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ecto-digest         Wednesday, April 22 1998         Volume 04 : Number 126



                               Today's Subjects:
                               -----------------
  Re: Emm and Sarah!! :)                           [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu]
  Today's your birthday, friend...                 [Mike Matthews <matthewm>]
  Re: Hugo Largo?                          ["Xenu's Sister" <vickie@wwa.com>]
  Re: Hugo Largo?                                   [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>]
  The Horse Whisperer                               [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>]
  Jukebox from Hell                    [David Dixon <dixon@qt.tn.tudelft.nl>]
  "Took ya long enough, wonder boy!"    [Paul Blair <psfblair@ix.netcom.com>]
  Re: "Took ya long enough, wonder boy!"  ["Jeffrey C. Burka" <jburka@cqi.co]
  Re: Hugo Largo?                                           [jjh969@juno.com]
  the new Tori Amos album                           [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>]
  new releases i'm looking forward to               [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>]
  more Lilith Fair stuff from Billboard             [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>]
  the forthcoming Lilith Fair CD (from ICE magazine)  [Riphug <Riphug@aol.co]
  Lilith Fair stuff from Billboard magazine (long)  [Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>]
  new guy...                      ["Mike Stack" <mts95004@uconnvm.uconn.edu>]
  Re: new guy...                               [Neile Graham <neile@sff.net>]
  Re: new guy...                           [charley darbo <lissener@wwa.com>]
  Re: new guy...                           [charley darbo <lissener@wwa.com>]
  paula cole tickets for sale.                [Pieohpah5 <Pieohpah5@aol.com>]

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 01:34:53 -0500 (EST)
From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu
Subject: Re: Emm and Sarah!! :)

Arugh!

Emm and Sarah are the best! Steve, I'd love it if you could
get a CD copy of _Universe_ for me.  I take it w/ me in my
walkmna, but I'd love to have it on CD format. I'll send ya
money.

I can't wait for Sarah's full length cd (i need to write her
and get advice for me! ;)  Some of her live stuff is amazing
(ie: "Playing cards w/ Judas," etc ;) and she's a great
songwriter. :)

Cannot wait to see Emm live sometime and hear the new CD. :)

Thanks for the news and your work on the page, Steve. :) We
(at least I :) apprecaite it! :)

Jessica
http://adam.nettfriends.com/Jess <-- photography page, music updates! :)

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 03:00:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Mike Matthews <matthewm>
Subject: Today's your birthday, friend...

                                i*i*i*i*i*i
                                i*i*i*i*i*i
                              ***************
                            *****HAPPY*********
                      **************BIRTHDAY*********
            ***************************************************
 ***************************************************************************
 ******** Angelos Kyrlidis (kyrlidis@templeton.cchem.berkeley.edu) *********
 ***************************************************************************
 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

   Angelos Kyrlidis         Fri  April 22     1966     Taurus
   Kjetil Torgrim Homme     Thu  April 23     1970     Taurus
   Pablo Iglesias           Thu  April 23     1964     Positive
   Jeff Burka               Thu  April 24     1969     GoFlyAKite
   Christine Waite          Tue  April 25     1972     Taurus
   Matt Adams               Thu  April 26     1962     Taurus
   Brad Hutchinson          Tue  April 28     1964     What sign?
   Geoff Parks              Sun  April 30     1961     Taurus
   Barney Parker            Fri  May 02       1986     happy cat
   Gray Abbott              Tue  May 03       1955     Suprised
   Tamar Boursalian              May 03                Taurus
   Joe Dembski              Wed  May 07       1952     Rumple
   Richard A. Holmes             May 07                Taurus
   John Warren              Mon  May 08       1961     Taurus - the Ox
   Steve Ito                Fri  May 08       1970     DA Bull...
   Brian Gregory            Thu  May 09       1963     Eclectic
   Patrick Varker           Wed  May 12       1954     Torius
   Steve Fagg               Tue  May 13       1958     Nightwol
   Karel Zuiderveld         Fri  May 13       1960     Stier
   Miss Megan Celia Koster  Sun  May 14       1978     Taurus
   Michael Colford          Wed  May 16       1962     Taurus
   Christopher Boek         Tue  May 19       1970     Taurus
   Yngve Hauge              Fri  May 21       1971     Gemini
   Lisa Laane               Tue  May 22       1973     Gemini

- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 02:22:09 -0500
From: "Xenu's Sister" <vickie@wwa.com>
Subject: Re: Hugo Largo?

At 11:54 PM 4/21/98 -0400, Neal Copperman wrote:

> Mimi Goese had her background in performance art, I think at PS 122.  It
> certainly showed live.  I saw Hugo Largo twice at the 8X10 Club in
> Baltimore, and either one of those shows would make it onto my top 10 list
> of  all time best shows I've ever been to (with probably 50 other shows!).

I can't begin to express how much I envy you, seeing HL not once,
but twice! I still groan with misery when I remember the time I
missed Hugo Largo, with Hetch Hetchy opening. No one thought
to tell me about it and I found out after the fact. GROAN!!!! At
least I got to see the late, great Hetch Hetchy live before they
broke up, but damn I regret missing Hugo Largo. If anyone comes
across Mimi Goese tour dates, please post them.

> It was both compelling and frightening, and seemed genuinely dangerous.

I imagine! I do have a live video and it was clear that Mimi had a
close personal relationaship with her butcher knife, drawing it 
lightly across her skin; arms, face, throat....yikes!

> np: Anna Domino - Colouring in the edge and the outline

Good album!

Vickie

np: Siouxsie & the Banshees - JuJu (my favorite album by them)

Lisa McPherson Memorial Page
http://www.primenet.com/~cultxpt/lisa.htm

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:38:39 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: Re: Hugo Largo?

If it hasn't already been mentioned......

I just read in Ice magazine that Mimi's new CD, "Soak," will be released on
May 12th (Luaka Bop/WB).

Jill :D

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 07:35:04 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: The Horse Whisperer

A few people have written to ask me about the track listing for The Horse
Whisperer soundtrack......so here it is:

  1.  Cattle Call - Dwight Yoakam
  2.  A Soft Place to Fall - Allison Moorer (the Robert Redford directed video
can be
      seen on CMT)
  3.  South Wind of Summer - The Flatlanders
  4.  Still I Long For Your Kiss - Lucinda Williams
  5.  Dream River - The Mavericks
  6.  Slow Surprise - Emmylou Harris
  7.  Big Ball's in Cowtown - Don Walser (pay attention the the apostrophe,
please)
  8.  Leaving Train - Gillian Welch
  9.  Cowboy Love Song - Don Edwards
10.  Me and the Eagle - Steve Earle
11.  Whispering Pines - Iris DeMent
12.  Red River Valley - George Strait

The album is very, very country.....kind of a nice change of pace.....I like
the slower songs from Allison Moorer, Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams and
Emmylou.  Also, Red River Valley has some nice harmonies.......

Jill :D

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:00:23 +0200
From: David Dixon <dixon@qt.tn.tudelft.nl>
Subject: Jukebox from Hell

If you have RealAudio, and in the mood for some 80's cheeze, point your
browser to:

http://www.discjockey.com/radio/eightindex.html


and take a listen to the "Jukebox From Hell"


I bear no responsibility for the consequences.


D^2

"Neverending stooooooryyyyy...."


======================================================================
David Dixon (D^2)				dixon@qt.tn.tudelft.nl
    Department of Applied Physics, Delft University of Technology
 This week's bon mot: "What did Lil' Orphan Annie have in common 
			with Caravaggio?  No pupils."
======================================================================

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 09:23:49 -0400
From: Paul Blair <psfblair@ix.netcom.com>
Subject: "Took ya long enough, wonder boy!"

Sunday evening I took a friend from out of town up to the top of the Empire
State Building.  When we came down, we walked by the stained glass panels
in the lobby that depict the seven wonders of the ancient world.  I was
standing in front of the one showing the Colossus of Rhodes when suddenly
it hit me.  Duh.

- --Paul

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 10:23:59 -0400
From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" <jburka@cqi.com>
Subject: Re: "Took ya long enough, wonder boy!"

paul admits:

> Sunday evening I took a friend from out of town up to the top of the 
> Empire State Building.  When we came down, we walked by the stained 
> glass panels in the lobby that depict the seven wonders of the ancient 
> world.  I was standing in front of the one showing the Colossus of 
> Rhodes when suddenly it hit me.  Duh.

<grin>  y'know, all ya had to do was ask.

This reminds me, though, of a question Angelos Kyrlidis asked of Happy
through an interview thingy Vickie did back in...what...'92?  This
story deserves repeating, particularly in honor of Angelos' birthday,
which is today...  Angelos wanted to know, "Why are you holding your
fingers like that on the cover of _Warpaint_?"  I'm sure if he'd just
asked here, we would have all pointed out that she's symbolically
applying warpaint to her cheek, but instead, we got a flash of 
humor out of Happy, whose response was, "Super glue accident."

Happy birthday, Angelos!

jeff
(wondering if Angelos is either (a) still on the list or (b) still reachable
at the address in the birthday list)

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:08:18 -0400
From: jjh969@juno.com
Subject: Re: Hugo Largo?

On Tue, 21 Apr 1998 23:54:58 -0400 (EDT) Neal Copperman
<elan@access.digex.net> wrote in response to Senorita Riphugs post:
(The Snipped Version)
>
>Mimi Goese had her background in performance art, I 
>think at PS 122.  It certainly showed live.  I saw Hugo 
>Largo twice at the 8X10 Club in Baltimore, and either 
>one of those shows would make it onto my top 10 
>list of  all time best shows I've ever been to 
>(with probably 50 other shows!). It was both 
>compelling and frightening, and seemed genuinely 
>dangerous.
>Neal
>

Hugo Largo played regularly at the Old Knitting Factory
on Houston Street, and I was lucky enough to see them
there on a good number of occasions.  Mimi's P.S. 122
performances were solo gigs if memory serves.  Han 
Rowe performed at the Factory regularly with other 
bands as well, and was featured in some of the early 
large ensemble Zorn "Cobra" pieces, as was Susan
McKeown's Bass-Master Lindsay Horner.  When Han
wasn't on stage slashing horse tail to strings or sitting 
in the audience, he could frequently be found at the 
board doing duty as engineer for a surprising variety 
of acts.     

		John
(Who misses his regular visits to that bastion of 
innovative if sometimes difficult to listen to music.) 


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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:12:15 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: the new Tori Amos album

Again......from ICE:

<<New Albums Due From Tori Amos, Lenny Kravitz and Sonic Youth This Spring

Three hotly anticipated releases on tap for May are from artists who have
graduated from the ranks of the "alternative" movement to become the
mainstream itself.  First up is Tori Amos, on May 5, with her new album, "From
the Choirgirl Hotel" (Atlantic).....

A source closely involved in the project tells ICE that Amos' fourth full-
length solo effort is "a great departure from her last record.  She's used a
rock band and made a hard-hitting pop record.  You could draw a comparison
with the sound you hear on Radiohead's "OK Computer" -- that's the sort of
thing she's going for.  It really pushes the boundaries of recording
technique."

The album was produced by Amos herself, and recorded by her new husband Mark
Hawley and Marcel van Limbeek, both of whom also did her last effort, "Boys
for Pele."  Jon Astley mastered the album, which the Jam! Music web site
reports was recorded in a 300-year-old barn in Cornwell, England, about a
four-hourdrive from London.  Hawley and van Limbeek reportedly built the new
studio to their specifications.

The song titles, in the order they appear on the disc:  "Spark," "Cruel,"
Black-Dove (January)," "Raspberry Swirl," "Jackie's Strength," "iieee,"
"Liquid Diamonds," "She's Your Cocaine," "Northern Lad," "Hotel," "Playboy
Mommy" and "Pandora's Aquarium.".......>>

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:12:14 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: new releases i'm looking forward to

April 28
Dave Matthews Band - Before These Crowded Streets
Lilith Fair:  A Celebration of Women in Music

May 5
Tori Amos - From the Choirgirl Hotel
The Corrs - Talk on Corners
Veda Hille - Spine (although I already have this one)

May 12
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Mimi (former Hugo Largo vocalist) - Soak
Simply Red - Blue

May 19
K's Choice - Cocoon Crash
Natalie Merchant - Ophelia
Heather Nova - Siren
Debi Smith (member of 4 Bitchin' Babes) - More Than Once

Coming in June?
Grant Lee Buffalo - Jubilee
Imogen Heap - Megaphone

.....and this one, too (information from ICE):

<<Minneapolis-based indie No Alternative Records is readying "Teleconned Vol.
1:  We Want the Airwaves," a 16-track various-artists CD featuring newly
recorded and previously unissued music by Ben Folds Five, Ani DiFranco,
Throwing Muses leader Kristin Hersh, Soul Coughing, His Name is Alive, and
Golden Palominos vocalist Nicole Blackman with Scanner, amonth others.  Slated
for release on May 5, the disc benefits Americans For Radio Diversity, an
organization founded in March 1997 in response to the United States Congress's
sweeping deregulation of the telecommunications industry, which in turn made
vulnerable to corporate takeover adventurous radio stations like Minneapolis's
Rev 105.

The track list for "Teleconned":

Ben Folds Five - Theme from "Dr. Pyser" (recorded live with string quarted on
KCRW/Santa Monica's "Morning Becomes Eclectic" radio program in July 1997)
Nicole Blackman/Scanner - What I Want for Christmas
Dead Hot Workshop - Feel
Ani DiFranco - 32 Flavors (live in Seattle in 1995)
Firewater - I Still Love You, Judas
Thrush Hermit - Songs for the Gang
Kristin Hersh - Shake (demo)
Dylan Hicks - Crybaby Crusade
His Name is Alive - Jump the Boy (alternate version)
The Lemon Merchants - I'll Be Famous
Low - Blue Eyed Devil (Soul Coughing cover)
Magnatone - Made of Trouble
Soul Coughing - Lazy Bones (recorded live in Minneapolis, summer 1997)
Triple Fast Action - Underwear
Walt Mink - Erasable You
Matt Wilson (formerly of Trip Shakespeare) - Blue Elektra...>>

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:12:12 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: more Lilith Fair stuff from Billboard

Billboard/April 18, 1998

<<Lilith Fair Set Exposes New Acts
Compilation To Bring Canadian Artists to U. S.

TORONTO -- For several lesser-known Canadian artists, appearances at last
year's Lilith Fair, and their subsequent inclusion on the two-CD set "Lilith
Fair:  A Celebration of Women In Music," offer significant opportunities for
widespread exposure.

"The album will give further notice to [Canadian] artists like Lhasa, Wild
Strawberries, Tara MacLean, and Dayna Manning," says Tim Baker, buyer with the
33-store Sunrise Rocrds & Tapes chain.  "With some of these artists we did see
a pickup in sales after Lilith Fair concerts in Canada.  Lhasa's album
certinaly picked up in sales, as Dayna Manning's did.  With this Lilith Fair
album, I don't think we'll see huge numbers with these artists, but there will
be a difference."

"I want to see a younger artist like Dayna Manning benefit from this album,"
says Terry McBride, Sarah McLachlan's manager and co-executive producer with
McLachlan of the album.  "If this album sells 1 million units, she might be
able to [make a living from performing].  Plus a million Americans will
finally hear Lhasa."

Lhasa de Sela, who records for Montreal-based Audiogram Records under the
moniker Lhasa, has already greatly benefited in Canada from her three Lilith
Fair dates.  The 25-year-old's Spanish-language album, "La Llorana," released
April 10, 1997, has achieved gold status (50,000 units) in Canada and was
named best global recording at the Juno Awards last month.  The album was
released in Europe by Warner France April 7, 1997.  The album is unavailable
in the U. S. as yet.

"Lhasa is very brilliant," says Lilith Fair organizer McLachlan.
"[AudiogramGM] Denis Wolff played her album for us.  It was like, "Who is this
woman?  She's brilliant.'  It was really cool that she won a Juno Award,
too.">>

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:12:06 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: the forthcoming Lilith Fair CD (from ICE magazine)

ICE Magazine/April 1998/Issue 133

<<Two-Disc LILITH FAIR Release Features Cream of the Crop From Last Year's
Tour

Boasting a who's who lineup of female artists and a powerful message of
distaff solidarity, last summer's Lilith Fair tour swept through the United
States and Canada with all the emotion and excitement (if not necessarily the
rage) of a woman scorned.  On April 28, Arista will release Lilith Fair:  A
Celebration of Women in Music, a two-cd chronicle of that tour featuring
unreleased live performances by Suzanne Vega, Paula Cole, Indigo Girls, Joan
Osborne, Emmylou Harris, Shawn Colvin, Victoria Williams, Lisa Loeb, The
Cardigans, Dar Williams, Meredith Brooks, Abra Moore, Susanna Hoffa and,
naturally, tour organizer Sarah McLachlan.

"We actually started recording from the very first show," McLachlan's manager
and Lilith Fair co-producer Terry McBride tells ICE.  "One day we would tape
the main stage, the next day we'd tape the second stage.  We tried to capture
all of the artists that would let us record them.  This was a history-making
tour, and we wanted to document it as a way of [raising] awareness and showing
what Lilith is all about."

The track list for Lilith Fair:  Suzanne Vega - "Rock in This Pocket," Abra
Moore - "Four-Leaf clover," Paula Cole - "Mississippi," - Lhasa - "El
Payande," Sarah McLachlan - "Building a Mystery," Indigo Girls - "Scooter
Boys," Autour de Lucie - "Sur Tes Pas," The Cardigans - "Benit," September 67
- - "The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner," Dar Williams - "What Do You
Hear in the Sound," Tara MacLean - "Jordan," Joan Osborne - "Ladder," Emmylous
Harris - "Going Back to Harlem," Meredith Brooks - "Wash My Hands," Patty
Griffin - "Cain," Wild Strawberries - "I Don't Want to Think About It,"
Susanna Hoffs - "The Eternal Flame," Shawn Colvin - "Trouble," Young Chen Lamo
- - Lama Dorje Chang," Tracy Bonham - "The One," Wild Colonials - "Charm," Lisa
Loeb - "Falling in Love" and Victoria Williams - "Periwinkle Sky."

At press time, McBride indicated that the Indigo Girls' contribution, "Scooter
Boys," wasn't a sure thing, although Lilith Fair will definitely include one
song by the duo.  Also, the old Irish folk song "Water Is Wide" will appear on
the set, either by Jewel/McLachlan/Indigo Girls or Colvin/McLachlan/Indigo
Girls, depending on legal clearances.

As with all things Lilith, McLachlan had a hand in compiling the CD project.
"Sarah listened to everything on the ablum," McBride says.  "I had her
sequence it, because I was way too close to it after hearing each song 40
different times.  I thought it was going to be a single album, but Sarah said
it had to be a double album.  There were about 60 artists on the tour, and she
didn't think 12 was a good representation.  She also wanted to strike a
balance between developing and established artists.  So it's definitely got
Sarah's stamp on it."

The package's graphic designer, John Rummen, tells ICE that the cover will
depict "The woman [figure] Sarah drew for the Lilith Fair logo, but it'll be a
lot more textural.  For the inside of the booklet, we're getting photographs
from each artists, hopefully taken from the Lilith shows, although sometimes
not.  The idea is to promote the live feel."  Rummen also explained that
Arista will be releasing a limited-edition version in an unusual 10-inch
digipak.........>>

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 13:12:10 EDT
From: Riphug <Riphug@aol.com>
Subject: Lilith Fair stuff from Billboard magazine (long)

Billboard/April 18, 1998

<<Lilith Lineup Takes Shape; Arista Set Due 
by Larry LeBlance

Toronto -- As the lineup for the 1998 edition of last summer's standout Lilith
Fair tour takes further shape with revelations of some of the second-stage
acts, Nettwerk/Arista Records is readying release of "Lilith Fair:  A
Celebration Of Women In Music," which documents 1997's 35-date, 70-artist
trek.  The two-CD album will be issued worldwide April 28.

A full list of performers and dates for this year's 57-date Lilith Fair has
yet to be finalized.  Main-stage artists confirmed so far include Lilith
originator Sarah McLachlan, Natalie Merchant, Indigo Girls, Erykah Badu,
Sinead O'Conoor; Sheryl Crow, Missy Elliott, Bonnie Raitt, Tracy Bonham, Queen
Latifah, Meredith Brooks, Liz Phair, Luscious Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Neneh
Cherry, Holly Cole, and Lisa Loeb.  Not all artists play all dates.

Among the acts that will be performing on the tour's second stage are K's
Choice, Billie Myers, Mono, Imani Coppola, Beth Orton, and Lhasa.  A full
roster of the acts is ecpected to be announced Thursday (16) in Los Angeles.

Lilith Fair 1998 will kick off June 19 in Seattle with McLachlan, Indigo
Girls, Merchant, Badu, and O'Connor headlining on the main stage, and K's
Choice, Myers, and Lhasa on the second stage.

Terry McBride, McLachlan's manager and co-executive producer with the
singer/songwriter of the 25-track album, expects there will be several major
last minute "surprise" performances this year.

"We're working with three or four big [artist] camps with the opportunity of
having their artists show up for at least one show," he says.  "It could be
Aretha Franklin, Madonna, Janet Jackson, or Alanis Morissette.  Those are the
sort of [artists] we've been talking to.  If we know one day ahead of time, we
can accommodate these artists.  We also expect to go to Europe in the second
week of September."

McLachlan says that with last year's substantial success, this year's Lilith
Fair has significantly more clout.  "Lilith was a baby last year," she says.
"We are in a better position now because a lot of artists who said no last
year probably didn't know who I was or what Lilith Fair was.  Now it has a
track record.  There are more [artists] interested in being a part of it now."

For those fans and artists who attended last year's Lilith Fair, the two-hour,
20-minute album might seem like a wonderful souvenir.  For those who didn't
attend, the recording, with 50% of the proceeds being donated to the Rape,
Abuse & Incest National Network and LIFEbeat, offers an astonishing overview
of contemporary pop and folk.

Among the 25 artists featured on the album are McLachlan, Paula Cole, Indigo
Girls, the Cardigans, Abra Moore, Lisa Loeb, Susanna Hoffs, Joan Osborne,
Emmylou Harris, Meredith Brooks, Patty Griffin, Dar Williams, Shawn Colvin,
Bonham, and Victoria Williams.

"I'm proud of the album," says McLachlan.  "It was very tough to sequence.
It's nice to mix up the music as much as possible, but the songs flow really
well together.  A big desire for me was to give a platform for young artists."

For Arista/Nashville newcomer Moore, performing five dates on last year's
Lilith Fair was an exciting experience surpassed only, perhaps, by being
included on the two-cd set.  Shes returning for six dates this year.  "It's an
impressive list of performers, and I'm honored being there," she says.

"Lilith Fair is a very well-run festival," says Dar Williams, who performed at
five Lilith Fair shows last year and returns this year for six dates.  "Lilith
did treat its artists well and brought in some artists that were off the
beaten path.  There was something about the feeling backstage that really
facilitated dropping your ego a bit."

Adds Bonham, who performed at five Lilith Fair shows last year and returns for
six this year,"There wasn't any attitude of, 'Let me wail off this riff, and
everybody else can follow me.'"

Arista Records is utilizing both direct and broad-based marketing strategies
in promoting the set.  "This is more than just a women's record," says Ari
Martin, senior director of artist dvelopment (U.S.) at Arista Records.  "It
[features] some of the best artists in contemporary pop.  Of course, the core
audience are fans of these artists and those who attended last year's tour
dates."

Label executives have pointedly chosen not to select a focus track to promote
the album.  "We're working this as a full album, and we expect people to pick
and choose [their own tracks]," says Martin.  "We expect triple-A and modern
AC to have a field day with the record because so many of these artists fit
into those formats.  As well, it will receive [airplay] at modern rock, hot
AC, modern AC, and triple-A."

To set up the album, Arista advanced point-of-purchase merchanding to U. S.
retailers in March and has distributed 30,000 postcards at dates on
McLachlan's current U. S. tour during the past two months.  With access to
Ticketmaster's U. S. database, Arista also sent information about the album to
those who bought tickets to last year's Lilith Fair -- and will take the same
tack with ticket buyers this year. Advances of the album were sent April 7 to
radio, TV, and print media.

Following the release of the album, Arista will be utilizing a "massive radio
promotion" on top 40, hot AC, and modern rock formats in the U. S., and
piggybacking awareness messages onto various radio campaigns.  Print and TV
ads are also planned.

Retailers anticipate a strong sales reponse to the Lilith Fair album because
of the high-profile artists featured and the upcoming media blitz of this
year's Lilith Fair dates.

"There's plenty of anticipation," says Eric Keil, head buyuer for the nine-
store Compact Disc World in New Jersey.  "We already do so well with all of
the individual Lilith Fair [artists], but with the publicity surrounding this
year's Lilith Fair, the album is going to do extremely well.  My favorite
track is "The Water is Wide'," with McLachlan, Jewel, and Indigo Girls.

"This album is going to do some strong numbers," says Tim Baker of the
33-store Sunrise Reocrds & Tapes chain.

"The lineup is very solid," says Dave Levesque, senior music buyer of the
34-store Harmony House chain, based in Troy, Mich.

McLachlan says that Lilith Fair will run until at least 1999, after which it
will be re-evaluated.  "Then we might take a break, a year off, or start
something else,"  she says.>>

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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:51:09 +0000
From: "Mike Stack" <mts95004@uconnvm.uconn.edu>
Subject: new guy...

Hi there.

As I'm new to the list, I figure it's about time to post my "hi, hoiw 
ya doin'?" message, so here we go....

My name's Mike, I'm a college student at the wonderous and musically 
challenged University of Connecticut.  I live across the state, and 
have all long 20 years of my life.

ANyway, I ran into Happy around 4 months ago.  Guy at the music store 
I shop at (Brass City Records, www.brasscity.com/records, in 
Waterbury, CT, possibly the greatest record store on the face of this 
planet..) kept screaming to me how great this singer was.  His bill 
of sale for me was trying to tell me that David Torn played with her. 
 Well anyway, one day I was at this used record store, and saw a 
couple Happy Rhodes discs.  Curiosity overwhelming, I flipped through 
the booklets, only to discover that one David Torn played on one of 
them.  So off I go to buy _Building_the_Colossus_.  To this day, I 
can think of few things that have grabbed me quite as much as "Hold 
Me" as far as opening tracks.  Here I've got a vocal I an't believe 
one person is doing, and Torn's monster guitar solo at the end.  I 
was impressed, suitably.

So since there, _Rhodesongs_ and _The_Keep_  have made their way into 
my collection.  Her cover of "Ashes to Ashes" still blows me away, 
but then, I'm a Bowie fan.

So here I am on the HR list listening to Prince and ranting about 
Bowie.  So I guess a bit of my musical tastes are in order.  I like a 
lot of progressive rock, King Crimson, Queen, Yes, Genesis, 
Queensryche, David Bowie, the stuff everyone knows in prog, and a bit 
of the weirder stuff, Gong, Magma, Archetectual Metaphor, Porcupine 
Tree... some of the "old" ambient stuff (i.e. the not techno 
stuff...), Eno, Harold Budd, Jah Wobble, Hector Zazou, Robert Fripp 
(of course...), all the old Japan guys, David Sylvian, 
Jansen/Barbieri, Mick Karn.... I like a lot of the old glam and goth 
stuff that was appearing in the 70s and 80s, Bowie, Eno I'll mention 
again, and Japan, but also stuff like Talking Heads, TV 
Personalities, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Siouxsie, the 
Sisters of Mercy, the Cult, the Cure.... some ecstacy/"girl band" 
stuff, Heather Nova, Eve's Plum, Kristen Barry, Aimee Mann, Kristeen 
Young, Juliana Hatfield, Poe.... and then a bit of other stuff that I 
can't fit into one of those groups, Frank Zappa, Portishead, Alice in 
Chains, Jane's Addiction, London After Midnight, Captain Beefheart, 
the Beatles, The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed/John Cale.  That's my 
pop music side.  My jazz side consists mostly of a lot of the old 
"free jazz" movement, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, John & Alice 
Coltrane (more the latter than the former), Pharoah Sanders, Albert 
Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Sonny Sharrock, and some more "tame" stuff, Miles 
Davis,  Freddie Hubbard, Mark Isham, Louis Armstrong.  For those of 
you who know music, you'll see all the "tame" jazz I list is all 
trumpet players, probably 'cause I am one myself, for twelve years 
now.  Going to buy a new horn soon, actually.

Personally, I tend to write jazzy ambient pieces, been playing guitar 
for two years, got my horn, and my roommate (who taught me all I know 
about guitar playing, and plays my stuff better, plus is a phenomenal 
pianist to boot...).  I've got three pieces written, and a fourth in 
the works, which I hope to get al recorded and with one or two other 
selections, laid down on a CD beofre the end of the year.  God knows 
if I'll pull it off, but it'd be pretty damn cool if I did.

But what do I know, huh?

Anyway, that's me, feel free to insult my taste in music or whatnot, 
I'm used to it from the college crowd (my all time favorite quotes 
are "do you listen to jazz to help study, 'cuz I heard that classical 
raises your IQ, so maybe jazz does too", and "is this 
hummingbirds having sex?" (that one in response to Fripp's 
soundscapes...).  Alas, to this day, rap/hip hop/r&b (not the old 50s 
r&b mind you, I kinda like that too... vocal harmonies and all that 
good stuff..), alternative/grunge/new punk (as opposed to the 
Ramones, the Clash, etc... who I also like..), ska/reggae, pop in 
general, country, most metal (excepting Iron Maiden..), and the Dead 
and all their proteges (i.e. Phish, Dave Matthews..), none of that 
stuff ever made sense to me.

But what do I know?

And if any musicians are from around here, I live near Waterbury and 
New Haven, CT when I'm home; drop me a line if you'd be interested in 
jamming, ESPECIALLY if you play jazz.  I've been looking for more and 
more people to play out with.

Anyways, that's my "hi, how ya doin'?"



mike
"wherever the birds can't reach the sky
to this land i'll be with you
'til the sun bursts from your side
with my hands i'll reach to you"
                      -peter murphy

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 11:09:48 -0700
From: Neile Graham <neile@sff.net>
Subject: Re: new guy...

Hey, welcome to the list, Mike.  There are a lot of people here who share
some or all of your musical tastes (most of us like Happy, too, at the very
least ;> ).

Happy seems to be the common ground amongst a huge range of tastes.

- --Neile, who mostly likes what I call "women with an edge"

- ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net
The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide
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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:17:40 -0500
From: charley darbo <lissener@wwa.com>
Subject: Re: new guy...

Mike Stack wrote:
> 
> Hi there.
> 
> As I'm new to the list, I figure it's about time to post my "hi, hoiw
> ya doin'?" message, so here we go....
> 
> My name's Mike, I'm a college student at the wonderous and musically
> challenged University of Connecticut.  I live across the state, and
> have all long 20 years of my life.
> 
> ANyway, I ran into Happy around 4 months ago.  Guy at the music store
> I shop at (Brass City Records, www.brasscity.com/records, in
> Waterbury, CT, possibly the greatest record store on the face of this
> planet..) kept screaming to me how great this singer was.  His bill
> of sale for me was trying to tell me that David Torn played with her.
>  Well anyway, one day I was at this used record store, and saw a
> couple Happy Rhodes discs.  Curiosity overwhelming, I flipped through
> the booklets, only to discover that one David Torn played on one of
> them.  So off I go to buy _Building_the_Colossus_.  To this day, I
> can think of few things that have grabbed me quite as much as "Hold
> Me" as far as opening tracks.  Here I've got a vocal I an't believe
> one person is doing, and Torn's monster guitar solo at the end.  I
> was impressed, suitably.
> 
> So since there, _Rhodesongs_ and _The_Keep_  have made their way into
> my collection.  Her cover of "Ashes to Ashes" still blows me away,
> but then, I'm a Bowie fan.
> 
> So here I am on the HR list listening to Prince and ranting about
> Bowie.  So I guess a bit of my musical tastes are in order.  I like a
> lot of progressive rock, King Crimson, Queen, Yes, Genesis,
> Queensryche, David Bowie, the stuff everyone knows in prog, and a bit
> of the weirder stuff, Gong, Magma, Archetectual Metaphor, Porcupine
> Tree... some of the "old" ambient stuff (i.e. the not techno
> stuff...), Eno, Harold Budd, Jah Wobble, Hector Zazou, Robert Fripp
> (of course...), all the old Japan guys, David Sylvian,
> Jansen/Barbieri, Mick Karn.... I like a lot of the old glam and goth
> stuff that was appearing in the 70s and 80s, Bowie, Eno I'll mention
> again, and Japan, but also stuff like Talking Heads, TV
> Personalities, Bauhaus, Killing Joke, Joy Division, Siouxsie, the
> Sisters of Mercy, the Cult, the Cure.... some ecstacy/"girl band"
> stuff, Heather Nova, Eve's Plum, Kristen Barry, Aimee Mann, Kristeen
> Young, Juliana Hatfield, Poe.... and then a bit of other stuff that I
> can't fit into one of those groups, Frank Zappa, Portishead, Alice in
> Chains, Jane's Addiction, London After Midnight, Captain Beefheart,
> the Beatles, The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed/John Cale.  That's my
> pop music side.  My jazz side consists mostly of a lot of the old
> "free jazz" movement, Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, John & Alice
> Coltrane (more the latter than the former), Pharoah Sanders, Albert
> Ayler, Eric Dolphy, Sonny Sharrock, and some more "tame" stuff, Miles
> Davis,  Freddie Hubbard, Mark Isham, Louis Armstrong.  For those of
> you who know music, you'll see all the "tame" jazz I list is all
> trumpet players, probably 'cause I am one myself, for twelve years
> now.  Going to buy a new horn soon, actually.
> 
> Personally, I tend to write jazzy ambient pieces, been playing guitar
> for two years, got my horn, and my roommate (who taught me all I know
> about guitar playing, and plays my stuff better, plus is a phenomenal
> pianist to boot...).  I've got three pieces written, and a fourth in
> the works, which I hope to get al recorded and with one or two other
> selections, laid down on a CD beofre the end of the year.  God knows
> if I'll pull it off, but it'd be pretty damn cool if I did.
> 
> But what do I know, huh?
> 
> Anyway, that's me, feel free to insult my taste in music or whatnot,
> I'm used to it from the college crowd (my all time favorite quotes
> are "do you listen to jazz to help study, 'cuz I heard that classical
> raises your IQ, so maybe jazz does too", and "is this
> hummingbirds having sex?" (that one in response to Fripp's
> soundscapes...).  Alas, to this day, rap/hip hop/r&b (not the old 50s
> r&b mind you, I kinda like that too... vocal harmonies and all that
> good stuff..), alternative/grunge/new punk (as opposed to the
> Ramones, the Clash, etc... who I also like..), ska/reggae, pop in
> general, country, most metal (excepting Iron Maiden..), and the Dead
> and all their proteges (i.e. Phish, Dave Matthews..), none of that
> stuff ever made sense to me.
> 
> But what do I know?
> 
> And if any musicians are from around here, I live near Waterbury and
> New Haven, CT when I'm home; drop me a line if you'd be interested in
> jamming, ESPECIALLY if you play jazz.  I've been looking for more and
> more people to play out with.
> 
> Anyways, that's my "hi, how ya doin'?"
> 
> mike
> "wherever the birds can't reach the sky
> to this land i'll be with you
> 'til the sun bursts from your side
> with my hands i'll reach to you"
>                       -peter murphy

Welcome, Mike--

	You _mostly_ have excellent taste in music (which goes, of course,
without saying: you're an Ectophile). 
	Judging from your examples, I have a recommendation for you: _Ki-Oku_
by D.J. Krush and Toshinori Kondo. D.J. Krush is one of the inventors of
the style now known variously as Trip Hop and Acid Jazz; the style first
made widely known by Portishead. Toshinori Kondo is a Japanese trumpet
player. _Ki-Oku_ is one of my favorite albums of this year: Krush's
spare, smoky, deeply layered Acid overlaid with Kondo's warm, sad,
atmospheric Jazz. Here's a very good review I just found online. Read
this review, Mike, I think this album would interest you.


>This one almost slipped through the cracks:
>
>Another album of note out here recently is DJ Krush's fantastic
>joint project with longtime Jazz trumpeter Kondo Toshinori. This
>album is an extremely well-balanced project for its type and the
>energy and sense of both artists comes through VERY clearly in
>the end. Notable are an atypically "techno" beat by Krush on
>the first track, "Toh-sui," the indescribably perfect combination
>of Kondo's nearly ambient melody, and Krush's manually programmed
>beats (i.e. non-looped), an unusual joint cover of Bob Marley's
>"Sun is Shining," the splendedly "lifted" feeling of "Fu-yu"
>(which Krush claims is a "summer" track), the one take "live"
>track "Ki-gen" which Krush claims to be his gift to demonstrate
>the potential of a DJ's musicianship, the powerful abstract
>bass bomb of "Ha-doh" and more. 13 tracks in all (3 of which
>might be considered "interludes") at Y2500 per CD (around $25).
>The album is apparently only planned for Japanese release right
>now with NO plans to release this material on vinyl, though the
>promo's DO exist. Those DESPERATE to get this album might be
>able to order it through AVPlusONE <saj97761@pcvan.or.jp> (standard
>disclaimers)

go here for a picture of the CD: maybe you'll be able to find one used.
http://mars.plato.nl/plato/bekijk.cfm/8906

- --Charley
n.r. still Stendahl
n.p. _Ki-Oku_

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 14:54:48 -0500
From: charley darbo <lissener@wwa.com>
Subject: Re: new guy...

Sorry, everyone--I meant to delete most of Mike's quote after I'd
written my reply to it. 

- --Ch.D

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Date: Wed, 22 Apr 1998 19:37:02 EDT
From: Pieohpah5 <Pieohpah5@aol.com>
Subject: paula cole tickets for sale.

hey everyone,,
 i know this is kind of a last minute thing but...
I have 2 tickets for the paula cole show at the Beacon theatre in NYC. IT is
for thursday night..the 23rd of April.
Paid 27.50 plus fees..will sell for 25.00..IF anyone is interested or knows
someone who would be email me...Pieohpah5@aol.com..
I will be down in the city tomorrow night so if someone lives there I could
get the tickets to them...they are for the 2nd row center balcony..
thanks...mark

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