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 #403 ecto, Number 403 Friday, 22 January 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Suzanne Vega in Boston RE:Happy Dreams And Stranger Things re: a Happy phantom Suzanne Vega touring ... Today's your birthday friend... HaPpY Birthday WOMADELAIDE (was Suzanne Vega, but not really ... *:) ) Fuzzy Dolby Today's your birthday friend.... The other side of 1992 A Friday in January bday ======================================================================== Subject: Suzanne Vega in Boston Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 19:58:53 EST From: Angelos Kyrlidis Let me answer a question I have asked, which might be of interest to Bostonian ectophiles. She will be playing at AVALON on March 15, at 8pm. Tix are $15 and go on sale on Saturday. So all my previous whining can now be safely ignored. :) angelos (a man you never saw) ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 07:30:48 CST From: (Jeff "Chip" Lueck) Subject: RE:Happy Dreams And Stranger Things In Message Thu, 14 Jan 93 22:43:48 EST, meth@aol.com writes: >And on an all-too-real note, I spent my lunch hour today searching the local >Sam Goody for any mention at all of Happy. I found Aural Gratification in After hearing of Happy sightings in stranger and stranger places and wondering if they have some new distribution deal, I looked on Prodigy in the Sam Goody area and did a search, but couldn't find *anything* Happy... so who knows. ======================================================================== Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:33:42 -0500 From: scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us (Stuart Castergine) Subject: re: a Happy phantom > And then Stuart wanted to know: > > > Is that the same Ben Mink who used to play electric violin in the > > Canadian band FM? > > Yep, same guy. kd and Ben co-wrote all but one of kd's songs on _Ingenue_. > > special K > I've got two FM albums. I don't know if there are any more. They're very different from each other and both very unusual. Worth picking up if you can find them cheap (or at all). It is almost like listening to two different bands, since on the first album, ummm, _Black Noise_(??) (I can't remember, don't have it in front of me, I'm at work) the violinist is Nash the Slash and on the second one, _City_of_Fear_, Mink is the violinist. The two have _very_ different styles and since their playing was the core of the band, the switch gave the band a very different sound. I saw FM -- with Ben Mink -- open for Rush at Madison Square Garden back about 1980 or so. Moving Pictures tour, I think. Mink later did some really beautiful violon work on one Rush song, _Losing It_. Trivia: _City of Fear_ was used as the soundtrack for a rather silly B horror movie, _The Incubus_. don't know if it was written with that intention or somebody just liked the album and decided to use it, but it was appropriate. The music is very dark and eery (though it's been years since I listened to it -- I'll have to pull it out when I get home and give it a spin). I always wondered what had happened to Mink. I hear about Nash the Slash every now and then. --- scasterg@waltham.columbus.oh.us -- Stuart M. Castergine --- I still dream of Orgonon. |/ |\ ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Suzanne Vega touring ... Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 15:09:35 EST > From: Angelos Kyrlidis > Subject: Suzanne Vega in Boston > > Let me answer a question I have asked, which might be of interest to Bostonian > ectophiles. She will be playing at AVALON on March 15, at 8pm. Tix are $15 and > go on sale on Saturday. > > So all my previous whining can now be safely ignored. :) > > angelos (a man you never saw) > Does anybody know if SV is touring or just playing a coupla places in the US ? If she _is_ touring is she likely to come to Australia ... ? Hmmm. I suppose Gabriel's coming so I shouldn't complain too much if _two_ really good people come out in one year. (I'll certainly save lots of money that way) I've just spent all my money and I'm ready to go to WOMADELAIDE to see PG. The line-up for the weekend sounds pretty good to me ... Peter Gabriel Yothu Yindi Salif Keita Sheila Chandra The Holmes Brothers Mahlathini and the Mahotella Queens Geoffrey Oryema The Persuasions Terem Quartet Tiddas Not Drowning, Waving S E Rogie Szalai Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra Galliano John Prine Germaine Acogny Zi Lan Liao Fresh Air Kanjul Coloured Stone Cafe At The Gates of Salvation The Mambologists Dya Singh Meryl Tankard;s ADT Most of them I don't know - is there anybody out there who can shed any light on any of them, like who should I look out for and stuff ... ? Anyway, I'll be sure to let yuz all know how it went when I get back from it (which isn't for a month or so, but hey, I'm all excited about it already !!!) Chris. -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 1:23:10 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Today's your birthday friend... HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Terry Partis!! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 2:46:39 EST From: WretchAwry Subject: Re: Suzanne Vega touring ... ChrisB (who always sends me into ecstacy when he writes his reactions to Happy) writes: > I've just spent all my money and I'm ready to go to WOMADELAIDE to > see PG. The line-up for the weekend sounds pretty good to me ... > > Peter Gabriel > Sheila Chandra > Most of them I don't know - is there anybody out there who can shed any > light on any of them, like who should I look out for and stuff ... ? Whatever you do, no matter what the situation, doesn't matter what you have to do to achieve it, do not, I repeat, ***DO NOT*** miss Sheila Chandra Ok? Do not question, do not hesitate, do not doubt my word. Pay whatever amount it may take, you will not regret it. Get as close as you possibly can, relax, and let the beauty and sensuality of the music and her voice wash over you and cleanse your soul. Be properly thankful that you have been given this extraordinary chance to experience the woman in person. Think of me and know that I am so incredibly jealous that you get to see Peter and Sheila live. Then come back home to Ecto and tell us all about it. I just have to do it again... <*SIGH*> Have LOTS of fun Christopher! Vickie ps, now, I'm assuming that she'll be focusing on her latest album _Weaving My Ancestor's Voices_, which I went to look for tonight based on the belief that it had been released in the US, but this record store didn't have it, but I did get Anna Palm's new album on CD for the outrageous price of $23.00 so it damn well better be great but I haven't listened to it yet so I don't know but I do know that I *love* her first album _Arriving and Caught Up_ which I also paid full price for a couple of years ago and it was worth it even though it's an awfully short CD and strangely enough tonight I found the first album on vinyl for $1.99 and I bought it too just for the hell of it, and I also bought (on vinyl) Everything But the Girl's album _Love Not Money_ which I've been looking for forever and I wish I could find it on CD but vinyl is better than nothing and it was only $1.49 so what the heck and talking about deals, I found Martha & the Muffins' album _Mystery Walk_ for forty-nine cents which was cheaper than the kd lang & the reclines' 12" of "Turn Me Round" which is an original radio station copy so there's no extra tracks and it's the same version as the album version and it isn't even in a picbag, but hey, it's the thought that counts and it says "from her forthcoming album _Angel With a Lariat_" so that's good enough for me especially since Angel is still my favorite album and it was only $1.49 but that's all the vinyl I got because they didn't have the vinyl I was looking for which was Fairground Attraction and looking for those 12"s is the only reason I was looking in the 12" & vinyl section at all though I might start buying more vinyl because it's cheapcheap nowadays and my guy Chris bought me a DJ turntable for Christmas-yay!-and now I can start playing some of my 800+ albums with female vocals many of which are not on CD yet and speaking of CDs I also picked up used copies of Hugo Largo's _Mettle_ which I had had on cassette and LP but I'm really glad to have it on CD now which is the same situation as Martha's Vineyard's self-titled album which I'd had on cassette and LP but I found it on CD tonight for $2.99 and Martin, if he's gotten this far through this amazingly long sentence, can tell you about because they're from Perth and I also got Maire Brennan's CD which is really beautiful and I'd only had a dub of before now same thing with Ana Christensen's album _Brave New World_ which Sue in Kansas City had sent me a dub of and I think I like most of it, it's uneven but people who like Robin Holcomb and similar women will really like it and the last things I got on CD are 2 things I'd never heard of but they were cheap and looked interesting so I decided to take a chance on them and they are someone named Caitlin Von Schmidt who is from Tucson, AZ and a woman named Iza but I haven't listened to either one of them yet so I can't tell you if they are any good and, last but not least I found a whole slew of Rip Rig and Panic 7" vinyls which, for those people who may not know, is a band that Neneh Cherry sang with in the early 80s and all the singles are in picbags and were very cheap so I'm happy and though I didn't find a single thing that I went into this record store to find I came out with a lot of great things for not very much money so now I can end this sentence and decide if I'm going to delete it and type everything in again in a normal fashion or subject you all to trying to read this as it is, but first I should finish what I started which was saying that if Sheila Chandra focuses on her latest album that will be a Good Thing but if she for some unknown, in comprehensible reason she decides to feature the Indipop tracks of _Silk_ then maybe it won't be as good as I said because much, not all, but much of her Indipop stuff is pretty bad, IMHO, but if she *does* feature _Weaving My Ancestor's Voices_, which hasn't a whiff of Indipop on it, then ChrisB, you should be prepared to enter the kingdom of ethereal heaven...sigh...sigh...sigh... pps: I haven't a *clue* as to what inspired "Till the Dawn Breaks" but I can feel what it means. ppps: Thank you SteveVanD. Desire is mine, courage is not. I'm working on it. Thanks ChrisS too. pppps: Hey, *WELCOME* to all the new Ectophiles!! ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 08:13:36 +0000 From: Terry Partis Subject: HaPpY Birthday Here's wishing a Very Happy Birthday to Sean Casey on 25th January Have a great day Peace Terry =============================================================================== _ __ Jolly Hockeysticks _ __ / `-' ( ,,, / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' Terry (Tel Boy) Partis \_.-._( ''' _ __ (tgp@ukc.ac.uk) _ __ / `-' ( ,,, With a smile and a song / `-' ( ,,, | I I ||||||[:::] I'm HaPpY | I I ||||||[:::] \_.-._( ''' \_.-._( ''' YYUR - YYUB - ICURYY4ME =============================================================================== ======================================================================== From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: WOMADELAIDE (was Suzanne Vega, but not really ... *:) ) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 20:04:49 EST Vickie the omnipresent happy-guru writes: > > ChrisB (who always sends me into ecstacy when he writes his reactions > to Happy) writes: > Wow. It's really nice when one's words mean something to someone ... Actually I'd like to post another episode when I've listened to all of the discs for a little while. I dunno exactly what it'll say. (I guess that's pretty obvious *:) ). So stay tuned ... I love the gold pen autographs on my discs - I'll treasure them forever ... Actaully, now that I think of it, my brother was having a look at my happy discs, and he commented that the covers for I, II and Ecto are pretty gruesome. He said that it reminded him of Heavy Metal album covers. Interesting I thought. I never really paid much attention to that aspect of them. But then I'm generally not one to pigeon-hole things, even though I must admit to having bought music on the basis of a nice cover a couple of times. I regretted it once *:). > > I've just spent all my money and I'm ready to go to WOMADELAIDE to > > see PG. The line-up for the weekend sounds pretty good to me ... > > > > Peter Gabriel > > Sheila Chandra > > > Most of them I don't know - is there anybody out there who can shed any > > light on any of them, like who should I look out for and stuff ... ? > > Whatever you do, no matter what the situation, doesn't matter what you > have to do to achieve it, do not, I repeat, ***DO NOT*** miss > > Sheila Chandra > > Ok? Do not question, do not hesitate, do not doubt my word. Pay whatever > amount it may take, you will not regret it. Get as close as you possibly > can, relax, and let the beauty and sensuality of the music and her voice > wash over you and cleanse your soul. Be properly thankful that you have > been given this extraordinary chance to experience the woman in person. > Think of me and know that I am so incredibly jealous that you get to see > Peter and Sheila live. Then come back home to Ecto and tell us all about > it. > 'twill be a pleasure, assuredly. Incidentally, this is what the womadelaide booklet has to say about Sheila ... "Sheila Chandra (UK/India) Inspirational Indian vocalist _Sheila Chandra_ has captured hearts and souls of music lovers with her latest album _Weaving My Ancestor's Voices_. Her music is a blend of Indian heritage with influences ranging from Irish ballads to British folksongs. Sheila Chandra's rich vocal genius creates a never-to- be-forgotten performance." I think I like the sound of that anyway. Your ecstatic recommendation is very enthusiastically received - I get the feeling from it that Sheila's music is going to be very much my kind of thing ... Thank you ever ever ever so much for the advice *:) *:). > > > I just have to do it again... > > <*SIGH*> > > Have LOTS of fun Christopher! > Oh, if you insist ... *:). I'm planning on getting the absolute _MOST_ possible out of the weekend - hopefully meeting lots of really nice people, whose taste in music is bound to be superb - experiencing a whole lot of new music that I'd probably never get another opportunity to see - and ENJOYING MYSELF!!!!!!!!!! *:) > Vickie > > ps, now, I'm assuming that she'll be focusing on her latest album > _Weaving My Ancestor's Voices_, which I went to look for tonight > based on the belief that it had been released in the US, but this > record store didn't have it, but I did get Anna Palm's new album ... ... [insert very fast, deep indrawn breath] ... > I should finish what I started which was saying that if Sheila Chandra > focuses on her latest album that will be a Good Thing but if she > for some unknown, in comprehensible reason she decides to feature the > Indipop tracks of _Silk_ then maybe it won't be as good as I said > because much, not all, but much of her Indipop stuff is pretty bad, > IMHO, but if she *does* feature _Weaving My Ancestor's Voices_, which > hasn't a whiff of Indipop on it, then ChrisB, you should be prepared > to enter the kingdom of ethereal heaven...sigh...sigh...sigh... > Ethereal heaven!!!! I can't wait ... > > Ditto. Chris. P.S. I like the idea of pictures on file. What exactly do we need to get it going ... ? -- | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | ||Christopher Boek - boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au | ||| ||| | ||| ||| ||| | || Dept Elec Eng Univ of Melbourne Australia | | | | | | | | | / "Anybody remotely interesting is mad in |___|___|___|___|___|___|___|___| \_/\_/\_/\_/\__/(:*- some way or another" ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 14:14:28 MEZ From: Dirk Kastens Subject: Fuzzy Dolby Hi, Happy Birthdays to Ken Taylor (belated, sorry) and Terry Partis (belated, sorry too). Welcome Mary Lou! I wrote: > at the moment, because I'm writing my diploma (Applications of > Fuzzy Set Theory in Environmental Impact Assessment) and I hardly Now, that I've read this in the digest, it occured to me, that maybe some of you could take this for a joke (fuzzy blue Ectophiles writing fuzzy examinations at fuzzy gray universities, haha). But it's true. I'm really writing on this subject. It's a very interesting investi- gation, because fuzzy concepts play a main part in human perception and decision process. Environmental planning, in particular, is based upon linguistic descriptions of possible or present effects on nature. The fuzzy set theory seems to be an appropriate method for a qantification of these vague and imprecise descriptions. Ob Thomas Dolby: I only have TFE and Aliens but I like them very much, TFE more than Aliens. Both, Wireless and TFE, are very easily available here in Germany as mid-price CDs (20-22 DM = 13 US$). Dirk ---------------------------------------------- Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't very fuzzy, was he? ======================================================================== From: "Michael Blackmore" Date: 22 Jan 93 09:47:29 EST Subject: Re: Suzanne Vega in Boston Angelo, Thanks for the Boston - Suzanne Vega play date! I finally just bought her new album 99.9 and have been playing it to death. I saw her perform back during her Days of Open Hand tour and loved it/her! I can't wait! Where the h*ll is AVALON??? - Michael B. ======================================================================== Subject: Today's your birthday friend.... From: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de (Cosmic Vagabond) Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 07:38:23 GMT i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* ***** Terry Partis **** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Sean Casey Thu January 25 1962 ICB Tim Devine Tue February 3 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 4 1966 Aquarius Gene Sady Tue February 7 1956 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.w.open.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: The other side of 1992 Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:50:35 BST As I said, slightly controversially, some time ago I wasn't too impressed with the quantity of top-notch new music released last year in those genres of the popular music that interest me. However, I do think that 1992 was an above-average year for new recordings in what, for want of a better term, one might call the "classical" field. So, here's my top ten new recordings of 1992: Berg/Rihm: Violin Concerto/Time Chant - Mutter/CSO/Levine Bliss: Morning Heroes - Blessed/LPO/Kibblewhite Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 - BBCPO/Klee Dvorak: Slavonic Dances - Labeques Ligeti/Lutoslawski/Schnittke: String Quartets - Hagen Quartet Lutoslawski: Piano Concerto/Chain 3/Novelette - Zimmermann/BBCSO/Lutoslawski Macmillan: The Confession of Isabel Gowdie/Tryst - BBCSSO/Maksymiuk Milhaud/Bennett/Rosauro/Miyoshi: Percussion Concertos - Glennie/SCO/Daniel Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 8 & 9 - Uchida/ECO/Tate Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations &c. - Harnoy/LPO/Mackerras All come highly recommended (by me, at any rate). -- 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: Fri, 22 Jan 93 10:44:07 -0800 From: Michael G Peskura Subject: A Friday in January Greetings from Seattle, Gateway to Cicely. On the NorthWest front, there seems to be some noteworthy music up in Vancouver, BC, tonight. The 5th annual Women in View Festival opens with a concert at the Commodore Ballroom. Jane Siberry is scheduled to perform an acoustic set of material from her new album due out in March. Also appearing will be the All Star Women's Band, being Linda Kidder and Sue Leonard (from k.d. lang's band), Linda McRae (from Spirit of the West), Joan Besen (from Prairie Oyster), Revellie Nixon on drums, and Karen Graves on sax. Every now & then i wish i were a Canadian! (Hi, Neile :) But now that the Reagan Gangs have vacated the White House, maybe living in the Ol' US of A won't cause us such shame ... BTW, i HEARTILY agree with the Sheila Chandra recommendation! I would love to be able to see her perform her music ... ANY of it. Cheers, Mp ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:37:16 -0230 From: eperry@kean.ucs.mun.ca Subject: bday Couldn't miss wishing Terry a huge Happy Birthday!! Have a great one Terry. Beth ======================================================================== The ecto archives are on hardees.rutgers.edu in ~ftp/pub/hr. There is an INDEX file explaining what is where. Feel free to send me things you'd like to have added. -- jessica (jessica@ns1.rutgers.edu)