From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #368 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, December 26 2001 Volume 07 : Number 368 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] My best of 2001 list [Michael Curry ] Top 10 or so: CDs, MP3s, A Cappella, Buffy [Joseph Zitt Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Uli Grepel (uli@zoodle.robin.de) ********************* ******************** Joseph Wasicek (no Email address) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 ...of the Saint Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2001 23:28:26 -0500 From: Michael Curry Subject: My best of 2001 list Hi all, This year I somehow managed to buy less CDs than I had the previous few years, so its likely there are albums out there that would have made my best of the year list if only I'd heard them... maybe Marianne Nowottny's _Manmade Girl_ or Erase Errata's _Other Animals_. Anyway, here's my best of 2001 list, in no particular order. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - No More Shall We Part Cowboy Junkies - Open Over the Rhine - Films for Radio Johnny Cunningham & Susan McKeown with Aidan Brennan - A Winter Talisman Kate Rusby - Little Lights Kristin Hersh - Sunny Border Blue Tool - Lateralus I'd also include the soundtrack from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer musical episode, "Once More With Feeling." I found mp3s of the songs and burned them onto a CD that has spent quite a lot of time in my CD player. Best re-issue: Miles Davis Quintet - Relaxin' with the Miles Davis Quintet Best concerts: I managed to make it to a lot of great shows this year (though less than I could or maybe should have), so here's a sampling. And yes, I really should have posted something to ecto about these. *wry look* Susan McKeown and the Chanting House at Fez (NYC) back in January was very worth driving through an unexpected snowstorm to get down to the city. There's just something special about their performances in that venue. Richard Shindell's show at the Towne Crier Cafe (Pawling, NY) in February was a special treat for two reasons. First, the opener was James Keelaghan (the man who wrote "Cold Missouri Waters"), and second, Richard had a new band to replace the always wretched backing guitar of Billy Masters. Veda Hille and Erin McKeown played a great show at the Acoustic Cafe (Bridgeport, CT) in June. It was my first time seeing Veda in... well, way too long, and it was my first time seeing Erin in a long time too. Erin lived up to some of the raves she's gotten, but Veda was simply jawdropping. Veda Hille again at woj-n-meth's House O' Muzak a couple of days later was even better. Despite the heat. The horrible, horrible heat. Veda performed Field Studies, and showed the film that goes with it. Kristeen Young performing at CB's Gallery (NYC) in July was quite an event as well, though the fact that she performed pretty much the same set every week that month resulted in me only making the trek down for two of the shows. Her new material ranged from good to great, even if she was trying way too hard to impress the major label squids. Susan McKeown, Johnny Cunningham and Aidan Brennan at the World Trade Center on August 14th. It was a wonderful performance, even if a thunderstorm meant that we only got half of the planned show. Four weeks later the WTC was gone. Before this August day I hadn't seen the WTC close up since I was a kid, and my friend Jennifer, who came along with me, had never actually been to them (despite working in the city for years). I'm glad Susan and Johhny gave us such a fine excuse to be there before they were gone. Ectofest was grand as always, though of course the attendance could have been better. It was great to see familiar ectofaces, and to get a chance to hear performances from some talented artists that I hadn't heard before. Plus, my friend Jennifer won a pile of CDs in the raffle. *grin* Susan McKeown played in a venue in the wilds of RI in October, putting on an excellent show with Lindsay Horner on bass and Jon Spurney on guitars. Well worth the trip. Tori Amos's performance at the Wang Center in Boston was easily the best show that I attended all year, despite some stiff competition. Though I was underwhelmed (to say the least) by _Strange Little Girls_, seeing Tori perform without the band or Caton was extraordinary... there simply aren't enough superlatives to describe what a powerful, magical, stunning concert this was. So it was another grand year for music, even if other events might try and make us forget that. Michael np: The Chieftans - Bells of Dublin nr: The Neutronium Alchemist (Part 2, COnflict) by Peter F. Hamilton ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 01:29:29 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Top 10 or so: CDs, MP3s, A Cappella, Buffy I'm kinda surprised, going through my CDs to dig out a top 10, what a lukewarm year it's been for purchased music this year. In no particular order, here are 10 CDs that have been in my players repeatedly: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band: Live in New York City Cornelius Cardew & the Scratch Orchestra: The Greay Learning King Crimson: Heavy ConstruKction: Miles Davis: The Complete In a Silent Way Sessions Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan: Swan Song Ornette Coleman: The Complete Science Fiction Sessions Radiohead: Kid A Rammstein: Mutter Theo Bleckmann: Origami Various Artists: America: A Tribute to Heroes However, I've been accumulating and listening to heaps of MP3s. As is true for several of us it seems, the soundtrack to the Buffy musical "Once More, With Feeling" has been spinning pretty much nonstop in my head since I first saw it. I've grabbed the MP3s and burned them to CD. I don't know that I'd be as nuts about the songs without their context, but they've certainly grabbed me know. The episode will probably provide Emmy voters with even more excuses to unconscionably ignore writer/composer/director Joss Whedon. These are just some of the other nifty things I've been listening to a lot, some full shows, some single tracks: Albert Ayler: Deep River Ani di Franco and Aimee Mann: When Doves Cry Bruce Springsteen: My City of Ruins (live with full band) Burhan Ocal and Jamaaladeen Tacuma (title unknown) Dave Matthews Band: Is Chicago, Is Not Chicago David Bowie (featuring Gail Ann Dorsey): Oh Superman David Bowie: 50th Birthday Concert David Byrne: Sympathy for the Devil (live) Dolly Parton: Shine (Collective Soul cover live on Letterman) Fountains of Wayne: Baby One More Time Frank Zappa: I'm the Slime (live on Saturday Night Live with Don Pardo) Fripp and Eno: Live in Paris Herbie Hancock: Nakamo, Japan, 07-01-75 La Monte Young: The Well Tuned Piano Miles Davis: Rome Concert 26 April 1982 Moby: Live in Obermann 02-20-2000 Pete Townshend: Lifehouse (complete radio play) Phish: Crosseyed and Painless Phish: MmmBop Prince: Live with Miles Davis at Paisley Park, 12/31/87 Roger Waters: Radio KAOS live at Wembley The Cookie Monster: Did it All for the Cookie Toto: Africa (live) Yehudit Ravitz: Achshav ata ba bayit The biggest discovery for me has been A Cappella music, the horrifically unavantgarde arrangements of mostly pop tunes for unaccompanied vocal groups, almost all of them college based. The arrangements and singing can be just amazingly good... Here are a few that I'm most nuts about: Bates Deansmen - Seven Brown Derbies - Creep Brown Derbies - Karma Police* Hullabahoos - Wonderful Tonight Off The Beat (UPenn) - Wild Horses Off the Beat (UPenn) - Crash into Me Off the Beat (UPenn) - Inside Out Off the Beat (UPenn) - Jackie's Strength Off the Beat (UPenn) - Mummer's Dance Rockapella - Ants Marching Sil'hooettes - Silent All These Years Straight No Chaser - Boy Band Medley Tufts Beelzebubs - Everybody Hurts University Of Pennsylvania - Penn Masala - Bharat Humko Jaan Se Pyara Hai University Of Pennsylvania - Penny Loafers - Sour Times - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CDs: Collaborations/ All Souls http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #368 **************************