From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #179 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, June 8 1998 Volume 04 : Number 179 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Maire Brennan [dave ] Birthday list maintenance ["Michael Matthews" ] Product endorsement needed [kerry white ] Re: Product endorsement needed [Jeff Wasilko ] OAC: XPN Singer Songwriter Weekend ["Charlie Sweeney" ] [some more artists] The Mollys [Ofer Inbar ] [some more artists] Trina Hamlin [Ofer Inbar ] [some more artists] Kukuruza [Ofer Inbar ] Re: [some more artists] Trina Hamlin [Neal Copperman ] Re: The Mollys, also Lanblind query [JavaHo@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 10:19:12 -0400 From: dave Subject: Re: Maire Brennan Fleur wrote: > Maire Brennan's new CD, "perfect time", is almost totally > Gaelic/contemporary Christian. Very lovely music; but if you are like me > and not able to shut out lyrics, then you will either definitely want it or > not want it, according to your belief system. :-) There is almost nothing > in the packaging to let you know this album is a departure from her > previous ones...except that in very very tiny print on the back is "Word > Records" and "Word Entertainment I myself found the music to be almost as subtle as the packaging.. unless you really dwell on the lyrics (and a good portion of them are in Gaelic anyway) you'd hardly notice the Christian content. The music is beautiful, if you like Maire and Clannad I'd definitely suggest it, unless you're seriously anti-christian. For those that like to try before you buy, there are RA clips from all of the songs at: http://www.parable.com/catalog/music/contemp/maire_brennan.htm np: the radio of all things.. first time I've turned it on in months, and what should I hear? Mercy Steet by Project Lo.. cool.. +-----------------------------------------------------+ + dave + + irc.dal.net #Panic_Beach female music artist chat + + http://magpage.com/~sspan/ music wavs/pics/links + +-----------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 12:58:47 -0400 From: "Michael Matthews" Subject: Birthday list maintenance I'm about to send out some reminders on the birthday list, to make sure that everyone who's on it still wants to be on it. Any bounces I get back, I will try and compare with the list of subscribers, to try and reconcile the birthday list. Yes, the letter is most definitely a form letter. :) If you're on the list and don't hear from me by the end of today, please let me know. Thanks. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 16:20:42 -0500 (CDT) From: kerry white Subject: Product endorsement needed Hi, I'm about to break down and get a portable CD player. I look for ratios of low cost and decent quality. Options: $99 Panasonic w/ 10 sec 'anti skip', Car kit $90 Phillips Magnvox w/12 sec... " " $67 RCA Clearance w/ 12 sec " " Any consensus on a good deal or a "run away, run away! Be afraid, be very afraid!" I'm at the return address until about 11pm CST, the webtv is home. ............................... ............................. zzkwhite@washburn.edu KTWU PBS TV kerrywhite@webtv.net KrW Topeka KS I'm looking for something that I don't have. KrW "I'm even thinking of having a list of my possessions tatooed on my forehead!" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 17:28:48 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: Product endorsement needed On Sun, Jun 07, 1998 at 04:20:42PM -0500, kerry white wrote: > Hi, I'm about to break down and get a portable CD player. I look for > ratios of low cost and decent quality. > Options: $99 Panasonic w/ 10 sec 'anti skip', Car kit I have a Panasonic portable CD player with the car kit, and it's worked wonderfully. I carried it when I was travelling around the country and to Europe, and it held up wonderfully... - -Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 19:54:27 -4000 From: "Charlie Sweeney" Subject: OAC: XPN Singer Songwriter Weekend HI ecto-philes, Fumblers, Dar-lings, and believers! WXPN singer songwriter weekend will be heald July 10th, 11th, and 12th at Penn's Landing on the Delaware in Philadelphia. Schedule as follows: Friday, July 10th Doors open at 6 7-9 PM Bela Fleck & the Flecktones ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Saturday, July 11th Doors open at 1PM Concert 3-9 PM Lucinda Williams Huffamoose Southern Culture on the Skids Olu Dara Marah ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sunday, July 12th Doors open at 1PM Concert 3-9 PM Francis Dunnery James McMurtry Moxy Fruvous Patti Griffin Mary Arden Collins ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For some reason they have these listed in reverse order of appearance. Closers are listed first. Here are the ticket prices: Ticket Information $5.00 Adults (Friday,Saturday,Sunday) $2.00 Children under 12 years (Friday, Saturday, Sunday) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Hope to see you there! Charlie Sweeney (=}===# Virtual Guitarist-Something Black http://www.voicenet.com/~charlies "Passion's always half impossibility" Join the Susan Werner E-mail list at: http://www.voicenet.com/~charlies/swmail.htm ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 18:09:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Ofer Inbar Subject: some more artists... Hello everyone, I'm new here - I just found out about this list about a week ago. I'm actually not familiar with Happy Rhodes, but I saw a list of "ectophilic" artists on the web and most of them are ones I know and like, so I guess I fit in :) I'd like to mention a few of my favorite artists that I think this group would like, but may not be familiar with. There's no easy way to search the archives, so I'm not sure these haven't been discussed before, but I did look through a lot of the recent postings and didn't see any mentions. Also, I think these are all people Jeff W wasn't familiar with when I mentioned them to him, which makes it likely they haven't been talked about on ecto recently. As I start writing this, I see that some of these are getting a bit long. So I think I'll send each one out separately... If I understand this "np" convention correctly, it means "now playing", as I type this email. So... np: Gillman Deaville, "Ways to Fly" (Jane Gillman & Darcie Deaville) FF70636 - 1994 Flying Fish - meaning it's on Rounder now. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- The Left Bank Operation -- lbo@leftbank.com http://www.leftbank.com/ "Good literature is about Love and War." "Junk fiction is about Sex and Violence." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 18:38:54 -0400 (EDT) From: Ofer Inbar Subject: [some more artists] The Mollys The Mollys What happens when an Irish American woman and a Mexican American woman, living in Tucson, AZ, meet and form a band? They call it "Chicana Celtic", which is as good a description of their kind of music as I've seen. I've also seen "tangled roots music". It's definitely unique, whatever it is. There are four members in the band, and they all sing. Their four-part harmonies are a strange blend. For one thing, it's 2-female 2-male, and besides that, of the two women in lead, one has a tough raspy rootsy voice and the other a softer folkier voice. They combine very well, but very unusually. Instrumentation includes guitar, drums, accordion, bass, bazouki, penny whistle, and harmonica. Their repertoire includes some celtic traditionals as well as a lot of originals, and you often can't tell which ones are the traditional ones because they've adapted them all to "the Mollys style". The live show is full of energy, and it's hard to avoid stomping along to the music. Or you can get tired from just watching them play :) If you're in the Boston area, come see them at Club Passim on Monday, June 22nd. I'll be there, let me know if you're coming and we can meet. For other shows, check the listing at http://pobox.com/~mollys/ np: still The Swans -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- WBRS@brandeis.edu http://www.wbrs.org/ try some ssspam, greeen eggsses and sssspam, my precioussssss... -- Gollum-I-Am ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 18:12:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Ofer Inbar Subject: [some more artists] Trina Hamlin Trina Hamlin. Currently living in NYC, originally from Minnesota, she attended Berkeley and lived in Boston for a while. Sang with various Boston musicians, including Rick Nichols and Anita Suhanin (currently lead singer of Groovasaurus) before moving to New York and joining two other people in a new band called Blue Leaves. After Blue Leaves broke up, she started on a solo career. Originally she sang and played harmonica, when she went solo she also picked up guitar. Her singing voice is extremely powerful and involving. I don't know exactly how to convey it, but maybe this anecdote does the trick: the other day I was listening to Bluesology on WERS (88.9 FM Boston) and the DJ played Coco Montoya, and remarked afterwards that "nobody sings with passion like that anymore", and my immediate reaction in my head was "obviously he hasn't seen Trina!". She would stand out of the crowd if it were just for her singing, but add to that her excellent harmonica skills, and you get a really powerful and unique blues/folk sound. Trina Hamlin opened for Eddie From Ohio at the Somerville Theatre this March, and forgot one of her harps at home, so Mike from EFO lent her one of his. Afterwards when EFO was on stage, Mike said, "I think my harmonica was crying at having to return to me. Trina played notes I didn't even know existed on it!" Trina had a tape, which is sold out. She has one CD, called "Alone", self-produced, which she is selling at her shows. She recorded it with a home DAT deck, in her Kitchen, alone :) The CD is good, but you really need to see her live to get the full effect of her performance. She connects with her audience really well, and has a personality and mannerism that remind me a lot of Susan McKeown (who she has worked with in the past). If you're in NYC, check Musi-Cal for her upcoming shows. If you're not in NYC, you can see her at the second day of the Newport Folk Festival, on August 9th. Other people performing that day at Newport include Ani Difranco, Dar Williams, Indigo Girls, and Loudon Wainwright III. Definitely a good lineup for one day! np: The Swans, "Children of God / World of Skin" (probably not ectophilic, but who knows...) -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- Producer, Free Live Music -- booking@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ All genre ethnic diversity 24 hours a day, 365 days a year Free live music three times weekly WBRS in Waltham, 100.1FM stereo ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 19:26:34 -0400 (EDT) From: Ofer Inbar Subject: [some more artists] Kukuruza Kukuruza "A Russian Country Bluegrass Band", say their albums. But they're a lot more than that, I found out when I saw them in concert about 5 years ago. An 8 person bluegrass band, complete with electric bass, drums, and clarinet, they did a two hour set, a two song encore, and then another encore (They asked, "another one?" and someone in the audience yelled out "yeah, another set!" :). They covered Scott Joplin and Chuck Berry, did extended drum solos and bass solos, and danced on stage with those tall russian boots and flashy costumes. I still remember it as one of the best live music expriences of my life. I was inspired to go to the concert after hearing their album, Crossing Borders, which came out on Sugar Hill in 1993. It features mostly bluegrass (stretching the definition of the genre, for sure, but still bluegrass), including several excellent bluegrass adaptations of traditional Russian folk songs, sung in Russian. At the show, I saw they had two more albums, one from a tiny label in New Hampshire and another on a Moscow label. Neither of these has any distribution in the US as far as I can tell. I got a copy of the first, and donated that to WBRS, figuring I'd be able to get the second one the next time I saw them. But they haven't toured the US since :-( Irina Surina, on lead vocals, is one of the best singing voices I've heard. If I were making a mix tape of female vocalists, Kukuruza would be on it, along with people like Alison Krauss and Maura O'Connell. Speaking of which, Maura O'Connell sings with Irina on one of the tracks on "Crossing Borders", a Russian song called Gornitsa. I think it's the only recording I've heard her sing in Russian on. Crossing Borders also has an instrumental tune with Jerry Douglas as a guest (on the dobro, of course). Other instruments in the band are: acoustic bass, electric bass, mandolin, 2 banjos, 2 guitars, fiddle, dobro, clarinet, drums, and two other vocalists besides Irina. I wish I could tell you where to see them live next, but unless you're going to Russia I don't know of any shows planned. You should be able to buy Crossing Borders pretty easily, though. And if you find out where one can get either of the other two albums, I'd love to know! They've got some good recordings of Scott Joplin tunes, blues & country material, and some slow originals in english, on the album "A Russian Country Bluegrass Band". I have no memory of what's on the one I didn't buy :-( np: The Nields, "Abigail" -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@cs.brandeis.edu -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- WBRS@brandeis.edu http://www.wbrs.org/ "Isn't it a shame, that someone so crazy could go so insane?" -- The Nields, "James" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 22:50:16 -0400 (EDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: [some more artists] Trina Hamlin On Sun, 7 Jun 1998, Ofer Inbar wrote: Welcome to ecto cos. (I feel like I'm addressing a close relative here.) The Mollys have been discussed on ecto, but I'm not familiar with the other two. I was really bummed to see that the Mollys had snuck into town with little warning (town being the DC/Baltimore area), and I already had tix to see Sweet Honey in the Rock. I'd probably stick to that show anyway. Despite being locals, I haven't seen Sweet Honey in 7 or 8 years, and I saw the Mollys last year (and the year before). Sweet Honey were just as wonderful as I remembered. It's amazing all the different things those women can do with their voices. I did see that the Mollys had a new album out, which seems pretty fast on the tail of Hat Trick. It got a good review in the Washington Post (as did the two previous albums). > np: The Swans, "Children of God / World of Skin" > (probably not ectophilic, but who knows...) Well, I've praised Jarboe many times in the past, though I'm not sure I've influenced anyone :) And, bizarrely enough, I was listening to that exact disc this morning. Too strange. I bought my copy used, and inside the back cover (the part that would be under the plastic holder, it says "Dale Flood, FEB 1989, I Love You!" Always seems kind of sad when people part with things like that. But then again, is a Swans album really a great declaration of love? neal np: Bluehouse - a little bit live (Australian acoustic trio of women. Sounds pretty good on first listen, but I need to pay a bit more attention.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Jun 1998 21:59:44 -0500 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Trina Hamlin Funny - in the same mail run that retrieved Cos' intro & review of fave voice Trina Hamlin, I find a playlist from the Minneapolis area listing Trina - and an upcoming gig date which is apparently (sorry - it was my Dad who lived in Robbinsdale, so *I* have little knowledge of the Minneapolis area's geography) in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area. .... leaving the radio show info in there for the edification of any area ectophiles... (btw - it was probably the comparison to Susan McKeown which caught my attention, Cos :-) >Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 21:48:16 -0500 >From: Hayman >Subject: playlist 6/6/98 Rose Cafe Mpls/St. Paul >To: FOLKDJ-L@LISTS.PSU.EDU > >TRINA HAMLIN - down to the hollow - alone - self > >(Hamlin's CD is new. Well, it's newer than Ritchie and Watson anyway. >And she's at the Bryant Lake Bowl June 20) > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >Rose Cafe with Ellen Hayman >KFAI 90.3 FM Minneapolis and 106.7 FM St. Paul, Minnesota >Saturdays from 5:00 to 6:00 PM > >Conversation at the Rose Cafe can also be heard on: > KUMD Duluth, Minnesota (Sundays at 2:30 PM) > KAOS Olympia, Washington (Mondays at 12:30 PM) > KAXE Grand Rapids, Minnesota (Thursdays at 6:30 PM) > >http://www.kfai.org/programs/mostfolk.htm 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, 7 Jun 1998 23:18:24 EDT From: JavaHo@aol.com Subject: Re: The Mollys, also Lanblind query In a message dated 98-06-07 22:37:17 EDT, cos@cs.brandeis.edu writes: << What happens when an Irish American woman and a Mexican American woman, living in Tucson, AZ, meet and form a band? They call it "Chicana Celtic", which is as good a description of their kind of music as I've seen. I've also seen "tangled roots music". It's definitely unique, whatever it is. >> I second that. And the Mollys have appeared on this list several times thanks to the unflagging devotion of one Larry "break's over--back to work" Hernandez...:) Are you reading this Larry? Hope the new gig is going well...Java n.p. Ecto Sampler #1 by RKonrad, more specifically "Albino Luciani" and "The Wedding Song" by Land o' the Blind. This is the first I've heard them, and I've now played these two songs about a zillion times. Why didn't someone mention that our very own Cy has the voice of a goddess???!!! I must order this CD now! Cy...if you are out there, send me ordering instrux off-list. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #179 **************************