From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #354 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, October 4 1998 Volume 04 : Number 354 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Mary Coughlan [Juha Sorva ] ANNOUNCE: new mailing list for Sarah Slean fans ["Julian C. Dunn" ] sinead lohan / snowpony [Paul Blair ] Kat Devlin Sings The Songs Of Kate Bush [meredith ] Re: Recording Happy/Heather Nova venue change [neal copperman ] [some more artists] Judith Edelman [cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar)] [some more artists] Valerie Carrington [cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar)] Re: world music, Fela, Naftule, and klezmer (was Re: The Nields...and world music) ["Jeffrey C. Burka" philly contingent ["Jeffrey C. Burka" ] Sessions Premier [kerry white ] Re: Whose fault is this? [dmw ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 12:19:03 +0300 (EEST) From: Juha Sorva Subject: Re: Mary Coughlan Hi, On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Markku Kolkka wrote: > Yes, I did go to see her concert on Wednesday. Jazz/blues isn't really > my favorite musical genre, but I liked the concert a lot anyway. Well, it's certainly never exactly been my favorite genre, either, but jeez, that lady can sing! I had bought tickets on a whim, not knowing much anything about her, just because her show was a part of the Finnish-Irish Society's festival. Her music was less traditionally Irish than I had assumed, and much more bluesy, but that didn't turn out to be a bad thing at all: in fact, the performance opened up my ears for new music, which was perhaps the most wonderful thing about it. I had never before had much appreciation for blues, but I had never really heard a decent, live blues performance, and certainly nothing like Mary Coughlan's. Her singing was, of course, what was important. Most of the time, I could hae easily lived without the band (piano, guitar, sax), although the gyus surely could play their instruments (didn't hesitate to show that, either). Very typical (as far as I know), skilled blues instrumentation, but it generally just works to irritate me with it's elevator music-like blandness. Still, this time the general atmosphere was such that I could even endure most of the sax solos without flinching, which is quite an unprecedented accomplishment for me. And there were exceptions, too, like the flashy guitar parts that really got to me during that song about Magdalene laundries (one of the highlights of the show, that song). Oh my, what a voice... The way she breathes out those end-of-word t's and d's makes me wish she'd do a song with all the words ending in those two letters. Well, maybe some of those nearly as delightful k's could be thrown in to allow for the occasional "fuck it". She's performing here again tonight... I had previous arrangements to go hear some live death metal (is that an oxymoron?) from Portugal, but looks like a change of plans is in order... Oh, and as for the pronunciation of her name, I'd say "Cockhlin" would indeed be the best possible way to transcribe it, assuming that the Irish fellow who introduced the band knew what he was uttering. Juha n.p. (sort of, I'm not really listening to it) Manic Street Preachers: _The Holy Bible_ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 17:00:38 -0400 From: "Julian C. Dunn" Subject: ANNOUNCE: new mailing list for Sarah Slean fans Hello everyone, My friend Brian Wilson (of FTE fame, silly, not the Beach Boy :-) ) and I are pleased to officially announce a new mailing list for fans of Canadian singer-songwriter Sarah Slean. The list is called "Navy Soup", and thanks to the generosity of Jeff Wasilko at Smoe.Org, we have a home for it! For those of you unfamiliar with Sarah Slean's music, please visit Northern Sounds' website at . They have sound samples there, as well as methods via which you can purchase Sarah's EP, _Universe_. To subscribe to Navy Soup, send a message to with the word "subscribe" in the body of the message. To reach the listowners (that would be Brian and I), send a message to . Thanks for reading, everyone, and hope to see you on the list! best regards, The Listowners Julian Dunn Brian Wilson [ Julian C. Dunn - jdunn@aquezada.com WWW: http://www.aquezada.com/ ] [ programmer, web designer, unix user, fumbler, writer, and future engineer] [ FuE exfe94 a+++ Ifte/slc lonca r- ps++ bs+ t++/*t C+++$/C! w+++ p7 LF+++ ] [N++/N! cd260 pr++ g+++ S-/S *x++ Fa+++/Fa$/Fa! m1 b+ fc+++/ E>+ rl-- *d s!] [ "once a year the holidays come swinging at your head - ] [ feast until you're full of pain again" - jonatha brooke ] ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:24:48 -0400 (EDT) From: cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar) Subject: world music, Fela, Naftule, and klezmer (was Re: The Nields...and world music) I started it, so I guess I'll continue it :) Joseph Zitt wrote: > C. K. Coney wrote: > > Is anyone else on ecto heavily into world music...or am I straying off topic by > > wanting to compare notes on this genre? > > Hmm... depends what you mean by World Music. My last major in college > was ethnic and electronic music, and my first published composition was > for gamelan ensemble, so I guess I count. I get annoyed by the groups > that sample arbitrary ethnic musics to drop on top of banal beats, so > there's some stuff in the field that I don't go for, but I do like a > lot of the stuff that gets farther out and stays closer to its sources. World Music, to me, means music that takes two or more different ethnic roots forms and blends them, or combines an ethnic roots form with something else that is not of the same source, and ends up being something new. It can, like any other form, be bland and uncreative. The term "world music" is being misused when it's simply referring to anything that is not "ours". If we in the USA can call Gamelan "world music", then the Javanese can call cowboy poetry "world music". In that sense, the only music that isn't "world music" is the music that comes from the same culture as the speaker. Or, perhaps, music that isn't roots. That makes for more convenient marketing categories (the people who want to hear Fela are much more likely to want to hear gamelan than the people who don't want to hear Fela), but it makes the term useless musically. It's devoid of musical meaning. > And, of course, Fela rooooooolz! :-) I had almost convinced myself to plan a trip to Nigeria to see him when had died :( And then, to top it off, I found out he'd been in Boston in the late 80's sometime, just before I discovered him. !!! I've since talked to a Nigerian friend-of-a-friend. He grew up in Nigeria, and told me about seeing Fela. It sounds just like what I thought it would be like. Never seeing Fela live will probably always remain one of the greatest regrets of my life. > n.p. Naftule's Dream: Smash, Clap (Laswell-produced Radical Jewish > Culture: Free jazz meets klezmer meets.. uh... Think of Giora Feidman > jamming with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and Mr. Bungle...) Naftule's Dream is an adjunct of the Boston area Klezmer band "Shirim Klezmer Orchestra", who have been around for about a decade now, I think. Their first album was the 1990 Northeastern Records release "... of angels and horseradish". In 1993, they put out an album called "Naftule's Dream": This album is dedicated to Naftule Brandwein (b. 1889, Galicia - d. 1963, the Bronx, NY) A master musician, virtuosic clarinetis, and flamboyant bandleader, Naftule Brandwein left a wealth of traditional klezmer recordings which are a constant source of inspiration for us. Shirim draws on the creativity of Naftule's playing, the emotional intensity of his music, and the awesome energy of his bands. This is not an attempt to re-create his music in any way, but to create new music with the same fire, inventiveness, and urgency. -- Glenn Dickson It was after the release of this album, if I recall correctly, that they began playing as Naftule's Dream. I remember seeing them open for Groovasaurus at the big "Barry's Birthday Party" concert at the Middle East, which I think was ... 1995? Both Shirim and Naftule's Dream are projects of Glenn Dickson, clarinetist and tune-writer. For Shirim, he teamed up with Betty Silberman, an excellent klezmer singer. Naftule's Dream is the same band without Betty. Other personnel are Dave Harris (trombone & sousaphone), Maury Rosenberg (piano & accordion), James Gray (tuba), Alan Hall (drums). If you're in the Boston area... Naftule sometimes does shows at Toad in Porter Square. Small, crammed, intimate setting, no cover charge. A very cool place for certain kinds of music, Naftule's Dream being one of them. Shirim also plays around the area sometimes. They do an annual concert at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, on the afternoon of Christmas Day (what better day to go to a Klezmer concert? :). It usually sells out in advance. -- 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: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 18:15:46 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: BST/OAC: Has anyone seen Heather Nova live on this tour? Hi! Jessica inquired re Heather Nova: >. . . because Jill and I are going Saturday to see her open for >the Church and I'm just wondering if she comes out into the clubs >at all or if we should even attempt to meet her when she's done. >and I wonder how many people will even be there to see *her*? Hope this gets to you in time - I am *so* behind! Don Keller, woj, Yngve and I saw Heather at the Bowery Ballroom in NYC this past Monday night. It was an incredible show - you're guaranteed a good time! Even the songs from _Siren_ sounded good (have I mentioned I really don't like that album?). She played a lot of older stuff, including "Island", "Heal", and my all-time fave, "Sugar", as the totally kickass show-closer. And though her voice sounded a bit rough in the softer spots, she was still hitting her trademark soaring high notes with ease. (I think Don actually levitated at one point. ;) It was nice to see her actually interacting with her band for a change - last time we saw her it was Heather Nova And Three Other People Who Happen To Be Standing On Stage Too. This time she was clearly having fun up there, and her musicians were great - the lanky bass player who also did backing vocals (woj wondered if he had a c-clamp on the back of his guitar ;), Nadia the incredible cellist, a good drummer, and the Amazon lead guitarist, who was really incredible. Anybody know anything about any of the people in Heather's current band? I'm particularly interested in knowing if the guitar player has played with anyone else of note (sorry, I didn't catch the names of anyone in the band except the cellist). I didn't see that she came out to talk to anyone afterwards, but we didn't stick around too long. I haven't heard of her doing that, though. Good luck, I'm sure you'll enjoy the show no matter what. :) +==========================================================================+ | 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, 03 Oct 1998 18:48:39 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: sinead lohan / mmoh Hi! I'm one of the people who was grabbed by Sinead Lohan's album immediately. Guess that makes me weird or something. :) Sam posted: >however, a few weeks later i was given the record, and was extremely >dissapointed by the icky 80s production. to me, the production is so >bad,(and so unneccessary) that it really deters me from listening. Wow - it's the production that grabbed me from the first. I'd heard a few of her songs done live on Mountain Stage, and from that I thought she was a boring, girl-with-acoustic-guitar type - that performance did nothing for me whatsoever. Then I heard the album, and realized the girl can rock. There are shades of Pamela Golden, even Suzanne Vega on this disc - it's multilayered stuff that really works for me in its entirety, though I'm not sure if I could deal with anything more stripped-down than that. >i will, incidentally, be going to see her at mercury, since, as i said >before, i think she's fantastic live. If woj and I weren't enjoying our first weekend at home in way too many weeks, we'd be heading into the city to see this show too ... but it's been too much fun sitting on the couch watching tv all day, and I don't want it to stop now. :) I'm sure I'll be kicking myself later, but hey. I'm sure she'll be back in town eventually. >also, i just wanted to mention that i saw mary margaret o'hara play with >the henrys at the bottom line last week and it was honestly one of the >most exciting live-music experiences i've ever had. Oh sure. And we were out of town. :P I mean, my high school reunion was fun, but ... >cannot wait till her >st ann's show on 10/23. What planet have I been on?!? Is this a real, honest-to-goodness MMOH gig, or part of something else? How does one go about getting tickets to this? Must go, must go ... +==========================================================================+ | 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, 3 Oct 1998 19:10:00 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: sinead lohan / snowpony meth wrote re sinead lohan: >Wow - it's the production that grabbed me from the first. I'd heard a few >of her songs done live on Mountain Stage, and from that I thought she was a >boring, girl-with-acoustic-guitar type - that performance did nothing for >me whatsoever. I stopped in at the Arlene Grocery show that I believe Sam was referring to and got exactly this impression. I'll have to look into this album. In reference to an earlier thread Snowpony I should mention that having taken a listen to some tracks from *The Slow-Motion World of Snowpony* at Tower the other day, I'm less inclined to write them off. Maybe sometimes you just have to hear the album first to understand what's really going on. - --Paul P.S. meth, does this mean Don Keller must now be reconsidering his earlier positive assessment? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 19:19:15 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Kat Devlin Sings The Songs Of Kate Bush Hi! Last night was a real Kate Bush evening: first I heard 45 minutes of uninterrupted Kate music on WPKN (the "ecto echo" edition of Radio Nothing, brought to us by Rod Richardson, who was filling in for both Kathy DiMeno and Ray Terlaga - thank you, Rod Richardson :), then I saw cabaret singer Kat Devlin gave a wonderful performance of her show "Kat Devlin Sings The Songs Of Kate Bush" at the Quick Center For The Arts at Fairfield University in Fairfield, CT. woj, myself, JeffW, and Paul Blair and a few of his friends were in the small audience for the 9 o'clock show. So was Ray Terlaga, actually - I'd figured what's why he wasn't on the air. :) In contrast to the first time I saw this show, a couple summers ago in New York City, this time Kat Devlin was accompanied by drums and upright bass, in addition to piano. The rearrangements/reconstructions of the songs in a jazzy style for the most part worked really well - and Devlin's definitely got the vocal chops to handle everything from "Wuthering Heights" to "Night Of The Swallow" without much apparent effort. Hell- she even *looks* like Kate! She's a bit taller, but she's got the hair and the facial structure, and in each song she acts out the character portrayed within with only a bit too much over-the-top melodrama (which in itself is quite Kate-like, so hey :). The songs performed were (this may be slightly out of order, but the program is still in the car and I'm too lazy to go get it :): Moments of Pleasure Wuthering Heights Feel It This Woman's Work Symphony In Blue Experiment IV Coffee Homeground Mother Stands For Comfort The Infant Kiss Houdini In Search of Peter Pan Cloudbusting Babooshka Moving Running Up That Hill Under The Ivy Night of the Swallow The rearrangements that worked the best for me were "Symphony In Blue", "Feel It", "Houdini", "Moving", and "Night Of The Swallow". The songs from TKI and Lionheart lend themselves nicely to more swinging jazz arrangements. RUTH was done way too fast, and I think something went wrong with WH because it seemed like a train wreck by the end of it. My favorite performance was "Coffee Homeground", in which Devlin played up the paranoia for all it was worth, and the result was a funny, dead-on portrayal of what the song is about. And "Under The Ivy" slew me ... but that song could do that no matter the setting. (Mila Drumke's version is killer, too.) Devlin is a true fan, who has obviously let Kate's music into her soul. She understands every nuance of every song, and if this is as close as I'm going to get to seeing a Kate Bush concert in my lifetime, I'll gladly take it. I hope she gets a chance to take her show on the road - I think the Katefans across the country would appreciate it as much as I did. +==========================================================================+ | 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, 3 Oct 1998 17:50:30 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Recording Happy/Heather Nova venue change At 12:48 PM -0600 10/1/98, Chris Montville wrote: >I've been in the habit of recording most of the shows I go to these days, and >was planning on doing the same at the Happy show on Sunday. >Does anyone know if Happy/her new record company are okay with this sort of >thing? I'm more interested in enjoying the show as it happens, so if >there might >be an objection I want to leave the minidisc at home. This is a completely unofficial answer. Many of us have taped Happy's shows in the past, and no one has hunted us down (yet). However, there is a history of Happy stifling tape and video trees when she's not pleased with the quality of the performance or recording. (To be fair, there also hasn't been a lot of clammering for bootlegs out there, and at one time, when the tape dubbing project existed, there was at least a few Happy concerts available from it.) Even something like the Prism Tape, which was filmed and broadcast on cable (or local access or something) tv was not treed (tree'ed?) on ecto due to feedback from Happy. So, my guess would be that she wouldn't be too enthusiastic about your taping her show. Neal np: Mary Lydia Ryan - Mary Lydia Ryan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 17:55:47 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Tori in Texas (afterwards) At 7:14 AM -0500 10/2/98, Carolyn Andre wrote: >Obviously the reviewer for the San Antonio paper wasn't thrilled with the >show, particularly the sound mix: ......[excerpts from article by] > By Hector Saldaņa > Special to the Express-News > The lyrics were swallowed up by her loud band, but just > as often obscured by Amos' sound engineer's > insistence on drenching her voice in echo and reverb > and electronically compressing Amos' angelic > instrument until most of the dynamics had surrendered. > > And Amos must also share some responsibility. In her > last appearance at the Majestic in October 1996 in > which she performed solo with guitarist Steve Caton, > she was plagued by similar intelligibility problems, so it > can't just be the obligatory rock 'n' roll noise of a full > band. Actually, Tori really deserves the credit/responsibility for the reverb and effects on her voice. At the show I saw, you could see her not only directing the band, but also the soundman, as to when to turn on and turn off various effects. I couldn't work out all the cues myself, but a lot of them were clearly effects on/off signs. > On "Iieee" Amos straddled her piano bench like a > Shetland pony to finger both her acoustic piano and > synthesizer. When I read that line, I thought it was going to say finger both her acoustic piano and herself, which wouldn't be an unfair reporting either. Neal np: still Mary Lydia Ryan (this is a tape that Neile made for me some years ago. Comes from the overlooked pile, which I've been enjoying a lot. Could someine (Neile? Jeff?) tell me something about her?) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:00:51 -0400 (EDT) From: cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar) Subject: [some more artists] Judith Edelman Some of you may recall that at the beginning of June, I posted a few messages here introducing some artists that seemed ecto to me, but that I had not yet seen discussed on the list: Trina Hamlin, The Mollys, Kukuruza, Carol Noonan, and Ranch Romance. I'm going to extend the series now :) There are a lot of people I probably could have written about back in June, but today I'm going to write about two I've discovered since then: Judith Edelman, and Valerie Carrington. Judith Edelman, like Dana & Karen Kletter earlier this year, came out of the blue for me. I'd never heard the name, and the CD showed up in the mail at WBRS, so I played something from it on my show. A random track, I forget which now, but about 30 seconds into it I was taking a second look at the CD jacket, and realizing that I was going to have to buy one for myself. The album is called "only sun", and it's on Compass Records. That's the label co-founded and run by my musical goddess, Alison Brown. I only noticed that this CD is on Compass after I was hooked by the sound, but it did remind me that I've really liked everything I've heard on Compass so far. The music is... bright. It's got a bright sound to it, even for those songs where the mood is down. There's a lot of mood on this album, though, and many of the songs are somewhat ambiguous. Judith's voice is folk with a tinge of country, like a little pinch of Claire Lynch or Iris DeMent, but with the ability to go deep like the Kletters. Instrumentation on the album is impressive: acoustic guitar & bass, cello, fiddle, mandolin, bazouki, lap steel, acoustic slide guitar, drums, percussion. But it all comes together more simply than you'd expect. On first listen, you wouldn't think there 10 people in there. But it's there if you listen better. One of the first things I noticed: four of the tracks feature Darol Anger on fiddle. The CD arrived in early August, just as I set out on my long road trip, so I didn't encounter it until early September. A few weeks later, I was making a mix tape for a person close to me, and though not yet really familiar with this album, decided to check it out and see if there was anything appropriate for my tape... and found a song that was so right on target, it scared me. It's that kind of album. I'll leave off with some sample lyrics, from the title track: i used to have a climate all my own skies i could read, rain in bones i used to spin around myself, how i would spin now i'm revolving around him day used to creep, shy across my room he broke the clocks, now it's always noon i miss the gloom of five a.m, i miss the night how long can his love burn this bright? -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@polyamory.org "Oh, it isn't very hard, the cellar's in the attic and the attic's in the yard Oh, try it now and see, the ocean's in the kitchen and the kitchen's on TV." -- Honest Bob & the Factory to Dealer Incentives, "My Dinner With Laurie" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:01:05 -0400 (EDT) From: cos@wbrs.org (Ofer Inbar) Subject: [some more artists] Valerie Carrington This one starts with a story, and the story takes place at Solarfest '98 Solarfest is a small festival in central-western Vermont, on a hillside in the forest, surrounded by small farms, off a dirt road 45 minutes away from I-89. The festival is entirely powered by solar power, tries to educate people about alternative energy, and is co-sponsored by Dar Williams. If you like Falcon Ridge but think it's too big, this is definitely the festival for you. At Solarfest, on both Friday night and Saturday night as the main stage is finishing up for the night, there's an open mic on the second stage. The second stage is at the bottom of its own slope, and at the top of that slope there's a bonfire which is built during the day and lit in the evening. It stays going as long as people sit around it and keep it up, which can be until dawn. I was sitting with some friends by the fire on Saturday night as the open mic began below us. There were a lot more people around than there had been the night before (I estimate that fewer than 70 people actually stayed the night on the festival site Friday!), but it seemed at first that the quality was gone. The few performers we did hear at the Friday open mic were pretty good, and included Boston area singer songwriter Kevin So, and Laura Molinelli, who was actually one of the featured acts at the festival. Saturday night started with pre-teen girls doing really bad renditions of Celine Dion songs. Kevin So was at the fire with us, and he did go down to sign up, but there were a bunch of names before him. About the fifth person up, suddenly, the aural pain was gone! We started commenting to each other, around the fire, that *phew* finally here was someone who could at least sing. So it took me a minute or two to realize that I wasn't just hearing someone who could sing, as contrasted with those before. I was hearing someone *good*. And *different*. This young woman had a vocal style all her own, and it was complex and skillful. Then she announced, at the end of the song, that she had written it. The next one she did was also original, then she finished with a cover (I forget what it was) and got off stage. I ran down the hill to find her. The person I met was friendly, pleasant, in her mid-20s. Her name is Valerie Carrington, and she lives in Vermont. She used to live in the Pacific northwest, and only moved to VT 2 (3?) years ago. She's an elementary school teacher, but she's been singing and writing songs for a while (10 years, was it?) She's played gigs in Vermont and nearby upstate New York, as far south as the Northampton/Amherst valley, and as far away as Buffalo, but never yet in Boston. So, I invited her to WBRS. She will be performing live here this next Thursday night, October 8th, at 9:30pm. This will, I think, be her first Boston area appearance. The show is free and open to all ages, and will be broadcast live on 100.1 FM. You can get more information about our live music series, including directions to WBRS, on our web site: http://www.wbrs.org/ From what I recall of our conversation at Solarfest, Valerie does not yet have a CD, though she has made a demo tape. I don't know if that's changed since then. I'll find out Thursday. -- 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: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 20:59:02 -0400 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: world music, Fela, Naftule, and klezmer (was Re: The Nields...and world music) Ofer Inbar wrote: ofer sez: > Naftule's Dream is an adjunct of the Boston area Klezmer band "Shirim > Klezmer Orchestra" Ah, thanks for the history! > For Shirim, he teamed up with Betty > Silberman, an excellent klezmer singer. Naftule's Dream is the same > band without Betty. Or with Betty, as the mood seems to strike; the Naftule's Dream track on the Jewish Alternative Movement sampler features her, as does a track on the first ND disc. > Shirim also plays around the area sometimes. They do an > annual concert at the Coolidge Corner Theatre in Brookline, on the > afternoon of Christmas Day (what better day to go to a Klezmer > concert? :). Sounds good -- but you have to eat take-out chinese after the show, right? jeff - -- |Jeffrey C. Burka | moving to jburka@cqi.com -- come say hi | |http://www.cqi.com/~jburka | at the new digs...now up and running! | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:58:35 -0400 From: "Robert Lovejoy" Subject: Re: HAPPY AND WPXN IN PHILLY ......their point of view Fred wrote of his encounter with WXPN... I requested XPN to play cuts a lot when Many Worlds came out; they never did. I am angry with XPN. >this is from bruce warren the program director...... >As a programming team we >felt this wasn't as particularly as good compared to her previous work; >which explains why we haven't been playing it as often... Ack! Now I hate them even more. Idiots. >Ok i need to get feedback from listeners in the area. Maybe it's me, but has >WXPN gotten really boring? Absolutely. Yes. >Is it me? Absolutely not! I'm fortunate in that I have decent alternatives to my X favorite station. We get Music Choice on the via DBS, which has some good stuff, and Burlington County College in NJ has a decent format at 88.9. (But they're weak,,,) And they don't play Happy either, but at least it's just from ignorance. XPN has gotten boring because they lost sight of the music. They're too full of themselves to actually listen. I can't believe that they consider Many Worlds "not particularly good" - this shows me that their ears have become dysfunctional, probably due to their current location lodged firmly up their collective asses. Grrr! As the Firesign Theatre say in their new album,,, "Radio's a Heartbreak..." Bob "Dr. Technical" Lovejoy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 21:05:48 -0400 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: dc -> philly contingent so, like, is it time for us to start making plans? who all is going, who's driving (I've got a car), who's staying the night, blahblahblah. jeff (starting to get excited about it!) np: nothin', but I'm about to stick in my finally-got-a-copy-after- all-these-years disc of Eurythmics' soundtrack to _1984_ - -- |Jeffrey C. Burka | moving to jburka@cqi.com -- come say hi | |http://www.cqi.com/~jburka | at the new digs...now up and running! | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 20:42:34 -0500 (CDT) From: kerry white Subject: Sessions Premier Hi, Sessions at w 54th on PBS is back!!! Tonight: Lucinda Williams and (The) Mavericks. CYLL KrW It was the least I could do! And never let it be said that I didn't do the least I could do. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Oct 1998 21:56:52 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Whose fault is this? On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 Riphug@aol.com fessed up: > Ohmigod......I just got a notice of shipment from CD Universe: > > Ordered 1 CD Manning, Barbara/In New Zealan ($9.97): (Not Shipped Yet) er, what is this? i haven't heard of that one. can't remember if it was ecto or the fumblers that coerced me into buying lynn miles' _slightly haunted_ a while back, but i was sufficiently taken that i forked over $$ to order her followup _chalk this one up to the moon_ over the web sight unseen. tracking it now and digging it quite a bit, though it's a bit more folky than the mainstream of my taste. she's got a really terrific voice -- reminds me vocally a wee of jane siberry without the nasal sharpness, or dar williams with more power and warmth. the songs don't sound to be no embarrassments either, though i haven't sat down with the lyric sheet yet. nothing that knocks me flat on my rear the way "i always told you the truth" did, though, yet. - -- d. - - oh,no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmayowel@access.digex.net - - and dmw@mwmw.com ... get yr pathos at http://www.pathetic-caverns.com/ - - new reviews! tunes, books, flicks, etc. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #354 **************************