From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #13 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, January 13 1998 Volume 04 : Number 013 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Lunar Landing [Andrew Fries ] Marion's list of 1997 (part two) [Marion Kippers ] Marion's list of 1997 (part one) [Marion Kippers ] Re: Mistle Thrush [Gentle Moose ] 1997 in Music [Yngve Hauge ] veda hille news etc. [meredith ] Kylie Minogue - Ecto? :) [afinney@ozonline.com.au (Tim Finney)] Re: veda hille news etc. ["Jeffrey C. Burka" ] Re: Lunar Landing [Marcel Kshensky <"mundopax@mundopax"@ingress.com>] Re: Lunar Landing [Richard Holmes ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 00:13:36 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Lunar Landing Marcel Kshensky <"mundopax@mundopax"@ingress.com> writes: >I've just finished listening to three albums, which, by accident all >have "moon" in their titles: [...] >I know the moon has always been a symbol for feminine forces, with its >special influence over the earth's waters. Alright, so maybe you don't >care, but I think it's a cool coincidence. > >I'm a bit looney tonight :) And as it happens it's a full moon tonight! It must be speaking especially to you, Marcel :) I know 'cause I just spent a lovely hour or so sitting under the tree in our backyard, listening to the crickets, sipping on a glass of wine and watching the moon shine on our roof.... As for some musical content, well.... I just ordered my copy of Kim Fox's "Moon Hut", going just by a couple of samples I could find on the Net. So I was wondering if anyone can tell me more about Kim or her CD, untill I get my copy - only good things please, it's too late to cancel or send it back :) - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jordan: Hey Amy do you love me? Amy: Yeah. Totally. Why? Jordan: Just, "I love you" can mean a lot of things, like "You'll do until someone better comes along" or "I can't describe how I really feel but I know I'm supposed to say this" or "Shut up! I'm watching TV"... The Doom Generation Visit my site devoted to little-known Australian bands... http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:17:28 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) From: Marion Kippers Subject: Marion's list of 1997 (part two) Hi all, This is part two: here are my ****+ and ***** favourites of 1997, again strictly random. **** Dar Williams - The Honesty Room ***** Dar Williams - Mortal City **** Dar Williams - The End of Summer I found Dar's first two cd's on a European double release, and I really love her. Her lyrics are soo beautiful, and her voice is beautiful too, and I love the melodies... "Mortal City" is my favourite of the three. I haven't listened to "The end of summer" very much yet, because I've only got that on tape yet and my walkman broke shortly after I got it, and my cd copy is still on it's way (any news yet Jeff W.? :-) ). The beautiful songs like 'If I wrote you' are as beautiful as those on "Mortal City", but there are some tracks that I really don't like ('Party generation', 'Teenagers..'). ***** The Innocence Mission - same **** The Innocence Mission - Umbrella I already had "Glow", and I liked that album more and more each time I played it, and from the descriptions in the Ectophiles Guide I expected to like their other albums as well. Well, I did. In fact, it was kind of frightening, as the first time I played "The Innocence Mission" I had such a strong sense of familiarity that I searched high and low for where I could have heard this album before, and if I had heard it before, why I didn't run out and buy it immediately at the time. I couldn't find a clue and so I came to the conclusion that I hadn't heard it before. Apparently it just hit home with me. It's my absolute favourite 'old' album of this year. Just perfect. And while "Umbrella" is sort of similar it doesn't move me as much (except for 'Revolving man') - it sort of feels forced, down, don't know what it is. Perhaps it's too polished and less direct. **** Unni Wilhelmsen - To whom it may concern ***** Unni Wilhelmsen - Definitely me Another Norwegian artist that Yngve introduced us to. Unni Wilhelmsen dedicates one of her songs to Shawn Colvin and Suzanne Vega for inspiration, and I liked her from the first hearing. Apart from those two names maybe Dar Williams could be in the list as well. "Definitely me" is more consistent than the first album and the lyrics are getting better, so I'm really looking forward to hearing more of her. It's one of my favourite albums of the year. ***** Merry Amsterburg - Season of rain When Jeff Wasilko visited us the first time, he brought loads of cd's for me to listen to. Expecting me to like this one, I taped it for later. On first hearing it seemed alright but not spectacular, but after a couple of hearings I found some of the songs popping up in my head at various times, and I couldn't get them out of my head again. Very melodic guitars, catchy songs, good lyrics, and a nice voice (though I had to get used to it a bit). So Jeff bought me a copy of the cd. It really grew on me, and I think it's my favourite 'new' album of the year. Thanks Jeff! ***** Loreena McKennitt - The book of secrets This is a very very beautiful album, very well produced - maybe a bit too beautiful. Especially when I listen with headphones, every instrument is chrystal clear and still an undividable part of the whole, and all the tracks on the album fit together. It isn't much of a departure from "The mask and mirror", but still a step ahead. My only concern was that at first I found the stories _about_ the songs in the liner notes more moving than the songs themselves... until I put on my headphones and couldn't stop listening to the music. ****+ Paula Cole - This fire It took me a couple of listens but after that I had this album on repeat for quite a while. Very powerfull and strong, I like it better than 'Harbinger'. And I like the thank-you in the liner notes for Thich Nhat Hanh "for the inspiration to live mindfully" (but that's personal). ****+ Tara MacLean - Silence I find the first track ('Evidence') very strong, the rest of the album had to grow on me a bit. Smooth pop, but distinct enough to be interesting. Sometimes her voice reminds me of Debbie Gibson. I find that I play it quite often, and I like it very much. ****+ Grey Eye Glances - Eventide I love October Project, and I liked Sojourn's "Further On", and I like this one as well. Though I like the songs that were re-recorded from "Further On" better in the first version, and overall I think "Eventide" is a bit too polished for my liking. And I have to admit that while I can see where the comparisons to October Project come from, I find O.P. (especially the first album) much more powerful than Grey Eye Glances. October Project Lite indeed. Anyway, this is a very pleasant album. That's all. I hope to write some more timely reviews in 1998... :-) Best wishes, Marion - ---------------------- n.p. Tara MacLean - Silence (still) n.r. Dave Duncan - De vierde magister (still) Marion Kippers Marion.Kippers@wkap.nl ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 15:08:22 +0100 (W. Europe Standard Time) From: Marion Kippers Subject: Marion's list of 1997 (part one) Hi all, Okay, I know I'm late - but it took me quite long to write all this and so I decided to send it anyway. And just a warning in advance: there may be negative remarks about music you love in this message, so be careful. :-) In the year of 1997 I bought about 30 cd's, and for the first time in a long while I actually kept track of what I bought. I had the opportunity to meet various Ectophiles from 'all over the world', which was very very nice and also a cause for some outbursts of EWS. :-) One of my good intentions was to write some more reviews, which I didn't do, and now I finally got around to it. So here's a bunch of reviews, sort of. I don't have a top ten but I liked Alvin's system of giving ***, so I copied that for the cd's I selected to write about in this message. A short recap of Alvin's score system: * Don't like it at all ** So-so. *** Good. **** Very good. ****+ Almost excellent. ***** Excellent! So here it is. Music that I discovered in 1997 and liked - or not. Since the message got a bit long I split it up in two parts - here are the honorary mentions, the next message has my ****+/* favourites. Everything's in random order, and yes Neile, you may. :-) *** The Moon Seven Times - same *** The Moon Seven Times - 7 = 49 *** The Moon Seven Times - Sunburnt I'm not quite sure what I think of this band. Theoretically I should love them - layered guitars, beautiful haunting melodies, a mixture of ethereal, rock and folk, a female voice... Yet somehow it doesn't quite work out for me, and I can't put my finger on it. With almost every single track I raise my ears at the beginning, thinking 'this is beautiful!' - and then the feeling fades before the song is over. I've a feeling it's Lynn Canfields voice that bothers me, though I can't put my finger on why it does. And I really want to like them. In the cause of the year I got all three of their albums, and I like "7 = 49" and "Sunburnt" best, thought "Sunburnt" is a bit different from the other two - more 'songs' instead of soundscapes. I don't play them often, and when I do I hardly ever listen to the whole album. A shame really. ** Tracey Thorn - A distant shore This is the solo album that Tracey made just before Everything But The Girl began. A very sparse album, just one girl with acoustic guitar, but worth it alone for 'Plain sailing', one of my favourite songs of 1982. Way back when... finally got it on cd now. The other tracks on the cd don't really capture my attention very well, but I just wanted to mention it. **** Kari Rueslaatten - Spindelsinn This cd we heard at Yngve's during our summer stay at wonderful Ternebo. I really liked Alvins description of it: "Being a kind of folk-pop album, it is heavily inspired by traditional Norwegian music and Norwegian folklore, with all its trolls and faeries. _Spindelsinn_ has a sort of faery-tale atmosphere about it; when listening to it, I feel just like I am participating in the old, traditional Norwegian faery-tales most Norwegians have been reading at some point in their lives." The fairylike quality is what I like best about it. Ron and I included 'Trollferd' on the 1997 Happy Birthday Project. *** Garmarna - Guds speleman ('Gods musician') Another Scandinavian band, from Sweden this time. We saw them play live at the Dranouter Folk Festival in August (where we met Yves and Max and Luc), and this was one of the weirdest concerts I've seen. The musicians in the band were all very energetic, running and jumping all over the stage, most of the songs have a hypnothizing beat, and yet singer Emma Haerdelin stood motionless in the middle of everything, stepping up to the microphone when she had to sing, stepping back when she was done, and moving nothing but her mouth. No expression on her face, nothing. Hypnothized, bewitched? :-) Only after the concert was over and the audience called for an encore she managed a carefull smile. But her voice is so beautiful. Garmarna put old Swedish ballads in a modern jacket. Dark lyrics, dark driven melodies. This cd is quite good, though there are some tracks I don't like that much. But the haunting atmosphere of the concert is there in a couple of tracks, especially 'Herr Mannelig' or 'Vaenner och Fraender'. **** Emily Bezar - Moon in Grenadine D^2 got me a copy of this album, and I think it's very beautiful. Jazzrock is normally not my cup of tea, but Emily's music moves me, sometimes very much (like 'Rain in Calgary'). *** Love Spirals Downwards - Idylls I have and love "Ardor", and their first album "Idylls" is similar but not as floating, more upbeat and percussive. While I like it, I still like "Ardor" best. *** Varttina - Kokko Ron and I love Varttina, especially "Seleniko" and "Aitara". "Kokko" seems a bit lacking. More poppy and smooth and even experimental than the previous two albums, not so folky and enthousiastic anymore. **** Susan McKeown & The Chanting House - Bones After I read so much about Susan on Ecto I had to get myself a copy of this cd. I first heard bits of it at Yves' place, enough to know that I would like it, and I did. It did take quite a few listens though, at first I didn't like most of the songs. Then I found one song popping up in my head ('Love and superstition'), and then another, and now I love most of the songs. Not all of them yet, but who knows, after hearing them some more - or maybe seeing her live? **** Rainbirds - Forever I don't like this album as much as "Making memory", the previous album. It's a mixture of styles, with trip hop, strings and acoustic tracks, fairly electronic and percussive, but there are also beautiful songs like 'Tomorrow'. And Katharina Franck's wonderful voice, of course. *** Sarah McLachlan - Surfacing I must admit that I expected not to like this album - I didn't really like 'Full of grace' or 'Will you remember me', and this album is filled with songs like those two. Sarah herself describes it as 'midnight music' - for me it just doesn't capture my attention. It's good music to play in the background at work... And that's the end of part one. Best wishes, Marion - ---------------------- n.p. Tara MacLean - Silence n.r. Dave Duncan - De vierde magister (The living God) Marion Kippers Marion.Kippers@wkap.nl ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 10:59:47 -0500 (EST) From: Gentle Moose Subject: Re: Mistle Thrush On 10 Jan 1998 Ariana@excelsior.net wrote: > extremely nice. By the way I am trying to think of how to describe > their music. Honestly alot of Ecto people would not be into their > music. They are not on the folky side of ecto. There music I guess is > similar to Rose Chronicles and Chimera. In fact they thank Chimera on > the album. I understand that they use to sound like Siouxsie and the > Banshees. Now I have to find their other albums without mail ordering. > I hope it's possible. "Some Poet" from _Silt_ is available via RealAudio at http://www.bedazzled.com/archive They're spiff - give 'em a listen. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 18:21:59 +0100 (MET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: 1997 in Music Hi you all, Unlike me I haven't bought that many CDs this year. Compared to 1996? Uhu, that was an amazing year CD-wise :) The biggest share of the CDs I did bought last year were norwegian releases, and that in itself is very strange. Never has so many norwegian artists and bands of high quality existed on CD. Ok, here we go (no particular order though) : Velvet Belly - Lucia As Neile pointed out so correctly - this album hasn't got the melodies that will stay with you. Though it is an excelent album - technical the best they've ever done. It is very hard to pick one particular song because they are so woven together. I was so lucky to get to see them live here in Molde last year (It has become a tradition as I've seen them every year after I discovered them 5 years ago). I didn't go to many concerts in '97, but this one was worth many of them alone. Cane - Unable Another band from Bergen (I've already mentioned Ephemera some time ago). Their album is very powerful - both rough and beautiful. As a debut this album really stands out, and they got this very unique sound. The vocals are a chapter of its own - what a voice that woman got!! When they did visit here on their tour they delivered a really wonderful show though you could see that they were not used to playing live yet and the music drowned the vocals at times. The singer did compensate on that by singing in a way that we had to take hold not to be blown backwards :) Highly recommended album!! Kari Rueslaatten - Spindelsinn Another very very strong debut. She did sing with a Trondheim based band called 3rd & The Mortal 2-3 years ago, and was a rather strange opposite of the rest of the band members (part of an old very much metal band with 3 guitars, bass and drums). Some wonderful songs came out of that period though. Spindelsinn is something completly different with its folkmusic feel to it. I fully agree on Marion's description so I'll not comment it any further. Just wanted to mention that she is releasing a new album this year around September 1, and this time with english lyrics. Unni Wilhelmsen - Definitly Me Another very strong album from this Oslo based artist. She still lives in a small apartment on Gruenerloekka a pretty old and poor area of the capital with her parrot and boyfriend. She likes it there and she won't leave the place. She once said that she was going to release 3 albums before deciding upon what to do next. A new album will be released this year if that is true (She got songs for at least 3 more albums by now if what she has said is true :) Portishead - Portishead I fell in love with the sound of this album. I have spent many hours listening to it after I got it for Christmas. There is something about the vocals that sends shivers through my spine - I can't define what it is really, but I like it. Maybe I finally should get that first album of theirs? :) Loreena McKennit - Books of Secret I love her music, and this album doesn't change that fact. I've had no problems with her slightly different styles up through the last couple of albums. Actually I've followed her travels very closely as I'm very interested in the Celts and their culture in general. I'm very curious about what she is going to do next. She has followed their tracks from Spain and far into Russia. Where next? Amy Denio - Tongues This arrived on the right side of New year (Dec 31, thanks Woj), and I must say that I'm impressed. I've had Birthing Chair for some time now, and I've liked it alot. This album got a completly different feel to it. Inspired by Macedonian and Greek folk music she has made an amazing album indeed. It arrived together with : Elysian Fields - Bleed Your Cedar I loved the single and I love the album. There is something in Jennifer Charles' voice that hits my heart right on. and : Sara Craig - Sweat Exhaust I haven't had time to listen to this album much, and would need some more time to find out what I really think about it ... These were some of the CDs I bought last year. Now it is time to go back to the reading ... *hugs* - -- Yngve ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 20:17:05 -0500 From: meredith Subject: veda hille news etc. Hi! For the NYC-area folks, Veda Hille will be opening for Freedy Johnston at The Bottom Line next Thursday, 1/22. Yay!!! And Sarah McLachlan is finally going to play the Oakdale in Wallingford, CT. I'm definitely going to that show -- I've been waiting for her to get there, and by now I'm sure she's had a chance to finish the songs on _Surfacing_ so I'm sure it's going to be a good show. ;> It's a great venue, too -- big, but it doesn't *feel* big. No such thing as a bad seat, that sort of thing. Saw Tori Amos there the last time, and it was good. jason declared: >[I'm on Nettwerk's news list, and figured ecto people would be >interested. I'd just like to urge that people bring cans of food with >them to the scheduled dates. Not for the homeless, however--the cans are >needed to chuck at Sarah's opening act for the whole tour, the godforsaken >Lisa Loeb.] Oh, for goddess' sake. Just go late. I learned to do that for Sarah's opening acts a *long* time ago (The Devlins, Ron Sexsmith, and yes, even Paula Cole -- I just couldn't deal that evening). That's the joy of reserved seating. I'm certainly planning to do that -- it's a waste of good food to chuck it at the stage (unless, of course, you're at a Barenaked Ladies show and the food in question is Kraft dinner :). Speaking of Sarah's opening acts, The Devlins are opening for Paula Cole at Toad's Place here in New Haven on February 19. I'm going to show up late for that one, too. :) Marcel opined: >1. Kim Fox's "Moon Hut," >2. Emily Bezar's "Moon in Grenadine," and >3. Michelle Malone's "beneath the devil moon." > >So I find myself comparing the three. Bezar's album's the weakest. Yow!!! Those other two must be world-stoppingly, life-changingly good then. I must know more! Jeffy reported: >We had about 10 folks show up, including Tim and his s.o., Chip Lueck, Neal >Copperman, myself, craig, and chris (the *true* dc ecto contingent... ;-), woj >'n meth (who showed up 2 hours late), and of course, our hostess, Val Nozick. Hey, all Val said was "don't show up before 3". So we didn't. Thpth. :P >'Twas a nice, mostly mellow party, with plenty of good music (including John >'n Mary's _Victory Gardens_, _Rearmament_, _Red Hand_ (Ingrid Karklins), _Not >a Pretty Girl_ (Ani DeFranco), and a disc by Squonk Opera). Followed by Rainbirds _Forever_, Veda Hille _Spine_ and a couple other things while we were playing Balderdash after dinner. :) >Val's digital camera was out for a good portion of the party, so I suspect >some pix will appear somewhere at some point. Ooo, I *hope* so... ;> >'Twas a great day with fun company, and I was sorry to have cut it short, >leaving about 7:30. I think everyone else was getting ready to go find >somewhere to have dinner, and I trust that the rest of the evening was as much >fun as the afternoon... It was. We ended up at a Korean place and we all ordered the same thing. I have no clue what it was (Chip? :), but it was good. A good time was had by all, methinks. Many thanks to Valerie for arranging it! It was good to see everyone. +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | |***TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: trajectory-request@smoe.org***| +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 13 Jan 1998 13:55:43 +1000 From: afinney@ozonline.com.au (Tim Finney) Subject: Kylie Minogue - Ecto? :) Yes it's true. I just bought Kylie Minogue's new album Impossible Princess (with a *lovely* 3D cover). And I have to say that I am just amazed by how good it is. Yeah, I know what you're thinking. The Kylie of "I Should Be So Lucky" and "Better The Devil You Know", but seriously, this is one of the best albums I've bought in a while. The first song Too Far is just amazing, a combination of amazing sounds (piano, strings and a great jungle beat) with fantastic lyrics ("no more space than a sliver, what I'd give for a deep breath inside, where the chaos has me captive, where there's no exit signs.) This song just completely explodes, and what's more Kylie wrote it all itself. The next song is brilliant. Cowboy Style sounds like something Kate Bush would do now if she was still on the forefront (Great folky techno with Irish swagger, sort of). Then there's the three singles. Some Kind of Bliss is just a classic rock song she wrote with the Manic Street Preachers, the cynical Did It Again (with a great clip) combines eastern guitar with strong dance beats, and Breathe is a sexy dance-pop number which effortlessly outpaces anything else of the genre. Say Hey could be on a Bjork album, and again was written completely by Kylie, Drunk is absolutely brilliant, perhaps the thematic centre of the album, and a good example of why she probably works best with her main cohorts, Brothers In Rythmn (who did Confide In Me, the song which turned her career around), and I Don't Need Anyone is lovely light rock song with strings which is breathily romantic. Lyrically Kylie has improved 100% - she's now actually at Ecto standards. My favourite quote so far is "The notion of needing has held me ransom" from this great rock/dance song called Limbo which renders bands like The Prodigy irrelevant. Through The Years and Jump are slow burners, and are both great. Notice how I haven't mentioned a week track yet? There isn't one. Final song Dreams has Kylie checklist all her wishes over some absolutely mindblowing music. True the sound of this album has been manipulated by the various co-writers and producers, but its still delightfully varied and inventive. This album swings between dance and rock seamlessly, and, importantly, the hearts of these songs are Kylie. She writes all the lyrics except for on I Don't Need Anyone, where she co-writes, and the fact that Too Far was completely written by her and is a stand-out shows enormous promise. This album is fantastic. I'd say that Kylie has now moved into Bjork's area of gorgeously eclectic and beautiful music, and has evolved into a truly creative force. Its out here in Australia, but I'm not sure about release dates worldwide. When it comes out, rush out and buy it, and make sure you get the 3D cover! Tim ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:09:49 -0500 From: "Jeffrey C. Burka" Subject: Re: veda hille news etc. meth wrote: > Oh, for goddess' sake. Just go late. I learned to do that for Sarah's > opening acts a *long* time ago (The Devlins, Ron Sexsmith, and yes, even > Paula Cole -- I just couldn't deal that evening). Gee, I remember all three of them opening for Sarah. Sexsmith was the only one who deserved canned food. The Devlins were forgettable ( I actually forgot that the Devlins existed and really had to rack my brain to figure out who your third Sarah opener was), and Paula Cole was fantastic (she turned my dad into a fan...he was along for that Sarah show) > That's the joy of reserved seating. I didn't have reserved seating at the show where the Devlins opened...but it was worth sitting through their set to be in the front row, right between Sarah and David Sinclair... - -- |Jeffrey C. Burka | moving to jburka@cqi.com -- come say hi | |http://www.cqi.com/~jburka | at the new digs...now up and running! | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 17:02:21 -0500 From: Marcel Kshensky <"mundopax@mundopax"@ingress.com> Subject: Re: Lunar Landing Neile Graham wrote: > Emily Bezar's album is the weakest of the three? Not the strangest and most experimental but the _weakest_? > > Are the other two albums in the same general genre? I've seen their names of couple of times (here I think) but I don't know anything about them. I imagine it's damn powerful music if it makes Emily Bezar's album seem weak. > > Marcel, you're going to have to tell me more about them. Descriptions, please. > > You might also be interested to know that "Moon Hut" likely refers to the > tribal practice of women retiring to a separate hut during the time of they > are menstruating. A cycle compared with the cycle of the moon. > > - --Neile > On reflection, Neile, I think your "strangest" and "most experimental" are more apt descriptions for Bezar's album. Thanks also for the moon hut explication. I guess the Fox and Malone albums are more accessible to me, as they consist of more traditionally structured songs. Malone, as I'm relistening to her, reminds me somewhat of Sheryl Crow. So maybe Fox's album has a more distinctly unique voice. Malone's got more of a rock voice. They're both wonderful songwriters. I recommend both albums highly. - -Marcel ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 22:33:27 -0800 (PST) From: Richard Holmes Subject: Re: Lunar Landing Neile Graham writes (Hi Neile!): > > Marcel Kshensky wrote: > > >1. Kim Fox's "Moon Hut," > >2. Emily Bezar's "Moon in Grenadine," and > >3. Michelle Malone's "beneath the devil moon." > > > >So I find myself comparing the three. Bezar's album's the weakest. The > >Fox and Malone CD's are both excellent. But I think I like Malone's a > >tad better. Her songs are more memorable, although I really like Fox's > >too. > > Emily Bezar's album is the weakest of the three? Not the strangest and > most experimental but the _weakest_? I haven't gotten around to getting Emily's latest (shame shame) but I did listen to moon hut (fast-forwarding through the tracks at a LackLuster Records, er Blockbuster)... it wasn't sufficient to get me to part with my money or look for it cheaper. First impression only - but seemed that other than the title there wasn't much of a moon hut built... but she did use the phrase, and one of the songs was something like "I wanna be a witch"... > Are the other two albums in the same general genre? I've seen their names > of couple of times (here I think) but I don't know anything about them. I > imagine it's damn powerful music if it makes Emily Bezar's album seem weak. > > Marcel, you're going to have to tell me more about them. > Descriptions, please. I would be interested in the Mechelle Malone's description; and any other comments on Moon Hut 'cuz I admit I probably didn't give it a fair listen. > You might also be interested to know that "Moon Hut" likely refers to the > tribal practice of women retiring to a separate hut during the time of they > are menstruating. A cycle compared with the cycle of the moon. Yes indeed - one thing which drew me to the album was a hope that this person would be an interesting listen... > n.p. Garmarna, _God's Musician_ > n.r. Penelope Lively, _Cleopatra's Sister_ Neile, your comments on these would also be nice! - -Richard NP nothing NR about to read my computer architecture homework; its the last 6 months I have to do school while working; and I get to study sleep deprivation again... @ \@/ Richard A. Holmes (rholmes@cs.stanford.edu) @ | @ \|/ "O dark expansive sea of night, @ | Tapestry of stars and solitude, @ , , | , , Crashing waves of chaos, Deep void of becoming, @ ' ' ' ' ' Radiant blackness, all-enfolding, @ Constant well of creation, @ Bestow you dark gifts and silver sparks @ On your parched and thirsty child. @ @ Kiva / Kate Price \ Dar Williams / Renaissance \ Sheila Chandra / Laura Love @ Susan McKeown \ Sarah McLachlan / Libana \ Danielle Dax \ Dog Faced Hermans @ Loreena McKennitt / Kate Bush \ Tori Amos / Katell Keineg / Happy Rhodes @ Ingrid Karklins \ Sinead O'Connor / Jane Siberry / Pauline Oliveros ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #13 *************************