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 #580 ecto, Number 580 Wednesday, 19 May 1993 Today's Topics: *-----------------* The Ecto Tape collection... inphobos is back Re: ecto #579 Gaze in the Military? Re: Relative to what?, or: The noblest Rhodes of them all Birthday Wishes another test Thanks Brazil, Xymox....etc. Re: Vangelis From Vivaldi to ... f troop ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 01:50:20 -0400 From: Larry Nathanson Subject: The Ecto Tape collection... I just got the tapes from Doug, and all I can say is WOW! I've listened to a few of them... I think this is going to cost me a lot of money, when I have to go out and buy some of the albums of from the Femme Music Collection.. One question-- does anyone know - is that Kevin on the Mystery tape?? I'm going back to the Gift Project!! See ya'll in a few hundred hours when I listen to all of this!!! --L ======================================================================== From: "Klaus Kluge" Date: 19 May 93 10:28:18 MET-1 Subject: inphobos is back Just a short note to let you know that Inphobos is operational again. "Only" a week of digests and e-mail is lost, so if you sent something to me during the last two weeks and don't get a reply soon it's probably because I didn't get your message in the first place. The current status is that I "only" have to read 22 ecto digests before I'm up to date again. Yesterday, Ectophile Chris Waite and her sister Wendy made a stop at Inphobos. They continued their trip through Germany this morning, but will be back friday/saturday/sunday-ish. So if you have any messages for her quickly send them my way. All the best ... ... Klaus. _____ Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge private: klaus@inphobos.w.open.de I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto work: kkluge@materna.de ======================================================================== Subject: Re: ecto #579 From: metatron!joe@dogface.austin.tx.us (Joe Zitt) Date: Wed, 19 May 93 02:39:39 CDT stevev@miser.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) > A minor SPOILER alert, just in case, and then: I did notice a > quite amusing throwaway bit in the Sunday night segment where a > TV is on in the background and the following snippet of dialogue > is heard: > > TV host: "So, Mr, Stone, the files were unsealed and it turns > out you were right. Are you bitter?" > > Oliver Stone: "No, Bob, but--" > > It's a somewhat unsubtle reference to _JFK_ but amusing > nonetheless. The funniest bit is the rest of his statement: that the files reveal the conspiracy was *larger* than the movie said. Andrea@hivnet.ubc.ca writes: > Hi Chris! Well, I introduced Happy to about six choir members during our > weekend retreat the weekend before last and got rave reviews! I know one > person will definately be buying Warpaint at the very least. I'd love to > sing Happy (and Kate for that matter) in choir but first I need a piece > arranged for four-part harmony. Any volunteers? As I read that, a 4-part a capella treatment of "Feed the Fire" started running around in my head. Hmmm... "Runners" could also be cool... "You could be an ocarina salesman going | Metatron Press | Austin, Texas! from door to door..." -- Laurie Anderson | Human Systems Performance Group ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 19 May 93 7:19 EDT From: robert@deepspace.nj00802.sai.com (Robert Lovejoy) Subject: Gaze in the Military? What's all this nonsense all over the news about Gaze in the Military? Why, when I was in the Army it was important to gaze across the battlefield and try to see what the enemy was doing! Pilots have to gaze at their instrument panel in order to fly properly! In fact, it is very important to gaze in the military. I just don't see what all this fuss is about! Bob Lovejoy (apologies to Emily Litella) ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Re: Relative to what?, or: The noblest Rhodes of them all Date: Wed, 19 May 93 12:32:20 BST On Tue, 18 May 93 at 15:45:16 CDT 'Mitch Pravatiner prattles'--Chris Boek wrote: > Judging from the tone of the discussion, I assume that Vangelis of Jon and ___ > is not the same Vangelis who did the score for _Chariots of Fire_ and similar > lettuce-washers. Yes. The Vangelis who teamed up with Jon Anderson is the same person who did the "Chariots of Fire" soundtrack and who was at one time in a group called Aphrodites Child with none other than Demis Roussos! I assume from the context that "lettuce-washers" is a term of abuse. Just what is a "lettuce-washer"? If we have them in the UK I'm not sure we call them by that name, as I've never come across it before. Actually, I'm quite a fan of Vangelis from the times back in the seventies when he was making solo albums like "Albedo 0.39", "Heaven & Hell", "Spiral", and "China". When I was at university I had a radio show that made a feature of electronic music and Vangelis was one of the staples along with Klaus Schulze and Tangerine Dream. The two Jon & Vangelis albums I have ("Short Stories" and "The Friends of Mister Cairo") are very equal partnerships musically between the two men. Jon's voice gets to make a much larger structural contribution than when working as part of Yes, and Vangelis scaled down his large-scale keyboard sound to provide an appropriate accompaniment. They seem to work very well together. It was said at the time that Vangelis would have joined Yes when Wakeman left (after "Tales...") except that he wasn't a vegetarian. Instead they got Patrick Moraz who (it has been rumoured) when asked if he was a veggie replied "if necessary"! "Vangelis" of course was his first name. The second was one of those Greek polysyllabic jobs. It was something along the lines of "Papathanasiou". Anyone (Angelos?) remember it any more exactly? -- 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". *** ======================================================================== From: S.L.Fagg@bnr.co.uk Subject: Birthday Wishes Date: Wed, 19 May 93 12:46:54 BST I'd just like to say a big "TNAHK YOU" to all those who sent birthday wishes either directly or via Ecto. You outnumbered the number of physical cards I received, what a jolly nice lot you all are! -- 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: 19 May 1993 09:34:41 -0400 (EDT) From: "she listens like her head's on fire.." Subject: another test Hello, I'm sending this again because I don't know if anyone out there is getting it. I got it but I already know what it says..;-) I have sent a few messages and I am wondering if any got through. I am getting mail from the postmaster saying there is something wrong with the mailing address...even when I reply to a message. oh well. Quenby ======================================================================== Subject: Thanks Date: Wed, 19 May 93 15:01:54 +0100 From: Stephen Thomas Hi All. I'd just like to thank everyone who sent congratulations about Jane and I's engagement. As I said before, you're all a great bunch of people! Keep well, Stephen ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 19 May 93 10:04:15 CST From: kiri Subject: Brazil, Xymox....etc. After hearing so much about Brazil I finally went out and rented it last night. It's a bloody bore here now that school is over for the summer, but that's besides the point. Now I have always firmly believed I was a true connoisseur of the bizarre, eccentric, eclectic etc. etc. but this movie blew my poor deprived winona ryder's beetlejuice character soul to shame. What a mind trip, what symbolism, what a *weird* film! Now I only wish i could watch it again...stoned. :) ;) Great flick... Fortunately Courtney in her infinite wisdom (laugh) left her cd collection with me while she is on vacation...oh unfortunate days :) Anyway I was rifleing through it the other day looking for some cds I didn't own, and there it was....Xymox. Alan had told me about Xymox...Clan of.. but i'm broke at present and didn't have the time or ambition to go searching for the albums. Anyway she has the album Twist of Shadows. Alan told me a couple albums to look for, and one to stay away from. I don't remember where this album falls, but i like it a lot. In fact it inspires the same reaction that Enya's Watermark does...of course the music is of a different genre, but it's as powerful. {for me} ob the spoiler about the JfK thing in Wild Palms. I read about that in Time magazine about a week ago.... Unfortunately the only station I get down here is PBS (cause i'm too cheap to get cable, and if i had 30 stations I wouldn't do any work :) :) ). The show sounded cewl in the article though well it's off to the b-side cd's and clockwork orange soundtrack weee! oh yeah one more thing...ob Peter Hamill My friend Lewis down here is a guitar maniac (in fact he is borrowing my bass right now to learn that). Anyway in exchange for lending him all of my kate cd's he lent me 10 or so various cds. A couple of them were Peter Hamill. I loved them! I'm still trying to woo Happy to Lewis, but I haven't had the time to really give it a good push. in the funnyfarm, kIrI byhargie@vm.cc.olemiss.edu :internet byhargie@umsvm :bitnet ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 19 May 93 10:31:43 PDT From: dixon@physics.berkeley.edu (David Dixon) Subject: Re: Vangelis Angelos intoned: >Mitch wrote something to the extent that Vangelis Papathanassiou's music is >ideal for washing vegetables. (this is from memory) Sorry, Mitch, but Vangelis >is a very successful and quite talented musician. I second that emotion. Vangelis is one of my favorite performers; I have about 20 of his albums. _Soil Festivities_ is my favorite-- one of the only albums that literally *stunned* me when I heard it. It's incredibly beautiful, sorrowful music. >He also wrote >the music for movies like 'Bladerunner', and 'Chariots of fire', and also >the music to a Carl Sagan series (I think it was called 'cosmos'). A lot of performers had their music used in the "Cosmos" series (including Synergy, Vivaldi, some others I can't recall now, I haven't heard the album in years). Vangelis' contributions were taken from _Beaubourg_, _Albedo 0.39_ and _Heaven and Hell_ (which also has a Jon Anderson vocal appearance). >And he has something common with Kate Bush. He's scared of flying! :-) He also hates to have his picture taken-- most unlike Kate. :) >It's funny how the two most popular Greek musicians >are instrumentalists (Vangelis and Yanni), but there is quite a difference >between the two of them. I find Yanni's music as exciting as the tone of >telephone (what I have heard of it anyway). You should hear Yanni's first release, _Keys to Imagination_. It's really cool. The stuff he's putting out now is pureed pap in comparison. Must be the insidious influence of Linda Evans and Ramtha. :) D^2 ======================================================================== Date: Wed, 19 May 93 20:31:58 +0200 From: yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no (Yngve Hauge) Subject: From Vivaldi to ... > A lot of performers had their music used in the "Cosmos" series (including > Synergy, Vivaldi, some others I can't recall now, I haven't heard the ^^^^^^^ I've waited for the chance to mention some of the music that has influenced me and that is some of the most beautiful I know.........I've played the violine for 13 years (I've taken a break the last few months cause of my study), and it was through classical music I got my first magical moments. I will mention some of them here......For those of you who are not into that kind of music I highly recommend these pieces..... So here I go : For some years I played in a string quartet. It was just for fun but we got through a lot of music during that time. We had various names on that quartet - left handed quartet (We were all left handed), The quartet of the four H's (2*Hauge (my brother was in it as well. He is studying music in Chicago right now..but is going home very soon), Heggdal(He is at St. Olaf) and Husby (currently in the army)), The rose quartet (Molde is called the town of the roses), The Molde Quartet.....We never decided what to call ourself, but back to the music......A piece that always will be my favorite one is the second movement of Dvorak's American Quartet. It's the most beautiful chamber music I've ever heard besides Chausson's (sp?) consert for solo violine and piano quintett...I heard the last piece at the chamber festival in Kristiansand and it is the first time besides the chilling Shostakovich piano trio I heard last summer that the audience is sitting there completly still before they start to applaud. It was such a wonderful experience. If you are going to try some chamber music get something by Dvorak or Shostakovich (I didn't think very much of Shostakovich before I heard the Leningrad symphony played by the Oslo Philarmonic Orchestra..). I've heard a lot of recordings of Dvorak's American Quartet but the one that I personally think is the best is the one by The Hagen Quartet released on Deutsche Gramophone...I just love that recording. The one I got is recorded live in Vienna by The Smetana Quartet but it is the Second piece that I think is the most beautiful on that recording - Smetana's only String Quartet. Maybe it is the best to continue somewhat with Smetana. My brother, my friend at St. Olaf and a girl now studying music in Oslo play in a piano trio together. Smetana's daughter died young and he wrote this wonderful heartbreaking trio in rememberance of her. I can't stop the tears when I hear that trio...He managed to put so much feelings into it........ Let's stop somewhat by the music of Vivaldi...You can say much about Nigel Kennedy but he know how to make music become new again. I bought his recording of The Four Seasons and the only thing I can say about it is go listen to it...It's so very wonderful done. One of my all time favorite composer is Rachmaninov, and his 2. piano concerto is always going to be one of my favorite pieces in classical music. I can't explain what I feel about it but it is just like he did take all the guilt from the failure of the russian system on him. I highly recommend this concerto.......!! That should be enough for this time... Take care all, -- T ---- Only In Your Eyes Lies Your Soul.............. H | --- ----- ---- --- - -- - - - - - --- E |-- | | | | | | |__| | | |_ | | | | | |--- | | | | | --- --- - - ---- - - - -- - - - --- --- Yngve Hauge (yngveh@stud.cs.uit.no).....University of Tromsoe...Norway ======================================================================== Date: 19 May 93 14:35:06 EDT From: Mike Mendelson Subject: f troop stuff I'm not that familiar with, and even a Springsteen number (Mr. State Policeman?). Overall a good performance. The Towne Crier has a great State Trooper? Any other closet Boss fans in Ectoland? -mjm ======================================================================== 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)