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 #594 ecto, Number 594 Thursday, 3 June 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Back at last! Hey Bday! Champagne Jam, 6/1/93 music and literature stones, nudes, etc Was lost, but now am foundering... Artists playing at Roskilde ========================================================================== Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 22:23 EDT From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: Back at last! Whew! Offline since Sunday, my service was restored this afternoon (Wed.) and I'm happy to see I am now on bounce mail! It feels so immediate, yet indeed brni was correct about all those headers! I see a thread has been thrud about playing Happymusic. I find I can grasp much of it by ear, yet I am aware of a pleasing complexity. It's a very intelligent music, quite well constructed. Lots of nifty things going on.. never boring! Of course, I've probably mentioned way too often that I feel a spiritual connection, like I've played it before. I had been afraid to sit down with the bass and try it, but I did and there it was. The music flowed through me like an old river ( I guess I did meander a bit...!). But anyway, if anybody had real transcriptions I'd be interested! Someday we can publish "The Happy Rhodes Songbook", but for now we have to bend to the folk tradition! Well, it's good to be back! Vickie, I spoke to Susanne today, and I'll get in touch with Polly ASAP. (Polly may be able to help on the long- hoped-for video project!) Doug, did those World Cafe tapes ever make it? See you all again soon! Bob L. ========================================================================== Date: Wed, 2 Jun 93 22:53:13 EDT From: WretchAwry Subject: Hey Bday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Perttu!! (bro of Riikka Leena) Vickie ps, Klaus, your bday list is seriously in need of weeding. Jorn hasn't been an Ectophile for *ages*! pps, be back after the game :-) ========================================================================== Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1993 23:41:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Suspended In Duct Tape Subject: Champagne Jam, 6/1/93 Hi! Trying a new time slot out for size... hopefully this will fit me through the summer! CHAMPAGNE JAM 88.1FM, WESU-Middletown Wesleyan University Middletown, CT Tuesday, June 1, 1993 7-9PM 10,000 MANIACS: "Hey Jack Kerouac" (In My Tribe) AIMEE MANN: "I Could Hurt You Now" (Whatever) TASMIN ARCHER: "Somebody's Daughter" (Great Expectations) LAURIE FREELOVE: "(If You) Walk Away Awhile" (Smells Like Truth) BETTY: "Picnic Love Affair" (Hello Betty!) ZAP MAMA: "Nabombeli Yo" (Adventures In Afropea I) CRANES: "Jewel" (Forever) ARSON GARDEN: "Lash (Live)" (Wisteria Promo CD5) THROWING MUSES: "Pools In Eyes" (The Fat Skier) PSYCHOWELDERS: "Unbridled" (Inertia) LULABOX: "Ivory Hill" (Lulabox) OPIUM DEN: "Blind" (Diary of a Drunken Sun) COCTEAU TWINS: "In Our Angelhood" (Head Over Heels) BIG HAT: "Leaning Into (Western Skies)" (Shimmer) LAURIE ANDERSON: "Big Science" (Difficult Listening Hour EP) INGRID KARKLINS: "Hiro/Smitten" (A Darker Passion) NEGATIVLAND: "Our National Anthem" (Free) LE MYSTERE DES VOIX BULGARES: "Pipppero" (From Bulgaria With Love) THE SUGARCUBES: "Blue-Eyed Pop" (Life's Too Good) BEL CANTO: "Spiderdust" (Shimmering, Warm and Bright) HAPPY RHODES: "Cohabitants" (Equipoise) TORI AMOS: "The Pool" (Winter CD5) AREA: "Robin" (Between Purple And Pink) THE MOON SEVEN TIMES: "Dear Joe" (The Moon Seven Times) JOHN AND MARY: "Angels of Stone" (The Weedkiller's Daughter) HIS NAME IS ALIVE: "Lemon" (Mouth By Mouth) THIS MORTAL COIL: "With Tomorrow" (Promo CD5) KATE BUSH: "There Goes A Tenner" (The Dreaming) Tune in next week for more adventures in the world of music and the wonders of the female voice... Meredith meth@delphi.com ========================================================================== Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 01:28:36 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: music and literature hi vickie, can't help you with the cure reference, but if you want to give him a read for his money, let him know that laurie anderson's song "gravity's angel" was inspired by the illusive thomas pynchon's _gravity's rainbow_, which is, incidentally, my favoritest text ever (even better than _harold and the purple crayon_ or _where the wild things are_ or even _the phantom tollbooth_). brni ========================================================================== Date: Thu, 3 Jun 93 01:41:16 EDT From: mojzes@monet.rutgers.edu (brni) Subject: stones, nudes, etc mitch, in an abnormally short post says: > >I like Dennis' ideas for segues from the Sundays' Stones cover, but let's not >forget Linda Ronstadt's interpretation of "Sympathy for the Devil." On the >other hand, if we want to exhause all the logical possibilities for mutual >homage with their ultimate roots in my deranged television habits, we may have >to bite the bullet and be willing to entertain the theoretical notion of a >Mick Jagger cover of the "World News Polka." :-) :-) :-(' > > Mitch > completists would want to include "(can't get no) satisfaction" by the inimitable devo. personally, i would like to hear a compilation of all the different versions of "all along the watchtower." i know of dylan's, hendrix's, michael hedges', and xtc's versions (and i really feel that i'm missing one that i *should* know), but i'm sure that there are plenty others. xtc's version is great, btw, and is excellent for making hardcore dylan fans twitch. :> in other news: on sunday i will be doing some nude photography (for the first time with someone with whom i am not intimate). does anyone have any suggestions to make things go smoothly and comfortably? thanks, brni ========================================================================== Date: Thu, 03 Jun 93 00:06:30 CDT From: metatron!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt) Subject: Was lost, but now am foundering... r.lovejoy1@genie.geis.com writes: > Subject: Lost in Cherry Hill! and mjm writes of being lost in Manhattan... I can sympathise with each, having spent inordinate amounts of time lost in each. I grew up in Cherry Hill and lived in Brooklyn until I came here to Austin. The trick to Manhattan is to stop believing in Euclidean geometry. I went with the common story of it being a fairly straightforward grid, but lost my faith at the intersections of West 4th and West 10th streets. "Over hill, over dale, through bush, through briar....................... and the looks on your faces right now are really funny." -- Happy Rhodes Metatron Press / Human Systems Performance Group / Heart of Texas Havurah 3-Jun-93 6:34:43-GMT,5705;000000000000 Received: from ns1.rutgers.edu by hardees.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA11847; Thu, 3 Jun 93 02:34:42 EDT Received: from ifi.uio.no by ns1.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.5/3.08) id AA24973; Thu, 3 Jun 93 02:33:53 EDT Received: from hnoss.ifi.uio.no by ifi.uio.no with SMTP id for ; Thu, 3 Jun 1993 08:33:50 +0200 From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Received: by hnoss.ifi.uio.no ; Thu, 3 Jun 1993 08:33:49 +0200 Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 08:33:49 +0200 Message-Id: <199306030633.AAhnoss.ifi.uio.no02043@hnoss.ifi.uio.no> To: ecto@ns1.rutgers.edu Subject: Roskilde and other things... Are there any Ectophiles planning to go to the Roskilde festival? Jens? For you geographically challenged (PC speak for Americans? just kidding :-), Roskilde is just outside Copenhagen. And I'm not going to tell you where Copenhagen is, so there. It will be four days of non-stop music on six different stages. Main attractions are Neil Young, Midnight Oil, Velvet Underground, Ray CHarles, Chris Isaak and Living Colour, but I have more interest in the bands with small print: Miranda Sex Garden and Mouth Music! Yow! To name some more I intend to see: the Kronos Quartet, Shonen Knife, Sunscreem, Mari Boine, Jah Wobble, Hedningarna and 22 Pistepirkko. Hmm, I should type in the list so that I could get recommendations what to see from you lot! I'll send it in a separate message, since it is so long. Speaking of Miranda Sex Garden, you lot forgot the single "Play" in your discography. It features a version of Inferno well worth the price of the single. Besides, the single is just right for when I cycle to and from the University. -pure-energy-. Regarding names and their pronunciation, I guess mine is one open for interpretation for non-Scandinavians :-) Kjetil is pronounced "cheh till ToohR gRihm Hoe-mah". To pronounce the R, vibrate your tongue violently. Practice when you take a shower. Incidentally, most Norwgians can't pronounce it correctly either, they say "sheh" :-/ My dialect is pretty distinct. "Kjetil" is derived from "ketill", or "kettle" as it became in English. "Torgrim" is "Thor" (the god of thunder) and "grim". "Homme" means "meadow" where my father comes from. At a guess, approx. 10 000 Norwegians would know that word :-) Oh, and Kjetil is a boy's name... Any news of when we can expect Happy's CD-single??? What will it cost? I think "Ashes to Ashes" is my favourite Bowie song - I can't wait to hear what Happy has done to it. I am sure it is just as spectacular as you all say it is :-) Klaus asks about Mari Boine (note she is divorced, I think) She just released a new album, "Eagle Brother" - I can't remember the Lappish title... I also have an album called "M|te i Moskva" ("(A) Meeting in Moscow") where she plays together with "Band Allans" or something like that. The record was made on the initiative of "Norway's answer to John Peel", Sigbj|rn Nedland. I have no idea whether these albums are available outside of Norway. Brni mentions that Joy Askew has played with Laurie Anderson in the past. No solo albums? Did I mention how utterly impressed I was by her performance (both playing and singing) at the Peter Gabriel concert? I did? Well, it bears repeating :-) To think I thought her appearance archetypal of a Brit (yes, I consider that a compliment, I can't help it). > --------The Ectophiles Guide to Artists starting with Q & R-------- > [...] Rig & PanicRip [...] Whoa! I remember hearing that Neneh Cherry used to be in a band called "Rip Rig Panic", and I've been looking for singles ever since. Is this the same? More info, _please_! On to some mini reviews of the records I've bought since last time... Leo Kottke - "My feet are smiling". This is my first Leo Kottke album, a live recording from 1972. Actually, I had never heard anything by him before I found this (cheap, only $13!) at the store. It's energetic folk with some great acoustic guitar playing. Various - "Girlism (colours of female music)". This German compilation sets forth to show the versatility of women in music, and includes samples by Darling Buds, Romeo Void, Rita Mitsouko, Betty Boo, Jenny Morris, Sade, Adele Bertei, Alison Moyet, Sylvia Juncosa, The Breeders, Malaria!, Fuzzbox, Cosmopolitans, Lolitas, Anna Palm, Nancy Sinatra, Strawberry Switchblade and Anne Clark. A cool compilation, I reckon. I definitely must check out Rita Mitsouko, and probably others... Friedemann - "Voyager in expanse". A concept album (how un-chic!) from 1986 (oh, almost excused). In the same vein as Andreas Vollenweider, but with guitar instead of a harp. BTW, it's funny how much more text Germans put into the booklets. Friedeman describes in quite some detail where, when and how he recorded the sounds he used in his album, in Deutsch and in English. Interesting reading :-) Kazumi Watanabe - "The spice of life too". Funky jazz, Watanabe plays the el-guitar very competently with assistance of Bill Bruford. Anna Domino - "Mysteries of America". Well, I'm not overwhelmed, but some of the songs are really nice. (I actually bought it because I thought it was Anna Palm :-) Cowboy Junkies - "Whites off Earth now!!". Alright crunchy (if I have understood this word correctly) guitar based rock. Sheila Chandra - "Weaving my ancestors' voices". Need I say more? Yes? Well, I'm not as thrilled as thought I would be. I'll give it some time, though. Ministry - "Land of rape and honey". Superb industrial music. Great fuzz. Ministry's best IMO :-) Kjetil T. "So what I am going to do is play a medley." *pling* *pling* *plong* "It begins like all of my songs, with a lot of tuning" - Leo Kottke ========================================================================== From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 08:41:02 +0200 Subject: Artists playing at Roskilde My key: * I'm *not* going to miss this + I'll probably be there . If there's no * or + going on at the same time, I'll be there.. The dates are July 1st to the 4th. The list as typed in from a leaflet: === main attractions ============================= + Neil Young & Booker T. & The M.G.'s (can/us) + Red Hot Chili Peppers (us) Midnight Oil (aus) + Velvet Underground (us) Ray Charles & The Raeletts & The Ray Charles Orchestra (us) Chris Isaak (us) Living Colour (us) === next category ================================ American Music Club (us) Aztec Camera (uk) Bjorn Again (aus) Atomic Swing (s) Bad Religion (us) Hanne Boel (dk) Boghandle (dk) John Campbell (us) Electric Boys (s) Gangstarr Quartett (us) Keziah Jones (uk) * Kronos Quartet (us) Levellers (uk) . Motorhead (uk) New Jungle Orchestra (dk) Omar & The Howlers (us) . Porno for Pyros (us) The Sandmen (dk) * Shonen Knife (jap) Sonic Youth (us) . Sugar (us) . Suicidal Tendencies (us) === deeday (house party!) ======================== Apache Indian (uk) Cypress Hill (us) David Dexter D. (f) Digable Planets (us) + The Grid (uk) Jamiroquay (uk) Matter (uk) Moby (us) The Sandals (uk) Spooky (uk) + Sunscreem (uk) [ various dJ's elided ] === barely-worth-the-ink category :-) ============ Afghan Whigs (us) AIDS-gruppen (dk) Backseat Boys (dk) Barenaked Ladies (can) Becker/Sainkho Duo (dk/sng) + Mari Boine (n) Bombay Hotel (dk) Cheb Mami (alg) Clawfinger (s/n) Cop Shoot Cop (us) The Cranberries (irl) Detest (dk) Die Onkels (dk) Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy [sic] (us) Dizzy Mizz Lizzy (dk) 18th Dye (d/dk) Roger Eno with Kate St. John (uk) Excess Bleeding Heart (dk) The Failures (ch) FFF (f) Flying Fish (dk) Freak of Nature (us) Furious Trauma (dk) Fury in the Slaughterhouse (d) Ghost of an American Airman (irl) God Machine (us) Greene (dk) + Hedningarna (s) Holmes Brothers (us) Industrial & Domestic Theatre Contractors (uk) Ind-sam (dk) Itch (can) + Jah Wobble (uk) KGB Clowns (sng) Kinky Boot Beast (dk) Kristiansands Kunst Kommando (n) Gerard Langley (uk) The Law (dk) Led Zeppelin Jam (dk) Lemonheads (us) Les Casse Pieds (f) Litfiba (i) Love Shop (dk) Maldita Vecindad (mex) Malka Family (f) Johnny Melville (e) * Miranda Sex Garden (uk) Motorpsycho (n) * Mouth Music (uk) New Now Dancers (dk) Novaja Nieba (sng) Geoffrey Oryema (uga) The Poets (dk) Peril (aus/jap) Popsicle (s) Jim rose Circus Side Show (us) Rowwen Heze (nl) Sainkho (sng) Scan Beat (dk/n/s/sf) Spiritualized (uk) Therapy? (uk) Trains, Boats & Planes (dk) Trio Blamage (d) + 22 Pistepirkko (sf) Uncle Tupelo (us) Valgardi (dk) Voivod (can) The Walkabouts (us) ... and more PHEW! The code in the parentheses is the symbol used on cars to denote nationality, if you wondered. I'd really really appreciate comments on any or all [:-)] of the bands. Kjetil T. ========================================================================== Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1993 17:51:31 +1000 (EST) From: boek@mullian.ee.mu.oz.au (Christopher Boek) Subject: Artists playing at Roskilde (fwd) Kjetil lists ... > > Midnight Oil (aus) > I think Midnight Oil are better than people expect of such a succesful group. Songs like 'U.S. Forces' and 'Power and the Passion' are classic songs, and I quite like Truganini, the latest single. I'm in fact going to see them this Saturday, supported by Things of Stone and Wood, whom I've told you all about (mind you the fact that I got the ticket for A$21 had a little to do with it). They have something to say as well. Not that I'm saying everyone on this list _doesn't_ like them, but I noted the absence of a * or + from the list :). > Bjorn Again (aus) > Now Bjorn Again are quite worthwhile. I saw them at a local pub here for the first time about three or four years ago (They originate from Melbourne) and I really enjoyed the blast from the past. I was very young when Abba were famous, but liked a lot of their songs at the time, and some of their better ones are still quite good to listen to now. Well, I suppose they are having a bit of a revival now, but I liked them anyway. And the resemblance is uncanny ... :) > The Cranberries (irl) > Well, I've only heard the song 'Linger', but I really like it. > Holmes Brothers (us) > These guys were at WOMADELAIDE, and they certainly went down well there, but then again so did everyone at WOMADELAIDE. They're a kind of gospel blues duo, and are quite good live performers. > Geoffrey Oryema (uga) > Geoffrey is well worth seeing. Also at WOMADELAIDE, he almost stole the whole show (mind you PG was coming on after him so he didn't steal _that_ much ;) ) He had some really good songs, and a guitarist that did some really weird things with the guitar. Things I didn't know could be done with one. I was really impressed and thoroughly enjoyed his performance. Try not to miss this one :) Anyway, hope you find this useful. When exactly was it going to be on ... ? Soon, or later in the year ... If I'm in Holland, I'll try to make it up there. 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" ======================================================================== 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)