From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #154 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, June 2 2000 Volume 06 : Number 154 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Kathryn Williams ; Veda Hille heads for London. ["Adam Kimmel" ] Neile's March Music Riport (late late late, yeah yeah) [Neile Graham Subject: Kathryn Williams ; Veda Hille heads for London. Some time ago I mentioned a promising review I read of a promising = artist called Kathryn Williams. Well, now, only a couple of weeks later, = she's all over the place. Yesterday's=20 Metro (freebie commuter paper) reviewed her album, Little Black Numbers = and gave it 5 out of five, saying she "updates the [folk] formula into = something that knowcks the socks off most popular music....Her = impossibly tender vocals and her achingly painful lyricds combine to = produce some of the most brutally modern pronouncements on love in song = around".=20 Today, meanwhile, the Guardian gives her a two-page spread interview, = citing the inevitable Nick Drake comparisons (if anyone else out there = finds Nick Drake as dreary as I do, this is not as inviting a = proposition as it's meant to sound, but never mind), and even throwing = in a bit of Beth Orton and "early Suzanne Vega". Her album, it turns = out, isn't released until June 12th, so she must have some serious PR = muscle working for her. It sounds promising, however, and I can only = hope it doesn't turn into another empty Shelby Lynne hype. Meanwhile, for London ecto's: Veda Hille is playing the 12 Bar club on = July 4th. I received my copy of You Do Not Live in this World Alone a = few days ago, and have been playing it pretty constantly --- a very = interesting, brave and challenging work, and one that will definitely = lead me to more of her stuff (compared to my recent purchase of Emm = Gryner, which is pleasant enough, but not terribly interesting). Well, thanks for your time. adam k. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:43:22 -0500 From: "Mitchell Pravatiner" Subject: Pink Pearl Someone recently asked for opinions on the new Jill Sobule album, _Pink = Pearl_. I just got it, and I like it. It has her usual quirky lyrics, = and the music is well done. I endorse it enthusiastically. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 21:15:41 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Neile's March Music Riport (late late late, yeah yeah) March was kind of a sparse month for us. Patti Smith, _Gung Ho_ This is Patti Smith back to the height of her powers. I think I like this one even better than her fine _Gone Again_, or at least as well. And at least as well as my favourites of her early work. I can't believe how wonderful her reappearence is. We've listened to this steadily since we got it. Classic rock. Halou, _Sans Soucie_ They're calling a companion disc to _we only love you,_ one of my favourite ectronic discs of 1999. This is some remixes, demos, a cover, various rarities, etc. Damn they're good. Penelope Houston, _Once in a Blue Moon_ A new rarities and demos/outtakes disc that I've been listening to a lot. It's not as great as _tongue_, of course and I have a lot of the rarities material on it in other places, but it's still fun folk/rock with Penelope Houston's wry, energetic look at life. Aiko Shimada, _Another Full Moon_ This is quiet but energetic and dramatic jazz-touched pop. Aiko Shimada has a wonderful voice, and a way of putting together songs with gentle hooks--so gentle you don't even know they've caught you until they're buzzing in your head and you're delighted to hear them when you drop this in the player again. This is my third Aiko Shimada album and I'm glad to have each one of them. Cat Power, _The Covers Record_ This is a little too loose and sloppy and drifty for me, and it didn't come into better focus on more listenings. Jim doesn't like her cover of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", while I actually liked--a very different, almost non-recognizable rendition, but overall this is a disappointment, especially considering how much I liked her previous album. - --Neile np: Aiko Shimada, Another full moon - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 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 ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #154 **************************