From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #400 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, November 14 1998 Volume 04 : Number 400 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Happy and WXPN ["Spencer Lewis" ] Re: Happy and WXPN [neal copperman ] Re: Happy and WXPN [Neile Graham ] Re: Happy and WXPN ["Spencer Lewis" ] Sophie documentary in Chicago ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 10:14:00 -0500 From: "Spencer Lewis" Subject: Happy and WXPN Got my XPN newsletter yesterday and John Dilberto the host of Echoes listed MWABT as one of his top 5 albums of the year. Echoes is on from 11p-1am Mon.-Fri. Also, you can vote for XPN's top 50 on their website. At the end of the year they'll play all 50 albums in their entirety in sequence. My top 4 right now Elliot Smith - XO Patty Griffin - Flaming Red Natalie Merchant - Ophelia Neil Finn - Try Whistiling This I need a fifth. Hopefully next year I'll have a new cd from Aimee Mann, Michael Penn (aimee's husband), Bettie Seveert, Maria Mckee, Peter Gabriel, Jonatha Brooke, Shawn Colvin, Freedy Johnston. Coming up with cd's worthy of being mentioned in a top 5 has been difficult this year. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 09:15:31 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Happy and WXPN At 10:14 AM -0500 11/13/98, Spencer Lewis wrote: >I need a fifth. Hopefully next year I'll have a new cd from Aimee Mann, >Michael Penn (aimee's husband), Bettie Seveert, Maria Mckee, Peter Gabriel, >Jonatha Brooke, Shawn Colvin, Freedy Johnston. Coming up with cd's worthy >of being mentioned in a top 5 has been difficult this year. I was in a store the other day and I saw a Betty Serveert disc I'd never heard of before and was sorely tempted to buy. It was a live disc and consisted solely of Velvet Underground covers. For a brief period I was able to remember where it was recorded, but that period has passed. It certainly wasn't in the US though. ANyone heard this? Neal now shuffling over: PJ Harvey - It's a Perfect Day Elise (single) Jane Jensen - Comic Book Whore Happy - MWABT ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:08:50 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Happy and WXPN Spencer Lewis wrote: >Coming up with cd's worthy >of being mentioned in a top 5 has been difficult this year. Wow! This must be because our tastes are really different. For me this was an excellent year, especially for knock-out debuts (Susan Court, Imogen Heap, Emma Townshend, Pepper Acton, Sully, Sarah Slean if you count her cd debut) and great material from favourites (Happy, Kristin Hersh, PJ Harvey, Tori Amos, Margot Smith, Cat Power). I haven't made my year-end list up yet but there's loads of material for it from my point of view. - --Neile - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 11:50:01 -0500 From: "Spencer Lewis" Subject: Re: Happy and WXPN Funny you should mention this. Yesterday I received the following response to an e-mail I sent to Matador records: >Their newest record is a Velvet Underground live covers CD called Bettie >Serveerrt plays Venus in Furs (on Brinkman). "Something So Wild" CD5/7" >OLE-150 is from the last record. > >No new album on our schedule as far as I know, but they are overdue you're >right. >At 10:14 AM -0500 11/13/98, Spencer Lewis wrote: >>I need a fifth. Hopefully next year I'll have a new cd from Aimee Mann, >>Michael Penn (aimee's husband), Bettie Seveert, Maria Mckee, Peter Gabriel, >>Jonatha Brooke, Shawn Colvin, Freedy Johnston. Coming up with cd's worthy >>of being mentioned in a top 5 has been difficult this year. > >I was in a store the other day and I saw a Betty Serveert disc I'd never >heard of before and was sorely tempted to buy. It was a live disc and >consisted solely of Velvet Underground covers. For a brief period I was >able to remember where it was recorded, but that period has passed. It >certainly wasn't in the US though. ANyone heard this? > >Neal > >now shuffling over: >PJ Harvey - It's a Perfect Day Elise (single) >Jane Jensen - Comic Book Whore >Happy - MWABT > > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 16:37:31 -0600 (CST) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Sophie documentary in Chicago The Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival will be showing a documentary on Sophie B. Hawkins, whose record of "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" was a topic of conversation in these pages in 1992, at 3 PM Sunday at the Village Theater, Clark and North in Chicago. Tickets are $7. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 18:25:32 -0500 (EST) From: Morgan Subject: Re: _Something Wild_ soundtrack: Sister Carol, the Feelies/Willies Hello, Chelsea: Re one of the artists chosen for Jonathan Demme's _Something Wild_: > Another artist that I'm looking for more info on based on her awesome > contribution to the SW soundtrack is Sister Carol. Just when I thought I > was plumb tuckered out with the Troggs' "Wild Thing", she came along and > recorded a kick-ass version of it. How is the rest of her material? Is it > worth looking into? Are there any inexpensive compilations of her tunes > that I can listen to before I make a commitment? You'll need a good appreciation of reggae, perhaps including dancehall: Sister Carol (a/k/a Carol East) has released a few full-length CDs on Rounder's Heartbeat label; there are no compilations that I know of (and given Rounder's uncertain alliance with Universal-Mercury, I wouldn't expect one). For the record, her Jah rapping (really a weak description of what she does) isn't of the sexist variety (quite the opposite). I just don't know of too many people on this list who (like myself) actually dig Rasta rhythm. Philip David 11/13/1998 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:40:27 -0500 From: Hillary Jackson Subject: Hildegurls Hi all, I wanted to let everyone know that the HILDEGURLS will be doing an encore presentation of the Electric Ordo Virtutum at the World Financial Center Winter Garden on Thursday November 17th at 7pm. It's part of WNYC's New Sounds Live series and it's FREE. This is the final performance of this work for a long while--at least in the states, so for those of you who missed it at the Lincoln Center Festival, now is your chance! The Hildegurls are 4 women composer/performers, very prominent in the downtown new-music scene: EVE BEGLARIAN, also known for being one half of the adventurous new-music dio Twisted Tutu. LISA BIELAWA, vocalist with the Philip Glass Ensemble and recent star of in the new Michael Gordon Sci-Fi opera, CHAOS. KITTY BRAZELTON, leader of the electroacoustic nonet, Dadadah, and producer of the Women's Avant Fest. ELAINE KAPLINSKY of the women's electronic improv trio, Trousers, and the Kaplinsky Quartet. Together they bring Hildegard von Bingen's 12th Century morality play into the 21st century. Don't miss it! (If however, you do miss it, it will be broadcast on WNYC sometime in January, I believe.) - --Hillary ====================================== Hillary Jackson 468 Sixth Avenue #4 New York, NY 10011 212.675.9629 212.645.0298 (fax) hillaryj@mindspring.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #400 **************************