From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V3 #116 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, December 26 1997 Volume 03 : Number 116 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [matthewm (Mike Matthews)] Who's ready for a Change(lings show)? [Michael Stevens Subject: Who's ready for a Change(lings show)? Greetings, pharspread 'Philes, be ye phriends or phoes. I was going to title this post "Neile Nails aNotherone," but thought better of it. But she DID, don't you know. How long has it been since she last plugged The Changelings, a simply jaw-dropping ensemble from Atlanta? A friend blessed me with both of their CDs on the Solstice, and they are in no wise a disappointment. If pressed to describe them quickly, I would say, "Imagine for a moment that Lisa Gerrard and Brendan Perry [of Dead Can Dance] had been born in Georgia and had found three like-minded friends." Actually, the lead vocalist isn't in the same league with Lisa Gerrard, but the songwriting more than makes up for it. One might say that The Changelings are overall more conservative than DCD in the musical territory they stake out, but the results are still breathtaking. FOCUS is the operative word here. The band sounds as though they've been doing this all their lives, and the production of each track is spot-on, perfectly synchronized, neither too sparse nor too dense. If Love is Colder Than Death had been able to FOCUS like this for _Oxeia_, I might not be fishing LiCTD out of the $2 bins. Okay, enough raving. Well, almost. You owe it to yourselves to listen to the online excerpt of "Johnny Ether's Great Escape" at http://www.draven.net/changelings/. Okay, NOW I'm done. Now, back to the subject of this post: The Changelings are giving a New Year's Eve concert in Chicago (see the web site for details), and I'm dying to know if anyone from ecto will be there. The Downtown Radisson is running a pretty suite deal (cough, cough), and I have some credit with Northwest Airlines burning a hole in my briefcase. I'm really tempted to fly up (from North Carolina), and the possibility of meeting ectofolk at the Changelings show might be the rest of the incentive I need. How 'bout it? - --Th'Michael Now Reading: Alison Fell, _The Pillow Boy of the Lady Onogaro_ Now Purring: Maus, my roommate's cat, despite the current musical selection (_Myoclonic Melodies_ by Miss Murgatroid, which does for the accordion what Rasputina did for (to?) the cello; http://www.winrecords.com/winroster/murgatroid.html) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V3 #116 **************************