From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #255 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, August 3 1998 Volume 04 : Number 255 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: I'll "Knife" with you! [Juha Sorva ] Sweeter Than Wine (local band) [Foghorn J Fornorn ] Re: I'll "Knife" with you! [Juha Sorva ] Wendy Maharry [Neile Graham ] Katemas EWS [Joseph Zitt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 10:21:36 +0300 (EEST) From: Juha Sorva Subject: Re: I'll "Knife" with you! I wrote: > >n.p. Shonen Knife: "Let's Knife" > > (I don't believe I just confessed listening to that :)) Holly J Tominack wrote: > I really like Shonen Knife. They're sweet, bright-sounding, and > unexpected. And sometimes they can really rock. I agree completely. They're not particularly good musicians (technically), their singing isn't that impressive either, and their songs often sound like other people's songs (though the lyrics are definitely in their own style), but that's all completely beside the point. What's important is that they're funny, cheerful and - indeed - they do rock. Nothing to cheer one up like a Shonen Knife song... except maybe nice fresh fruits and vegetables. Their music is very educational, too. You learn about distant places and stuff. "Many tall skyscrapers standing all in a row, in this Asian country just north of the Equator, oh! You can't buy chewing gum anywhere in Singapore, but you can buy peppermint candy 'cause you eat it til it's gone." > Do not be ashamed to like Shonen Knife! Oh, don't worry, I'm not really! :) Juha "I drink tomato juice is what I say, and I became a green plant today, I photosynthetized in my bed, now I'm just TOMATO HEAD" n.p. The Sisters of Mercy (some recent live bootleg) not quite as cheerful as Shonen Knife ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 05:07:47 -0400 From: Foghorn J Fornorn Subject: Sweeter Than Wine (local band) Hi, I delurk for a moment to bring to your attention a new CD by some friends of mine which may be enjoyed by those of the ecto persuasion... Sweeter Than Wine, a duo from Seymour CT (they call themselves a New Haven band) have just released their 2nd album called "Breathe". Now, I'm a little biased 'coz they play about once a month at my local watering hole, and I consider them friends and think they do I, and I also follow ecto, I love Happy, I like much of the music discussed here. And I am really enjoying this new STW album. And I want to share it with you fine folk. Rest asssured I am no producer or advertising weasel, I offer this opinion as a friend and fan of the band. Please see their website: http://www.northhaven.com/stw/ for information about where they are playing and how to order their CDs. Unfortunately there are no audio samples available from their site, (they're new at this techie stuff) but I have made some samples of some songs I especially like available on my web site (requires RealAudio 3.0 or better). http://home.earthlink.net/~foghornj/ If you like, please see STW's own site and order the disc. Thanks for reading and listening, Fog ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 08:52:32 -0400 From: "Joanna M. Phillips" Subject: Re: I'll "Knife" with you! > From: Juha Sorva > To: Holly J Tominack > Cc: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: Re: I'll "Knife" with you! > Date: Sunday, August 02, 1998 3:21 AM (snip) > They're not particularly good musicians (technically), their singing isn't > that impressive either, and their songs often sound like other people's > songs (though the lyrics are definitely in their own style), but that's > all completely beside the point. What's important is that they're funny, > cheerful and - indeed - they do rock. Nothing to cheer one up like a > Shonen Knife song... except maybe nice fresh fruits and vegetables. Okay, I just *have* to get one of their albums: which one is the fruits and vegetables song on? :-) TIA! fleur ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 19:46:40 +0300 (EEST) From: Juha Sorva Subject: Re: I'll "Knife" with you! On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Joanna M. Phillips wrote: > Okay, I just *have* to get one of their albums: which one is the fruits and > vegetables song on? :-) "Brand New Knife". My favorite of the three albums I've heard is "Let's Knife", though. I recall reading that they released a new album ("Happy Hour") a month or two ago... anybody heard it? Juha n.p. for the zillionth time in the couple of days since I got it: The Flash Girls: "Maurice And I" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 20:54:33 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Wendy Maharry Hi, all-- Does anyone know the answer to this? - --Neile >From: "arcgsc" >To: >Subject: Wendy Maharry >Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:20:34 -0700 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Priority: 3 >X-MSMail-Priority: Normal >X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 > > Do you have any current information about Wendy Maharry? Is she >still performing? Thank you. > - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 01:07:08 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Katemas EWS I just got in from Katemas in Chicago w/ Chris and Vickie and Charley and ... uh ... others. Many hours watching Kate video stuff on a huge screen, a live performance of the "Kashka from Baghdad/Babushka" madley by the Plunging Necklines, wonderful lebanese food, and much else. I had a chance to do some high speed EWS on a strafing run through part of Chicago. In the course of about 3 hours I picked up, for a total of about $100 the following (I've listened to none of it yet): Glenn Branca / Selections from the Symphonies Sonia Dada / My Secret Life Rain Tree Crow / (s/t) The Moon Seven Times / 7=49 Meat Loaf / Live Around the World Miles Davis / Live-Evil Zoe / Hammer Imogen Heap / I Megaphone Tom Johnson / Rational Melodies Meridian Arts Ensemble / Smart Went Crazy Spiritualized / Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Strata Institute / Cypher Syntax Iannis Xenakis / La legende d'Eer Anam / Riptide Adam Cohen / Around the Edges I also picked up at the party the "I Wanna Be Kate" compilation. Also, the piece of resistance: I sorta in person mail-ordered a live video bootleg of Naked City (John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Fred Frith, Wayne Horvitz, Yamantaka Eye, and Joey Baron) performances. I should get it later this week. WooHoo! And now to sleep... - -- - ---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------1---------- |||/ Joseph Zitt ===== jzitt@humansystems.com ===== Human Systems \||| ||/ Maryland? = <*> SILENCE: The John Cage Mailing List <*> = ecto \|| |/ http://www.realtime.net/~jzitt ====== Comma: Voices of New Music \| ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #255 **************************