From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #213 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, June 24 1999 Volume 05 : Number 213 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Webring update [Kay S Cleaves ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] reviews [sierran@earthlink.net (JoAnn Whetsell)] Re: The Shotgun Area Seven Tubs Party [Bill Adler ] Persephone's Circle (on their way to Portland, OR) [Neile Graham ] Re: Pierre Boulez [jjh969@juno.com] Re: Pierre Boulez [Joseph Zitt ] [zwirnm@ari.net: Re: Lynn Canfield (passed along to a few who expressed interest)] [Joseph Zitt ] Mail order info for Willow's music [Neile Graham ] Re: belle and sebastian and more [Nick Nadel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 01:29:35 -0500 From: Kay S Cleaves Subject: Webring update Hi folks! Just a brief update for those of you with any interest in the webring, as I've been relatively quiet about it for the past few months. (I know I saw someone express interest in it last week some time. Are you out there?) I added our 21st site recently--is that something like the 21st birthday? Perhaps I should buy the webring a Zima...:) Of course, I didn't buy it a little car for it's 16th site, so we'll see... Early on in the process there was some concern expressed about the graphics I was using, especially the logo from the ecto home page. I'm not using that particular logo anymore. Vickie, has there been any word from Happy on the use of the graphics? There were several requests about running the webring from a noncommercial server, which I would love to accomodate, but as I have no idea of how to actually code a webring to work I don't think I could do that myself. If there are some HTML geniuses out there who'd like to collaborate I'd be happy to chat. I know that there are some of you out there from the discussions of the ecto archives search engine. (Great work on that, by the way. You people never fail to amaze me.) At any rate, I've been doing some housekeeping. The html fragment to add to the page has been fixed so that you get a line break between the graphic and the text. I'm thinking of doing some new graphics, but that will come in time. More like when I have time. I fixed some flaws in my own sites so that they link to the ring correctly (physician, heal thyself...oops) and have discovered...(insert dangerous music here) some renegade sites. Or perhaps they were abducted by aliens. I've sent them private emails, though, so hopefully (hint hint) they'll come back to the fold. If this is you, please let me know what's up! The ring is still open for all list members with websites to join! It doesn't need to have Happy content, or even music content, it can just be a personal site, as long as you're an ecto list member. If you are interested in joining, head to the url below for info. Back into relative obscurity for a few more months, at least on this subject... - --Kay Ringmistress, the Ecto Webring http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Gala/8060/Webring.html ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** *********** Teresa VanDyne (tvandyne@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu) *********** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer Samantha Tanner Tue June 30 1970 Wild Goose BunkyTom Tue July 02 1968 Cancer Anders Hallberg Tue July 03 1962 Cancer Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer John J Henshon Mon July 05 1954 The Year Of The Horse / Ruled By The Moon Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Lisa Wilson Fri July 08 1960 Moonchild with Java Rising Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Ellen Rawson Thu July 13 1961 Double Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer Rich R. Wed July 14 1954 Cancer John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Dan Stark Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Cathy Guetzlaff Mon July 18 1955 Cancer Vlad Sat July 18 1970 Warning: severe tire damage Jani Pinola Thu July 20 1972 Jonquil - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:04:48 -0700 (PDT) From: sierran@earthlink.net (JoAnn Whetsell) Subject: reviews Hi. These are pretty much meant for the Guide, but I thought I would share them with everyone, hoping that they might stimulate interesting conversation. The Theory of Three Well, no, that's not a musical group, although, personally, I don't think it makes a bad group name. Anyway, this is my theory that I see a lot of artists on the third try. It took me 3x to see the Indigo Girls (finally at NJ Lilith Fair last year), 3x to see Tori (Columbus, last year). I have so far missed Beth Orton 2x (she was scheduled to play NJ Lilith last year but didn't; missed the NY show b/c I was sick) so I'm hoping to see her next time I try. And most recently, Friday night I saw Melissa Ferrick in Pittsburgh after twice missing her in Cleveland. I was a bit startled when I first came in the club, when I saw this small, thin woman on stage in a loose tank top and baggy jeans and sneakers, playing this guitar that looked really big for her body. I didn't recognize her, but that voice. I recognized that voice. I tried to think of how to describe it, and I thought maybe like coffee, smooth, but sharp, an acquired taste. Or maybe like crushed velvet, which is smooth, but also sort of rough when you rub it. That powerhouse voice. It was really strong, and sounded smoother to me than on the albums. Her guitar playing is incredible, and even though it was a solo show, it had a very full sound. She seemed very natural, down to earth, and looked like she was really enjoying herself. She didn't talk much, but she did tell some funny little jokes and stories. I missed the first part of the show, but I heard her play a lot of songs, from all of her albums, including Asking For Love, Everything I Need, Particular Place To Be, I Like It That Way, most of the Willing To Wait album, and a very plaintive version of Happy Song, and Ani's Untouchable Face. Fantastic show. The Re-Discovery Zone This has been the week/end of rediscovering albums that I hadn't listened to in a long time because I didn't particularly like them. The Story: Grace In Gravity I know what people mean about Jonatha and Jennifer's voices sounding so alike and indistinguishable. Still, the blend is beautiful, if a bit too sweet at times. A pretty good album overall, with Always and The Alarm Is On Love, and they would probably stand out more if the album weren't so monochromatic in mood and tempo. The Beatles: Abbey Road Also a car tape. I forgot that Here Comes the Sun, one of my favorite songs ever, was on this album. Other great songs include Octopus Garden and Maxwell's Silver Hammer, which is absolutely hilarious. Ani DiFranco: Up Up Up Up Up Up I never thought I could say this, but I hated this album when I first got it. I had looked forward to it for so long, and I was so disappointed, and the only reason I didn't sell it was because it was Ani. It's an interesting mix because there are these simple songs like her early albums, and then there are these rock, electric songs that push way further her recent experimentation. I like the first kind of songs better (Tis of Thee, Angry Any More, Everest) though of the latter group, I really like Virtue. Overall I don't think it's a great album, and even the better songs on it are not Ani's stronger work, but it's still worth having, because it is Ani. Holly Cole: Temptation Decided to give this a listen since it's been a long time. I don't know Tom Waits' originals at all, but I really like this album. Holly has a way of making the songs she sings her own, even though they're all covers. Her voice can be soo seductive and sultry. I think this style also works really well for her, jazz-influenced but not strict jazz. Shawn Colvin: Fat City This is an album I could never forget, but I hadn't listened to it in a while. This tape (bought after reading a review in a magazine, along with Tori's Little Earthquakes) got me through my junior year of high school, a really difficult year in my life. It's got a range of somber, upbeat, fun, and heartbreakingly painful songs. Incidental trivia: The Jane in "Kill the Messenger" is none other than Jane Siberry, and the song was written after seeing Jane in concert. Indigo Girls: Strange Fire This is a dubbed tape, so it also stays in the car, on the flip side of PJ's _Dry_. I always liked the title song, but I rarely listen to the whole album. The barer, acoustic sound makes it more intimate; quieter and calmer than the later albums. And it's great to have another version of "Land of Canaan." Patty Larkin: Strangers World I ordered this used on ecto recommendation since I have and really like Angels Running and Perishable Fruit. Plus I had a clip of Johnny Was a Pyro that I really liked. When I first got the album, I was very disappointed. It seemed pretty bland. I pulled it out the other day to listen to "Johnny..." and decided to give it another chance. I now think it's a very beautiful album, quiet and unobtrusive, but with a way of getting under your skin if you listen well to them and let them. The songs remind me of some of the best stuff on Perishable Fruit and the better songs on Shawn Colvin's _A Few Small Repairs_. "Johnny" is still my favorite song, but I also really like Mary Magdalane. Suzanne Vega: 99.9 F Degrees This stays in the car because it's on tape. I pulled it out during the drive to Pittsburgh to see if my opinion of it had improved any. There had always been certain songs I liked (Rock In This Pocket, In Liverpool) individually, but it didn't really capture me as an album. I still don't think it does, but I realized that I like the individual songs a lot more than I remembered, and I will probably listen to it more often, but still not often. Grey Eye Glances: Eventide I ordered this based on ecto recommendations, and when I first got it I thought it was okay. Mildly pleasant but not very interesting. I pulled it out again tonight, and I like the lead singer's voice. The music sounds more distinct to me now, and though it's not particularly original or innovative, it's pretty good pop. I think this is the *happiest* album I own. And it's hard to find good, fun, happy music that isn't just cotton candy fluff. Comparisons: Definite reminders of _Sunburnt_ era Moon 7 Times and shades of 10,000 Maniacs. Shawn Colvin: A Few Small Repairs It took me a while, but I like this album okay, pretty well in fact. And if the singer were someone else, I would probably think it was much better than I think it is. It just isn't as good as Colvin's earlier work. It is the most pop, most mainstream, of her albums, and it's interesting to note that she won a grammy for her debut in the contemporary folk category, and 2 grammys for "sunny came home" in mainstream categories. Still, she's a good songwriter, and there are some gems here like "Trouble," "Wichita Skyline," and "New Thing Now" among the more mediocre songs. JoAnn (joann.whetsell@oberlin.edu) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:14:42 -0400 From: Bill Adler Subject: Re: The Shotgun Area Seven Tubs Party I want to echo (or is it ecto?) what Joe and Jeff said. Lynn Canfield did great music last night. Her songs took on a great variety of topics, from pets to love and loss, parody of Madonna's "Material Girl," called "Ethereal Girl," which anybody who likes listening to female singers with lush voices and, well, ethereall lyrics, will appreciate. The songs are complex, often multi-layered. I picked up her entire set of CDs and an looking forward to listening to them all. I liked the intimate venue at Borders, but I felt that the one downside of the performance was the way the music sometimes overpowered Canfield's vocals. A voice like that is meant to be the focus of a performance, with the music as backup. Chalk that up to the acoustics at Borders, I guess. It was great meeting Joe, Jeff, Craig, and Emily. Catch you all at the next event! - --Bill At 03:31 AM 6/23/99 -0400, you wrote: >Whoo-hoo, just got in from seeing Lynn Canfield at Borders near DC. >The ecto contingent (Jeff, Craig, Bill Adler and spouse (whose name I >embarrasedly forget), Emily Perkins, and me) made up a sizable chunk >of the steady audience. > >Lynn's performance would, in less expert hands, have seemed ditzy, >but was weirdly wonderful. The audience had these little booklets >with the complete songlist, lyrics, and crossreferences. (I kept >expect to be told "Please turn to page 17 and rise for "With >Louise".) The other players were equally goofy and expert. >... >n.p. Happy live somewhere or other sometime after BtC but before MWABT. >n.r. Still The Boulez Cage Correspondance. > >-- >| jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/~jzitt | >| Latest Solo CD: Gentle Entropy http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | >| Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | Bill Adler www.adlerbooks.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:15:16 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Persephone's Circle (on their way to Portland, OR) Hi, all-- I went to another concert by Persephone's Circle, the group of Seattle singer-songwriters, last night. There were three performers I hadn't heard yet, and I got to hear Willow, jr, and Mary Lydia Ryan again, which was wonderful. I think that as far as my tastes go at least, that I lucked out the first time I heard them and bought their music, as I think I got the music of those in the group most interesting to me then (I already had Mary Lydia Ryan's disc, but bought a tape by Willow, and cds by jr and Aiko Shimada. While I liked the three performers I heard for the first time last night and appreciated their talent and voices, they just weren't anything that excited me that much. Hearing Mary Lydia Ryan again confirmed that her next album, which she's nearly finished putting together, is going to make a big splash on this list. If you liked her first album, the second is just that much more powerful and focused and distinctive. And of course she's a wonderful pianist and vocalist, with quite a range. Very much along the Tori-comparison line, but her own talent--more gentle/abstract than Tori. Willow's rich voice and melancholic folk/pop is haunting, and she can belt it out when appropriate. Her new cd is just her and a guitar, which is how I heard her last night. She's wonderfully talented. I can't quite figure out how to describe her well. She has a song "Four Corners" about a schizophrenic woman that just gets me every time I hear it, on disc or live. jr has a rich, rich voice and her electric guitar playing is enough to sustain songs, even the slow ones. She's working on a new cd now, which I'll be sure to pick up--I love the ep I have now. She did a great cover of "Landslide", which is the only cover anyone did last night, and I loved her version of her haunting song "Home", which is on the cd. Think Tracy Chapman (similar voice, though a little more smoky/Marianne Faithfull) with a stripped-down/evocative electric guitar backup. The three performers I hadn't heard before were (I didn't get the names properly): Rebecca Pearsall, who reminds me a lot of Lois--a stripped down indiefolk style; Nancy Colton who has a great voice and nice guitar work but her songs were a little on the predictable/mainstream folk for me (a song about flying above things as a comment on life and the music business, one about how we're really not alone, that kind of thing); and Katya ______ (didn't catch her last name) who has a great guitar style and a knockout voice but who does really didactic political songs. Anyway, they're on their way to Portland and worth checking out so you can give us your opinion, Portland ectophiles: Thursday June 24th, 5-6 pm at Music Milliennium's NW 23rd store Friday June 25th 12-1:30 pm KBOO Radio (90.7 FM) Live performance and interview. Saturday June 26th 2-4 pm Portland Saturday Market Food court Stage Saturday June 26th 7:00 pm, Mari's Garden Outdoor concert 636 SE 49th, between Stark & Belmont. It says BYOBeverage, picnic dinner and blanket, Suggested donation $5-$10, gates open 6:30 pm - --Neile - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:38:03 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Persephone's Circle, name corrections Just found an email message from Mary Lydia Ryan where she listed the current members of Persephone's Circle: Mary Lydia Ryan Willow Aiko Shimada Nancy Colton Katya Chorover JR Rebecca Pearcy Unfortunately, I gather that neither Mary Lydia Ryan nor Aiko Shimada will be heading to Portland. - --Neile - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:17:53 -0500 From: jjh969@juno.com Subject: Re: Pierre Boulez On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 03:31:29 -0400 Joseph Zitt writes: >Whoo-hoo, just got in from seeing Lynn Canfield at Borders near DC. >Snip< >n.p. Happy live somewhere or other sometime after BtC but before >MWABT. >n.r. Still The Boulez Cage Correspondences. Joe, Re: your n.r. - Have you ever had the pleasure of seeing Pierre Boulez perform with his Ensemble Intercontemporain ? I once saw him perform with them in a gymnasium at Columbia University. It was far and away one of the most memorable musical experiences of my life. It was fortunate this experience was subsequent to foreswearing my indulgences in things chemical. He had a core of players up on a square raised platform in the center of the gym. There were players, also on raised platforms, at the four corners of the high ceiling'd cinder block cube. Four Harpists occupied platforms to the cubes sides as well. On all sides of the central core sat men with Macs. Flying from the roof at different altitudes and angles of attack were short throw JBL Eon style speaker cabinets. I think the side and corner platforms were actually down facing sub-woofers. The engineers manning the Macs were coordinating the boiling vortex of sound. It was like being inside a Leslie Cabinet set on Berserk, absolutely skull-crushing, not from the db's, but due to sensory overload. A good portion of the audience were faculty and white-bread upper west side wasps, who were there simply because they heard it was the cool thing to do that night. Half the crowd ran from the room wringing their hands and muttering to themselves "What Da Fuck Was That ?!?!" as soon as the first movement's crash and burn conclusion fell gasping and writhing to the floor. I am certain Pierre was not asked back. The adventurous souls who remained behind were treated to an orgasmic display of virtuosity and imagination such as I have never been witness to in my life, before or since. It is a memory that will leave me only when the rotting flesh falls from my bones in the grave. John n.p. Herbert Henck performing three of Pierre's piano sonatas from the forties and fifties. B.T.W. Going to try and catch Lynn Canfield tonight at Arlene's. Been curious since hearing all these good things about her . ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:06:30 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Pierre Boulez On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:17:53PM -0500, jjh969@juno.com wrote: > Re: your n.r. - Have you ever had the pleasure of seeing Pierre > Boulez perform with his Ensemble Intercontemporain ? I once > saw him perform with them in a gymnasium at Columbia > University. It was far and away one of the most memorable > musical experiences of my life. Yow! Sounds like quite a gig. I've never seen them live, and the CD of Repons, which is of necessity flattened to stereo, only hints at the spatial impact. (As with much such music, though, I found myself wondering at someone having worked out and written down all those notes, and wondering about improvisation structures that could emulate it.) At the other end of things, I'm going to be in NYC on Friday for the Hips Road seminars: Extending Voices with Shelley Hirsch and Voice and Performance with Meredith Monk. Plus, of course, CD shopping. DMG and Other Music beckon... - -- | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/~jzitt | | Latest Solo CD: Gentle Entropy http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 18:25:31 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: [zwirnm@ari.net: Re: Lynn Canfield (passed along to a few who expressed interest)] Forwarded with permission... - ----- Forwarded message from Michael Zwirn ----- X-Authentication-Warning: mtolympus.ari.net: zwirnm owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:57:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Zwirn To: badler@csi.com, jzitt@metatronpress.com, joe@mobiusnm.com, gregls@mindspring.com, sspan@magpage.com, neile@sff.net Subject: Re: Lynn Canfield (passed along to a few who expressed interest) In-Reply-To: This is also posted to alt.music.alternative.female and will be on my website when I next have a couple of reviews to post. If you'd like to x-post to Ecto or wherever (I understand most of you are subscribers, I'm not) that'd be cool. - ----- Lynn Canfield and Hot Tub Party (Borders Bookstore, Rockville MD, 6/22/99) -- For fans of Champaign-Urbana's legendary ethereal/dream-pop ensembles Area and the Moon Seven Times, the current ten-day tour led by singer Lynn Canfield and a three-piece she calls the Hot Tub Party is a rare chance to hear the music from those days performed by its author. Lynn is on a blitzkrieg tour of East Coast and Southeast Borders Bookstores, an unusual but apparently successful venue for her songs and the group's somewhat jazzier sound. In Area and m7x Lynn's principal counterparts were guitarist Henry Frayne (currently recording as Lanterna) and then-husband Brendan Gamble on keyboards. With Frayne's treated guitars and Gamble's echoey synthesizer lines, m7x came across as a Midwestern meeting-place of 4AD's dreamy artistry (This Mortal Coil, Red House Painters) and Projekt's gloomy ambient goth (Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Loveliescrushing). Canfield wrote most of the lyrics and sang everything, so her darkly alluring vocals were the band's most notable selling point. In Sunburnt, the final m7x record, and Shotgun Wedding, the ensemble she and Gamble formed in 1997-98, folk and jazz influences began to overtake the dreamy ambience that Canfield and Frayne had perfected over the course of 4 Area records (two of which have been reissued by Projekt) and the first two brilliant m7x records, the first self-titled and the second 7=49. Sunburnt was a pleasant but somewhat underwhelming record most notable for its country and folk explorations ("Nashville", "Some of Them Burn"), which continued with A Big World of Fun, the self-released debut from Shotgun Wedding (reviewed at Kibbutz Music Reviews, http://www2.ari.net/zwirnm/review48.htm#shotgun). Lynn's touring repertoire with Hot Tub Party is about half Shotgun Wedding material and one-quarter each Area and m7x, which allowed this long-time Moon Seven Times fan his first chance to hear Area material performed in concert. Indeed, the trio (including fellow University of Illinois cohorts on keyboards and on accordion, alto and tenor saxophone) performed two songs from the very first Area record, which has never been released on compact disc. This came as quite a surprise. The set started off with one of the most immediately accessible m7x compositions, 7=49's entrancing "My Game," which not coincidentally is one of the band's compositions which is least-reliant on Henry Frayne's guitar playing. They continued with another m7x track, Sunburnt's "Further," before delving into the depths of the Area catalogue with "By My Eyes," a song so obscure I don't even know it - and I think I own almost every song Lynn's ever sung, with the exception of the odd compilation. Fortunately the audience could follow along easily with the help of a Hot Tub Party hymnal of sorts, a miniature cartoon book of lyrics and drawings helpfully arrayed in the order of the trio's set list. Although the band was forced to omit a few songs due to time constraints, they followed the songbook closely. A Big World of Fun was well-represented, with something like half of the album performed in concert. Although I enjoy Shotgun Wedding's output, it doesn't affect me as the m7x releases do. Still, it certainly has its charms, notably in "Effingham" and "Go Home Mary." "Inside Only Cat," a delightful trifle, gained some resonance in the midst of an animal-centered medly including m7x's ringing "Straw Donkeys," SW's "Firefly," and the Moon Seven Times self-titled debut's bonus track, "Ride 'em Chuck." The truly startling piece in the hour-and-a-half set was "Ethereal Girl," a gleefully ditzy glitter-bedecked parody of Madonna's "Material Girl" rewritten with gothcentric imagery. Before closing their set earluer than expected due to construction at the bookstore, the trio did loose, jazzy interpretations of Area's "With Louise," m7x's "Knock," and a few more Shotgun Wedding pieces. The pleasantest of selections for me was Radio Caroline's "One Desire," one of Area's most immediately enthralling melodies and a showpiece for some nice saxophone riffing. Lynn's grey parrot and parakeet, in separate pet carriers, failed to live up to their billing as backup singers. There were a few die-hard Area/m7x fans in attendance, who hung rapturously on every lilt in Lynn's voice, but the band did quite well with the rest of the Borders audience, most of whom were merely looking for reading material. The trio's attractive mix of merchandise was anchored by a remarkable plastic box containing something called The Lynn Canfield Box Lunch Set, which contains the first two Area compact discs, all three Moon Seven Times CDs, an m7x seven-inch, the Shotgun Wedding CD, three of Lynn's adorable Big Dang comic books, a Shotgun Wedding calendar denoted helpfully with holidays, gardening hints and secret codes, a pile of greeting cards, salt and pepper shakers and silverware, and a fruit shaker (banana, orange or pear) like the one that she plays to accompany her singing. - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael J. Zwirn zwirnm@ari.net ICQ #34272068 Kibbutz Music Reviews: http://www2.ari.net/zwirnm/kibbutz.html Current: Stacey Earle in concert, Jake - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - ----- End forwarded message ----- - -- | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/~jzitt | | Latest Solo CD: Gentle Entropy http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:23:18 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Max Sharam Hi, all-- I got email through The Ectophiles' Guide from Max Sharam, and she gave me some new website info (www.maxsharam.com) and I asked: > > Any word of new material or other news I can pass on to the ecto mailing > > list? There are several strong supporters of your music there, and I'm > > sure they'd love to hear what you're doing these days. She responded: > there are some (work-in-progress) home demo's up on the mp3.com/maxsharam > > > other than that... you can ask everyone to cross their fingers that I get >the long overdue > next album out for the millennium!! > : ) > > > thanks for your support > xmx - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 12:44:24 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Mail order info for Willow's music Hi, all-- Matt emailed me asking for ordering info for Willow's music, and I thought I'd forward it to the whole group just in case anyone else is interested. She'll shortly have a page on the guide--the cd & tape are en route to a reviewer as I type. - --Neile > >neile, > >it was so nice to finally meet you! i really appreciate you making it >out! - sometimes tuesday's are hard to get a good crowd, but i think last >night's crowd was quite nice! >the order address for cd's is Mercy Music c/o Willow 763 Belmont PL E box108 >Seattle, WA 98102 - >$10 +$3 s&h (cd) >$8 + $2 s&h (tape) > >do i need to give you any bio info? >hope you have a great w/e! > >willow - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:48:47 PDT From: Nick Nadel Subject: Re: belle and sebastian and more any belle and sebastian fans on the list? I'm sure there are. they are amazing, folky, 60's pop, Nick Drake, Donovanish. If Your Feeling Sinister their album from 1997 is a must have, in fact it was on the Rolling Stone best albums of the 90's list. 1998's Boy With the Arab Strap is pretty great too. They're real fast, lots of EPs and a new full album is coming soon. Everyone here should check them out. any fans? New Stuff: Texas, The Hush- Great soulful pop. Brit band with amazing lead singer. Gentle Waves- Belle and Sebastian side project from vocalist Isobel Cambpell. More great lilting 60's influenced tunes. Dido, No Angel-I'm sure everyone here will catch on to this one soon. She's amazing, press is calling her the next Sarah Mc., or at least the next Beth Orton. 10,000 Maniacs, The Earth Pressed Flat- Comeon, give it a try! If you ever liked the Maniacs at all you'll dig it. New Chemical Brothers album has Mazzy Star vocalist Hope Sandoval. Don't have it, anyone heard her song. New MAzzy Star album soon I hope? Any news? Still looking for LA Lilith people.... ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #213 **************************