From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #20 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, January 20 1998 Volume 04 : Number 020 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [matthewm (Mike Matthews)] Monique Brumby on Recovery. [BF & VA Maier ] Susan James' First Update '98 [Neile Graham ] Veda's Disc Release Concert (warning: long & rambling) [Neile Graham ] Samson Music Web Page [Sharon Nichols ] Patty Griffin 1998 Winter Tour Dates [ABershaw ] Re: Stereolab again [Neile Graham ] The Righteous Reader, 1/19/98 [meredith ] Indigo Girls, Dar and Ani in Oz [Sherlyn Koo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 03:00:14 -0500 From: matthewm (Mike Matthews) Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ************* Nancy Whitney (whitney@margarita.lerc.nasa.gov) ************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 01:09:13 +1100 From: BF & VA Maier Subject: Monique Brumby on Recovery. Not exactly Ecto-ish, I know, but I was wondering if any Australian Ecto peoples out there might have happened to tape last Saturday's RECOVERY? I only ask because Monique Brumby was on, I am a big fan, and my vcr didn't record it [as i set it to do]... if anyone did, please email me privately... Thanks so much, Heidi. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 12:35:20 -0600 From: Neile Graham Subject: Susan James' First Update '98 For those who are interested: >Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 17:28:19 -0800 (PST) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: susanj@pacificnet.net >From: susanj@pacificnet.net (susan james) >Subject: Susan's First Update '98 > >Hello Everyone! >Susan James here and a Happy happy New Year to you all. > >Hope this little update finds you all in good spirits. >This year started with work work work - I just finished recording and >mixing the instrumental album and I'm VERY excited about it! It will be >called "Stranger Bedfellows....an instrumental album" and I will keep you >posted as to when it will be available. > >Before I finish the OTHER album (my new song album) I have one gig during >this little break: >Wednesday, January 21st >Bottom of the Hill >1233 17th Street (between Texas and Missouri Streets) >San Francisco, 9 p.m. > >It should be a fun show and also playing is my buddy, the fabulous Richard >Buckner. If you don't own his album "Devotion and Doubt" I suggest you add >it to your collection. It's quite good!!! If you're in San Francisco, >please come to the show, bring your friends, tell your friends, and say >hellooooooooooo. > >After that gig I will be finishing up my song album and expect to be done >and gigging again sometime in March. > >Thank you all for being there, and I look forward to seeing you in '98! >xoxox, >Susan James > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 16:00:28 -0600 From: Neile Graham Subject: Veda's Disc Release Concert (warning: long & rambling) Hi, all-- I was lucky enough to be there last night for Veda's release party for _Here is a picture_. It truly was a wonderful performance. Almost a year ago, I first heard these songs at the Railway Club (noisy and crowded) when Veda played there, right at the time they were doing the recording. She performed the full song cycle, took a break, and then played songs from her other releases. While I liked the songs, I wasn't really taken by them, especially in the bar context, where her other songs came across so powerfully. Since then I've heard songs here and there at a couple of her other performances I've been lucky enough to catch, and began to appreciate some of the songs a lot more. When I got the disc several weeks ago (again, many, many thanks to meth and woj!!) I finally heard them more clearly and saw how they worked together, and the disc has since become one of my absolute favourites, and I have no doubt it will stand the test of time for me. Maybe a little has to do with a long-standing interest in Emily Carr and her work--I grew up in Victoria, where Emily Carr was born and lived (in fact, the Cordova Bay mentioned in the list of painting titles is where I grew up, and as a child I played on the beach she painted a lot), and over the years I've read and own most of her writings and a couple of books about her. A close friend wrote a collection of poems about her (_West of Darkness_ by John Barton, look it up, it's _good_--and there are two others that I know of), one poem of which was dedicated to me, which made me feel yet another connection. Also, by growing up where Emily Carr did, I share some of her obsessions with forest and the Native art of the Northwest Coast. I've also been so some of the more obscure places she travelled to and painted in the Queen Charlotte Islands (Haida Gwaii). Maybe this also has to do with how Veda's work has continued to resonate for me over time--each of her three previous recordings still give me more each time I listen to them, as though they're going through a continual opening, or I am each time I listen to them, I don't know. All I know is that I never tire of her music, and Veda is now by far my favourite musical artist. Anyway, for me the songs work magically in context, and I love how the themes, both musical and subject, are woven throughout this piece. It has the same evocative effect for me that Emily Carr's work has. So last night was powerful magic. Seeing the whole cycle live again, with a quiet and attentive audience, seated only a few feet away from Veda's piano was one of the more powerful musical experiences I've ever been privileged to share. It was worth every minute of the 3-hour drive to Vancouver and the 3-hour drive back after the concert ended at 11:00 pm. My only quibble with the evening was that I could easily have skipped the non-Veda parts of it. The first half consisted of Bill Richardson reading from his book, _Scorned and Beloved_. Actually, I enjoyed this a lot--he's a good reader and I enjoyed the section he read from his new book about Canadian eccentrics. I gather he and Veda are friends--he was MC for her _Spine_ disc release party. And his book is titled after Emily Carr's painting "Scorned as Timber, Beloved of the Sky". But after that was Christine Taylor, a comedien. Her work was okay and I did laugh, but overall it wasn't particularly compelling. After her Kinnie Starr played a short but too-long set. I have Kinnie's _Tidy_ and haven't felt drawn to give it more than the occasional listen, and maybe last night was an off-night for her (she did say she was rusty after not performing for several months) but her work seemed entirely self-indulgent and immature. While it's clear she has talent, it seemed underdeveloped and sloppily rendered to me. Ah well, this is probably a taste thing. So then there was a break, and a wonderful, slow, evocative, silence-filled performance of the whole of _This is a picture (songs for E Carr)_. Brilliant, quiet, tumultuous, passionate, quiet, cold, stern, restrained, firey, all the things that Emily Carr seems to me to have been. As you can tell, I find it easier to write about the stuff that surrounded the performance than the performance itself, but it was magnificent. As an encore we were treated to to a new song of Veda's which is very much in the vein of the Emily Carr album. A nice complement to it. Anyway, for anyone interested, info about the new album is now up on The Ectophiles' Guide page for Veda: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/hille.veda.html - --Neile - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:59:13 -0600 (CST) From: kerry white Subject: Stereolab again Hi, I just purchased Stereolab's "Dots and Loops" and I am being driven crazy by it. I bought it after hearing Miss Modular twice. I find myself putting that cut on repeat and listening to it over and over. It's like they took a 10 or 20 second piece of Wakajawaka era Zappa and did a 4 min variation on that theme (at least thats the 'sorta-feel' I get from it). The 1st cut is like the same thing but with a piece of Soft Machine instead of Zappa. The whole thing also reminds me of the ending to "Tenemos Roads" by National Health (out of Hatfield and The North and Canterbury stuff): the flowing simple theme with many variations and the tonal quality and harmonies of the female singers, keyboards, drums and bass but no lead guitar. I also find it impossible to sit through the whole thing. Any 1 or 2 cuts are fine but I just can't leave it on and let it play. I *can* listen to Miss Modular all day but the overall sound of the disc gets to me before it is complete. The vocals and harmonies elicit very strong resonances of recognition but the 'bell' never rings. I "know" I've heard that sound before, besides in the aforementioned "Tenemos Roads", but WHERE? (excuse me) I know their 'approach' is the same, cd to cd, but is the >sound< the same? Same instruments and vocals? Neile, you have a bunch of them, I love 1 cut but am not totally enthused about the sameness of the sound throughout, should I still explore more or have I probably found all the gold to be found? bye, KrW "I like the thound of the bellth!" Quasimoto KrW I *Hate* waiting for the penny to drop! also: kerrywhite@webtv.net ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 18:06:26 -0600 From: Sharon Nichols Subject: Samson Music Web Page Hi gang. The new Samson page is at--surprise--samsonmusic.com. It's a little... ahem...lacking in certain areas. You can even get on the mailing list. Woo! Say yer piece. Thanks, once again, for your patience on issue #11... Sharon Terra Incognita-The Happy Rhodes 'Zine http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3450/terra.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 20:46:06 EST From: ABershaw Subject: Patty Griffin 1998 Winter Tour Dates Hi Ectophile Patty Griffin fans, This just in from her management regarding upcoming tour dates. All the best, Alan Day/Date - City/State - Venue - Ma Bell Wed 2/11 - Carrboro NC - Cats' Cradle - 919-967-9053 Thu 2/12 - Washington DC - Metro Lounge - 202-518-7900 Fri - 2/13 - Philadelphia PA - Tin Angel- 215-928-0770 Sat 2/14 - Providence RI - Met Cafe - 401-861-2142 Sun 2/15 - Newmarket NH - Stone Church - 603-659-6321 Tue 2/17 - Portland ME - Raoul's - 207-773-6886 Wed 2/18 - Northampton MA - Iron Horse - 413-584-0610 Fri 2/20 - New York NY - The Fez - 212-533-3000 Sat 2/21 - Boston MA - Somerville Theatre - 617-625-1084 Mon 2/23 - Syracuse NY - Stylennes - 315-471-0861 Tue 2/24 - Cleveland OH - Wilberts - 216-771-2583 Wed 2/25 - Ann Arbor MI - The Ark - 313-761-1800 Thu 2/26 - Columbus OH - Little Brothers - 614-834-2205 Fri 2/27 - Chicago IL - Shubas - 773-525-2508 Sun 3/01 - Louisville KY - Twice Told Coffeehouse - 502-456-0507 Thu 3/05 - Nashville TN - Cafe Milano - 615-255-0073 Sat 3/07 - Austin TX - Cactus Cafe - 512-475-6515 Sun 3/08 - Austin TX - Cactus Cafe 512-475-6515 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 20:23:28 -0600 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Stereolab again Kerri writes: > Hi, I just purchased Stereolab's "Dots and Loops" and I am being driven >crazy by it. Hey, I can understand that. I live with a Stereolab fanatic. [snip] > I know their 'approach' is the same, cd to cd, but is the >sound< the >same? Same instruments and vocals? Neile, you have a bunch of them, I >love 1 cut but am not totally enthused about the sameness of the sound >throughout, should I still explore more or have I probably found all the >gold to be found? bye, No, the sound varies a lot from album to album. I prepared a draft of a page for them on the Ectophiles' Guide, but it's sitting on my resident Stereolab fanatic's computer now for him to add to, but he had to get up after 3 hours sleep after driving home from the Veda concert and go to work today, so I'm not going to push him on this. Anyway, my favourite albums are the smoother more forward-moving early album, _Peng!_, the more alternarock-leaning _Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements_, and of their recent stuff I like their previous album, _Emperor Tomato Ketchup_ far better than _Dots and Loops_. _Mars Audiac Quintet_ is my _least_ favourite--way to 60s poppy for me. There's a whole Stereolab world out there waiting to be discovered. Each album is different from the rest. Sometimes dramatically. - --Neile n.p. Amy X Neuburg & Men--Utechma--just put up a Guide page for her/them n.r. Kathleen Alcala's novel, the title of which escapes me - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 00:09:34 -0500 From: meredith Subject: The Righteous Reader, 1/19/98 Hi! Here's the latest news on the little folksinger (a.k.a. Ani DiFranco :). Some particulary interesting news about the soundtrack! Must have, want want want ... >From: RBRinfo >Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 21:54:31 EST >Subject: The Righteous Reader, 1/19/98 > >THE RIGHTEOUS READER >your new-year guide to the old-school world of ani difranco >brought to you by the warrior princesses of righteous babe records >the really big january 19, 1998 issue > >REALLY BIG NEWS #1 >Ani has been nominated for a Grammy in the "Female Rock Performance" category >for the version of "Shy" on LIVING IN CLIP. Fellow nominees are Fiona Apple, >Meredith Brooks, Abra Moore, and a promising newcomer named Patti Smith. The >ceremony airs February 25, so stock up on the French Onion dip for your >Grammy-watching party NOW. > >REALLY BIG NEWS #2 >After the Grammies, leave your teevee on for another month so you don't miss >the big event: Friday, March 27, 1998. DiFranco does Letterman. Ani, Dave; >Dave, Ani. Television will never be the same. > >STILL-GETTING-BIG NEWS >Those end-of-the-year polls and best-of lists are still pouring in, but so far >we've spotted Ani and "Clip" in year-end wrap-ups from Rolling Stone, Out, The >Chicago Tribune, the Billboard Critics' Poll, FMQB, The Berkshire [MA] Eagle, >and The [Cumberland Gap, TN] Daily News. And online: Belle's Underground >Market, SFgate, and Outvoice. In the same vein but different, look for Ani in >the 1997 Current Biography Yearbook and the Current Biography CD-ROM, >1940-present. 'Course we fully expect to have lots more best-ofs to report >next time... > >SLIGHTLY LESS BIG NEWS, UNLESS YOU'RE A BIG FAN OF CANADIAN FILM >Look for Ani's song "The Million You Never Made" (same version as on "Not a >Pretty Girl," fans) on the soundtrack album to the new Canadian film "The >Hanging Garden," written and directed by Thom Fitzgerald. The album's out on >Virgin Music Canada, and also includes tracks by the likes of Ashley MacIsaac, >Mae Moore, Jane Siberry, Holly Cole, and Meryn Cadell with Mary Margaret >O'Hara. > >MEDIUM-SIZED NEWS >This is medium-sized only because it's not exactly new: check out the "Virtual >Venue" archives at http://www.jamtv.com/ >for an online interview and concert. > >INCREDIBLY SMALL NEWS >Regular readers know that we enjoy tracking Ani's presence in crossword >puzzles around the world, and here's Number Four: "Folksinger DiFranco" is 27 >Across in the June 8, 1997 San Francisco Examiner Magazine puzzle, >conveniently intersecting with 1 Down, "Easily bent." > >SOON-TO-BE-BIG TOUR NEWS >Our boss is at position #100 on Pollstar's Top 100 Tours of 1997. And what >will the NEW year bring? Well, the spring itinerary is still being put >together as I type, but here are the current confirmed bookings: >2/21: London * 2/24: Barcelona * >3/7-14: Australian tour * 3/19-22: Japanese tour * >4/3: Durham, NH * 4/6: Providence, RI * >4/8: State College, PA * 4/9: Ithaca, NY * >4/10: Albany * 4/15: Notre Dame, IN * 4/18: Milwaukee, WI > >More US dates in April will be named SOON. > >Okay, folks, that's all for now. You know where to find us, and we know how to >find you. > >Righteous Babe Records >P O Box 95 >Ellicott Station, Buffalo, NY 14205 >merchandise and tour info: 1-800-ON-HER-OWN >business line: (716)852-8020 >fax: (716)852-2741 >e-mail: RBRinfo@aol.com +==========================================================================+ | 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, 20 Jan 1998 16:56:45 +1100 (EST) From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: Indigo Girls, Dar and Ani in Oz Hey everyone, Meth just forwarded a message which made fleeting mention of Ani diFranco in Australia. Here are the full tour dates: Ani diFranco + Dar Williams: March 6-9, Port Fairy Folk Festival, Port Fairy VIC March 10, National Theatre, Melbourne VIC March 11, Metro, Sydney NSW March 12, Tivoli, Brisbane QLD March 13, Governer Hindmarsh, Adelaide SA March 14, Fly by Night, Perth WA Dan Bern was originally scheduled for this tour as well but he had to cancel. Tickets for all shows except PFFF (sold out) and Adelaide (door sales only or so I heard) are on sale now. I'll be at the first three events as well at the last, so if anyone's planning on going we should definitely meet up! And here is the final list of Indigo Girls Oz tour dates: February 21+22, Melbourne Concert Hall, Melbourne VIC February 24, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Brisbane QLD February 26+27, State Theatre, Sydney NSW March 2, Heaven/Newmarket Hotel, Adelaide SA March 4, Perth Concert Hall, Perth WA March 6, Canberra Theatre, Canberra ACT Whoohoo! Concert heaven, here I come... *grin* sherlyn =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=a+e=ig Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@fl.net.au [Currently at work or someplace.] "I may just be average little me, on an unremarkable day, But I'll take it." - Susan Werner ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #20 *************************