From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #51 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, February 18 2001 Volume 07 : Number 051 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Anggun ["Suzanna Otting" ] Jane Siberry - webchat this Monday [Philip David Morgan ] Jennifer Terran and OT: guilty little pleasures [Gordoja@aol.com] Re: Jennifer Terran and OT: guilty little pleasures [Joseph Zitt Subject: RE: Anggun On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:47:38 Mattoon, Melanie wrote: >Suzanna wrote: > >>np: Anggun, "Chrysalis" > >Is this by chance a new Anggun record??? It is! It looks like so far it's only been released in Canada, so I had to order it from there. The English language version is called Chrysalis, the French language version is Desires Contraires if I remember correctly. I don't have the French one yet, or Neige au Sahara that was the French version of her last one, but I recommend Chrysalis if you like Anggun. Who needs Cupid? Matchmaker.com is the place to meet somebody. FREE Two-week Trial Membership at http://www.matchmaker.com/home?rs=200015 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:21:04 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Jane Siberry - webchat this Monday Greetings! The latest word from Jane Siberry (I combed my e-mail to make sure it hadn't already been sent to the list)... Philip David (you learn, and you improve) 2/17/2001 - ----- Original Message ----- From: "S H E E B A" To: Sent: Friday, February 16, 2001 9:56 PM Subject: MUSELETTER . WEBCHAT Monday Feb. 19 > > WEBCHAT with Jane Siberry at http://WWW.CANOE.CA > > Monday, February 19 at 4:00 p.m. EST > Apparently questions can be submitted in advance. > Forty-five minutes. > http://www.canoe.ca/cgi-bin/hchat/hchat?Room=janeSiberry > > > > We don't want to clutter your email box but there will be > other TV interviews/press over the next several weeks. > If interested, please check the SHEEBA NEWS page periodically. > http://www.sheeba.ca/1wellspring.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://www.sheeba.ca 416.921.1364 416.921.0024 fax > Suite 291 - 238 Davenport Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5R 1J6 > Sign up for the Siberry MUSELETTER on website. Receive unusual email. - --- http://members.dencity.com/SakuraNation/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 13:52:02 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Re: Louisa John-Krol Good Afternoon, Suzanna: Just a short preface: I had to comb my e-mail first to make sure no one had replied to your message last night. That being done, and nothing else turning up: On your reactions to Louisa's second music CD, _Alexandria_: > After all the ecto recommendations, I went and bought Louisa John-Krol's "Alexandria" from CD > Baby. I'm not overwhelmed by it, but I like it...I only wish that the liner notes were more > extensive. The CD is vaguely like Loreena McKennitt, and might seem more so if there was some > commentary on the songs or lyrics included... Suzanna, I'm assuming you followed a link to CD-Baby from Louisa's homepage (http://www.louisajohnkrol.com/). I recommend that you go back to her site and access the _Alexandria_ and Magic Theatre pages. The _Alexandria_ pages _does_ include the complete lyrics to the album and some additional thoughts. The Magic Theatre page explains Louisa's concept of storytelling and also includes 1) a story about the "Valley of the Seven Keys" and 2) a poem that spells out what the name Alexandria means to her. Frankly, I'm actually grateful (in a way) that Louisa didn't try to go all out for a booklet crammed with all sorts of commentary. For starters, it would made the final CD and package far more expensive than it was - especially when you consider how pricy a lot of Aussie CDs really are (very close to comparable Japanese product). Second, it would cost far more to do the Loreena McKennitt/Quinlan Road bit and a do a full colour booklet of lryics and notes than it would to put the same info online from which we _can_ print up the material ourselves if we so wish. Third, I've had a real problem in recent years with programme notes in general, especially when they distract the listener from the _music_, which should stand on its own merits. Ideally, I'd prefer to shove the programme notes concept and just listen. (That's how I approached Louisa's latest, _Ariel_.) In an essay she wrote last year for _Newsday_, author/essayist Susan Cheever noted that modern people don't have the capacity to experience anything without wanting trivial details about a book or a piece of art - or a human relationship, for that matter. The same thing goes for music, and I'd throw in movies, anime, or anything similar. Do we really need to know what Loreena McKennitt's state of mind was like while assembling any one of her albums? Unless the artist is willing to share, or openly wants to, that's none of our blooming business. Not every artist's life is an open book - not every one's deserves to be. (Especially if it gets used for that poison known as gossip.) One other thing I'm really getting sick of: the "tastes like chicken" comparison game, when trying to describe a musician's "sound" or music. I actually bristle when I read people comparing, say, Louisa John-Krol to Loreena McKennitt. That's not just because it's unfair to Loreena McKennitt, but also because it's equally unfair to Louisa John-Krol. That's enough of the commentary thing for now... Philip David (spare the chat and get on with the song) 2/17/2001 - --- http://members.dencity.com/SakuraNation/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 19:15:02 EST From: Gordoja@aol.com Subject: Jennifer Terran and OT: guilty little pleasures I was snooping through cdbaby as I am sometimes apt to do and came across an album by Jennifer Terran that has absolutely blown me away. (Her song Mad Magdeline is the best tirade against the record industry since Dar Williams "As Cool As I Am"). She has a stunning voice and incredible songs. She would sit very nicely in between a Veda Hille album on one side and Tamara Williamson on the other. Her latest cd is available through cdbaby, she also has two prior albums available from her website www.jenniferterran.com (which I havent heard yet but should be delivered this week :) ) An off topic thread question I had...do you have any guilty little pleasure albums...pieces of ear candy that you really love even though they may not have the "musical genius" of other artists. My guilty little pleasure albums have to be Alisha's Attic, the Murmurs, and Lene Marlin. - -Jason np "the Sweer Hereafter" soundtrack ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 00:15:38 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Jennifer Terran and OT: guilty little pleasures On Sat, Feb 17, 2001 at 07:15:02PM -0500, Gordoja@aol.com wrote: > An off topic thread question I had...do you have any guilty little pleasure > albums...pieces of ear candy that you really love even though they may not > have the "musical genius" of other artists. My guilty little pleasure albums > have to be Alisha's Attic, the Murmurs, and Lene Marlin. Oh, gobs of them. One that immediately comes to mind is Sean Cassidy's "Wasp" (produced by Todd Rundgren, and featuring covers of songs by Bowie and Talking Heads). Another is Art Garfunkel's "Angel Clare", which was the first record I ever bought, and which I just got a new copy of yesterday. (I got my usual odd look from the cashier for getting that along with CDs by Public Enemy, Toy Matinee, and the Art Ensemble of Chicago in the same stack.) - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #51 *************************