From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #157 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, May 3 1999 Volume 05 : Number 157 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Voices of Light [Joseph Zitt ] Buckingham Nicks [Kay S Cleaves ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Many CDs, Journey ["Donald G. Keller" ] Re: Many CDs, Journey [dmw ] Re: instrumentalists [Jack Sutton ] Re: Moon Seven Times band member news ["Scott S. Zimmerman" ] Re: laurie anderson's moby dick tour dates [neal copperman ] Re: gaiman... [meredith ] Philadelphia [Rolf.Peukert@theoinf.tu-ilmenau.de (Rolf Peukert)] Re: gaiman... ["Neil K. Guy" ] Re: gaiman... [meredith ] susan mckeown reviews [meredith ] Re: Rose Polenzani: Concert Review [Bill Adler ] Re: Bones, Twins, and EWS [Bill Adler ] Re: kristy thirsk [Michael Curry ] Re: instrumentalists [Michael Curry ] Re: kristy thirsk [JoAnn.Whetsell@oberlin.edu] Re: susan mckeown reviews [neal copperman ] Re: gaiman... [neal copperman ] Re: gaiman... [Ellen Rawson ] KVBI becomes KWAB [Ellen Rawson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 06:22:02 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Voices of Light On Sun, May 02, 1999 at 01:43:33AM -0400, Hillary Jackson wrote: > VOICES OF LIGHT AT AVERY FISHER HALL, LINCOLN CENTER MAY 10 > > Voices of Light, the oratorio about Joan of Arc by Richard Einhorn will be > performed at Avery Fisher Hall on Monday, May 10 at 8:00 pm. Among the > wonderful performers are the medieval vocal ensemble Anonymous 4, soprano > Susan > Narucki, The New Amsterdam Singers and the Concordia Orchestra conducted by > Marin Alsop. Ooh... wish I was there. I love this CD, and am eager to see it together with the film that inspired it... Those up there: catch it if you can! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 01:43:00 -0500 From: Kay S Cleaves Subject: Buckingham Nicks Hey folks-- In the frenzy of posts to the Ecto Trading Post (thanks Bill for setting this up!), I have posted two items: Meryn Cadell's Bombazine for sale or trade, and Buckingham Nicks for trade only. Both are on CD--Bombazine is still shrinkwrapped (bought an extra copy by accident), and the Buckingham Nicks is a CD-R of the early Lindsay Buckingham/Stevie Nicks LP that was never actually issued to CD. I realize that the latter disc is not necessarily ecto fodder, but I wanted to offer it to you folks first. :) - --Kay ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 03:00:04 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Barney Parker (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian Tue May 03 1966 Taurus Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini Lisa Laane Tue May 22 1973 Gemini Jewel Kilcher Thu May 23 1974 The Gem Chandra Sriram Thu May 27 1971 Gemini Urs Stafford Thu May 31 1973 Give Way Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 02 1966 Kaksoset - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 10:24:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: Many CDs, Journey I can only speak for myself, but I don't think any of us took JoAnn's comments on CDs the wrong way. I've got over 1000 CDs myself (plus about 800 LPs from a previous incarnation), and if I were stuck paying full price for everything I'd probably buy a dozen or less CDs a year. (That's about how many I =do= pay full price for--mostly classical CDs. I'm not counting buying a new CD from a small-time band at their show, which is usually more like $10.) Yesterday, for example, I bought two CDs--one for $6.99, and one for 88c. A not atypical shopping trip. I have a problem with the equation Journey = Steve Perry, myself. I've still got the first two Journey albums on LP, and they're both excellent quasi-progressive quasi-jazz rock. I listened to them a lot at the time. Heard the third record, and was aghast at how lame it was. (Similar story with Foreigner, actually, but that time it was the second album that fell down.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 13:03:56 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Many CDs, Journey On Sun, 2 May 1999, Donald G. Keller wrote: > still got the first two Journey albums on LP, and they're both excellent > quasi-progressive quasi-jazz rock. I listened to them a lot at the time. i used to really like the one with that great george harrison cover -- "it's all too much?" _look into the future_, maybe. i loved that first foreigner record, too, although at 15 or whatever the next two sounded okay to me, too. i buy most things full price (directly fromn artists when i can) but i still score a fair quantity of cheap used stuff, and i get a handful of review copies. i'm single, mortgageless, and live in a bad part of town, though, which tends to increase the proportion of disposable income. - -- d. n.p. rose polenzani _dragersville_ (full price; JoAnn's fault ;) ) n.r. cervantes _don quixote_ "pictures of perfection make me sick and wicked." -- miss jane austen - - oh no!! you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net dmw@mwmw.com - - get yr pathos:www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 10:21:00 From: Jack Sutton Subject: Re: instrumentalists I would have to place Sharon Shannon high on this list. Accordians never really caught my attention until I hear Sharon Shannon play one. She is extradinary and a fine fiddle player as well. Jack Harmony Ridge Music www.hrmusic.com At 09:35 AM 4/28/99 -0500, you wrote: >JoAnn wrote: >>Hi. This idea may be presumptuous, but I was thinking it would be nice to >>see more instrumental musicians on the list (by that, I mean people who >>almost solely do instrumental, non-vocal music). > >Not presumptuos at all! I nominate Pat Metheny and Dino Saluzzi to start. > > >>Nigel Kennedy (btw, Jane Siberry sings the song "Innig" which I think she >>co-wrote with Kennedy on his album "Kafka") > >Is the same Nigel Kennedy who worked with Kate Bush? I'll have to get this >CD--sounds great. Emtpy Wallet Syndrome yet again! > >--Suzanne > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 10:43:09 -0700 (PDT) From: "Scott S. Zimmerman" Subject: Re: Moon Seven Times band member news > --He's now playing some shows with todd fletcher / June & the Exit Wounds, > "which is a band ectophiles would eat up with the proverbial > 'big freakin' spoon'." This morning I listened to the june and the exit wounds disc for the first time. ('a little more haven hamilton, please'). It has a casual beach boys-y/bacharian/bee gees-y/ben's fold five-y feel and I know Parasol compares it to Todd Rundgren. It's also a little slow jazzy. I'm not quite sure how much I like it, though some of the moments do remind me of the new scott brookman full length, which I think is fantasticly amazing. (but I released sb's masterpiece, so I'm biased.) Scotttttt ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:32:03 -0400 From: dave Subject: New Mariel CD and Cranberries Just got a mailing from Philly area artist Mariel saying her new CD "The Darkest Angel" will be released Tues. May 5. She sounds a bit Kate Bushish, so if you like that kind of vocals you can check out samples of it on her website: http://www.mariel.net Also got the new Cranberries CD "Bury the Hatchet" and have had a chance to give it a few listens. Wasn't really crazy about their last album, but I like this one a lot.. sounds more like their earlier stuff. I do have to say the packaging is driving me a little nuts, I keep trying to open the wrong side. np: Caedmon's Call - The Guild Collection Vol. 2 - -- +-----------------------------------------------+ + dave + + Visit Sideshow Bob's House of Wax and Waffles + + Female vocalists, Christian, and Polish music + + -=-=- and the fabulous Kasia Kowalska -=-=- + + http://magpage.com/~sspan/ + +-----------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 12:48:17 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: laurie anderson's moby dick tour dates At 12:09 AM -0400 5/2/99, Jeffrey Burka wrote: >neal sez: > >> np: Black Rain - Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner > >Hmm, is that the disc where the played songs by Bob Mould? Nope, this is in fact, all new Susan McKeown that you have never heard of. :P Ok, cruel joke to cover up my faulty memory, though the album you described does sound intriguing! neal np: the first recordings - heather nova (from a Heather Nova rarities tape I made for Michael Bowman while he visited but somehow neglected to mail it to him.... guess maybe I should do something about that.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 15:48:54 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Bones, Twins, and EWS Hi! JoAnn noted: >I bought some new cd's today. (Ok, that is hardly news, considering the >people on this list.) How some of you managed to amass collections of >1000+ cd's I shudder to imagine. At roughly $15 a cd, that could cover a >year of college at some schools, or at least a semester at many others. The key to amassing a large CD collection: never, ever pay full price. Or, at least most of the time, anyway (sometimes it just can't be avoided). Used bins, mega-sales, and buying direct from the artist end up saving a lot of money. Not to mention trying to order from online Canadian CD stores wherever possible - the exchange rate can be your friend. :) >I hope I haven't pissed you all off. Not me. I'm not that far removed from my college days, and I still write a fat check to Student Loan Services every month. I know from all that, believe me. Back then, I was very glad I worked at a radio station, or else I wouldn't have gotten much new music at all in college, if any. >np: Bones Susan McKeown & The Chanting House > >This is gorgeous!!! I can't believe I haven't been listening to this >sooner. Just when I have really hit rock bottom EWS, I would discover an >artist who I'm now going to have to find all of her albums. Well, there >are worse predicaments to be in. (And I'm only at the beginning of song >3). I'm blown away. I hope I'll be able to see her in NY this summer. Yay! :) Now, to continue corrupting the youth ... The others you need to check out (in pretty much this order) are: _Bushes And Briars_ (Susan solo, doing all manner of Celtic traditional tunes) _Through The Bitter Frost and Snow_ (with Lindsey Horner of the Chanting House - traditional and original winter music that holds up to listening even in July) _Mighty Rain_ (also with Lindsey Horner, a mix of original, traditional, and cover tunes) _Peter And Wendy_ (music by Johnny Cunningham and sung by Susan, from the positively stunning Mabou Mines theater production of the play of the same name) _Mother: A Songs Celebrating Mothers and Motherhood_ (with Cathie Ryan and Robin Spielberg - a mixed bag, but Susan's contributions are wonderful as always) Susan doesn't plan to play too many gigs this summer - she's going to be spending quite a bit of time in the studio recording the follow-up to _Bushes And Briars_ (hopefully she'll finally give in and record the new Chanting House album, sigh). She is going to be appearing at the Guinness Fleadh again in June, though. I hope you do get a chance to see her perform sometime, though. Many of her best songs haven't been recorded yet, and can only be experienced in live performance. +==========================================================================+ | 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: Sun, 02 May 1999 16:08:05 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: gaiman... Hi! Chad reported: >Neil is writing an illustrated Sandman novel set >to be published this year through DC Comics. It will be set in ancient Japan with >illustrations by artist Yoshitaka Amano. It's titled Sandman:The Dream Hunters Yay!!! This is such great news! For the latest information on Neil and what he's up to, check out the Magian Line newsletter: . At least, I think it's still there - I've been having trouble accessing it today, but my connection has been wonky lately so I think it might just be me. +==========================================================================+ | 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: Sun, 2 May 99 22:21:26 +0200 From: Rolf.Peukert@theoinf.tu-ilmenau.de (Rolf Peukert) Subject: Philadelphia Hi everybody, I'll be visiting Philadelphia for a week (May 6-15). Can anybody recommend some good (new or used/collectible) record stores? Are there any interesting concerts that week? (I've seen the 'Moby Dick' dates and will try to get tickets for one of the Philly shows) thanks in advance, Rolf ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 14:07:07 -0700 From: "Neil K. Guy" Subject: Re: gaiman... Okay, my rambling contributions to the Neil Gaiman trivia thread... At 10:03 AM -0400 5/1/99, Michael Colford wrote: > Gaiman has also written episodes of Babylon 5. I don't watch the > show, but I am a huge Gaiman fan. Actually I think he only wrote one. If I remember correctly it was the only non-Stracyznski-written episode of the final season and it was... mmm.. interesting. Frankly I felt it was a not entirely successful experiment at putting Gaimanesque ideas (the confrontation with rather literal past nightmares; both the characters and audience emerging wiser as a result) into the B5 universe. Penn and Teller are in it, playing themselves, basically. Even more trivia - the aliens with the sort of Sandman-like gas mask that occasionally appear are called the Gaim, in homage to Gaiman. For some reason I think I've posted my comments about Neverwhere here before. If not, here goes... My understanding of Neverwhere is that the BBC series and the novel were written concurrently, though the American edition was apparently heavily revised prior to publication. Because Neverwhere is so dependent on English cultural knowledge (particularly knowledge of London and the tube system) the US version is laced with explanations for the benefit of non-English readers. Occasionally a bit explainy - I keep meaning to borrow a friend's copy of the UK edition to compare. I did think the William Gibson quote was pretty witty, though. * I have seen the teevee series and, yeah, it is rather disappointing.The opening sequences, by Dave McKean, were of course excellent and had great textures, but the show itself has that awful shot-on-video-on-a-Dr-Who-sized-budget look about it that really undermines the wonderfully rich imagery that was written into the book. It'll be interesting to see if the Henson Associates film said to be in production avoids that problem. One would hope so - Neverwhere has a lot of potential for being a really cool, dark fantasy of a movie. (though I think just using film, spraying the walls with water and avoiding blue and pink lighting would've helped the BBC a lot...) I did actually prefer Stardust, though I suspect I'm in the minority in that regard. Though thematically similar to Neverwhere in many regards - they're both fairy tales for grownups, about naive young lads who are unwittingly forced to travel your standard hero's journey across fantastic lands, undergoing many painful trials, finally emerging as wise adult men at the end, Stardust is quite a bit lighter in tone. And I found that worked a lot better for me. Plus it's fun to imagine Tori Amos as a tree. I dunno, though... I like Gaiman's writing a lot, and I seem to end up dutifully buying his stuff, but I've never been totally satisfied with his novels. I really prefer most of his Sandman stories, and occasional side-projects like Signal and Noise. What else? Gaiman wrote a small short story that was put up on the promotional Web site for the Matrix: http://www.whatisthematrix.com/cmp/comic_index.html Though I dunno about that intro - "The Matrix is not an easy film to explain. Beneath a story of unexpected complexity..." Geez. I thought the Matrix was a totally straightforward SF film that covers standard territory familiar to anybody who's read SF of the past 15 years or so. Sure, it was a great comic book of a movie that's lots of fun, especially if you enjoy random shootings and things blowing up real good, but *complex*? Come on! He wrote some stuff for an Alice Cooper album a few years back. I never saw it, though Gaiman fans tend to deride it. There's an SF web site that has a recording of him reading another short story of his: http://www.scifi.com/set/readings/gaiman/ One of his earliest published works (aside from a fluffy bio book on some 80s band - Duran Duran I think - that he wrote to pay the rent while starving as a young writer, and now disowns) was actually my first introduction to him - a very interesting biographical book on Douglas Adams called "Don't Panic" in which he documents the writing of the Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and some of its sequels. In fact, until Holly introduced me to the Sandman (thanks, Holly!) I didn't know he was best known for his fiction. Heh. - Neil K. np: William Orbit: best of Strange Cargos. God I love this album! * In Neuromancer's opening line Gibson refers to the night sky over Tokyo as resembling a television tuned to a dead channel, since back in the 80s most sets displayed random white noise - fuzzy grey static. Gaiman uses the same line in Neverwhere, but of course in the 90s most sets display a blank bright blue screen instead. Hehe. - -- t e l a computer consulting + design * Vancouver, BC, Canada phone: (604) 254-0520 * email: tela@tela.bc.ca web: http://www.tela.bc.ca/tela/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 17:20:08 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: gaiman... Hi! Neil added: > Actually I think he only wrote one. If I remember correctly it was the >only non-Stracyznski-written episode of the final season and it was... >mmm.. interesting. Yes, Gaiman only wrote one B5 episode. "Interesting" is a good word. I don't think it was all that successful either. > For some reason I think I've posted my comments about Neverwhere here >before. If not, here goes... My understanding of Neverwhere is that the BBC >series and the novel were written concurrently, though the American edition >was apparently heavily revised prior to publication. Yes, the novel and series were written at the same time. I haven't read the American edition, having ordered the original from amazon.co.uk since I know the person who copyedited the American version and was thus warned off it very early on. The original is a wonderful book, and an excellent companion to the series. > I have seen the teevee series and, yeah, it is rather disappointing.The >opening sequences, by Dave McKean, were of course excellent and had great >textures, but the show itself has that awful >shot-on-video-on-a-Dr-Who-sized-budget look about it that really undermines >the wonderfully rich imagery that was written into the book. I wasn't expecting much more than that, actually - I don't know if it's just what ends up getting imported to the US from the BBC, but I've never seen anything from the BBC that *hasn't* had that "shot-on-video-on-a-Dr-Who-sized-budget look". >It'll be >interesting to see if the Henson Associates film said to be in production >avoids that problem. One would hope so - Neverwhere has a lot of potential >for being a really cool, dark fantasy of a movie. (though I think just >using film, spraying the walls with water and avoiding blue and pink >lighting would've helped the BBC a lot...) Even if it's closer to the Henson Associates' work on that new Sci-Fi Channel series, it'll be an improvement. I'm greatly looking forward to it. > Though I dunno about that intro - "The Matrix is not an easy film to >explain. Beneath a story of unexpected complexity..." Geez. I thought the >Matrix was a totally straightforward SF film that covers standard territory >familiar to anybody who's read SF of the past 15 years or so. Sure, it was >a great comic book of a movie that's lots of fun, especially if you enjoy >random shootings and things blowing up real good, but *complex*? Come on! I agree. I was mildly entertained by _The Matrix_, but I certainly didn't feel that I got my $7.50's worth out of it. If you took away all of the dialogue and the last five minutes, it'd be a much better movie. For that matter, just get rid of Neo and have Trinity be the main character - she was way cool, and way under-utilized. When I saw it, the entire theater was snickering at things which were clearly not meant to be laughed at throughout the entire thing - at times I was imagining little robot silhouettes at the bottom of the screen. :) I liked the action scenes (very Xena-like ;), and thought the special effects were really well done, but I just don't understand why people everywhere are hailing it as a classic. I heard that J. Michael Strazcynski even called it a "watershed movie" - huh? It has KEANU REEVES in it, for gods' sake - how good can it be??? Oh well. Time to go get the laundry. +==========================================================================+ | 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: Sun, 02 May 1999 18:07:37 -0400 From: meredith Subject: susan mckeown reviews Hi! If I might be allowed to toot my own horn for a second ... I have just recently joined the staff at Folk Tales, an online arts magazine, at . My first review has just been posted, a tandem review of Susan McKeown, Cathie Ryan, and Robin Spielberg's _Mother: Songs Celebrating Mothers and Motherhood_, and Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner's _Mighty Rain_. It's at , if you're interested. (My reputation must have preceded me - this was an assignment. :) Enjoy ... +==========================================================================+ | 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: Sun, 02 May 1999 19:38:01 -0400 From: Bill Adler Subject: Re: Rose Polenzani: Concert Review Rose Polenzani sounds wonderful. JoAnn -- do you know where her CD can be found? - --Bill n.p. Karen Matheson, The Dreaming Sea At 04:54 AM 5/1/99 -0400, you wrote: >I had a wonderful evening listening to Rose Polenzani play an intimate >concert in Baldwin, our campus' women's collective, and one of the >loveliest buildings. She's worth checking out. She has at least one cd, >called Dragersville, and she said another cd (a collection of her tapes and >cd with one new track) is coming. Just her and guitar. She has a >wonderful voice-- sweet, clear. Her songs tell stories. She has a real >warmth, connection... what's the word?... with the audience. Rapport! >That's it. Yes, she would joke, tell little stories, got excited that the >Indigo Girls are putting backing vocals on a track on her upcoming cd, >taught the crowd choruses so that we could sing along. I really enjoyed >it. She's engaging. And she sings and plays well. She sang one song a >cappella, a cover, but I didn't know the song, so can't tell you what it >is. She got really into it, and her voice was soaring high and low. It >was really good, and I think it showed her voice off best of all the songs >she did. Most of her songs were in the mellow, folk/acoustic range. >"Peacetime" the only song title she mentioned was really good. Also, a >song called "Get Off My Back" was really good. Some of her songs were more >up tempo, including that one. I missed quite a bit of the concert, but >caught a good bit. She played until past 11, almost 12 maybe? Then we >took a break, and hung out in a circle, different people playing guitar and >singing songs. I played 3 songs on the mandolin: "Brahms Lullaby," "Humpty >Dumpty," and the Indigo Girls' "Galileo" which everyone sang along to. It >was a LOT of fun. Then the evening degenerated into a girlfest of people >eating and talking about love, sex, and death (a student told amazing >stories of her experiences surviving the war in Bosnia). Ah, college. > >JoAnn > >np: _Public_ Emm Gryner Bill Adler badler@csi.com http://www.adlerbooks.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 19:54:06 -0400 From: Bill Adler Subject: Re: Bones, Twins, and EWS Mickey, You're going to love the Corrs, Forgiven, Not Forgotten. Great CD. I heard them in concert a few months ago -- they've got great energy, not to mention music. - --Bill n.p. Still Karen Matheson's The Dreaming Sea. >Today, I bought June Tabor & The Oysterband, "Freedom and Rain" and it's >n.p. >Also, *Ingrid Karklins* "Red Hand" and "A Darker Passion" which I adore so >far ... thanks Neile, for reminding me! >XTC "Apple Venus Vol. I" >From various purchases online, I also got Solas, "The Words That Remain" >Meryn Cadell "Bombazine" >Ensemble Galilei, "The Mystic and the Muse (Celebrating 600 years of Women >in Music)" >The Corrs, "Forgiven, Not Forgotten" >Anonymous 4, "A Lammas Ladymass" *this is a gem! have you heard this, >Neile?* >Soundtrack to The Hanging Garden, (with Jane Siberry, Ani DiFranco, Mary >Jane Lamond, Meryn Cadell w/ M2OH, AEther, and lots of great Celtic tunes, >too. Great buy!) > >I have lots of listening ahead of me! This makes Mickey very happy. ;-) > >Best regards, >---Mickey >Austin TX USA Bill Adler badler@csi.com http://www.adlerbooks.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 19:59:35 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: kristy thirsk At 05:00 PM 4/23/99 -0400, JoAnn Whetsell wrote: >Thanks to whoever sent the Kristy Thirsk e-mail. Is this her first solo >cd, or does she have an album out? I love her voice and eagerly await the >arrival of my first Rose Chronicles cd. Yes, I am finally tackling the backlog of messages I want to reply to. The upcoming CD (which I believe will be an EP) will be Kristy's first solo effort. All the rest of her work consists of the material from Rose Chronicles and her various guest vocal appearances for people like Delerium. So, which Rose Chronicles CD did you order, and what do you think of it (if it's shown up)? Mike np: Mike and Mary Rafferty -- The Old Fireside Music nr: nothing (just finished Queen City Jazz by Kathleen Ann Goonan) | Michael Curry / mcurry@io.com / mcurry@smoe.org | | http://www.io.com/~mcurry | | "Am I bitter? Do I sound bitter?" -- Veda Hille | ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 20:14:12 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: instrumentalists At 09:17 PM 4/27/99 -0400, JoAnn.Whetsell@oberlin.edu wrote: >Hi. This idea may be presumptuous, but I was thinking it would be >nice to see more instrumental musicians on the list (by that, I mean >people who almost solely do instrumental, non-vocal music). I tend to >find that there are a lot of really good people out there and a lot of >really crappy people (or, at least, people I think are crappy), >especially in that hazy "New Age" field so much instrumental music >gets lumped into. It would be nice to have ecto-help in sorting out >the gems from the crap. Pretty much the only instrumental music I listen to is Irish trad and other "celtic" stuff. The list of amazing musicians in the field is (imo) pretty long, so I'll just list a few of my favorites: flute Seamus Egan Frankie Kennedy Marcus O/ Murchu/ Conal O/ Gra/da Matt Molloy fiddle Tommy Peoples Natalie MacMaster Mike np: Mike & Mary Rafferty -- The Old Fireside Music nr: still nothing | Michael Curry / mcurry@io.com / mcurry@smoe.org | | http://www.io.com/~mcurry | | "Am I bitter? Do I sound bitter?" -- Veda Hille | ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 20:53:13 -0400 From: JoAnn.Whetsell@oberlin.edu Subject: Re: kristy thirsk Oh, that sounds cool. (Kristy's upcoming solo ep.) I'll look out for it. Do you have any idea when it will be ready? I ordered _Shiver_ and no, it hasn't come yet. I ordered 8 cds from AB Sound and one is on back-order (Bel Canto _Birds of Passage_. If I didn't want that album so badly, because of the glowing ecto reviews and my love of _Magic Box_ (the only Bel Canto I have) I'd have them just send the rest. I have the "Glide" single. That's the only Rose Chronicles I've heard. My introduction to them was kind of funny. I was going through the albums at a Borders Outlet, and I saw this cd and thought it had a pretty cover. When I looked on the back I saw that one of the songs said "Moroccan Mint Edition" next to it. And I noticed that the label was Nettwerk, which I knew was Canadian. Now, having a long-standing obsession with Canada and visiting Morocco, this seemed too coincidental to be coincidence. So I bought it, and I love it, and I am still waiting impatiently for _Shiver_ to arrive along with the other music I ordered. JoAnn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 19:50:33 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: susan mckeown reviews At 6:07 PM -0400 5/2/99, meredith wrote: > My first review has just been >posted, a tandem review of Susan McKeown, Cathie Ryan, and Robin >Spielberg's _Mother: Songs Celebrating Mothers and Motherhood_, and Susan >McKeown and Lindsey Horner's _Mighty Rain_. It's at >, if you're interested. Nice job Meth! This looks like a pretty interesting magazine, though I can't imagine where I'd find time to add something else to my list of things to read. I was quite amused where meth got the editor's choice pick in the What's New section, and then they mispelled the album title as Might Rain (not that I can talk!!!). Actually, Might Rain is a really fine album title... neal np: hours later, still Heather Nova, from the Truth and Bone single nr: Midwives - chris bohjalian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 19:57:46 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: gaiman... At 2:07 PM -0700 5/2/99, Neil K. Guy wrote: > I like Gaiman's writing a lot, and I seem to end up >dutifully buying his stuff, but I've never been totally satisfied with his >novels. I really prefer most of his Sandman stories, and occasional >side-projects like Signal and Noise. All I've read outside of the Sandman graphic novels is the Angels & Visitations collection, which I found to be entertaining, but lacking. For me, most of what was in there seemed to need the addition of drawings and letterings to flesh out what didn't seem to be present in the stories. I do have Neverwhere though, and should read it sometime. Though I dunno about that intro - "The Matrix is not an easy film to >explain. Beneath a story of unexpected complexity..." Geez. I thought the >Matrix was a totally straightforward SF film that covers standard territory >familiar to anybody who's read SF of the past 15 years or so. Sure, it was >a great comic book of a movie that's lots of fun, especially if you enjoy >random shootings and things blowing up real good, but *complex*? Come on! I almost wonder if this is in the press kit. It seems to be almost uniform in the reviews I read. Mind bogglingly complex. Completely infathomable. What are they talking about? I was actually let down because the movie was pretty easy to understand. Maybe, by "unexpected complexity", he meant what we, the audience, expect from Hollywood? After all, this was an action movie with a plot. People talked for long stretches where things didn't get blown up. Perhaps that was the unexpected comlexity? neal np: Just Passing Through - Heather Nova (solo accoustic on WHFS, possibly my favorite HN recording) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:25:36 -0600 From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: gaiman... Neil K. Guy wrote: > > Actually I think he only wrote one. If I remember correctly it was the > only non-Stracyznski-written episode of the final season and it was... > mmm.. interesting. Yes, "Day of the Dead" was his only B-5 episode. My understanding of Neverwhere is that the BBC > series and the novel were written concurrently The novel was written immediately after the series, and the British edition was a rush job. , though the American edition > was apparently heavily revised prior to publication. Because Neverwhere is > so dependent on English cultural knowledge (particularly knowledge of > London and the tube system) the US version is laced with explanations for > the benefit of non-English readers. Also, he wanted to clean up some bits and pieces he wasn't thrilled with in the British edition since it was rather rushed. While the BBC series was aired on a few PBS stations (not in my area), there still are bootleg versions around. (I've heard from a friend who talked with Gaiman on his Neverwhere tour that he doesn't really mind the bootlegs since the BBC won't release an American version.) but the show itself has that awful > shot-on-video-on-a-Dr-Who-sized-budget look about it that really undermines > the wonderfully rich imagery that was written into the book. The beast was very disappointing -- think "mad cow" disease. However, I liked most of the actors and how they worked with the characters, particularly the Marquis. Some parts of actual underground scenes were filmed on the small stretch of underground used as Churchill's private underground -- the one that led to his underground offices during the war. That in itself was quite intriguing, and it seems as if Gaiman had a fun time exploring down there. Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 21:56:31 -0600 From: Ellen Rawson Subject: KVBI becomes KWAB A bit ago, I discussed how a very nice AM station in Boulder, Colorado, was up for sale. Now, I was hoping its format wouldn't change because I could hear performers such as Joan Armatrading, Grey Eye Glances, Dar Williams, Cheryl Wheeler, Bill Morrissey, Richard Thompson, The Nields, Susan McKeown, etc. played on regular basis there. Guess what? The station was sold to my long distance phone company: Working Assets. The WAB in the call letters stand for Working Assets Broadcasting. Working Assets is branching out. I think a decent percentage of Boulderites choose WALD for long distance (all of my friends do :), so perhaps that's why Boulder was a place for them to start in radio. Also, this station played music that would appeal to WALD customers, and the dj's were always very liberal in their opinions. (And if I thought they were liberal then, you should hear 'em now.) I personally love it. Conservative companies have been buying up radio stations; now the other side is involved. Ellen ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #157 **************************