13-Oct-91 23:33:43-GMT,7918;000000000401 Received: from athos.rutgers.edu by aramis.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA22231; Sun, 13 Oct 91 19:33:40 EDT Received: by athos.rutgers.edu (5.59/SMI4.0/RU1.4/3.08) id AA19579; Sun, 13 Oct 91 19:33:38 EDT Date: Sun, 13 Oct 91 19:33:38 EDT Message-Id: <9110132333.AA19579@athos.rutgers.edu> Errors-To: owner-ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Reply-To: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu Sender: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu From: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu Subject: ecto #4 ecto, Number 4 Sunday, 13 October 1991 Today's Topics: *-----------------* Notice from Me :) Re: Warpaint, again To Greg (bounced e-mail, sorry) ethereal suggestions ======================================================================== ********************** Attention *************************** Please let me know if you recieve this, and it's the first digest you've gotten! I suspect there was a problem with the first 2 (the very first was just a test you don't need or want). I have copies of them all, I can remail them. Thanks, --jessica ************************************************************* Date: Sat, 12 Oct 91 12:43:38 PDT From: stevev@greylady.uoregon.edu (Steve VanDevender) Subject: Re: Warpaint, again Angelos writes: >My roommate, who thought Happy's music was morbid and TOO mellow, was around >when I repeatedly played Terra Incognita, in my effort to understand the >Oriental man story. He asked me: That's NOT Happy, is it? I told him that >it was, and forced him to listen to 'Warpaint' and 'Lay me down'. You weren't playing "Lay Me Down" as an example of a non-morbid Happy song, were you? It's the most morbid Happy song I can name right now. Charmingly, brilliantly, beautifully morbid, with all its imagery of fuligin and flowers and funerals. It inspires the most amazing mixture of joy, peacefulness, and sadness in me by invoking my automatic depression resistance. If I had a CD player it would be the song I would program for infinite repeat most often. ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 13 Oct 91 02:48 CDT From: katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) Subject: To Greg (bounced e-mail, sorry) Greg, we're having no luck communicating. I've tried to write you numerous times. They're not bouncing back, but you're obviously not getting them. Pooh! Quickly, I am very interested in the Story CD you got. Secondly, can you tell me what the ftp address for the gaffa archives is? gifs for someone is what I need. Are they indexed? oops, glitch gb10@gte.com straight doesn't work, and neither does "r" for reply. Thanks! Vickie ======================================================================== Date: Sun, 13 Oct 91 17:18:37 EDT From: woj@remus.rutgers.edu (woj) Subject: ethereal suggestions katefans@chinet.chi.il.us (Chris n Vickie) sez: >I agree with the recommendations for Area. I have all their albums but >my favorite one is still _The Perfect Dream_. None of the others, as much >as I like them, even come close to being as good as that one. i agree here. the first area i ever heard was _between purple and pink_ and was instantly hooked by their sound: soft keyboards, simplisitc pre- programmed drums, eerie guitars and lynn canfield's voice. but when i went a-lookin' and dragged up _the perfect dream_, it was love at first listen. mmmmhhh, yes. area has transformed into the moon seven times, by the way - and they've got a real drummer too now! yay! now, if they can only get a record con- tract...sigh... as a side note, i've been corresponding with henry frayne for a while (he is their guitarist) and he sent me a picture of lynn and some of the comic books that she has done. she's pretty warped from the looks of them... >Beautiful Pea Green Boat has a much harder edge, so I'd be wary calling them >"ethereal" though they have some etherealish songs. They only have one >album so far. Don't know what they're up to. They are in the same sort of >category I'd put Lush into. basically, bpgb borders on dance music, with strong etherial tendencies. i liked their single release (well, there are others in england, but they are singles as far as i know), but it doesn't stick long - i only listen to it about once a month or so. i wouldn't put them with lush at all though. lush is a sugar-coated version of my bloody valentine, which doesn't detract from their ability but does take them out the arena that bpgb is in. >Angelos was right about Eleftheria. I like her a lot. I don't hear her >as being Enyaish at all though, but I can understand the connection. i want to hear this! where can i order a copy? >Hex is in a category of Beautiful Pea Green Boat-type groups (ethereal >with a hard edge) and my favorite album is their first, self-titled. >Their second album (_Vast Halos_) is good, but not as ethereal. nothing to add here except to take the liner noted to the first one with a grain of salt - steve and donette take acid and start blathering about magick and the history ofg the universe. oh - agreed about the first being better, but i find that i can't listen to them very often. it seems stilted somehow, forced. >A.C. Marias' album _One Of Our Girls Has Gone Missing_ is definitely >edgy ethereal. I like it quite a bit. Woj, do you know the lead singer's >name? I've seen it written, but forgot what it was. angela conway (hence "a.c."). *excellent* release, produced by john fryer (producer of many 4ad creations) and members of wire. go out and buy this if you can find it. it's on mute in america as i recall... >All About Eve (English ethereal) more rocky than not...great voice though (and i forgot her name!! wah!!). >Hugo Largo (demented ethereal) timmy sommar's art rock band before becoming a slave to emptv and vh1. but ignoring that, their two releases are quite nice (_drum_ and _mettle_). mimi goese is one of the most entertaining small people that i know (after one ;) and a fine singer. the band is good too: adam peacock is a decen guitarist and hahn rowe is a magnificent violinist (and a sometime member of bosho as well...for those of you familiar with the nyc downtown scene). >Sam Phillips (intelligent pop ethereal) ex-christian singer. still sorta christian, but veiled behind all sorts of meanings and words. i do like her latest album though: it's eerie and also countryish... >The Bulgarian Chorus (East European ethereal) shivers up your spine. 'nuff said... >Julee Cruise you know, i like her, but i dunno if i've ever really gotten into her like other artists. sometimes, there seems to be something missing with her music and i can't out my finger on it. >There are tons more, but those are the ones I can think of right off >the top of my head. we keep forgetting bel canto! (duh). two records: _white out conditions_ and _birds of passage_. vickie likes the first one better and i like the second one better. we'll let you decide... :) sorry for the lack of happy content... woj@remus.rutgers.edu - dj-for-hire - so many shimmydiscs so little time ======================================================================== To join ecto, please send electronic mail to the following address: ecto-request@athos.rutgers.edu To have your thoughts included in the next issue, send mail to: ecto@athos.rutgers.edu To subscribe to "Ecto", the printed fanzine, send $8 to: Ecto PO Box 11291 New Brunswick, NJ 08906 Ecto is issued 8 times/year, and will include photos and as much material from non-net members as we can get! Donations above the subscription cost are welcomed - all money goes to bringing you better issues! Your "humble pseudo-moderator" -- jessica (jessica@athos.rutgers.edu)