From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #85 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, March 24 2001 Volume 07 : Number 085 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Leona Naess [anna maria "stjärnell" ] trade [anna maria "stjärnell" ] RE: Leona Naess ["Dirk Kastens" ] Loreena McKennitt book-please help [fsmcguire@juno.com] Fw: Loreena McKennitt book-please help ["Knight of Wands" ] Re: Sinead Lohan ["Bill" ] rachael sage, ruthie foster [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:19:27 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: Leona Naess hi.. Leona Naess cd Comatised is lovely. The fact that she used to have Diana Ross for a stepmother amuses me but you cant tell from the music. She's more in the Beth Orton vein of urbanised folk. The tracks Charm Attack and Anything reuse to leave my brain. Sometimes the lyrics are a tad obvious(eg "the "drinkings got me thinking")but on the whole its a great record. Anna Maria np-Andrea Parker-Kiss My arp Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 00:27:42 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: trade hi again.. Okay more stuff for trade/sale. Anggun "Snow on the Sahara" Kim Lenz and her jaguars "One and only" Anna Maria Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 09:37:06 +0100 From: "Dirk Kastens" Subject: RE: Leona Naess Hi, > Leona Naess cd Comatised is lovely. The fact that she > used to have Diana Ross for a stepmother amuses me but > you cant tell from the music. She's more in the Beth > Orton vein of urbanised folk. The tracks Charm Attack > and Anything reuse to leave my brain. Sometimes the > lyrics are a tad obvious(eg "the "drinkings got me > thinking")but on the whole its a great record. Yes, Comatised was among my top ten list from last year. Dirk ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 08:02:08 -0500 From: fsmcguire@juno.com Subject: Loreena McKennitt book-please help Hi, I apologize if this has been discussed before. I am trying to locate a copy of the book about Loreena McKennitt called "Celtic Quest." It was supposedly released over a year and a half ago. I I have tried ordering it through amazon, barnes and noble and borders. They all say the book is available, but then six weeks later tell me they can't find. Did this book really come out? Does anyone actually have it? Thanks, Sherry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:22:38 -0500 From: "Knight of Wands" Subject: Fw: Loreena McKennitt book-please help - ----- Original Message ----- From: Knight of Wands To: Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 10:22 AM Subject: Re: Loreena McKennitt book-please help > Being someone who used towork for Barnes & Noble, this is the response I > got: the book was suppposed to have been released, but has not yet been. I > believe the new publication date is supposed to be sometime this year, but > don't count yer chickens before they hatch. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 8:02 AM > Subject: Loreena McKennitt book-please help > > > > Hi, > > > > I apologize if this has been discussed before. I am trying to locate a > > copy of the book about Loreena McKennitt called "Celtic Quest." It was > > supposedly released over a year and a half ago. I > > > > I have tried ordering it through amazon, barnes and noble and borders. > > They all say the book is available, but then six weeks later tell me they > > can't find. > > > > Did this book really come out? Does anyone actually have it? > > > > Thanks, > > Sherry ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:46:43 -0800 (PST) From: kitty kat Subject: Anneli Drecker mention http://www.msn.co.za/entertainment/a-ha/default.asp?MSID=6d8684db425a4b19871f634857d77aca (scroll to the bottom for Anneli Drecker) The A-HA Worldwide Webcast, Saturday 24 March 2001 - 8pm South Africa time!!! LOCAL HEROES RETURN! MSN is proud to showcase the homecoming concert of A-HA, in association with Mercedes-Benz, on Saturday 24th March. A-HA will be performing at a unique event in Norway at a brand new venue, Valhall. Tickets for the event are now completely sold out so the only place you can find out about this event will be here at MSN or to find out how you can get involved, then click on www.aha.mercedes-benz.no A-HA will be performing a cross-section of their global hits from the 80s including Take on Me, The Sun Always Shines on TV as well as new material from their most recent platinum-selling Minor Earth Major Sky CD. Supporting A-HA on the night will be two of Norways finest home-grown talents, Briskeby (www.briskeby.com) and the curtain-raiser will be the beautiful Anneli Drecker who will performing an acoustic set. - -K ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 12:13:16 -0700 From: "Bill" Subject: Re: Sinead Lohan On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:10:05 -0700, phclark wrote: >I'd strongly recommend this one, even at the price. I second that emotion. Excellent album all around. And more "indy" to my ears than "No mermaid". - - Bill G. np: Over The Rhine - The Darkest Night Of The Year ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 23:15:40 -0500 From: meredith Subject: rachael sage, ruthie foster Hi! A few words about this week's shows: Wednesday night, I braved the raging rainstorm and ignored the fact that I'd been feeling sick all day to hop a train into NYC to attend Rachael Sage's CD release show for her new CD, _Painting Of A Painting_ at the Knitting Factory. Thanks to the incredible coolness that is Ms. Sage I've had a couple months to absorb this record, and I have to exhort each and every one of you to buy it. It's been living in my car since the day after I got it, and I just can't stop listening to it. The show didn't disappoint at all, either. I do have to say I was disgusted by the meager size of the crowd: I don't think there were 20 people in the room, including KF employees. :P Come on people, so it was raining a little bit. Drag your umbrella out of the back of your closet and get your ass downtown. I took a 100-minute train ride and dealt with hellacious subway karma to be there, for gods' sake. Geez. (Sorry. Just had to get that off my chest. :) Anyway. Jenny Bruce opened, and I was happy to finally get a chance to hear her, after reading the good things about her here in the past. Fine voice, good songs (though the ode to her computer was a bit silly, particularly the line about "looking for heaven.com"), great opener for someone like Rachael. Rachael and her band kicked several kinds of ass. Rachael played her electric piano and also her brand-new Wurlitzer, Rob Curto played accordion and some percussion, Steve Jagoda was the drummer, and a new guy whose name I have unfortunately wiped from my brain played bass. Great lineup. They did several songs from the new CD, as well as quite a few new ones, which was a pleasant surprise. The only "old" song in the set was the closer, "Sistersong", on which Walter Parks (formerly of The Nudes, and now an MPress Records employee) played guitar. The show itself was very polished, with two or three songs flowing into one another, and the set list had a definite flow. I commented to someone afterwards that Rachael seems to be turning into a rock star, but I don't consider that a bad thing at all. I think if this is the show she and the boys are going to be doing on their European tour, it's going to go over very well. It was a short set, alas, because there was another show lined up for the Main Space at 10. But the 66 minutes we did get were pure goodness. I hope more people showed up for the uptown show at the Hard Rock Cafe on Thursday. She's on the road now, so go see her if you get the chance! Last night I went to the Acoustic Cafe here in CT to see Ruthie Foster. Again, the attendance was piss-poor (18 people including Cafe employees, and the owner wasn't even there :P), and again, the show rocked. Ruthie Foster is from rural Texas, and grew up singing in the church choir and soaking up the blues. She ended up in New York City for a while before heading back to Texas, and the result is music that has a contemporary singer/songwriter feel that is heavily informed by her Gospel and Blues roots. And did I mention she can *sing*? Let's put it this way: I don't like the Blues, and I've never been a fan of Gospel. But when Ruthie's up on the stage, I'm a besotted fan of both. She makes you *feel* it. Last fall she opened for Susan Werner at the Iron Horse, and I'll never forget sitting in the green room downstairs cracking up, because all we could hear was the sound of a hundred pairs of feet tapping along to Ruthie's groove on the ceiling above. :) She is accompanied on stage by her friend Cyd Cassone, who plays all sorts of percussion and harmonizes with her beautifully. Cyd never has a set list -- Ruthie will start a song, and then you'll see her cock her head for a moment until she realizes for sure which song it is, then scrambles to take up the correct percussion instrument for the tune. (They call it "Stump The Percussionist". ;) Both Ruthie and Cyd are wonderful people, the kind of down-to-earth folks who click with anyone they're talking to instantly. I had a good conversation with them both before and after the show, and I hope to get them here for a house concert the next time they're coming through the area. (Attention Neal: they said they don't get to New Mexico much, but they'd head in that direction if they had a place to play! :) Info is at http://www.ruthiefoster.com. Even if you're not usually into "that sort of thing" (i.e. blues/gospel/traditional folk), check her out. Chances are she'll rock your world too. ======================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= ***!!!GO UCONN!!!*** ======================================= http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #85 *************************