From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #371 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, December 10 2000 Volume 06 : Number 371 Today's Subjects: ----------------- EctoFest West ["Suzanna Otting" ] RE: Bulgarian Folk Singing [Paul Blair ] RE: EctoFest West ["Shelly DeForte" ] Re: 20 Years Ago... [Brad Hutchinson ] Penelope Houston news [Neile Graham ] Karen Matheson ["phclark" ] Mylene Farmer [karen hester ] tori bsides query [blah blah blah ] RE: Karen Matheson ["Bill Adler" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 04:46:59 -0800 From: "Suzanna Otting" Subject: EctoFest West Hey Ectos who are concerned, What's happening with the planning for EctoFest West? Are there any updates? Just wondering, Suzanna Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 11:59:16 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: RE: Bulgarian Folk Singing Phil Hudson wrote: >I have mentioned the Berkeley-based group Kitka in these threads before, but >seldom pass up a chance to promote them and their beautiful work >(www.kitka.com) The clip from Tsintsharo sounds remarkably like the choral part in Kate Bush's "Hello Earth" just before the submarine pinging starts, but there isn't enough there to be sure. Is it the same? pb ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 09:42:41 -0800 From: "Shelly DeForte" Subject: RE: EctoFest West Ectofest West is currently planned for June 9th in Santa Cruz, California. The artist list is still a bit fluid at the moment. I plan to have an ectofest west web site up sometime in January. Thanks all, Shelly > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of > Suzanna Otting > Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 4:47 AM > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: EctoFest West > > > Hey Ectos who are concerned, > > What's happening with the planning for EctoFest West? > Are there any updates? > > Just wondering, > Suzanna > > > Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 17:07:53 -0500 From: Brad Hutchinson Subject: Re: 20 Years Ago... > Just wondering...for those of you that are old enough, what were you doing >and how did you learn of John Lennon's death 20 years ago today? As for me, >I learned from Howard Cossell as I watched Mon. Night Football and I can't >forget what a shock it was. The whole thing was really unreal for me. A girl I was dating at the time called me to tell me waking me up from an adolescent nap. I went right back to sleep. When I woke up, I had to call a few friends to make sure that I hadn't dreamed it. . . brad NP Spinner alt.now NR Ghostwriter - -- - -- It is not every day that the world arranges itself into a poem. - --Wallace Stevens - -------------------------------------------------------------- Brad Hutchinson--basil@naxs.com--bhutchin@bristolvaschools.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 17:15:11 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Penelope Houston news For those interested. - --Neile >Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 13:27:24 -0700 >From: Phuzz >Reply-To: phous@earthlink.net >MIME-Version: 1.0 >To: penelope >Subject: Think penelope.net for X-mas! > > Hi Friends, > >We've got a big fat Holiday Sale going on! >All Penelope and Avengers CDs & Tshirts are now $10.99!! >And all available by "instant purchase." > >Click here for CDs: >http://www.penelope.net/allcds.html >Click here for Tshirts: >http://www.penelope.net/tpost.html > >Don't you think it's time to share the music with your friends? > >Also I'm happy to announce a penelope.net exclusive online offering of the >limited release Christmas album by Ukebox, Steven Strauss's new ukelele >duet! 16 wonderful instrumentals to cuddle to, by the yulelog embers. >Click here for more info: >http://www.penelope.net/uke.html > >And with in a week 5 more new CDs and a shop makeover... so visit soon! > >cheers >Penelope Houston > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 18:30:51 -0700 From: "phclark" Subject: Karen Matheson I just discovered the other day that the Karen Matheson (Capercaillie) solo cd has been released in the US. So I finally bought it at full boat American list rather than full boat import list. (So far, only Beth Orton and Annie Haslam have I done this for.) It's good. It was worth it. Peter C ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:54:04 +1300 From: karen hester Subject: Mylene Farmer Kia Ora Lately I've been enjoying the French music channel they show in New Zealand - - I don't understand a word of it and sweet confectionary pop with inscrutable lyrics is fun. It is also confusing since the musical styles are foreign. I was hoping that someone with an European sensibility (!) could explain Mylene Farmer to me - is her combination of dark subjects and perky dance & guitar music typical? I went "Huh?" the first time I saw this red haired lady singing a high pitched ballad, ethereal like a layered Enya arrangement but with a tight pop structure, and young men in her audience were chanting along and pounding their fists in the air like at a rock concert; then she climbed into the open hand of a giant sphinx and .. well, it was odd. I assumed her lyrics were the usual inane sappy or sexy stuff, but then I came across an article in French Vogue where Salman Rushdie said: "Mylene is a friend. Her texts, between melancolie and sensualite, suffering and abandonment, move me. Her voice, half of this world, half besides, is astonishing, it is the voice of a fallen angel." Rushdie proceeded to defend a banned video of hers, involving Mylene lying naked in blood on a church floor, or something like that - translations by me & babelfish can't quite be trusted. So that made no sense within my US/UK pop framework, and neither do the lyrics which translate into love letters to melancholy, suicidal dreams, a perky song in which she stuffs a handkerchief down her trousers and declares 'Since I have to choose.. I can say it with no forgery, I am a boy", and a very violent 'Agnus Dei'. It's reassuring that there are millions-selling artists who are so strange. Is she typical of French music? Do people who buy Celine Dion's French albums listen to Mylene? I'm confused and require alleviation, ecto oracle. thanks, Karen (np Nordic Roots 2, thank you Phil) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2000 18:58:22 -0800 From: blah blah blah Subject: tori bsides query hey quick query for you toriphiles. i am finally utilizing my CDburner to it's potential and am trying to make a TORI BSIDES compilation(s). anyway i have most of her singles (and was able to track down the few missing songs that i don't have), but am having a heck of a tough time trying to find her LIVE bsides. the problem of course, is that there are million LIVE versions out there, but i want to make a compilation of "official live" bsides to go on the CD-r. and can't seem to track them down because they were during here LE/UtP era and i guess no one cares about these versions? i dunno. anyway... i was wondering if anyone could either point me to a site that has some of these MP3's, or would be willing to swap/send me the ones i am missing. i can send whoever send me the missing ones, a copy of the CD-R(s) if the want them, or something else in my trade list (what trade list? i haven't had a trade list in years, yikes...i am sure we could work something out...i have stuff floating around here that must be desirable to someone....) the list: CRUCIFY UK limited edition: 1 LITTLE EARTHQUAKES (live) 6:58 2 CRUCIFY (live) 5:03 3 PRECIOUS THINGS (live) 5:03 4 MOTHER (live) 3:37 PAST THE MISSION UK limited edition pt1 1 UPSIDE DOWN (live) 5:57 2 PAST THE MISSION (live) 4:21 3 ICICLE (live) 7:50 4 FLYING DUTCHMAN (live) 6:31 SILENT ALL THESE YEARS UK limited edition 4 HAPPY PHANTOM (live) 3:33 any help would be FABOO! love irvin ps. oh yeah. i forgot about the OTIS REDDING version of I CAN'T GET NO SATISFACTION. i do like that version i think. it's been awhile since i have heard it! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2000 22:30:49 -0500 From: "Bill Adler" Subject: RE: Karen Matheson Karen Matheson, Capercaillie's lead singer (www.capercaillie.co.uk), has a stupendous voice. "A throat surely touched by God" is how Sean Connery put it. If you like Celtic music at all, then Matheson's The Dreaming Sea should be on the top of your list. If you like exceptional female voices, then The Dreaming Sea won't disappoint. Some of the songs are in Gaelic, some in English. The Gaelic songs are so expressive that I'd swear I can understand every word, even though I don't speak a word of Gaelic I'll cast my vote with Peter -- The Dreaming Sea is an excellent CD. - --Bill n.p. Fran Lucci, Mandays - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of phclark Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2000 8:31 PM To: ecto Subject: Karen Matheson I just discovered the other day that the Karen Matheson (Capercaillie) solo cd has been released in the US. So I finally bought it at full boat American list rather than full boat import list. (So far, only Beth Orton and Annie Haslam have I done this for.) It's good. It was worth it. Peter C ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #371 **************************