Errors-To: owner-ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu From: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@ns1.rutgers.edu Bcc: ecto-digest-outbound@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #457 ecto, Number 457 Wednesday, 24 February 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* The tape that disapeared Re: ecto 441 The word "equipoise". Re: cosmic pipage egapipcim soc My god, how it pumps!! equi poise segueuges Music, or Neile's buying binge The sound of silence New Jane Siberry PG in Grannies ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 13:57:40 +0100 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: The tape that disapeared Hi, Finally ................Happy Rhodes has reached Northen Norway. And I'm not the only one to discover how great her music is, but a whole bunch of my friends as well and a lot of people I've never met before. The people working in the local music-shops are beginning to get quite confuced. They surely wonder who this female artist is who they have never heard about.....:) But I will not give up until one can buy her albums here in Tromsoe!!! I myself first heard about Happy through love-hounds and got very curious. Looked her up in a catalogue I had recently received and actually found Warpaint listed (weird but true :) ). I was going to order a great amount of albums so I put it on top. 3 weeks before christmas I finally got it and 2 days after that I was hooked. A friend of mine borrowed the CD and I didn't get it back before very much later :) He taped it and it's the tape I'm going to tell you about. My friend took it home and played it a few days then it suddenly disapeared. And the following days he could hear Happy's music all over the house where he lives. He found out that it was the girl upstairs who had grabed it (and gave it back later). The same day the tape was gone again but now it was the guy living next to my friend who had taken it. Later the same guy asked to borrow it ---> and currently the tape is in London somewhere. And my friend has given up ever to see it again and got himself a new copy until we get the CDs from USA. I hope his first tape will continue to spread Happy's music out over the world. We are doing our best to spread information about this fabulous music. I'll try to get some of her stuff broadcated on the local radiostation. That might help somewhat :) (I know some of the people working there so it might not be that hard!) Greetings from Norway and thanks to Vickie for repeatedly mentioning Happy Rhodes and her music. She has added something dramatically to my picture of good music. Night --- In memory of my cousin who died Friday 19.02 1993 ======================================================================== Date: 24 Feb 1993 09:00:04 -0500 (EST) From: tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us (Tracy Barber) Subject: Re: ecto 441 To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu EC>Angelos sez: EC>At least in the Cambridge Tower. OK, stop lurking, who bought the 5 CDs that EC>were there on Wednesday? I can't imagine non-net people walking in and buying EC>Happy, since she is hidden behind Lydia Rhodes at the back end of the slot, EC>and to the best of my knowledge she isn't getting any airplay in Boston. EC>Also, Boston Tower had *tons* of Happy CDs yesterday (no Equipoises tho :( ). The NYC Tower (1692 Broadway) didn't have =poise= either. Some of the 1st 4 were floating around the bins... tlb --- * SLMR 2.0 * JUST R OTIN' AROUND. ---- Tracy Barber tlb@bsbbs.columbus.oh.us The Big Sky BBS (+1 614 864 1198) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 10:48:35 -0500 From: gmcdonald@zdi.ziff.com (glenn mcdonald) Subject: The word "equipoise". Just thought you might be interested in knowing that although I had never heard the word "equipoise" before advance announcements of Happy's album, the night my copy of EQUIPOISE arrived, the book I was reading, Mervyn Peake's TITUS GROAN (the first book of his GORMENGHAST trilogy), used it. I finished the book last night, and toward the end "equipoise" cropped up a few more times. If any of you have read GORMENGHAST, do you agree with me that Happy's music and the trilogy possess an odd sort of synergy together, even beyond this word? glenn ======================================================================== Subject: Re: cosmic pipage egapipcim soc Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 10:54:46 EST From: Angelos Kyrlidis In the spirit of asynchronous ecto individuality, I will disagree with both Klaus and Mike who say respectively: K>After so many "ups" my first "down": I don't like the bagpipes in K>"Out like a lamb". Musically they seem out of place in that song for me, K>which is unusual, because so far I thought that the instrumentation was K>always perfect. M>I am not claiming that the pipes *make sense* in any musico-ethno- M>physico-philisophical way... I agree that they don't, at least not M>obviously. To *me* the bagpipes fit in perfectly! As I have mentioned repeatedly for me the song is an elegy for some very special person who is now gone (dead, lost, disappeared). The bagpipes show up when the story of this person is being told in past tense ('He came in like a lion on a hunt...') and give the verses the tone of an eulogy for this very special person. Their appearance at the end, alone, unaccompanied gives a very elegiac tone to them, and add to the sentimental impact. They wander around like a lost soul, or they serve as reminders to the singer of this person who 'will call (me) when he's back in town'. At least that's how I see them, and that is why I like them! My favourite songs on EQP are currently: Out like a lamb, The flight and I say. (These are songs I have at various times had on infinite repeat) Second in preference are: Closer, Cohabitants, Save our souls, Runners. Third (those I occasionally skip past) are: He will come, Temporary and eternal, Play the Game, and sadly last is Mother sea (which I liked a lot at first since it was a rather simple song, but upon repeated listens it hasn't evolved like the other songs). Angelos 'Do you remember, chalk hearts melting on the playground wall?'-Marillion [Kayleigh is one of my all time favorite songs! alas, it's one of two songs by Marillion I know, the other being 'Lavender' which is also pretty good. I have Fugazi in Greece but I never quite payed attention to it.) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 11:50:00 +0000 From: "Mary (M.L.) Rowe" Subject: My god, how it pumps!! ... sorry for the strange subject line. I just picked up 'From Bulgaria With Love' by Les Mystere des Vois Bulgares and that line from one of the songs has been cracking me up all day. So I've been on a cd binge lately (well in step with the clothes binge and the fun food binge and the teddy bear binge I've been on lately ...). I managed to pick up - The Singer by Diamanda Galas -- uhhhh gothic gospel??? Not sure how I feel about this one. - Birds of Passage by Bel Canto -- WOW...gimme more. - ????? by Ruby Blue -- I had heard the song 'Primitive Man' played ONCE on Chez 106 a few months ago and had never forgotten it. Thanks to you all for mentioning this band. - another Dead Can Dance cd which I haven't listened to much lately. Tori Amos won the Rolling Stone Readers' Award for best new Female Artist. (U2 swept through most of the Readers' Awards categories.) The critics picked Polly (?) Harvey of the band PJ Harvey as best new Female artist. I think this is a UK band. WELL??? Has anybody heard their/her music? How is it on a ectophile scale? To Bob Lovejoy: 'The Internet Companion' which somebody mentioned was written by Tracy LaQuey. There is also another book on the Internet: 'The Whole Internet User's Guide & Catalog' writen by Ed Kroll. Seeing as how people here enjoy female singers, there's a cd out by another Canadian chanteuse, Mae Moore, called 'Bohemia'. The title track reminds me strangely enough of Luka Bloom's cd, 'The Acoustic Motorbike'. I found the cd pleasant but not gripping... your mileage may vary. Miranda Richardson: Wonderful actress. I've seen a lot of her these days. She's incredibly versatile... trully brilliantly funny in the brit comedy series Blackadder II as 'Queenie' Elizabeth I. I also saw the series 'Die Kinder' where she plays a woman who's children have been kidnapped by her ex-husband who was part of a German dissident group. The plot is phenomenal... the intrigue just grows. I saw Damage over the weekend (this is the role she's been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress). She was also excellent in 'The Crying Game'.... INCREDIBLE movie. I was first in line the first night it opened here in Ottawa .... uh I'm a bit of a rep-house buff. Anyway enough blathering for now... OBHappy: I STILL love my 'Warpaint'...now if only I would get around to ordering the REST of her cds including Equipoise.... Mary Lou (up here in Ottawa in all this &^$&^$&^$ snow) ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 09:22:45 -0800 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: equi poise Well, on this chilly Wednesday morning, my two current favorite songs from the CD are "Save Our Souls" and "Closer." This latter track HAS to be played at HIGH volume! I especially savor the point when both sides of your head are hit by the DEEP bass of the drums immediately following the 'train whistle' vocal of CLOSE-SER ...! Wonderful. Mp ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 09:37:03 PST From: stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: The word "equipoise". glenn mcdonald writes: > Just thought you might be interested in knowing that although I had never > heard the word "equipoise" before advance announcements of Happy's album, > the night my copy of EQUIPOISE arrived, the book I was reading, Mervyn > Peake's TITUS GROAN (the first book of his GORMENGHAST trilogy), used it. > I finished the book last night, and toward the end "equipoise" cropped up a > few more times. If any of you have read GORMENGHAST, do you agree with me > that Happy's music and the trilogy possess an odd sort of synergy together, > even beyond this word? It's been a while since I read the _Gormenghast_ books. I did not remember seeing the word "equipoise" in _Titus Groan_, but now I'll have to go back and look. These are very interesting, but very difficult, books. The writing is wonderful, but the books move rather slowly and there is a huge cast of characters to keep track of. ======================================================================== Date: 24 Feb 93 10:32:16 EST From: Mike Mendelson Subject: segueuges mp--> < Of course, he means "Save Our Souls." Which gives me a spontaneous < inspiration: why not segue the latter with "S.O.S." by ABBA? (In which < case, save _our_ souls! :-) ) Or better, Message in a Bottle (Police). This would actually work pretty well, I think (1st SOS then MiaB). -mjm ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: The word "equipoise". Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 18:27:39 BST On Wed, 24 Feb 1993 at 10:48:35 -0500, gmcdonald@zdi.ziff.com (glenn mcdonald) wrote: > Just thought you might be interested in knowing that although I had never > heard the word "equipoise" before advance announcements of Happy's album, > the night my copy of EQUIPOISE arrived, the book I was reading, Mervyn > Peake's TITUS GROAN (the first book of his GORMENGHAST trilogy), used it. > I finished the book last night, and toward the end "equipoise" cropped up a > few more times. If any of you have read GORMENGHAST, do you agree with me > that Happy's music and the trilogy possess an odd sort of synergy together, > even beyond this word? I too am a great fan of "Titus Groan" and "Gormenghast". I think that the atmosphere and complexity of the world that Peake created is indeed of a similar nature to the atmosphere that some of Happy's music conjures up, for me at least. I would highly recommend these first two books to any Ectophiles who enjoy fantastical (though not what is usually thought of by "fantasy") fiction of the very highest quality. The third book, "Titus Alone", is very differnt in tone and to my mind not as good (even the restored version - it was originally published in a mutilated form thanks to an editor who was trying to compensate from some of the problems with the text caused by the fact that Peake was too ill to complete the work properly). If you read and enjoy the first two books then by all means try the third, but don't expect it to be the same knid of thing as the first two. One isn't really missing a great deal by not reading the third book because it veers off into a totally different setting and a different form of writing and it only loosely follows on from the end of "Gormenghast". There was a very highly regarded radio adaptation of the first two books which featured Sting as Steerpike. It necessarily cuts out a lot of the material from the book but it does do a good job of retaining the main plotline and something of the unique atmosphere of the world of Gormenghast. It's available as a two-cassette set from the BBC. Recommended. -- Regards Steve Fagg ( S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk +44-279-402437 ) BNR Europe Ltd., London Road, Harlow, Essex, CM17 9NA, UK *** "Better drowned than duffers. If not duffers, won't drown". *** ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1993 10:28:37 -0800 (PST) From: Neile Graham Subject: Music, or Neile's buying binge Mary Lou writes from Ottawa: > Tori Amos won the Rolling Stone Readers' Award for best new Female Artist. > (U2 swept through most of the Readers' Awards categories.) The critics > picked Polly (?) Harvey of the band PJ Harvey as best new Female artist. > I think this is a UK band. WELL??? Has anybody heard their/her music? > How is it on a ectophile scale? Well, I adore PJ Harvey's _Dry_ cd--it's been a favourite and getting lots of play at our house since we first got it last summer. It is more edgy, grungy, cutting, raw than most ectophile fondnesses, but for anyone who likes their music a little rougher, it's wonderful and not to be missed. Oh, and it is Polly (Jane) Harvey. I love Tori, too, though they're not at all alike. The two singles from _Dry_ are "Sheela-na-gig" and "Dress". Sardonic lyrics (gotta love that). > Seeing as how people here enjoy female singers, there's a cd out > by another Canadian chanteuse, Mae Moore, called 'Bohemia'. The title > track reminds me strangely enough of Luka Bloom's cd, 'The Acoustic > Motorbike'. I found the cd pleasant but not gripping... your mileage > may vary. This has actually been mentioned a couple of times in the last few months. Much to my surprise (I'm generally not a fan of kinder, gentler music) we keep playing _Bohemia_. There's something about it that really catches me, despite the fact that it's not overtly gripping. The more I play it the more I want to play it. Oh, and for those who care (and I think you all should but that's just me) I just received Lida Husik's new cd, _The Return of Red Emma_, which I love. It's a little more like _Bozo_ than _Your Bag_. For those of you who don't know her I'd recommend _Your Bag_ as a first purchase/listen, but I adore all three. Who is she like? Hmm. Hard to say. Not along the ethereal lines, but neither is her work as driving as, say, PJ Harvey. I do like her. Oh, and I found a copy of one of The Story's cds used on Friday and bought it, though I had never even heard of them before. Haven't had a chance to do more than give it a quick listen but it caught me enough to buy it. Also bought a cd by Bettie Serveert, _Palomine_ because a friend had compared them to PJ Harvey. They're not nearly as wonderful, but I like it nonetheless. It's just that I can't tell the songs apart yet. Yes, I've been on a binge lately. I'm still celebrating (or at least that's my excuse). I also found out that I'm getting a local Arts Commission grant to support me over the summer!! (I have a 10 months a year job) :) :) :) Boy, good luck comes in patches! Now I can spend those 8 weeks writing instead of looking for freelance editing work. Yes, it's true, I am really lucky. I'm a little nervous, though, waiting for this luck to end. Of course I have to try to listen to all this music while getting all my work done (ahem!) and in between listens to _Equipoise_ which still seems to be getting better & richer & deeper to me, even though I STILL haven't had time to just sit and listen to it with the headphones on. --Neile ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 11:18:53 -0800 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: The sound of silence Mitch writes: > If I'm applying what I learned by watching science fiction on TV correctly, > wouldn't music and antimusic cancel each other out, creating silence (which > some would consider an improvement over some kinds of music)? I may have dreamed this, but i think the Japanese are in fact working on a system which will cancel out road noise by using a device which pipes the inverse of ambient noise into a car's interior. Didn't H.G. Wells also write a story about just such a device? Mp _____ you're not safe in this house you're not safe in some witch's bed you know the one she lies all lit up -- Tanya Donelly ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 11:23:20 PST From: tsai@ikos.com (Finney T. Tsai) Subject: New Jane Siberry Well, just browsed a listing and found out Warner Bros. will release a new Jane Siberry album this March or April. Wow!!! -finney --------------------------- Pippppppero... -- Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares(Yes, Mary!) ======================================================================== Subject: PG in Grannies Date: Wed, 24 Feb 93 14:51:15 EST From: Angelos Kyrlidis I just read that PG will open the Granny awards :) show tonight! Set those VCRs. (what time does the show start anyway? (EST) 8pm or 9pm? ) Angelos ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. 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