From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #84 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, March 23 2001 Volume 07 : Number 084 Today's Subjects: ----------------- music in Citibank commercial & Beth Amsel [Cheryl Carlson ] twas brillig [anna maria "stjärnell" ] Re: kate bush article. ["Heidi Maier" ] Ecto-ish Ebay Rarities / Virginia MacNaughton [stumck@webtv.net (stuart m] Chords for "Ode"? [Joseph Zitt ] Melanie Doane [afrisch@t-online.de (Alexander Frisch)] meridiem [recount chocula ] Kristin Hersh at Borders in DC [Jeffrey Burka ] Re: Kristin Hersh at Borders in DC [Joseph Zitt ] Bonfire Madigan [Neal Copperman ] Sinead Lohan ["phclark" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 02:46:21 -0500 From: Cheryl Carlson Subject: music in Citibank commercial & Beth Amsel Hey, you guys are always so good at figuring these out, I figured I'd throw this out. Does anyone know what the music in the Citibank commercial with the guy who is outside playing the ukulele is? He's singing this song, and the last line of it is, "why fly to Hawaii when you can be with me in Waikiki?" Thanks a lot :-) Also, sorry if this has already been posted to the list, I don't think it has, it came to me from another list: >From: Anna Creech >Subject: Fwd: Beth Amsel >I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with Beth Amsel and her work, but >she's in the middle of her latest project now and I wanted to get word out >because she could use some help!! > >Beth is in the throes of recording her second album, entitled "Kindling," >which she is putting out on her own label, Good Egg. In order for this to >become a reality, though, she needs "stockholders" -- 200 pre-orders for the >disk, which is slated to be released in June. She has half this number >already with two or three more weeks to come up with the remaining half. All >pre-orders for the album will receive a handmade booklet by Beth documenting >the recording process with pictures and stories and commentary on individual >tracks. She will also make available a secret website where you can hear >unfinished mixes and rough cuts of the songs. > >Beth is, in my opinion, an amazing young talent. Her voice is sultry and >ethereal. Her stage presence is guileless and charming, and she is simply >unable to keep the sheer joy she clearly gets from being on that stage from >leaking out. Her songwriting is a wonderfully rich tapestry of characters >and landscapes that inextricably draw you in and captivates you. And to top >it all off, Beth is among the sweetest, most gracious spirits I have ever had >the pleasure of meeting. She greets you as if you are her oldest and dearest >friend, even if your paths have never before crossed. She is funny and >intelligent....the handmade booklet should be a treat because Beth's prose is >a work of art in itself. She writes the best e-mail updates I receive -- >they are languid and flowing, more like short stories than information! > >If you haven't heard Beth before, consider giving her a listen. If you have >heard her and think her new CD will probably end up in your collection >eventually, consider pre-ordering a copy so that she can get this puppy up >and running! Guest artists on the CD, which is being produced by Dave >Chalfant (The Nields), include Dave, Ben Demerath, Dave Hower (The Nields), >Katryna Nields, Gideon Freudman, and I lose track of who else!! Information >on Beth and the CD can be found at http://www.BethAmsel.com/. If you decide >to pre-order, please feel free to tell her you came via this list! > >Thanks for letting me enthuse -- I feel so passionately about what Beth is >doing and how she is doing it that I want to try to get the word out for her! > >Peace, >Sheila - -Cheryl Carlson carls146@msu.edu n.p. Erin McKeown - The Door ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 03:00:04 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************** Bob Brown (no Email address) *********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries Tom Proven Sat March 27 1971 Eat at Joe's Jennifer Albert Wed March 30 1966 Aries (w/Cancer rising!:) Warpaint Mon April 01 1991 Brilliant! Michael Pearce Wed April 03 1946 Pegasus Michael E. Bravo Mon April 05 1971 Dandelion Wine Brion McIntosh Sun April 06 1958 Aries Marcel Kshensky Thu April 06 1950 Aries Bill Mazur Mon April 06 1953 Aries Sun/Cancer Rising David Dixon Tue April 07 1970 Aries Heidi Heller Mon April 08 1974 Aries Jill Hughes Sat April 09 1955 Aries Klaus Kluge Sun April 10 1960 Unicorn Steve VanDevender Sun April 10 1966 Racer Art Liestman Fri April 10 1953 Repeat Stephen Golden Sat April 10 1971 Jokey Michael Bowman Wed April 11 1962 Aries Wolfgang Ullwer Fri April 11 1969 Widder Janet Kirsch Thu April 11 1974 Aries Jerry Tue April 13 1971 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 02:02:58 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: twas brillig Hi.. Just out of interest here's Jabberwocky in swedish. Anna Maria Vid grilltock ndr de smiga gropp de snuck och spack pe visotass. Helt jdmrig de var skrangelmopp och grvsen mommande bvlsvass. Svk skydd fvr Tjatterslen, min son, fvr bitska gap och snapparklor! Sky Jdllonhvk och fly ifren den hemska Haffagrip som glor! Han tog sitt hdlfte svdrd i hand och svkte ldnge utan blund. Sen sov han i ett grvnsaksland och tdnkte ddr en liten stund. De ddr han stod och grubblade kom Tjatterslen med blick i brand. Den rvt och ilskebubblade och visade var spetsig tand. Han drog sitt hdlfte svdrd och svor att utan snicksnack dvda den. Det gjorde han, och sedan for han i galoppsan hem igen. Och har du dvdat Tjatterslen? O, sabelfablig lyckodag! Kom i min famn, min tapperson, se god och glitterglad dr jag! Vid grilltock ndr de smiga gropp de snuck och spack pe visotass. Helt jdmrig de var skrangelmopp och grvsen mommande bvlsvass. Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 22:41:21 +1000 From: "Heidi Maier" Subject: Re: kate bush article. neal wrote: > But this isn't really a female thing. Aren't there a handful of slots for > male artists too? I mean, there are only so many slots at all, wether you > are senstive singer/songwriter, metal/rap, grunge. I'm sure a lot of male > artists see themselves pigeonholed in similarly infuriating ways. (And, > of course, there is some value in comparisons if they actually make sense. > I personally don't see how you can talk about early Tori without talking > about Kate. Just like I doin't see how you can talk about early Happy > without talking about Kate. And isn't he tried and true Kate crossed with > Annie Lennox as good a way to get someone to try to listen to Happy as > anything?) i didn't mean to imply that this was a phenomenon related exclusively to female artists, but rather that it is indeed more prevalent with regard to female performers. what i find irksome (and what i may not have articulated properly in the wee small hours of yesterday morning!) is the failure, often, to recognise an artist's individual style or disposition but to rather slap a hard and fast label on them -- "the new alanis morissette" if a performer's songwriting is seen as confessional or extremely personal; their performance style raw and unabashed, or "the new tori amos," for example, if she writes in a similarly personal manner and plays the piano. i am *not* saying it is incorrect to say, for example, that tori may in some way owe a debt to kate bush, and fiona apple may to tori, but what irritates the living hell out of me is that failure to make a distinction between them as performers. just because tori plays the piano and fiona plays the piano does not make fiona, for example, "the new tori amos." they are not carbon copies of one another, and that trend of lumping all female singer-songwriters into one category (ie: girl with the guitar, girl with the piano, angry girl, angsty girl) is tremendously annoying. heidi. - ------ "i want so much to write well, though i know i don't ... but during and at the end of my life, i will adore those who have." -- *dorothy parker* visit www.vday.org * heidi maier - maier@joynet.com.au * ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:11:41 -0500 (EST) From: stumck@webtv.net (stuart mckenney) Subject: Ecto-ish Ebay Rarities / Virginia MacNaughton hi -- there are some items of ecto-interest listed on ebay right now by a reputable seller that i'm acquainted with - clairecords. they also have a website here http://www.clairecords.com and stock a variety of new and used indiepop/shoegaze/dreampop etc cds and vinyl. anyway, if you folks don't mind, i'm going to post a link to their ongoing auctions which include the ultra-rare original pressing of the 10,000 maniacs' "secrets of the i ching" LP, the debut 12" EP by heather frith (aka heather nova), a limited sandy denny 4 LP box set, and other hard-to-find items by the innocence mission, lloyd cole, and many more artists. if the below link gets separated just paste it back together or use the "search by seller" function at ebay and enter: clairecords http://cgi6.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewListedItems&userid=clairecords&include=0&since=-1&sort=2&rows=25 on another note, i'm very interested in finding out about more about the british folk-pop artist Virginia MacNaughton. she sounds a bit like Julianne Regan (of All About Eve) gone solo and i only have a cdep called "the diver" released in '97. i've ordered her album "The Music" from multiple websites over a two year period but each time, after a three month wait on backorder, they cancel the order and inform me that it's deleted. i kept trying in hopes that a distributor somewhere might have the final stash, but now i've given up. does anyone own this album or anything else she's done besides my ep? do you have any idea where to find these releases, or would you like to conduct a trade of some sorts? please post some info if you have any or else email me privately and thanks! stuart mckenney ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 12:33:17 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Chords for "Ode"? Do I correctly recall seeing the lyrics for Ode somewhere with the guitar chords? I'm trying to figure them out from the recording, but harmony is not my strong suit. Pointers? - -- |> ~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 | ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 20:47:35 +0100 From: afrisch@t-online.de (Alexander Frisch) Subject: Melanie Doane Hi there, well, I got no poem to offer ... only a question. So, I4m from germany, no compassion please, and I can4t get the following recordings over here : Melanie Doane - Shakespearan Fish - Harvest Moon Maybe someone here wants to get rid of his copies or trade4em for others ?!? Gruss, Alex http://members.xoom.com/boots66 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:17:00 -0500 From: recount chocula Subject: meridiem has been updated. in addition to the news that sharon mentioned about happy doing live backing vocals for eric nicolas' multimedia shows, there is also a bit about her recording vocals on two songs for percy howard's next meridiem album. i reviewed meridiem's last record for the ectoguide and really enjoyed its heavily rhythmic fusion. even without happy doing vocals, i'd be interested in hearing the next record so this just sweetens the pot. woj ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:15:01 -0500 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: Kristin Hersh at Borders in DC Oh my. Now that was an interesting show. So I figured Kristin would be doing the basic 20-30 minute in-store kinda thing. This was almost a concert: Your Dirty Answer Spain 37 Hours Gazebo Tree Tar Kissers The Cuckoo William's Cut Summer Salt Delicate Cutters The set lasted most of an hour and was just wonderful. Kristin told several funny stories, including one about being on Spanish TV. I'm not sure if the expanded set was in response to the huge crowd that showed up (I'd guess around a hundred), the feed back from the audience, or what. "Delicate Cutters" was requested by an audience member who first talked about having seen the Muses in Newport in '87, and when she still didn't want to sing it, he threw in that his sister had gone to the prom with Kristin's brother. Finally she relented, and we got to hear it. Afterwards, she sat out chatting with people and signing stuff, including the wonderful poster they were giving away. Sitting beside her were her sons Ryder and Wyatt. I had brought with me my copy of _Murder, Misery, and then Goodnight_ for an autograph, and when I saw Ryder there, I said, "Hey, you were on this album too, weren't you? Would you autograph it too?" Ryder looked rather surprised, but after some goading from his mom, he put his name on my CD too. Very cool. jeff (ecstatic to have heard "Gazebo Tree" live, as it's probably his favorite KH song) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:32:52 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Kristin Hersh at Borders in DC On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 12:15:01AM -0500, Jeffrey Burka wrote: > Oh my. Now that was an interesting show. > > So I figured Kristin would be doing the basic 20-30 minute in-store > kinda thing. This was almost a concert: AAAAAGGGHHHHH!!!!!! I completely spaced on it. *sigh* - -- |> ~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 | ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:05:53 -0700 From: Neal Copperman Subject: Bonfire Madigan I seem to find it really hard to review my own house concerts. I always love them, but I'm so distracted that they are kind of a blur. I need to refer to the tapes to really get a handle on what happened, and I haven't done that yet. This show had me on pins and needles. There were so much room for disaster that I can't believe it all came off flawlessly. The band was driving over 600 miles after doing a latenight show the previous evening. I wasn't sure they'd get here on time, but they got up at 5 am, after about 2 hours of sleep, and hit the road. We'd been going back and forth about sound. They initially wanted me to find an amp for their vocals, as they were using amps for the cello and bass so they could be heard above the drums, and clearly a vocal amp would be needed to boost the voice over everything else. Now this seemed like a fair bit of overkill for a 20 by 12.5 room, but I didn't think I was making any headway in convincing them. To combat the possible lateness, I invited some of the "guests" to play a brief opening set, just in case. They brought an amp, so I was set there. The night before, Madigan's drummer called to say he lost his bass drum pedal, and could i find him one. Amazingly enough, I could. My handy local music rental place provided me with one for $7.50. So, it all fell together. Even the reservations did. We can hold 30 people. After the first 30, i told people they could drop by and see if there were no shows 15 minutes before showtime. I told this to about 25 different people!! Come showtime, about 6 people didn't show, and about 7 people came to see if there was room. Wow. I liked the opener, Marisa Brooks Now!, but I think I was in the minority. They were a bit out there. They had keyboards, a female vocalist and a woman on flute. They played one song and one 10 minute improvisation. The improv was actually far more interesting. It was an odd mix, with churning and tinkling keyboards and a strong, occasionally jazzy voice. And the flute added some nice dimension. Madigan played a brief but intense set. She did a variety of intriguing things with the cello, including using the back of the bow to get creaking/groaning sounds, pulling the strings way out to get bizarre harmonics, and holding the cello in her lap and playing it like a guitar. The music isn't really punky, though it's sometimes described that way. it's more about texture, and, as Madigan said, attack and release. The drummer provided nice accents with the muffled kit and brushes, and Sheri Ozeki played a mean string bass, alternately bowing and plucking. The final piece, Scraps (which is available in video form from the Kill Rock Stars web page), was a wild frenzy. It starts with all sorts of chaotic sounds, as madigan tore into her cello, coaxing out a variety of scratches, whines, creaks and groans. On the video, it looks like 2 minutes of tuning that eventually gells into a song. Live, it was just a wave of chaos that somehow held together until a song emerged. At the end of the show, half the people gave them a standing ovation, also a first at one of our house concerts. The set was only about an hour, which is definitely on the short side, but it was so full that I don't thank anyone felt shortchanged. I wasn't sure how people would react to the reality of the show, but we sold 19 CD's (to 29 people), which was pretty impressive. Afterwards, a friend of mine interviewed Madigan for KUNM. Which is part of my motivation for finally writing this. The interview will be played tomorrow (Friday) at 2:00 (New Mexico time, uh, 4:00 EST). You can listen on the web at http://www.kunm.unm.edu/live At 3:00, Jeff and I were supposed to be interviewed about the house concerts. Unfortunately, I'll be out of town, but you can listen to jeff go it alone. neal np: Borealis sampler number 2 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:10:05 -0700 From: "phclark" Subject: Sinead Lohan I finally bit the bullet and paid the import price for Sinead Lohan's first,"Who Do You Think I Am." Her second, "No Mermaid," was so good, how wrong can you go? I was pleased to discover (I don't read the propaganda comprehensively usually until afterwards) the guy who produced and played for Mary Black for years, Declan Sinnott, was involved with "Who." He's a wizard on a Dobro with a very distinctive style that had me reaching for the booklet. I'd strongly recommend this one, even at the price. It's of Louisa John-Krol quality. Quite a piece of writing and singing, and at a tender age. Peter C ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #84 *************************