Errors-To: ecto-owner@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 #1108 ecto, Number 1108 Saturday, 7 May 1994 Today's Topics: *-----------------* More Anonymous 4 Shonen Knife in the Philly Inquirer 5/5/94 (126 lines) Today's your birthday friend.... {(:IB-~) [sic] Re: ecto #1107 anna domino Thanks Re: Toor-ee-ah Toor-ee-oh Re: Sarah, Sheldon, Shelia Chandra Re: frente Re: Sarah and Moon Seven Times Re: Frente! and Milla, too. ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 12:47:32 -0400 (EDT) From: Kate_Tabasko@transarc.com Subject: More Anonymous 4 Meth (>) responds to my post (>>) about Anonymous 4: >> They specialize in early music, which [...] >> tends not to be well represented in most stores; I've had the best luck in >> small stores that choose carefully or those that specialize in choral music. > The best thing to do is to get the Harmonia Mundi and Deutsche Gramophon > Archiv catalogs, and hide your credit cards. :} Ain't that the truth! I've got one of the Harmonia Mundi catalogues hidden away at home. Such a wealth of tempting early music, all conveniently packaged into an attractive book, I could cry. My credit cards *want* to commit suicide. >> Anonymous 4 are wonderful, if you like early music -- and lotsa people don't. > And lotsa people have NO CLUE what they're missing, imnsho. No argument from me! > My best friend's father doesn't like me because [...] > asked if he had any Medieval music. He snorted that "music didn't > exist before 1545", and I immediately took issue with that presumption. > He hasn't treated me civilly since. Hrmpf. My housemate sings in an Anglican choir, and we frequently have amicable insult-trading sessions about very issue. He would agree with your friend's father (except he'd probably set the date around 1700). I don't vehemently object to his favorites (Howells, Rutter), but I don't find them memorable, either. They don't make me stop, hold my breath, and LISTEN. It's this same quality that draws me to modern artists like Happy (had to get some ecto content into this -- and it is true, too. :) >> The release that I am most familiar with is "An English Ladymass" [...] >> Most of it is in Latin, although the readings tend to be Middle English. > Where are the readings? (Granted, I've only mostly listened to this while > rapidly approaching sleep, but...) Ack! I lied; the readings were in the live performance of the Ladymass. (It's another recording that has the Middle English readings on it.) Sorry! It's been a while since I've tossed that one on; I guess I'm due for a refresher. -- Kate ---------------------- "Life will be happier for the on-line individual because the people with whom one interacts most strongly will be selected more by commonality of interests and goals than by accidents of proximity" - J.C.R. Licklider, 1968 ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 15:54:42 -0400 (EDT) From: "Robert P. Keefer" Subject: Shonen Knife in the Philly Inquirer 5/5/94 (126 lines) \Philadelphia Inquirer, Thursday, May 5, 1994, C1, C8\ [Headline;] A Japanese pop trio with amusing songs. [Sub-Headline, C8] Shonen Knife -- female pop trio from Japan -- is coming to town. [Picture C1: Fuzzy picture of three vaguely oriental women in identical outfits and sun glasses, looking off-camera, left; Caption:] Shonen Knife, which will perform tomorrow at the Trocadero, consists of (from left) Naoko Yamano, Michie Nakatani, and Atsuko Yamano. By Ann Kolson, Inquirer Staff Writer. Montreal -- "I'll drink tomato juice is what I say/ And I became a green plant today/ I photosynthesized in my bed/ Now I'm just a TOMATO HEAD." The small, dingy club called Woodstock is steaming hot, jammed with bodies of fans swaying to the simple chords, sugary harmonies, catchy melodies, earnest delivery -- and decidedly different lyrics -- of the female Japanese pop trio Shonen Knife. These giggly women in their 30s sing more about food than about love, in an English that's nearly indistinguishable from their Japanese. "I eat choco bars every day, two bars per day," goes one ditty, "I Wanna Eat Choco Bars" on their 1987 independent U.S. debut. Or, "I'm gonna eat jelly jelly jelly jelly jelly," they trill in 1992's "Flying Jelly Attack." Their latest album, _Rock Animals_ (Virgin), includes "Tomato Head," and another ode to foodstuffs, "Brown Mushrooms" ("In fifteen minutes/ They'll become appetizers/ They'll be cut in to pieces/ To be mushroom spaghetti.") "People laugh at us for singing about vegetables and fruits, but they're very important," says bassist Michie Nakatani, who, with her bandmates, will play Philadelphia's Trocadero tomorrow night. "I don't know why people sing about love," chimes in guitarist Naoko Yamano, whose sister Atsuko plays drums. Nor does Naoko understand why the Osaka band is considered so comical. "We were inspired by the Beatles," she says, sitting with the others in their tour bus before the show. "They also sang about animals and food. No one said -they- were a novelty act." With their penchant for unusual topics -- in "Twist Barbie," a tribute to the doll, they sing, "Blue eyes, blond hair/ Tight body, long legs/ She's very smart/ She can dance well" -- and neon Mod outfits designed and sewn by Atsuko, this group has done what no Japanese band has done before them: achieved a small, but devoted, following in the United States. As no less than Nirvana's Kurt Cobain once said, "When I finally got to see them live, I was transformed in to a hysterical 9-year-old girl at a Beatles concert." Shonen Knife opened for prototypical grungers Nirvana several times in the United States and Europe. And members of the hip L.A. band Redd Kross were such believers that, in 1989, they organized 30 contributors -- including Sonic Youth and L7 -- to perform Shonen songs on a tribute album called -Every Band Has a Shonen Knife Who Loves Them-. "I think Shonen Knife put everyone in touch with why they first started playing music in their garage," Redd Dross' Steve McDonald told the Los Angeles Times last year. Michie and Naoko began playing while in college, where they studied English literature. They named themselves after a boy's pocket knife and make their home-town debut in 1982. Influenced by American bands from the Buzzcocks to the Supremes, they wrote lyrics in limited, but inspired, English. (Today, they diligently work to expand their language skills. In her pocket notebook, Michie recoreds two new words, -yum- and -yuck-, for further study.) Reared in traditional Japanese families, the self-taught musicians did not receive parental approval at first. "My mother thought a rock band was the start of being an outlaw," Naoko says. Now, Naoko and Atsuko's father buys their CDs to give away to friends, and Michie's mother saves all their press clippings. Are they proud? "Maybe," says Michie, tucking her head shyly. Michie and Naoko held jobs as "office ladies" -- secretaries -- which they found boring. They typed, filed, made tea. "Assistants of men," scoffs Naoko. "We quit soon." But far from being wild-living rock women, they are sweet, conservative, even prudish. The -never- talk about sex, says their protective tour manager, Danny Kapilian, a die-hard Brooklynite who travels with the band from one sold-out date to another across Canada and into the United States. Indeed, the song "Tomato Head" chronicles Naoko's drinking: While on tour in England last year she would swill tomato juice into the night at bars with fellow musicians. Their incessant sunniness in the rough-and-tumble world of rock and roll is difficult to comprehend. Expressing shock and sadness about Cobain's recent suicide, Naoko says, "He was a very kind person. We never saw him do drugs." When they began dreaming of playing music, they never imagined what the life of a musician was like, they say. Now their days are filled with long bus rides -- they sleep when they can, lulled by the vehicle's motion -- interviews, radio appearances, autograph-signings (they doodle cartoon smiley faces, animals, and the like next to their names). Strange men propose marriage in the mail. They even have groupies outside venues after shows. "I am too tired to play with groupies," says Naoko, crammed with her bandmates into the back of a bouncing Toyota that belongs to Montreal's Virgin Records representative. (The perfect label for this band, jokes the rep.) "We have no power after the show," adds Michie. "We spend all of our power on the stage." They say they don't aspire to be mega-stars. "We're contented to be musicians," says Naoko. "We would be bored," Michie continues. "I think of certain people I see on MTV. I'm sure their life is very limited." "If we become big stars we can't go to the supermarket," says Naoko. We hear Naoko is married and that Michie has a most complicated romantic life. Atsuko, the youngest, still lives at home and is saving money to move out. But such facts are gleaned form other sources: These most private musicians reveal nothing about their personal lives, nor are they very interested in the secrets of others. "I'm not into those people's private life," Michie says of the stars. "Of course I read those magazines when I get bored." In the two years since their last album, -Let's Knife-, the bandmembers have become more skilled as musicians (Michie reportedly said she took up bass because it had two fewer strings than a guitar). Their songs have become "deeper." "We are very serious about our music," Naoko explains. They've also traded in their crayon-colored costumes for more sober garb. Once they favored shirts with big, red hearts on the front, but "big hearts are finished last year," Naoko explains, seriously. At home, they say, they are "heroines" because few Japanese bands get to play abroad. They have become role models for a younger generation. Says Naoko: "Many young Japanese girls want to be like Shonen Knife." [Box] If You Go. Shonen Knife and opening act the Dentists will perform at 7:30 tomorrow at the Trocadero, 10th & Arch Streets. Doors open at 6:30. Tickets are $10 in advance, $12 at the door. Information: 215-923-7625. --- 30 --- ======================================================================== From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 07:28:05 Subject: Today's your birthday friend.... i*i*i*i*i*i *************** ***HAPPY******* ********BIRTHDAY*** ******************* *** Mark Semich *** *********************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mark Semich Thu May 6 1965 Yield Joe Dembski Wed May 7 1952 Rumple Brian Gregory Thu May 9 1963 Eclectic Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini Lisa Laane Tue May 22 1973 Gemini Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 2 1966 Kaksoset -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _____ Klaus Kluge * klaus@inphobos.wupper.de * I'll be here, I'll be (in) Ecto! ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 17:02:58 CDT From: Subject: {(:IB-~) [sic] Well, C&V&M&a host of others are on the way to a sojurn in England, Steve F. is on the way back there after a sojurn here, Sarah's appearances and related events have come and gone, I finally got to see Sarah perform on TV, and I'm sort of recovered after finding out it took three days to write up the field notes from my weekend of participant observation with the McLachlan Group :-). Whatta week. The glyph in the subject line was inspired by Ilka's post on smileys. It's my experiment in trying to put together all the ones that describe aspects of me: B-) wears horn rims :-~) has cold (for the moment, anyway) {:-) wearing a walkman (:I is an egghead One other that is relevant to me, is: (-: is left-handed but I couldn't incorporate it and the horn-rim thing at once, since there's no left-facing capital B. :-( Oh well. At any rate, I may actually have succeeded in making Prince's graphic look simple to understand :-). Mitch ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 06 May 1994 21:56:22 -0400 (EDT) From: ROD700@delphi.com Subject: Re: ecto #1107 Instead of the digest, could you please send me individual letters? It's very difficult for me to fool around with one long digest. Thanks, Rod Bourland ======================================================================== Date: Fri, 6 May 94 19:54:09 PDT From: Neal Copperman Subject: anna domino I dragged an old college friend into #ecto the other night. He wanted to know more about anna domino. He has the disc "colouring in the edge and the outline" and likes it, but is afraid to buy more because they are really expensive. Are they consistantly good? Are there any he should specifically look for? Or avoid? And, I don't know anything about her myself, so maybe someone could tell me what she is like! Neal ======================================================================== From: klaus@inphobos.wupper.de Date: Fri, 6 May 1994 23:28:58 Subject: Thanks Shame on me! I forgot to mention that the German Sampler Tape is not alone my baby. Thanks to the other mothers and fathers: Claudia Spix * Ilka Heber * Uli Grepel And while I'm at it, thanks also to Sarah (stigay) for writing that she found ECTO in a crossword puzzle! Why? Well, now that the Cambridge Ectoparty is so close, I can reveal that this triggered me to create a Happy Rhodes crossword puzzle for the event, so that the attending ectophiles can test their knowledge of Happy and Ecto trivia. I just hope that I've made enough copies. Every day the number of guests seems to grow. Cheers, Klaus. _____ Klaus "cosmic vagabond" Kluge take a trip on a rocket ship, baby klaus@inphobos.wupper.de the sea is the sky - Tori Amos ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 7 May 94 19:10:43 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Toor-ee-ah Toor-ee-oh Vickie closes the cultural gap... > We're coming to England armed with Kool-Aid, Captain Crunch (er, maybe) and Ah, the trappings of the good ol' USA! :-) There's a department store here in Melbourne called Daimaru who import food from all over the world, at prices that make Anthem Entertainment's price on the Margot Smith album look like a bargain. Captain Crunch, $14.95 a box. Jolt Cola or Dr Pepper, $2.60 per can. How I miss the Sacramento Pak'n'Save, even if they don't think that an Australian passport is sufficient proof of identity. :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 7 May 94 18:55:28 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Sarah, Sheldon, Shelia Chandra Bob reports on the Sarah concert: > drawback was the incessant shouting of "I love you Sarah" and "We love you > Sarah" by quite a few of the teenage girls in the audience every time the > music stopped. You could tell it was really starting to embarass her, though > she was polite (perhaps too much so), always responding with a "Thank you" > except for the time she was overwhelmed and could only respond with a > giggling, head-bowwed "Oh dear". Sounds like she's been studying the live performance style of The Cocteau Twins' Liz "oh dear" Frazer. :-) -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 7 May 94 18:31:17 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: frente Quenby replied to someone: > >I finally heard bizarre love triangle cover last night. > >The group is frente, I believe. Is this out on CD? Is it > > You can find it on the Labour of Love EP and their new album which was > just released in the U.S. Its called Marvin the Album. Both are on CD. They've added BLT to the album as well? Wow, interesting move. Could someone who's got the US or UK album post a track listing? I'd be curious to see what they've changed about it. > I picked up the EP a while back because of the song Labour of Love and I > like their style. The songs on the EP are just a bit short for me though.. > most seem to be only 1-2 minutes long. Labour of Love and Bizarre Love > Triange were the definite standout tracks. I'd be interested in hearing their > full length cd. The album's great. Frente! always wrote very short songs until they signed to Mushroom, and the "Clunk" EP was their first attempt and doing longer ones. Mushroom had specifically asked them to lengthen their songs to standard "pop length". Their debut EP "Whirled" here contained 8 songs and ran for a grand total of 12 minutes! -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 7 May 94 18:52:42 +1000 From: anthony@xymox.apana.org.au (Anthony Horan) Subject: Re: Sarah and Moon Seven Times Jeff (well, one of them!) writes: > does anyone have the Sarah concert which was broadcast on Canadian > pay-per-view on tape? if so would they they be willing to dub me > a copy? i of course would be more than happy to contribute to they cost > of the pay-event, the tape, and postage. i would be most grateful. :) If anyone deoes, then make this a ditto for me, especially if you can dub in HiFi Stereo. NTSC is no problem, but my NTSC/PAL deck can only play back HiFi NTSC tapes if they're recorded at SP speed. > Moon Seven Times > does anyone have their latest (ie 2nd) album 7=49? Yup! Two copies, actually. > if so can they please tell me which record label they are on now, > (i think road runner?) and also the record label's number for the CD. The new album is on the RoadRunner label (Third Mind collapsed recently, so the band just moved to RoadRunner); I have the US copy and now the European one as well, and there's an important distinction. The albums *look* identical except that the Euro back cover art has a different color balance, and it can be easily identified by the text "D Irs 983.218" below the barcode where the US one says "Made in USA". But the main difference is this: the US copy suffers from a quiet but very audible digital clicking all the way through the disc in the left channel. I mailed Henry Frayne about this, and he was aware of it - it's a mastering error of some sort. Luckily, the European pressing doesn't have this fault. Interestingly, too, the US pressing has each extra track coded seperately, while the Euro version lumps them all into one big long Track 15. Anyway, to answer Jeff's question (phew!), the catalogue number worldwide for "7=49" is RR 9018-2. In the US it's distributed by Relativity, and probably dozens of different distributors within Europe. In Australia Shock Records will be handling it, though not just yet. > Margot Smith > does anyone have access to purchase a copy of this? Well, living in Australia, I do. :-) I'd be happy to pick a copy up for you. > if so i would like to engage this access before but i cannot remember whom> Might have been me... Margot's album is also available through Anthem Entertainment (anthement@aol.com) for a hefty price, and soon through the CD Bar (cdbar@sizone.pci.on.ca) at a more reasonable price. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony Horan, Melbourne Australia - anthony@xymox.apana.org.au "All told, Under The Pink is small but likeably formed; ideal for those herbal-tea moments." - Caroline Sullivan of The Guardian reviewing the new "Victoria Amos" album. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Date: Sat, 7 May 1994 10:28:42 -0400 (EDT) From: S Trowbridge Subject: Re: Frente! and Milla, too. Anthony asked: > They've added BLT to the album as well? Wow, interesting move. Could someone > who's got the US or UK album post a track listing? I'd be curious to see what > they've changed about it. Sure thing! Girl Labour of Love Ordinary Angels Lonely Most Beautiful Cuscutian Pretty Friend No Time Reflect Explode Accidently (sic) Kelly Street See/Believe Dangerous Bizarre Love Triangle I finally got the Milla album, and after a couple of listens, I agree that it is indeed a fine piece of work. One of my favorite things about it, though, was the name of her music publishing company: Sense O'Milla Music. :-) :-) :-) --Sue Trowbridge //////////////////////////trow@access.digex.net\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ One of Clinton's Top 10 Recurring Nightmares: He's in an operating room, the surgeon is Socks, and he's still steamed about being neutered. //////////////////////////////// --LSwDL \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ ======================================================================== 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)