From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #261 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, August 9 1998 Volume 04 : Number 261 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: THE EUROPEANS [Krys & Geoff ] lots and lots and lots of live music [meredith ] Pre-ordering MWABT/EWS [JavaHo@aol.com] Happy mentioned in Billboard site [Angelos Kyrlidis ] Ectoid Indian film music...and male ecto pantheon nomination etc ["Chris ] LA next week ["Neil K. Guy" ] Rykodisc's merged... :^{ [Philip David Morgan ] Re: ecto-digest V4 #260 [AURALG@aol.com] Re: LA next week [Birdie ] Comma Webcast Monday [Joseph Zitt ] Eva Cassidy [Re: Pre-ordering MWABT/EWS] [Neal Copperman ] Re: Rickie Lee Jones [JavaHo@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 03:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Martin Bridges (bridgesm@logica.com) ******************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Martin Bridges Sat August 08 1970 BigGuy Happy Rhodes Mon August 09 1965 HolyGhost Michael Stevens Sat August 12 1967 For Sale or Lease Vickie Mapes Wed August 15 1956 WretchAwry Martin Dougiamas Wed August 20 1969 Positive Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Sam Warren Tue August 22 1961 Leo Henk Van Wulpen Sat August 22 1970 Leo Kerry White Wed August 22 1951 Exact Leo/Virgo Don Gibson Wed August 26 1959 Virgo Marcel Rijs Mon August 31 1970 A rose growing old Meredith Tarr Wed September 01 1971 Virgo Mary Lou Rowe Sat September 03 1960 Virgo Scott Zimmerman Mon September 04 1972 Virgo Mike Mendelson Fri September 04 1964 Virgo Richard Dean Wed September 06 1967 Virgo - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 09:15:10 +0100 From: Krys & Geoff Subject: Re: THE EUROPEANS In message , Neile Graham writes >Another question sent to The Ectophiles' Guide for the collective wisdom of >ecto: > >> have you found a great song , i think 1983 . i think the band was >>called THE EUROPEANS and the song was called "we are animals or the >>animal song". It was indeed 'The Europeans' and it was 'The Animal Song'. Tim is right about Steve (H is God, bless his name) Hogarth who is the singer now in Marillion (hello Suzanne), he was the keyboard player and bv-ist in this act. The single was on A&M in the UK cat number AMS 8245 in 1982 and was produced by Trevor Vallis, the B side was 'Someones Changing'. They had a number of albums out too. Hogarth went on to record with the Euro's guitarist Colin Woore as 'How We Live' and did an excellent album 'Dryland' for Sony before H joined Marillion. Ectophiles would like 'Dryland', I'm sure, as they could appreciate Hogarth and modern day Marillion. Gone - -- (Krys &) Geoff XXXX ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 09 May 1984 01:19:02 From: meredith Subject: lots and lots and lots of live music Hi! WARNING: VERY LONG!!! Argh. Might I recommend avoiding hard drive crashes at all costs? And purchasing a tape drive with your PC and configuring it to automatically back up every night? We're still waiting for Gateway to deliver the new drive (gotta love warranties), and I'm *so* glad we've got that tape backup, or we'd be well and truly screwed. I finally got Eudora running on my battered ancient laptop, so I figured I'd pop in and catch everyone up on the tons of concerts we've been to lately. I'm irretrievably behind on my ecto mail, so forgive me if I seem out of it because I am. :} I guess it's been a while, so I'll go back a couple weeks to my vacation, which already seems like it was years ago. I spent a few days in Maine visiting family, which was its own brand of challenge as always, but I did manage to flee with my cousin one evening to see Jim's Big Ego at the Stone Coast Brewery in the Old Port in Portland. My cousin had never heard a note of their music, but she was won over halfway through the first song. :) I wish I could say the same for everyone else in the audience. It was $1 cover night, so every 21-year-old in the state was there for the sole purpose of getting stinking drunk. At the end of every song the only three people clapping (or responding at all, for that matter) were myself, my cousin, and the sound guy. :P I felt so bad that when I got home I e-mailed Jim Infantino to let him know that there were at least two people there who cared! He sent me a nice note back thinking me for my support. That weekend, immediately after I successfully shipped my parents back home to sunny Florida woj and I headed out to the Falcon Ridge Folk Festival. We found the campsite Bob Brown had so generously saved for us with no problem and pitched camp (I resolutely refused to be offended by Bob's offhand comment upon surveying our equipment, "You don't camp often, do you?" :P). What can I say -- as expected, the weekend ruled. I'll comment on the performers themselves, since there were so many opportunities to see everyone over the course of the weekend. - -- We'd missed June Rich's mainstage set the night before, but I did get to see them in several workshops, and they were wonderful as always. I picked up their latest album _Rain_, and I just love it. As I mentioned to woj, if I'm not careful I could end up worshipping these guys. - -- Sloan Wainwright. She did a mainstage set on Saturday afternoon the same time as The Nields were doing a workshop, and I tried sitting between the two stages but ended up ignoring Sloan in favor of concentrating on what Nerissa Nields was doing. I did pick up her new album _From Where You Are_, which on the first few listens is pretty good stuff. Nothing instantly grabbing like "Hey Girl" or her stunning cover of "Box Of Rain", but it's eminently listenable all the way through. The band sounds like October Project now more than ever. - -- Laura Love kicked off the Saturday evening mainstage performances with a bang. I did feel the absence of Julie Wolf: when she left to tour in Ani DiFranco's band she left a void in the Laura Love Band that has yet to be adequately filled. Still, it was a funky grooving set, and we in the "mosh pit" up front were loving it. It really got the crowd going... - -- ... and then Greg Brown brought them right back down again with a thud. :P I really had to question the wisdom of putting him on between two high-energy bands (Laura Love and The Nields), thus pushing Dar Williams' set well past a midnight starting time. The last time we were at FRFF Brown closed out the evening, which was perfect because I could head off to bed with no regrets. I heard several people on Sunday morning complaining about this scheduling decision, because they just couldn't stay up long enough to see Dar, and for many she was one of the main reasons they were there to begin with. Anyway, I've never been a fan of Greg Brown, and this set did nothing to change that. I do have to say that the workshop I saw him participate in the next afternoon was a bit better, since he was telling some really funny stories, but he just does nothing for me whatsoever. - -- The Nields. I didn't think it was possible to increase my admiration of them, but this festival did it. They totally rocked the house on the mainstage Saturday, then they brought some truly magical moments to the workshop stage the rest of the weekend. If anyone has a tape of Vance Gilbert's impromptu rap during the all-hands-on-deck jam of "Lovely Rita" TN organized at the end of Saturday's workshop, *please* let me know! (It was something about "Lovely Rita, meter maid/Puts tickets on cars 'coz she can't get laid" and then something at the end about working at the White House. You probably had to be there, but it was hilarious.) On Sunday the band was part of a workshop called "Sweet Harmony" which also involved June Rich, an outfit called Camp Hoboken and The Bobs. Each group provided some wonderful contributions, but the highlights were the cross-pollinations: the fiddler from Camp Hoboken jumping in on a Nields song she'd never heard, Dave Chalfant playing bass on June Rich songs he'd never heard... and finally, Katryna Nields organizing an all-hands jam of "For What It's Worth" that had the crowd cheering for a long time after it was done. (I thought it was really telling that there were many more people crowded around the workshop stage than the main stage during this one!) - -- Dar Williams. It was very, very late and I was very, very cold, but it was a great set nonetheless. As I noted above, I just wish she'd been on earlier. She would've had a much larger, much more appreciative audience that way. I did see her on the workshop stage the next day, in a workshop called "The Songwriting Process" with Bill Morrissey and Greg Brown. It wasn't too enlightening, but the songs were nice. :) She did play the chorus of the first song she ever wrote, a socially aware ditty written at the age of 11, that was a riot. - -- Patty Larkin. Of course she was one of the two people we had to wait until the very end of the festival on Sunday afternoon to see, but she was totally worth the wait. I was rather disappointed that she didn't play any new material, but it was a good set anyway. - -- Richard Shindell. The other person we had to wait until the *really* very end of the festival on Sunday evening to see. I was glad to hear that his band has finally synched up with him (woj and I had already dubbed Billy Masters, who is also in Dar's band "Out Of Time, Out Of Tune") - the arrangements worked much better for me this time. He also did an amazing new song. I don't know the name of it, but it was yet another rip-your-heart-out tune from the god of songwriting. (I saw someone mention on another list that in a workshop I missed on Saturday he said that "On A Sea Of Fleur-de-Lis" was the first song he ever wrote and played for someone else. That's just disgusting. Apparently David Nields' reaction at the time was very much the same.) Honorable mention goes to Pamela Means, who was part of the New Artist Showcase on Friday before we arrived. She did one song in between workshops on Sunday ("Uncle", from her amazing CD _Cobblestones_, which I finally picked up at the festival) that blew everyone away, including Nerissa Nields, whom I sighted animatedly talking to her afterwards. Could an opening gig be in Pamela Means' future? If so, I *really* hope I can be there. :) So that was Falcon Ridge '98. I'm recovering from my serious sunburns and already looking forward to Falcon Ridge '99. (Everyone join me in reminding Valerie Nozick that she's a loser for blowing it off!!! ;) Last Friday woj and I went up to the Iron Horse to see Susan Werner. She was amazing, as usual. Also amazingly hilarious, even more so than usual. We had the table right smack up front and center, and the moment when she publicly humiliated Mike Curry in front of the entire Iron Horse Music Hall was worth the price of admission right there. ;> (I think it was at that point that Mike decided he liked her.) Deb Pasternak opened. I've heard a lot about her and so was interested to see her play, but halfway through the first song I knew I wasn't interested any more. Two words to describe her would be "boring" and "unoriginal", but she does try hard at least. Saturday night it was down to NYC and The Bottom Line to see Veda Hille open for the horror that is Dan Bern. The early set was pretty standard fare: what I've come to think of as her "get to know me" set list. "Slumber Queen", "Bellyfish", "Strange, Sad", "Driven", "One Hot Summer", "Small", "INSTRUCTIONS", and the new piano song, "Our Woman Afraid of Nothing", which is already one of my favorites of hers. She sounded great and got a really good response from the crowd. It was clear many people in the crowded room were there to see her. It's utterly beyond me why anyone was there to see Dan Bern. I sat through his set, and I have to say that if there is a hell, there's only one radio station and it's on the P.A. system and you can't turn it off, and all it plays is Dan Bern songs, REALLY REALLY LOUD. Words cannot express just how horrible those 45 minutes were. I just sat there thinking "surely the next song is going to be better" and it never happened. Ugh. However, Veda's late set was, in a word, amazing, and totally made up for the suffering I had to go through to get there. She didn't duplicate one song from the early set, and when she started off with "26 Years" I knew it was going to be a good half hour. She followed it with "With No Caring", "Sweet" (accompanied at one point by someone in the audience whistling the saw part :), "In The Neighborhood" (!), "Clumsy" and the other new guitar song she always follows it with, I don't know the title (those were the only two guitar songs of the set); "Once In A Lifetime" and finally "And Birds". Yum. I didn't get much of a chance to talk to her, but I did find out that there's going to be an interview in the next issue of Performing Songwriter magazine, and on 8/23 and 8/24 she's going to be back in NYC, with Kinnie Starr. One night they'll be at the Knitting Factory and the other they'll be at Meow Mix - not sure which is which yet. Yay. Sunday we trekked up to Springfield, MA to see Tori Amos. I also met up with an old college friend I hadn't seen in a long time, which made the experience even more fun. A word of warning: Springfield is closed on Sundays. We found the only open restaurant in town by asking some old guys on the street, who directed us to a hole-in-the-wall, old-neighborhood Italian restaurant that served *amazing* food that was well worth the premium price we had to pay for it. It's called Cara Mia, and you can see it from the highway. Highly recommended if anyone is ever stuck for food in Springfield. I think the Springfield Symphony Hall is one of the very smallest venues on Tori's current tour, and our seats were much better than I thought. We were in the balcony, which went all the way around the perimeter of the room in a "U" (like Symphony Space in NYC), and while I thought we were in the "_" part of the U we were actually in the | part, quite close to the stage, looking down on the piano keyboard. The sound was kind of wonky up there, but I didn't really notice that until I heard the contrast at the Oakdale a couple nights later. What can I say - the rock superstar thing suits Tori. She opened with "Precious Things", which anyone who knows me knows I've been waiting for 6+ years to see done right live with a band, and it blew the lid off all of my high expectations. From there she moved right into "Spark". With that kind of a kickass beginning there was bound to be a lull later, but that was all relative. "Cruel" was awesome, "Black Dove" transcendent; and when she did "Marianne" during the solo piano interlude in the middle I was in heaven. "Raspberry Swirl", one of the encores had me cracking up throughout. That song can only be performed totally over the top, which it was and then some. Tori's surrounded herself with some good musicians too, though I think Caton could stand to tone down his wanking a bit on some songs. We did it all again on Tuesday night close to home, at the Oakdale Theater in Wallingford. These seats were a bit far back in the orchestra, just left of center. Great view with binoculars, and one really got a good sense of the light show from there. The sound was also a lot cleaner. I was desperately hoping she'd do "Little Earthquakes", but she was saving that for every other show this week instead. :P We did get "God", "Ieee", "Pandora's Aquarium" and the highlight of both shows for me, "Here. In My Head" during the solo piano interlude. And "Raspberry Swirl" again, followed by "She's Your Cocaine", which worked much better for me live than on CD. I was left just wanting more. I really hope she comes back this way in the fall! Finally, last night I officially closed the book on the biggest open issue of my adolescence: I finally got to see Culture Club in concert. :> It's very fulfilling to finally achieve your biggest adolescent goal at the age of almost 27. I had an amazing seat dead center, close to the front. Howard Jones did the opening set, which was amusing - the only thing I was hoping to hear was "What Is Love", which is still one of my all-time favorite songs, and he delivered on that, so I was happy. His bass player also played Chapman Stick on about half the songs, and he was good, too -- at times he was getting more sounds out of his stick than Jones was getting out of his keyboards. That was followed by a full-fledged *show* by The Human League, who had basically stepped out of a time machine that had originated in 1983. The lights, the fog, the costumes, the oddly shaped guitar, the drum pads: it was all there. The only difference was that Phil Oakley could get some extra cash by being a spokesman for Rogaine now, and the women singers looked sillier in their skimpy outfits. "Fascination" and "The Lebanon" still rocked my world after all these years. Then the moment arrived: The lights went up, the crowd went nuts, and The Boy himself took the stage sporting hair extensions and an utterly indescribable hat to open with a scorching rendition of "Church Of The Poison Mind". The intensity really didn't let up from there, either. It was amusing to note that Jon Moss has developed a beer gut and Boy George is downright pudgy these days, but the lads can still play, and Mr. O'Dowd still has a really nice voice. The backup singer (whose name I can't remember but she's not Helen Terry) was amazing, too. I was scaring myself by still being able to sing along to pretty much all the songs. Interestingly enough, they did everything from _Colour By Numbers_ and only the big hits from _Kissing To Be Clever_ and nothing at all from my favorite album of theirs, _Waking Up With The House On Fire_ (which I should probably give a spin on the turntable sometime, since my parents delivered to me all of my Culture Club LPs (unsolicited!) when they visited earlier this month). Of course the big finale was "Karma Chameleon", during which someone jumped up on stage and attempted to dance with Boy George, only to be bodyslammed and manhandled out of the theater by two very overly uptight security guys. That pissed off George so much that the band didn't come back out for the obviously planned (and much asked for) second encore. Oh well. It was still more fun than I'm prepared to admit to myself. :) Tomorrow afternoon it's back to reality: Dar Williams at Central Park Summerstage. Look for me - I'll be wearing my Culture Club t-shirt. ;> +==========================================================================+ | 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: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 08:19:22 EDT From: JavaHo@aol.com Subject: Pre-ordering MWABT/EWS Hey all, Sorry to jump on the bandwagon so late, but Ultimate Band List (www.ubl.com) has MWABT listed now (at $11.99 US) and they are still not charging for shipping and handling. I've had very good luck with them. They also have i Megaphone at $9.99 for those curious about Imogen Heap. At least that's how much it was when I looked a couple of weeks ago. Same with Merrie Amsterburg's Seasons of Rain (I love this disc!) and an October Project disc (can't remember the title) that I ordered yesterday. My recent EWS aquisitions (including what was mentioned above): Emm Gryner -- Public (only listened a couple of times--hasn't really grown on me yet) Milla Jovovich -- (bought this w/o ever hearing her--the musical arrangements remind me of Enya...ummm...I like the painting on the cover?) Chris Stills -- 100 Year Thing (I've only listened a couple of times, but I love this. He has his father's voice, and the guitar work is quite nice.) Sarah Slean -- Universe (CD version) (Thanks Steve! The bonus tracks are nice. Compared to Emm as many seem to do, Sarah's music seems to grab on the first listen. Emm's, for me, is more of a "grow on you" disc. I understand she's at her best live, though.) I also have on order Songbird by Eva Cassidy. I'm curious if she has fans out here on ecto. I sampled her in the Folk section at Borders (although I don't know that I would have put her there). Her voice was so lovely. I did a little research. It's been a while since I read this, so I might have the details a little wrong, but I believe she died in the early 90's of melanoma. I think she was in her late 20's or early 30's at the time. She was mentioned as a fairly humble person who never quite got used to the fact that people would pay to hear her sing. She was remembered quite fondly by the musicians who played with her. She has a couple of discs out, but Songbird was released posthumously if I remember correctly. It has a couple of covers including the title song (Christine McVie) and a nice version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Can't remember the others. Definitely worth a listen to those who enjoy a good vocalist. Enjoy...Java np- the roaring silence (actual silence...not the album by Manfred Mann) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 21:05:14 -0400 From: Angelos Kyrlidis Subject: Happy mentioned in Billboard site Hi, Check out the Billboard magazine site new release section: http://www.billboard-online.com/releases/rockpop/0811.html for another mention of Happy's new record (along with mention of the release in the US of the new Haris Alexiou album only 2 months after it was released in Greece, something I didn't even know...). For the record, Angelos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 22:04:13 -0400 From: "Laura Martin" Subject: Tara MacLean Webring (off topic) Hi! I wanted to let everybody know that there is now a Tara MacLean webring. Please see my Tara page for details on joining, and, hopefully soon, surfing through every delicious web morsel of Tara there is. http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/5569/tara.html The webring info and all that jazz are on the traditional webring box at the bottom, but don't fear, they do work as far as I know. I'd love to see this up and running, please email me if you have any questions! Silence faith and luck, Erin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 10:57:21 -0400 From: "Chris Stack" Subject: Ectoid Indian film music...and male ecto pantheon nomination etc I stumbled across a tape of the soundtrack to the (Asian) Indian film "Bombay" by A. R. Rahman. It was a very ectoish mix of synths, Indian instruments and various vocalists (one of which kept reminding me of Dolly Parton singing in (I think) Hindi). Overall a kind of worldbeat ecto type thing. Really very nice. I'm not sure, but I think the best place to find his stuff is your local Indian grocer. Is anyone else out there familiar with his music? Any recommendations for other work by him? Searching the web resulted in several sites devoted to his music. If I remember correctly, some even mentioned a collaboration with Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. I would be interested in hearing reviews of his other works from an Ecto perspective. Also, combining the previous threads of peoples pantheons and male ecto artists...one of the few men in my pantheon is David Sylvian. The rest of my pantheon (in no particular order) is: Kate Bush Laurie Anderson Dead Can Dance Happy Rhodes Joni Mitchell Milla Sting Peter Gabriel Yes (Fragile to Tales from Topographic Oceans. Jon Anderson was a modern James Joyce during that period. After that there were still a few pieces of magic, but the magic/crap ratio was definitely unfavorable. I'm not sure if Trevor Rabin was a cause or a symptom. At least they didn't fall as far as Genesis) And another thing...any Hector Zazou fans out there? Afriend recently turned me on to his work. I loved it all. He has some interesting early work he did with an African singer whose name I can't recall. I think that at least half of all european ecto artists have collaborated with him...Bjork, Dead Can Dance, Vartinna (sp?), Anneli Drecker. From this side of the ocean, there is Jane Siberry and Susan Vega. Neat stuff. I just picked up a CD by him and Barbara Gogan. Her voice reminded me of Lori Carson's solo work. The music was similar to a quirkier version of "When I was a Boy" era Jane Siberry. All the above is IMHO N.P. Imogen Heap, I Megaphone (I would never have heard of her without Ecto...Thanks!) ========================== Chris Stack cstack @ ix . netcom . com ========================== Understanding that which is at our door is the first step towards understanding that which lies beyond. -Hypatia ========================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 11:54:41 -0700 From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: LA next week I'm going to be in LA on business next week. Anyone know of any interesting and ectophilic gigs happening? August 14, 15 and 16 basically. Thanks! - Neil K. - -- t e l a computer consulting + design * Vancouver, BC, Canada phone: (604) 254-1002 * email: tela@tela.bc.ca web: http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:24:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Rykodisc's merged... :^{ Salutations! Got the following from Island's e-mail list/website combo... http://www.islandlife.com/ If this is for real, well... > Ryko Merges with Palm Pictures > > Palm Pictures, the Entertainment Company under the Islandlife umbrella, > today announced the merger of Rykodisc, the record label, Ryko > Distribution Partners and Rykomusic, a music publisher, into Palm > Pictures' music operations. The announcement was made by Chris Blackwell, > Chairman and founder of Islandlife, and Don Rose, President of Rykodisc. > > "I am very excited about this opportunity to re-enter the record business > with such a quality independent company. I am also very happy that I will > be working again with Joe Boyd, whose Hannibal label is part of the Ryko > family. I truly believe that an independent such as Ryko can offer a > viable alternative to the majors for any artist." - says Chris Blackwell, > Chairman and Founder of Islandlife. > > "This merger represents a fantastic opportunity for us to grow. To > complement the creative and business vision of Chris Blackwell, all while > remaining totally independent is the proverbial 'offer we couldn't > refuse.'" - says Don Rose, President of Rykodisc. Palm Pictures is also home to Manga Entertainment, a mass-market distributor of dubbed and subtitled Japanese and Korean animation. Ryko also has some back Island folk catalogue, and I recall that Hannibal was launched as an Island imprint. How Island/Palm will fare in a Universal-ed environment is something I don't know. I do know all this merging (and eventual consolidation) is making me sick. Philip David (and if you thought browser-specific websites were bad enough...) 8/8/1998 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:43:26 EDT From: AURALG@aol.com Subject: Re: ecto-digest V4 #260 Just thought I'd chime in and say that as far as I know samson has every intent of marketing HR in Europe. They've just purchased an office in Holland and Happy and her publicist are in discussion about certain European magazines. These things take time. Anybody see Billboard ad Aug 8th issue ? cool huh ? Crawling back under rock now......KB ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 14:36:49 -0700 From: Birdie Subject: Re: LA next week Neil K. Guy wrote: > > I'm going to be in LA on business next week. Anyone know of any > interesting and ectophilic gigs happening? August 14, 15 and 16 basically. Check out Pamela Goodchild, Marcella Detroit, and others at a very informal songwriter-in-the-round at Little Frida's in West Hollywood, August 15th. Pamela's page is at http://members.aol.com/goodchildp/ Marcella's is at http://www.marcelladetroit.com But is under construction...... Cheers, Birdie ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 17:48:00 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Comma Webcast Monday Hi, all! Just wanted you to know that my ensemble, Comma, will be interviewed and doing some music live on a Webcast radio show this Monday at 9 PM EST (8 PM CST, 6 PM on the West Coast, and some odd time of night in Israel). To tune in, connect to http://www.wmuc.umd.edu/, follow the link to "listen here!" then click on the appropriate RealAudio link (there's one for 56k and faster and one for the rest of us slower folks). If you don't have the RealAudio software (which you'll need to hear this), please visit http://www.real.com/ to download the free player software or purchase the fancier version. It's isn't exactly ecto music, but it should be fun. Enjoy! - -- - ---------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 \| ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 23:32:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Eva Cassidy [Re: Pre-ordering MWABT/EWS] On Sat, 8 Aug 1998 JavaHo@aol.com wrote: > I also have on order Songbird by Eva Cassidy. I'm curious if she has fans out > here on ecto. I sampled her in the Folk section at Borders (although I don't > know that I would have put her there). Her voice was so lovely. I did a little > research. It's been a while since I read this, so I might have the details a > little wrong, but I believe she died in the early 90's of melanoma. I think > she was in her late 20's or early 30's at the time. She was mentioned as a > fairly humble person who never quite got used to the fact that people would > pay to hear her sing. She was remembered quite fondly by the musicians who > played with her. She has a couple of discs out, but Songbird was released > posthumously if I remember correctly. It has a couple of covers including the > title song (Christine McVie) and a nice version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. > Can't remember the others. Definitely worth a listen to those who enjoy a good > vocalist. I was listening to a disc of hers a friend loaned to me a few months ago. It was quite nice stuff. Eva was from the DC area, and, if I remember correctly, only died a year or two ago. She got a lot of posthumous local awards, which is sort of bittersweet. All the stuff I've read about her make her sound like one of the sweetest people. The disc I heard was quite nice. She was largely an interpreter, not doing much songwriting of her own. But she had a big, lovely voice. I thought her version of Songbird was really great, and it made me want to replace my Rumours LP with a disc. That disc had covers of Wade in the Water, Wayfaring Stranger, and some more I can't remember. The album I heard seemed to reflect her image pretty well. It was an album of simple pleasures, with her fabled sweetness shining through (but definitely not cloying). neal now shuffling over: The Creatures - Boomerang (who I guess I'm not seeing tonight) Bruford Levin Upper Extremities - BLUE Uilab - fires Neutral Milk Hotel - In THe Aeroplane Over The Sea Volcano Suns - Thing of Beauty nr: A Perfect Peace - Amos Oz ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 23:43:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Neal Copperman Subject: Rickie Lee Jones Early last week I met up with Craig for the Rickie Lee Jones show at the Birchmere. This was the second night of a two night stand, and the place was about 3/4 full. OPener Martin Sexton was really enthusiastically received by the audience. If a lot of people didn't come specifically to see him, they were certainly eating out of his hands by the end of his set. He's an odd looing guy - sort of a large, disheveled sort with a very rubbery face. It seemed strange the variety of voices that would emerge from him. He had the sweetest falsetto, something resembling a mumbling Dave Mathews, and a deeper growl. His set was quite captivating, and it was amazing to watch him pull out these different voices and combine them with some fine accoustic guitar playing and percussive guitar body pounding. Comparisons to Jeff Buckley were thrown around, but I'm not really familiar with him, so I can't comment on them myself. Rickie Lee's set was rather surprising too. I'm not a big fan, so I had to rely on Craig for details of the show, but apparently she played songs spanning her entire career excluding Ghostyhead, the only disc that I have. Kind of odd that she wasn't promoting that, but I guess leading a trio of herself on guitar/piano, an upright bassist, and another guitar/accordian player, didn't lend themselves to the Ghostyhead material. I liked hearing the songs with the heavy piano parts, but was happy when she donned a guitar instead, since she was completely invisible behind the Birchmere's baby grand. Not much of a talker, but a very expressive singer. She brought to mind a lot of other people throughout her show. The wierdest was that her first number really put Lisa Germano in my mind. It had the same twisted phrasing and kind of flat delivery. And she had one song about monks full of sexual imagery that was ripped straight from the Leonard Cohen songbook. The show was incredibly well received, but despite an amazingly long period of screeming, cheering and applauding, she never came back for an encore. Seems like I should check out some of her music sometime. Neal ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 23:59:27 EDT From: JavaHo@aol.com Subject: Re: Rickie Lee Jones Neil thinks after seeing her: << Seems like I should check out some of her music sometime. >> I have to suggest "Pirates", her second release. It is as impressive sonically as it is musically. The vocal harmonies rival anything Joni has done, especially on "We Belong Together". A most wonderfully crafted album. Cheers...Java np...i Megaphone nr...The Boys of My Youth -- Jo Ann Beard ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #261 **************************