From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #76 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, March 18 2000 Volume 06 : Number 076 Today's Subjects: ----------------- ADMIN: smoe.org scheduled power outage [fartachu ] Bird York and other new stuff [jjhanson@att.net] FW: NYC Metro TV & radio ad: Kohl's [hooligan ] [Fwd: Attn: Melissa Ferrick Fans Everywhere!] [Mark Miazga ] Velvet Belly live in Netherlands [Yngve Hauge ] Summer by Happy Rhodes [RocketsTail@aol.com] Fwd: [IAWM] Women in Music Technology WebCast [Carolyn Andre Subject: ADMIN: smoe.org scheduled power outage smoe.org will be down starting on saturday morning. do not adjust your set. do not be alarmed. woj >Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 11:31:32 -0500 >From: Jeff Wasilko >To: guests@smoe.org >Subject: ADMIN: scheduled power outage > >The location where smoe.org is housed will be without power for >10 hours Saturday morning (starting at 6AM or so). > >jeff ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:44:15 +0000 From: jjhanson@att.net Subject: Bird York and other new stuff I recently picked up Bird York's self-titled album from Amazon.com I have to say it's the most "ecto" purchase I've bought in a while. I haven't been overly excited by any new artists for a while, but I think Bird York is definitely an artist to watch. Amazon compared her to Portishead for her use of trip-hop beats, but to me she's more of a cross between Imogen Heap and Fiona Apple, at least vocally. She has a fairly low voice, that breaks nicely with a slight fragility. Her songs are really catchy, and instantly seem familiar, without being too pop. The song "Bought a Gun" is pretty disturbing--but quite catchy. There isn't a bad song on the album. Highly recommend it! Other recent purchases include the Wild Colonials new one--Reel Life, Vol. 1, a collection of their film music. Some of the songs are on their other two albums or various soundtracks, but many are new. Highlights include "If by Chance", featuring backing vocals by Cyndi Lauper, and many of the side projects. These are mostly instrumental, and feature Lili Hayden on violin--really great stuff. I also bought Marianne Nowottny's Afraid of Me. A 16-year old New Jersey girl--sort of P.j Harvey with an organ, as I think Anna Marie said. I think her song-writing is interesting, but I get really sick of her overdone, shrill organ by the second song. All the songs are fairly noisy, and lack melody. Not my cup of tea, but I know that some people on the list would probably really like her. Also recently got Audra MacDonald's new one--not standard ecto-fare, but if you like operatic Broadway singers, she's really the best. Probably the brightest new star of Broadway (she won Tony awards for each of her first 3 plays). This album she focuses more on standards than her debut--where she really focused on new writers, such as Adam Guettel. He gets one song on this album, but the highlight of the album for me is "The Man that Got Away". Also picked up an older album by Vas called "Offerings". LIsa Gerrard/Dead Can Dance fans take note--I'd say Vas is as close as you're going to get. Same wordless vocals, use of interesting instrumentation, etc. Jeff Hanson n.p. Bird York n.r. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:11:26 -0500 From: hooligan Subject: FW: NYC Metro TV & radio ad: Kohl's okay, now i *am* certain that it's her! - ---------- From: hooligan Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 10:38:39 -0500 To: Subject: Re: NYC Metro TV & radio ad: Kohl's It sounds a lot like Angela McCluskey of The Wild Colonials, but I'm not certain that it's actually her. -mj. on 2/27/00 12:25 AM, MockRafe@aol.com at MockRafe@aol.com wrote: > Hello there... Anyone in the New York City metropolitan area hear a TV and > radio ad for Kohl's opening a dozen or more stores in the next couple months. > There is a lady's voice singing her heart out for their little jingle who > sounds like a cross between Natalie Merchant and Bjork, or a Liz Graham > played just a little too fast on an audiocassette tape. Can anyone identify > it? Thank you. > > Yours in Ecto, > Mock Rafe > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 17:51:41 -0500 From: Mark Miazga Subject: [Fwd: Attn: Melissa Ferrick Fans Everywhere!] This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------E2C32E70B1CA717FDD71AC4C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit This message came from Melissa Ferrick's management. It's basically what I said yesterday, but wanted you all to see it from them. - -- Mark Miazga miazgama@msu.edu http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama 143 West Akers Hall, MSU|East Lansing, MI 48825|(517) 353-4936 http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama Founder, The Common Grounds Coffeehouse http://www.msu.edu/~cgrounds ** Info line: (517) 353-5057 MELISSA FERRICK performs on March 29! ANDY TUBMAN performs on March 31! THE ARTICLES perform on April 28! Academic and Social Activities Coordinator of Akers Hall. English & Secondary Education, Class of 2000 - --------------E2C32E70B1CA717FDD71AC4C Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from war.com ([206.124.12.106]) by pilot002.cl.msu.edu (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id OAA64184 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:17:55 -0500 Message-Id: <200003171917.OAA64184@pilot002.cl.msu.edu> Received: from [192.168.0.35] [192.168.0.35] by war.mail [192.168.0.1] with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP4.R) for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:13:08 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express for Macintosh - 4.0c (197) Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:13:35 -0700 Subject: Attn: Melissa Ferrick Fans Everywhere! From: "Jillian Jenkins" Mime-version: 1.0 X-Priority: 3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: miazgama@pilot.msu.edu X-Return-Path: jillian@war.com Melissa Ferrick Fans Everywhere! We need your support! Melissa's new album hit the store on 3/14 and many stores aren't paying enough attention to it. Call your local record store and ask 'em if they've got FREEDOM in their store! Better yet, go on in for a visit and see how well Melissa's product is stocked and let us know! We're getting a lot of "ones and twos" when we need many more in the bins. Let them know about the demand for FREEDOM out there! Please send dave@war.com & stapper2@aol.com an email with location, manager, etc. - any info will help! Information is our best ally to fix any stock problems! Thanks for all your support! Rock on brothers and sisters! Jillian Reitsma What Are Records? Ltd. 2401 Broadway Boulder, CO 80304 http://www.WhatAreRecords.com http://www.war.com jillian@WhatAreRecords.com jillian@war.com 303-440-0666 PHONE 303-447-2484 FAX **************************************************** - --------------E2C32E70B1CA717FDD71AC4C-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 18:34:51 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: musings on "live" music: mirrorball On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Shirley Ye wrote: [massive snipping of thought-provoking post] > And to tie this back to Mirrorball. Sarah's voice has an ephemeral, > ethereal quality that sounds "slick" whether in the studio or live. Her > concerts are certainly productions, with good sound engineers, good > lighting persons, elaborate backdrops, and lately situated in huge venues. > Certainly the audience does not factor much in the performance. In fact, i was fortunate enough to see a, what, must've been 95? "fumbling" era show from second row center. a show from later that week, i think, was widely bootlegged, and i've heard that as well. and most of my massive disappointment with _mirrorball_ is based on how lacking it seems to me in comparison with the experience on the one hand, and the recording on the other. (the official "live" e.p. from 1994 or so also struck me as comparitively free of the gripes i have with _mirrorball_.) the "fumbling" band was certainly well-rehearsed, tightly choreographed, and not, i think very spontaneous. but it struck me as much more emotionally intense than the performances on _mirrorball_. i think your singling out of "ice cream" as a centerpiece track is a fine example of what bugs me about the _surfacing_ tour material: "ice cream" worked fine for me in the context of "fumbling;" it has a single lyrical conceit which is fairly clever, and it's short. it almost serves as a "palate cleanser" between "hold on" and "fear," the more serious tracks that bookend it. in the live version, it's vastly stretched out, expanded by vocal gymnastics that, while i sure couldn't sing 'em, sound rather passionless. ...and that's what bugs me most about _mirrorball_ -- it's true that it has a lot of what i think of as the weakest material of mclachlan's career - -- "i will remember you," "i love you," "ice cream" -- but the bigger sin is that is sounds less like the band *means* the songs they're playing. they were on the road for what, three years with more-or-less the same set; i think perhaps they bled all the energy from some of the "fumbling" songs, or moved too far from the mental space they'd been written in. - -- d. - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = guitar pop ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:56:23 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Velvet Belly live in Netherlands Hiya, Velvet Belly will play live in Netherlands in April - be sure to go see them if you are able. april 19 GRONINGEN - VERA april 20 TILBURG - 013 april 21 AMSTERDAM - PARADISO april 22 ? april 23 SCHIJNDEL - PAASPOP d No, I don't know where they are gonna play April 22 as I copied this from their webpage :) I'll post the date as soon as I got it though. Btw ... It is now possible to get their international release of Lucia at Tower Records though I've heard the price does stink really bad. An option would be to order it from Amazon.co.uk where you get it for below half the price. I'm gonna post more tomorrow, but I can't think straight just now ... *hugs* - -- Yngve ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 19:49:30 EST From: RocketsTail@aol.com Subject: Summer by Happy Rhodes Can someone tell me which Happy Rhodes album "Summer" and "Mercy Street" are on? I just got MP3s of them and was kinda curious. Thanks a lot! -eric "God never liked people that much" ~Sarah Slean ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 23:42:49 -0600 From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Fwd: [IAWM] Women in Music Technology WebCast I seem to recall Pauline Oliveros being mentioned here ... Thought this might be of interest (if the smoe server isn't on break before Saturday) ... Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 18:17:38 -0500 >To: iawm@nicanor.acu.edu >From: Pauline Oliveros >Subject: [IAWM] Women in Music Technology WebCast > >The College Music Society workshop, "Women and Music Technology" >takes place at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta/Decatur Georgia March >16-19 organized by Judith Coe and Calvert Johnson. > > >Of the scheduled presentations there will be a WebCast of the Music >Technology Improvisation Jam on Friday Night March 17 and of the >Thamyris Concert featuring the music of Pauline Oliveros with guest >artists Monique Buzzarte-trombone, David Gamper-keyboard and >electronics and Gisela Gamper projected imagery. > >The WebCast is facilitated by Douglas Cohen-Artswire, Emily Gwynn and >Neta Counts of Agnes Scott College > >Set your browzers to http://www.artswire.org/pof/broadcast/ Friday >8-10pm and Saturday 8:00-10pm. >Pauline Oliveros (404) 371-0930 ofc >Music Dept. Agnes Scott College (404) 471-5390 hm >141 East College Avenue 404-471-5087 FAX >Atlanta/Decatur, Ga 30030 http://www.artswire.org/pof/pauline > > What mind changes your sounds? Regards, Carolyn Andre - ------------------------- candre@house-of-music.com Support Independent Music! Use the Internet ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2000 00:48:27 EST From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: Last-Minute Reminder: Rachael Sage Tonight, NYC! R A C H A E L S A G E. . . TONIGHT! - Saturday March 18, 7:30 & 10:30 PM @ The Bottom Line (15 W. 4th St. / Corner of Mercer - 212.228.6300) Featuring: Jagoda-Percussion, Ben Butler-Guitar, Carol Sharar-Violin . . .appearing w/ November Project Hope to see you there!! * * * * * * * * * * * * * www.rachaelsage.com www.novemberproject.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #76 *************************