From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #154 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, May 16 1998 Volume 04 : Number 154 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Veda Hille CD Release Party [meredith ] Thanks for your help!! :) [00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu] traveling [alex.teitz@state.co.us] Re: Iva Bittova at the Metro Cafe (DC) [Neal Copperman ] Jennifer Fergusson (Re: Web-based used music server) ["Xenu's Sister" Subject: Veda Hille CD Release Party Hi! This is for any and all New York ectophiles who are Veda Hille fans and also members of WFUV. Bottom Line Records is throwing a CD release party for _Spine_ at the Canadian Consulate in New York City on Tuesday, May 19 from 6:30 - 8:30 pm. WFUV has 5 pairs of tickets for station members only. To get them call the WFUV Concert Calendar at (718) 817-4535, then select option 5, then option 1. Alas I don't have a prayer of being able to get into the city in time for this, but I hope some of you can take advantage of this offer! +==========================================================================+ | 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 *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 15:15:58 -0500 (EST) From: 00jnweiser@bsuvc.bsu.edu Subject: Thanks for your help!! :) Yay! :) Thanks everyone for your help. I've got lots to check out on the 'net this weekend when I'm bored. :) Keep it comin'. ;) Thanks. :) Jessica, who just bought an electric guitar! :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 16:53:50 -0600 From: alex.teitz@state.co.us Subject: traveling Memorial Day week I'm traveling up to Seattle. I have the first time (read tourist) look to me. I want to get ideas on where to find good local music. Anyone in the area please e-mail me privately. Thanks. Until Tuesday, Alex ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 19:25:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: Iva Bittova at the Metro Cafe (DC) On Fri, 15 May 1998, Joseph S. Zitt wrote: > Any area ectophiles planning to hit this? I'm intrigued from the writeups, > never having heard her. Maybe we can get together beforehand or > something... I was crushed because I already have tix for Holly Cole that night at the Bayou. Now, I love Holly Cole and have never heard Ms. Bittova, but I figure you gotta take advantage of the chance to see someone coming from Czecheslavokia whenever you can. She played the Birchmere some months ago without the benefit of todays write-up, and I hadn't heard of her then, so didn't check her out (damn!). ANyway, after reading the review, I figured I'd blow off Holly Cole, since i'd seen her twice already this year. (Yeah, I"m ridiculously spoiled.) But when I called Metro Cafe, I found out that IB was an early show, starting at 7! I should be able to see her and Holly Cole (and maybe not miss opener Chris Stills too, though that might be hoping for too much. Plus, I saw him a few weeks ago opening for Victoria Williams, and while he was good, I wasn't as wow'ed as others here seem to be.) So, Joe, I'm interested in making plans to meet up. neal np: nothing - out the door! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:42:44 -0500 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Re: Iva Bittova at the Metro Cafe (DC) At 09:41 AM 5/15/98 -0700, Neile Graham wrote: >At 10:28 AM -0500 5/15/98, Joseph S. Zitt wrote: >>Any area ectophiles planning to hit this? I'm intrigued from the writeups, >>never having heard her. Maybe we can get together beforehand or >>something... > > >Oh wow, I'm envious! She is amazing on record, and I'd love to hear her >live! Violin and vocals from somewhere else entirely. Same here! Please find out if she's going to be touring. Vickie Lisa McPherson Memorial Page http://www.primenet.com/~cultxpt/lisa.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 18:42:40 -0500 From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Jennifer Fergusson (Re: Web-based used music server) At 06:41 PM 5/14/98 EDT, Riphug wrote: > (wondering who mentioned Jennifer Fergusson in the first place) I first heard of her from a compilation album she was on. It's called "Forces Favorites" and consists of several South African acts singing songs protesting aparthied and enforced conscription into the South African Defense Force which was responsible for enforcing aparthied laws. It was released by Rounder Records in America (#4023) on LP. I've never seen it on CD. The song that Jennifer sings is called "Suburban Hum" and it's 7 minutes and 14 seconds full of powerful images; vulnurability, confusion, sarcasm, wit, defiance and sadness. It's quite amazing, and even though apartheid has officially been dismantled in SA, the song still packs a whollop. A woman at my old radio station (KKFI in Kansas City) played it for me and I instantly fell in love with it. I used to play it a lot, and include it on many compilation tapes (as Neile said). Here's the main info on the album, including subtitle. I couldn't say anything about the other acts on the album because to be honest I never listened to them. I always went straight for "Suburban Hum". Our turntable is not yet set up, so I can't give it a spin now. _Forces Favorites_ Eleven songs by South Africans supporting the End Conscription Campaign (C) 1986 Rounder Records #4023 Side One 1. "Pambere" - Mapantsula 2. "National Madness" - Aeroplanes 3. "Potential Mutiny" - Stan James 4. "Numbered Again" - The Facts 5. "Shot Down In The Streets" - Cherry Faced Lurchers 6. "Don't Dance" - Kalahari Surfers Side Two 1. "Whitey" - The Softies 2. "Don't Believe" - In Simple English 3. "Too Much Resistance" - Nude Red 4. "Spaces Tell Stories" - Roger Lucy 5. "Suburban Hum" - Jennifer Fergusson Vickie Lisa McPherson Memorial Page http://www.primenet.com/~cultxpt/lisa.htm ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 20:55:45 -0400 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: Re: a different kind of question: processes of songwriting? > it would be appreciated. >or if there are any other singer/songwriters on the list, maybe a >little advice from you would be cool? :) I can't sing for beans but my musical creativity has its ebbs and flows. Sometimes I write like I'm possessed, Mozartian (nowhere near that level, though!), sometimes I struggle. The creative impulse (aka fickle muse) is never constant. Long ago I remember reading a tome the gist of which was that the creative process was closely linked to neurosis - tortured souls write better than happy, content ones. Mann's (I think) book Tonio Kroeger deals with creativity nicely. Just stay in touch with your feelings... Bob L. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 23:08:21 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Iva Bittova at the Metro Cafe (DC) Neal Copperman wrote: > But when I called Metro Cafe, I found out that IB was an early show, > starting at 7! I should be able to see her and Holly Cole (and maybe not > miss opener Chris Stills too, though that might be hoping for too much. > Plus, I saw him a few weeks ago opening for Victoria Williams, and while > he was good, I wasn't as wow'ed as others here seem to be.) Hmm! I've never seen Holly Cole myself, or, for that matter, Lisa Cerbone, who's at Iota at the same time... - -- - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #154 **************************