes, I agree. >issue: She was warm, funny, confident enviable aplomb and good humor>, and the above-mentioned "power and >emotion in her voice" was strong enough to rattle the windows at the law >offices of Dewey, Cheatham & Howe a block and a half away. Oh, I heard about that! The drunk guy that is... :) Recently, during her last instore at a Borders Books in CA she was doing this amazing version of "Red" and this kid walked by and stuck his fingers in his ear right in front of Tara and the audience and she burst out laughing. :) It was kinda funny, I was there but have the video and it was cute. :) She is 100% more confident than when she started out, that's for sure. >I agree that "Silence" is not the most scintillating CD listened to it maybe 3-4 times and not at all recently>, but having seen >her live leads me to think that she's got quite a future in music. And >she sure as hell gets around- She always seems to be performing >*somewhere* at any given time, even headlined at good ole Raoul's here >in Portland last summer... She toured for a whole year supporting _Silence_, and it helped her a great deal. Jessica! Current Obsessions: - -"The trouble with me"-t. maclean - -Sarah Slean's EP - -almond joys - -iced tea ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:29:44 -0500 (EST) From: Rachel Subject: Billy Bragg question Does anyone know of a mailing list for Billy Bragg? Someone just told me about one but I wonder if anyone on this list has any info. thanks, Rachel "you live next door but I'll write you a letter document what I have to say twist the words until they don't mean anything it's so much better that way" -- excuse 17, "sevenwhateverteen" - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join Some Jingle Jangle List, the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email me your with your name and email address. :) Email me for information about my zine I'M NOT WAITING. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 14:49:15 -0500 From: the american people Subject: portishead erstwhile ectophile don keller sent this review to me. thought some of you might be amused by it (i *still* haven't heard the record, so i can't comment). >DUD OF THE MONTH: =Portishead= (Go! Beat/London) > >When you're this subtle, marginal differentiation is everything. Louder >tracks, sparser samples, less-insinuating tunes--all these changes are >slight, but they impel anti-star-to-die-for Beth Gibbons six inches toward >stridency, and she's hard enough to take seriously when she's toning it >down. The real and theoretical depressives who adore them will experience >this as growth. Workaday music lovers will glance off Gibbons's shows of >misery and never figure out why. =B MINUS= > >--Robert Christgau, "Consumer Guide," =Village Voice= 1/27/98 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 15:26:53 +0000 From: Silme@ix.netcom.com Subject: Re: venturing into the unknown (fwd) Mark Anthony Miazga wrote: > > If anything, I'd say Alanis Morissette's strength is the crafting of her songs. I just wish she'd understood the term "ironic" before she wrote the song of the same name. I now have high school freshmen using examples from her song as examples of irony... :) Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 17:26:16 -0500 (EST) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Deanna Kirk On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, meredith wrote: > Hi! > > Valerie inquired: > > >Does anyone know anything about Deanna Kirk? > > I guess that's pretty much already been answered, but I just have to > snidely point out that you'd have discovered her by now if you hadn't blown > off that Jane Siberry show in December. ;> I guess if you really wanted to be snide, you'd point out that she was discussed widely on ecto around the time of those shows too. But why be snide, right? :) > I read somewhere that she used to own her own > club in NYC, but I'm not sure of any details. From the liner notes to "where are you now": "The Balld Of the Small Cafe" is a song written after my restaurant, Deanna's, burned down. Deanna's will reopen in early 1998, in downtown NYC. Like the first Deanna's, we will feature live music, alwyas. Call Blackbird for more info. Blackbird is her record company... 212-226-5379. www.blackbirdusa.com - --------- Despite promising to myself that I would put the phone number somewhere useful, I seem to have lost the number fof A&B Sounds again. Can anyone help me? Also, is anyone else still waiting for orders from them from December? (Please don't take that as a criticism of A&B Sounds. Unless I found out differently, I'd place all blame with my appaulingly bad post office, who manage to screw up a surprising number of items of mail for me every year.) Neal np: Kerri Simpson - Speak ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 17:34:42 -0500 From: the american people Subject: Music of Eleanor Hovda and Eve Beglarian 30 possibly of interest.... woj ps. one of these days, i will start posting instead of forwarding! ;) >From: CelliOO5@aol.com >Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 22:41:10 -0500 (EST) >To: CelliOO5@aol.com >Subject: Music of Eleanor Hovda and Eve Beglarian 30 > >****** NEWS AND INFORMATION FROM O. O. DISCS ***** > >WOMEN COMPOSERS HAVE A HELL OF A TIME GETTING RECORDED! >O. O. DISCS is proud to announce an illuminating and provocative set of new >CDs by two important and rarely recorded composers: ELEANOR HOVDA and EVE >BEGLARIAN. These two discs are the first complete discs for either of them >and reflect a broad, diverse and bold sensibility that is difficult to >pigeon-hole or hang facile cliches and titles to. > >Beglarian's Overtsepping (OO #33) features 'DOWNTOWN'S STARTLING NEW >DISCOVERY' (VILLAGE VOICE). Beglarian, an electronic post-minimalist with >more than a dash of rock, is both a solid composer and performance artist >with a glib stage presence. She will perform this week in NYC at HEAR on >January 22, 23, 24. > >ELEANOR HOVDA'S Coastal Traces (OO #29) features music composed for the >Nancy Meehan Dance Company with liner notes by the noted Cage scholar, James >Pritchett. Eleanor has been an important, but little recognized, presence >on the contemporary music scene for over twenty years with a number of major >compositions, for such groups as the Kronos Quartet and St. Louis Symphony >with performances at Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Hall and the Bang-On-A-Can >Festival among others. > >For further information please visit our web site at: >http://www.hear.com/o.o./ > >We apologize if you find this information an intrusion. We will immediately >drop you from our list if you e-mail us to do so. If not, we hope that you >find what we are doing of interest....... your comments are of interest to us >and all communications will receive a response. Thank you. > >O. O. DISCS, INC. is an independent sound-art organization, striving to >release 'sound art' for the home listener. Visit us at our world wide web >site and get information about the complete catalog of over forty releases of >new music, composers' biographical information, video releases, late breaking >news and updates. > >O. O. DISCS, INC. >261 GROOVERS AVE., BLACK ROCK, CT. 06605-3452 USA >voice: 203-367-7917 e-mail: Cellioo5@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 19:41:20 EST From: Riphug Subject: More Deanna Kirk news ;-) From *blackbirdusa.com* -- Deanna's label: <> Nettwerk people take note: Deanna Kirk would be a fantastic addition to Lilith Fair! *yes, I really like her* hugs and kisses all around, Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:12:06 EST From: Riphug Subject: RE: A&B Sound In a message dated 1/24/98 5:32:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, elan@access.digex.net writes: << Despite promising to myself that I would put the phone number somewhere useful, I seem to have lost the number fof A&B Sounds again. Can anyone help me? Also, is anyone else still waiting for orders from them from December? (Please don't take that as a criticism of A&B Sounds. Unless I found out differently, I'd place all blame with my appaulingly bad post office, who manage to screw up a surprising number of items of mail for me every year.) >> Contact Information: Fax: Canada and US 1-800-663-0593 International 1-604-687-5127 Email: abqa@absound.ca Mail: A&B Sound Online 556 Seymour St. Vancouver, BC Canada V6B 3J5 I'm assuming that any problems you might have had with orders from December might have something to do with the Canadian postal strike. Also, if you had anything on back order, my understanding of their policy is that they wait until your entire order is in one central location before shipping any of it. Jill :D ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:56:37 -0500 From: "Kathy Clark and/or Ed Clark" Subject: Dalbello on MuchMusic With the talk lately here about Lisa Dalbello, I was surprised to see a video from '84 from her, on MuchMusic's '80s weekend show. I somehow thought of her as a) newer and b) more obscure. They showed her video to "Gonna Get Close to You," and as this is my first exposure to her music, I wanted to know anyone's opinons of how reasonable an example of her stuff it is. It sounded distinctly "eighties", and her voice reminded me more of Laurie Anderson than anything. I imagine her music has evolved since then... Any comments? Kat ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 20:55:36 -0600 (CST) From: kerry white Subject: sessions Hi, Probably a repeat of Bobby McFarin. The Hartford up-link that usually feeds it live at 11 pm EST has problems and some stations *might* need to come up with something else. The other stations have tapes available. KrW Hark! What rock through yonder window breaks? Bah! Tis that Juliet and her catapult!! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:31:16 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Dar Williams chat is archived Tom Neff, keeper of the Dar website, posted the following to the folk_music list: >Date: Sat, 24 Jan 1998 22:42:03 -0500 (EST) >From: "Tom Neff" >Subject: WWW: That Dar chat is archived... >Reply-To: folk_music@nysernet.org > >Readers of the last f_m Digest will have seen some announcements for a Dar >Williams chat that happened two nights previously. :) Sorry about that, we >will announce it quicker next time if people here are interested. > >The good news is that the chat transcript is available online at Dar Web: >http://pobox.com/~dar/audnchat.html - along with lots of other good stuff. >And that Audionet site (also linked to from Dar Web) has a 28.8k streaming >video (RealPlayer 5.0) presentation of Dar's new video for "What Do You Hear >In These Sounds." There is a link to download the Player if you don't have >it. Have times changed or what! > didn't yet check out the chat - but did catch the video! Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------- Chicago, IL / USA | Support Independent Music! Use the Internet candre@enteract.com | Carolyn's House of Music: http://house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 17:07:00 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: grey eye glances After I commented favourably on "Eventide" these lovely people sent me copies of their earlier releases: "Songs of leaving" and "Further on". So I thought I should at least post a note saying something nice about them. Fortunately it turned out to be an easy task, because I really liked them, especially the first, "Songs of leaving". The arrangements are more sparse than on "Eventide", but the style of writing is unmistakably the same. Theirs is very melodic, smooth, gently floating sound. The word "romantic" springs to my mind somehow. And then there is Jennifer Nobel's voice... She has one of these voices that I like listening to not for any amazing technical tricks, unusual range or strength but just because I enjoy the sound of it. "Further on" has earlier versions of several songs that appeared again on "Eventide": "Halfway back", "Snow" and "Something to live for". It's interesting to trace their development, and I for one am glad they re-recorded them, as the "Eventide" versions seemed much better to me. Or maybe it's just that I'm more familiar with them? OK, I really like GEG. They might be slightly too poppy, smooth and inoffensive for these of you who like their music more on the edge. Others would find them moving and vastly enjoyable. As a reference point, I'd suggest MoonX7, especially on "Sunburnt". If you liked this one, I'm sure GEG would be for you. - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jordan: Hey Amy do you love me? Amy: Yeah. Totally. Why? Jordan: Just, "I love you" can mean a lot of things, like "You'll do until someone better comes along" or "I can't describe how I really feel but I know I'm supposed to say this" or "Shut up! I'm watching TV"... The Doom Generation Visit my site devoted to little-known Australian bands... http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- t ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #27 *************************