Errors-To: owner-ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu From: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@athos.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #144 ecto, Number 144 Tuesday, 4 February 1992 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Re: Lots of Fuzzy Fluff & St Annabouboula Shameless plugs damn damn! ======================================================================== Date: 1 Feb 92 14:04:39 U From: "Tom Johnson" Subject: Re: Lots of Fuzzy Fluff & St Reply to: RE>Lots of Fuzzy Fluff & Stuff >To answer another question of yours, Jeanne has been vacationing in the >Southern California, Northern Mexico region. I take it Tom's too busy >to keep up on Ecto recently :-) or else you probably would have heard >from him by now. Jeanne and Tom traipsed down to Mexico together. It >sounded like so much fun! It was tremendous fun! We're both back now. Jeanne flew back to South Milwaukee yesterday morning (sniff...I miss her already) and I'm back here at work on a weekend to try to catch up on my email (would anyone believe >600 messages in 3 weeks! Of course you would.....a huge number of them were from ecto :) Jeanne made a point of logging in and checking her mail almost every morning that we were home, and I made a point of not doing the same thing. I wasn't about to touch a computer on my vacation, not even to read ecto. So shark just filled me in on all the interesting discussions that were going on here. We not only traipsed to Mexico together, we covered a pretty substantial part of California, from San Diego up thru Berkeley, and all the coast in between. I'm going to try to get Jeanne to post some of her poetry about our travels, and get her to write up a few of our stories....let the poet do the real work....I just thought I'd let everyone know we are back. Let's see....ask her about Lemon trees, the annual snow fall in Long Beach, whipped cream and chocolate syrup.......that ought to get her started. :-> Tom ======================================================================== Date: 1-FEB-1992 20:54:37.58 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Annabouboula Hi! kIrI mentioned Annabouboula in her latest string of reviews. I love this band, and have for, oh, the past four years, when _Hamam_ first came out and WFIT played "Don't Worry Ma" as a joke, constantly. "Hey dudes, listen to this one- it's in GREEK!" I was overjoyed when I got to Wesleyan and discovered that WESU had this album, never mind amazed- there's not much off the beaten track down there that's not thrash or indie industrial, but I digress. They have two more albums that I know of, _In The Baths Of Constantinople_ and _Greek Fire_, the former of which contains some tracks that are also on _Hamam_. Some of it is cheesy, but I love music sung in other languages, so I'm into it anyway. NB: they're not from Greece, as you would expect, but from New York City. Some of their songs are in English, but I don't like them as much as the ones in Greek, for the above reason. :) Claudia, bummer about the Laurie Anderson tickets. Does this mean you aren't going either, Angelos? On a Happy note, I'm confused- when is the Albany show, 17 or 18 March? I've heard both dates, and in planning when to come back North from Spring Break, I kinda need to know. Still accepting offers for a ride, if anybody's passing through the Middletown area on their way to the show! I'm willing to provide food and lots of stimulaing conversation. :) *---------------------------------------------* | Meredith Tarr | | *** | | "Living in the gap between past and future" | | *** | | mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu | *---------------------------------------------* ======================================================================== From: xenox!inphobos!klaus@horga.ruhr.de Date: Sun, 2 Feb 92 15:27 MEZ Subject: before the concert From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Message-ID: <8mZiFB3w164w@inphobos.w.open.de> Date: Sun, 02 Feb 92 15:29:06 GMT Organization: Ectophiles Unlimited, Wuppertal, Germany Nice day, this sunday! (no sun though) Had been sleeping long, stayed in bed with Alamut for hours, stopped before riding into Damascus for brunch, did some e-mail (well, still doing that) and am listening to all the Rainbirds albums before I'll leave for the concert. Riding the train, this time. ;) Meredith, sorry to disappoint you, but I don't think I will be able to post a concert report that you can read on sunday, even with those 6 extra hours in time difference. Monday earliest, but it will appear somewhere next week. I even doubt that you can read this message on sunday although I write it before the concert. Read in a local music magazine that Tribe's "Abort" will be released in Germany tomorrow and it's review sounded positive. As well as Tori Amos' "Little Earthquakes" which I hope to hear soon. See you later ... ... Klaus. _____ Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge - klaus@inphobos.w.open.de "I have a friend in Phobos, at times I think I'm almost there." - Happy Rhodes "and if we try now, just a little harder we can go up there and paint another moon" - Rainbirds ======================================================================== Date: 2-FEB-1992 16:56:35.83 From: MTARR@eagle.wesleyan.edu Subject: Shameless plugs Hi! Well, today I did my installment of the Amelia Earhart show, which was a prime opportunity to check out some stuff I hadn't before, or hadn't thought of in a while: Anna Domino's "Colouring in the Edge and the Outline", Mary Black's new one, and an amusing live CD featuring Megon McDonough, Christine Lavin, Patty Larkin, and someone else whose name I have just totally forgotten, somewhere in Virginia. It's got some wonderful stuff on it- I wish I'd seen that show! I plugged Happy, natch, and perused this week's playlists to find someone played "Waking Up" of his own volition, which made me, well, happy. :) After the show I went into town in search of a birthday present for my best friend, and happened upon Main St. Records, which I'd forgotten existed. They have a bunch of used CDs and cheap cassettes, and I picked up Enya's _Shepherd Moons_ for my friend and Danielle Dax's _Dark Adapted Eye_ and _Elton John's Greatest Hits Vol I_ (featuring "Rocket Man" the way it was meant to be done) for me. :) While talking to the guy running the place I discovered he's been a loyal listener of my show since I started doing it, and I asked him if the store picked up any indie stuff. Sure, he said, if it's good. How about Happy Rhodes? Is she good, he asked. Oh, yeah, she's good. (Evil grin.) What's her address? It looks like _Warpaint_, if not some of the cassettes, are going to be available for sale in Middletown in a few weeks- he was going to write to Kevin right away, and I told him to tune in to my show on Tuesday, so he can hear what he's ordering, which he said he'd do anyway. Honestly speaking, I don't think too many copies are going to get sold in this place- it's in a mall nobody ever goes to, and I was surprised to see it still there. I guess they make their money by selling lots of obscure thrash and popular rap, and keep the interesting stuff for those who have the motivation to look for it, like me. :) BUT, it's a start- if even one person hears Happy on WESU and ends up buying _Warpaint_ from this guy, I'll be psyched. Happyvangelization. And it was even a Sunday, too... :> *---------------------------------------------* | Meredith Tarr | | *** | | "Living in the gap between past and future" | | *** | | mtarr@eagle.wesleyan.edu | *---------------------------------------------* ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 2 Feb 92 19:22:27 PST From: barry@gnu.ai.mit.edu Hmmm I was just wondering, if ecto has a new baby sister, and gaffa is ecto's mother, I was just curious, whose the father of ecto's new baby sister? :) Barry ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 2 Feb 92 21:06:21 -0500 From: sae@cmpsci.suffolk.edu (Sam Alan Ezust) Subject: damn damn! It's great to hear that Loreena McKennitt is going on tour but I am so frustrated I won't be there to see her. Sigh. Having a job to do in Africa sure has it's pitfalls!!! ugh .ugh. ugh. S. Alan Ezust sae@cmpsci.suffolk.edu Suffolk University department of Computer Science Boston, MA USA ======================================================================== From: xenox!inphobos!klaus@horga.ruhr.de Date: Mon, 3 Feb 92 01:45 MEZ Subject: after the concert From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Message-ID: <01RJFB1w164w@inphobos.w.open.de> Date: Mon, 03 Feb 92 01:42:20 GMT Organization: Ectophiles Unlimited, Wuppertal, Germany On various requests (not that I wouldn't do it without any ;) here are my impressions of the Rainbirds concert in Cologne (or Koeln, as we say). It's a bit after midnight and I'm equipted with my dictionaries, so here I go: Rainbirds, 2 Faces plus 4 Tour, Koeln, Wartesaal, 2.2.92 """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" This is nearly the last concert of a tour through Germany, with only one more to follow in Duesseldorf tomorrow (hmm, today). By help of some nice netters of a german newsgroup I finally found out where this concert was going to happen, as the ticket only mentioned "Wartesaal", the name of the place, but no address. It turned out to be very simple. "Wartesaal" is an old waiting-room of Colognes main railway station which was very convenient as I was able to travel by train (and use the time to read a book, and write down some notes on the way back). The railwaystation is in the shadow of the dome which didn't look very complete that night, as it was foggy and it's top was disappearing. Let me tell you that Happy can't complain about the acustics in that museum in Philly. She can be glad that she's not playing in this waiting-room! I had the impression of descending into a crypt with columns everywhere and domes between them. Well, domes is the wrong term, but I'm not familiar with architecture, especially it's english terms. I could browse half an hour through my Oxford illustrated dictionary until I find the proper illustration, but it's not worth it. I'm just trying to say that the ceiling was not a plane at all. Attending were only 200 to 300 people, but real fans can make a lot of noise, remember that for the Happy concerts. :) There was no opening act. It was the first time I've seen them live (although being a fan of their music for years), and I was very curious to hear how they would play those familiar songs live. So, who were Rainbirds this time? Vocals: Katharina Franck, keyboard: Ulrike Haage, like we know them from the 3rd and current album "Two Faces". The "plus 4" were unknow to me. They were not the guys from the first two albums and not the musicians from the 3rd, as this was recorded with studio musicians in L.A.. Of course they were introduced, but understanding and remembering some unfamiliar names is not so simple. What I remember is: - guitar: Susanne W????? (Meredith, don't you think that Susan will like that :) - bass: ????? (male) - violoncello: Julie Palmer - drums: Klaus ???? (that was eeeeeasy to remember :) They are close to become an all female group. I wouldn't be surprised if this will happen in the near future. Of course they opened the show with "Two Faces". The first songs the instruments didn't came out that well, which was not bad, as Katharina's voice is the main attraction of the band. And she was singing just wonderful! The rest of the band (incl. Ulrike) didn't leave such a big impression on me. What were they playing? All songs from the "Two Faces" album, the first three from the 1st album ("Boy on the beach", "Blueprint", "7 Compartments") and just "Sea of time" from the 2nd. Nothing new? "Two Faces" was recorded December 1990 so they should have been doing something new. They had. More on that later. While rehearsing, they changed the song "Head over Heals" completely. It was never one I liked that much. Their new version was no improvement. Especially on this one Katharina had problems singing against the band. Overall the nice guitar parts from the 1st2 have nearly vanished, which was already noticeable on the 3rd album. Even more so on the concert. Katharina was playing rhythm guitar only on 5 or 6 songs. But this change is because of the bigger band now. On the 1st2 they were only 3 musicians, so she had to play guitar. Now they have an additional guitar player. My favourite songs of this concert were "Boy on the Beach" and "The World is growing old" which were connected to one song, and which was played at the end of the show (before the encores). So what _was_ new? At the middle of the concert, Katharina told us that she and Ulrike were also writing music for theatre, and were going to perform 3 of these songs. That turned out to sound completely different from what we are used from Rainbirds. The 1st was a nice instrumental which was done for a play by Brecht, and the 2nd and 3rd were the first songs where I heard Katharina sing in German. They sounded a bit like those Kurt Weil songs. Atypical for Rainbirds they might have been, but well performed and I enjoyed them a lot, so that I wouldn't mind getting them if they should become available. The 1st encore were two new Rainbirds songs. They started with a song about desertion, which was written a couple of weeks before the gulf war, while they were recording "Two Faces" in L.A., when the musicians and recording engineers were discussing the situation and their fear to get drafted. Don't ask me about the lyrics. She sang the song in Portuguese. That's what she said, I couldn't tell. That was followed by a very nice ballad. The 2nd encore started with a wonderful version of "Blueprint" with just Katharina, bass and percussion. I'd love to have that on tape or record! Very funky! After half of the song the other group members appeared on the stage again to join in the dancing. That was a lot of fun. The very final song then, was "The World is growing old". So, it wasn't a perfect concert, mainly because of the sound quality, but I still enjoyed to hear old songs, some of them with a new face, and those new songs and the theatre surprise in the middle. Can't wait for the next album. Nearly 1:30am now. Time to say goodnight and hurry to bed. Let's see what I've forgot to mention. Maybe I've to write a follow up. Something which comes to my mind right now, is that during "Big Fat Cat" the violoncello was trying to sound like a cat. I just wonder why I had to think about kIrI & Court at that time. ;) Goodnight! _____ Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge --+-- klaus@inphobos.w.open.de "Here you are sporting those tiny pearls of pleasure in your ears and in your hair sometimes they flow from your eyes like tears I used to pick them up and hoard them as a measure of how alive you were that night and yet how close to the end." Rainbirds, "Moon" ======================================================================== To join ecto, please send electronic mail to the following address: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu To have your thoughts included in the next issue, send mail to: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is a README file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me (or leave in the incoming directory, just let me know) things you'd like to have added. 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