From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V4 #303 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, September 3 1998 Volume 04 : Number 303 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: martha & the muffins [cjmacs ] Wishing Chair [JavaHo@aol.com] Re: martha & the muffins [Michael Colford ] My Suffragette Sessions review (Cincy show) [Riphug@aol.com] Tori in Denver [alex.teitz@state.co.us] Re: Where have I been? ["C. K. Coney" ] Re: WFMU &WPKN [jfrancis@villagenet.com] David Torn ["C. K. Coney" ] Re: WFMU &WPKN [Chris Sampson ] move me [Paul Kim ] upcoming at the living room (nyc area) [pauly on the shore ] Re: The Big Lebowski (was Re: HAPPY- Big Question) [pauly on the shore ] Re: Where have I been? [Michael Doyle ] Ectophiles...a raise of hands? [Sharon Nichols ] Re: Ectophiles...a raise of hands? [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: Ectophiles...a raise of hands? [Bill ] Happy Tour/Ectophile Show of Hands ["C. K. Coney" ] Re: Tori in Denver [Joseph Zitt ] Anyone Heard of the Syrens? ["C. K. Coney" ] Re: Today's your birthday [samsamiam@juno.com (Sami T.)] Re: Anyone Heard of the Syrens? [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 Sep 98 07:30:51 -0000 From: cjmacs Subject: Re: martha & the muffins neile wrote: >At least, that's where we got all three of our M&M discs. ack! i only have one! what ones do you have? >The vinyl we've managed to find here in Seattle, all except _The World is a >Ball_ so if anyone sees it, please grab it for us! sure thing! i'm heading to rhino records tomorrow so i'll check there. chuck (who can't believe that out of over 7000 cds he only has ONE martha and the muffins disc!) np: saint etienne - fairfax high nr: hyrum w. smith - the 10 natural laws of successful time and life management cjmacs@concentric.net irc nick: chucknjoe icq #: 17895236 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:36:38 EDT From: JavaHo@aol.com Subject: Wishing Chair Wishing Chair is a duo consisting of Kiya Heartwood and Miriam David. Kiya's former band was called Stealin' Horses (which was screwed horribly by the squids). The other member of SH, Kopana Terry, is a friend of mine, so I keep in touch with Kiya's career. Kiya is an excellent guitarist, and she teaches at guitar workshops occasionally. Wishing Chair performs acoustic music...very nice harmonies. I saw them perform at a small church when they were passing through Kansas City last fall. I think they fit nicely into ecto on the folk side. I thought I'd publish their fall schedule in case anyone is interested. There are a few east coast dates (Richard K, if you see them, tell Kiya that Lisa from KC says "Hi".) Terrakin Records Recording Artists Wishing Chair Summer/Fall Schedule For information: 1(800)roaddog terrakin@aol.com www.terrakin.com Sept 6 House Concert Evansville, IN 10 Cheapside Lexington, KY (band) 12 Ironweed Festival Highlander Center New Market, TN 14 Songwriting Classes begin Carnegie Center Lexington, KY 18 Twice Told Louisville, KY (band) 19 Your Way Cafe Nashville, TN 24 Cheapside Lexington, KY (band) 26 Concert w/ Lexington Women’s Choir Lexington, KY Oct 2 CD RELEASE PARTY Canal Street Tavern Dayton, OH (band) 3 AIDS BENEFIT Calamity Cafe Huntington, WV 8 Fire and Water Northampton, MA 9 Burlington Coffeehouse Burlington, VT 10 1 Station Plaza Peekskill, NY 13 WCUW/New Traditions Worchester, MA 17 Mass. College of Liberal Arts N.Adams, MA 23 Benefit/Town Crier Pawling, NY 24 Fast Folk Cafe New York, NY 30 West Liberty Theater West Liberty, KY (band) 31 Appalshop Whitesburg, KY (band) Nov 5-7/19 Cheapside Lexington, KY (band) 28 Ford's Alley Tahlequah, OK ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:13:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Colford Subject: Re: martha & the muffins On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, cjmacs wrote: > neile wrote: > > >At least, that's where we got all three of our M&M discs. > > ack! i only have one! what ones do you have? Pardon me for stepping in and answering for Neile, but I'm assuming that in addition to the new "Then Again" collection, the other 2 CDs are "Far Away in Time," a collection from the first 3 Martha & the Muffins albums, and "Modern Lullaby," the duos last studio album from several years ago. A terrific album. Martha also released a children's album, under the name, "Martha" after that, and that is also available on CD. Hope that helps! Michael n.p. Jennifer Kimball - Veering from the Wave - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Colford | Reading Public Library Head of Technical Services | Reading, Massachusetts colford@noblenet.org | *North of Boston Library Exchange* - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 08:58:12 EDT From: Riphug@aol.com Subject: My Suffragette Sessions review (Cincy show) (Please excuse the crosspost) If any of you have the opportunity to go to the Indigo Girls' Suffragette Sessions tour, do it! But don't go if you expect to hear mostly the Indigo Girls 'cause it ain't that kind of tour. Sometimes likened to a *mini Lilith Fair*, the IGs have invited several female artists to perform together on stage. Many of the invitees appear only as background players, but most of them take the lead vocals at one time or another. And several of the participants switch instruments from time to time. For example, both Jane Siberry and Lisa Germano played keyboards, accordion, and guitar or mandolin at various times, with Germano also on violin for much of the show. I didn't write down the set list and have a pretty foggy memory, but here are my random thoughts on the concert: 1. The Indigo Girls were their typical cool selves and got the crowd really rocking. I don't know many of their song titles, but they definitely did "Power of Two" and "Go," which made the audience quite happy to say the least. 2. I had never heard of Thalia Zedek (from Come) before, and was left with no impression of her really. She played guitar most of the time, but also performed on clarinet. I'm sure she probably sang something, but I couldn't tell you what it might have been -- some indie-blues thing. 3. Jean Smith (of Mecca Normal) provided a bit of comic relief in her frequent banter with fellow Canadian Jane Siberry. I'd never heard Jean before, either, and most likely will *not* be purchasing any of her work. She played guitar most of the time, but had a few vocal leads as well. She did a very strange spoken word piece, accompanying herself with a very screechy non-musical guitar. The crowd was left rather bewildered by her performance piece, but you've gotta admire someone who's willing to take a chance like that, I guess. 4. Gail Ann Dorsey (bass player for David Bowie's tour band) was a new discovery for me. Not only can she play the hell out of a guitar, but she also has a great voice and a very pleasant stage personality. 5. Josephine Wiggs (ex-Breeder) played bass throughout the show, but never took a vocal lead.....I can't recall her doing anything but backup, so what can I say? 6. Luscious Jackson's Kate Schellenbach was heard on drums but not seen for the most part. All I saw of Kate was a couple of little spiky towers protruding from her head. 7. Lisa Germano was one of the performers I was most looking forward to seeing. I have all of her albums (that I know of), but had never seen her perform. She tends to bring down the mood of things a little bit, but her music and voice are beautiful. Whispery and quiet stuff. Her most recent release is "Slide" -- get it! 8. The best part of the whole show was Jane Siberry, whom I totally adore and respect for her unique talents. I have all of her albums, too. Her voice is so delicate and gorgeous; her lyrics are light and often humorous; and her musical compositions are extraordinary! She has such a variety of style..... but it's always happy and optimistic kind of stuff. "Love is Everything" from her album "When I Was a Boy" was one of the highlights of the night. And she also performed the lead for the ensemble's version of "Midnight Train to Georgia" (with the whole audience joining in for the "hoo! hoo!s). Jane also seemed to be enjoying herself more than any of the other performers, making frequent hand gestures to accompany the music, and taking photos of other tour members. 9. Whoops! Almost forgot the opening act -- Japan's Shonen Knife. They were so cute! From their voices, brightly colored costumes, right down to their stage presence and rapport with the audience. They performed several food-related songs, and a cover of the Monkees' "Daydream Believer." Because of some communication mixups and lack of a babysitter, I ended up going to this concert by myself, even though I had 4 tickets. So the price I paid for the Suffragette Sessions was just over $80 -- more than Lilith Fair! But you know? To me it was worth every penny.... I'd pay $80 just for Jane! Jill :D *share the music!* I thought the Cincy show was great! However, I'm a big fan of Jane Siberry and Lisa Germano as well as the Indigo Girls. After seeing the show last night, I'm also a fan of Gail Ann Dorsey. I had heard that the IGs only did about three songs on this tour, but was happily surprised to find that all of the artists were on stage all of the time. The leads were just passed around between Amy, Emily, Gail Ann, Jane Siberry, Lisa Germano, Lourdes Perez, and Thalia Zedek. I didn't like Jean Smith and her spoken word/screechy non- musical guitar piece at all....but respect her for braving the crowd! Anyway, I can see how people who were expecting to see *just* the IG would be disappointed, but I was there to see them all and was totally satisfied. Has anyone heard if there might be an album from this tour? ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 07:11:05 -0600 From: alex.teitz@state.co.us Subject: Tori in Denver Last night I saw Tori Amos at Red Rocks in Denver. I've seen all but one year of Tori's tours, and have a mixed reaction to this one. I love the band. What they do to such songs as Cornflake Girl, and These Precious Things is amazing. The lighting director is a master. My big problem is Tori shortened her show dramatically. The show ran just over an hour and a half. Songs like Me and A Gun, and Happy Phantom weren't played. In all the times I've seen Tori I've never seen her not play Me and a Gun. She did have ample opportunity. The band left mid-set for 3 songs. Tori still has her stage chatter, but it sounded more rehearsed than times before. Even with the band, and 10,000 of my closest friends, she was able to make the show fell intimate. Overall I like the band sound as much as Tori solo. I could easily accept another album done in that format. As for the tour, she has to do more on stage in the future. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:34:07 -0700 From: "C. K. Coney" Subject: Re: Where have I been? Neal Copperman wrote: > Veda said (almost a quote) - Neile > is so wonderful. She is single handedly responsible for whatever > following I have in this country. > Yay Neile...and yay to you, too, *Neal*!!! :-) Carol ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 12:07:37 -0400 (EDT) From: jfrancis@villagenet.com Subject: Re: WFMU &WPKN >yup and yup. been a 'fmu listener since 1990 when i moved to new jersey and >a 'pkn listener as long as i've been driving in and around connecticut >(say, 1992 onwards) and living here (last autumn onwards). still listen to >'fmu on real audio with regularity. don't leave home without it. Yeah! When I lived in Queens, I listened to fmu since the late 70's and practically all the time till I moved to Long Island around '93. I really miss it. I haven't listened over the internet though, will try it right now. Unfortunately, I pay commercial rates and to have it on all day will skyrocket my bill. :-( It is(was) pretty much great 24 hours a day. I'd kill for a station like that that I was in range of. WPKN *could* be that way, I suppose, being listener sponsored but its a long way off, unfortunately. My favorites there are "Radio Nothing", "Leaving the 20th Century", the Saturday night 6pm-10pm and later slots and the Friday night 6:30pm - 10pm and later slots WFDU (Fairleigh Dikinson) had good music 1am till the mid-afternoon (they shared the frequency with WNYU) and all weekend. I'm hoping for the day soon, that all these stations can be broadcast via satellite or something so you can get them at any location. StonyBrook U. plays some decent stuff in the afternoons, some evenings and late night/early morning. This and wpkn also have some good blues shows. All in all a lot of music, but nothing like that quirky eclecticism of wfmu. *sigh* >by the way, deejays from both stations have, at various times (including >now), graced the ecto subscriber list. > >woj Come out, come out wherever you are....... ;-) Jon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 12:12:13 -0700 From: "C. K. Coney" Subject: David Torn During a July vacation to Alaska & Takoma/Seattle, I found an excellent venue in Tacoma, The Swiss, and performing there a really fine reggae/dub/soca band, Jumbalassy. Well, I visited their website recently & lo and behold, a band member (& their webmeister) is *really* into David Torn, who as we know plays on Many Worlds Are Born Tonight. Small world, eh? Anyway, I don't know if ectophiles are already into David Torn or want to know more about him...I was pleasantly surprised to learn how many of my all-time fave artists he's played with. So, for lots of info & links on Mr. Torn, visit... www.jumbalassy.com....and click on "External Links", and then scroll down to find David Torn (along with a lot of cool King Crimson members' links as well). Happy *does* get a mention in David Torn's bio, you'll be pleased to know! Ciao! Carol ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 13:14:18 -0400 From: Chris Sampson Subject: Re: WFMU &WPKN Here's where I make a semi-selfconscious plug for WHUS (UCONN, Storrs)... ... ahem... for which I am now the programming director. Pride aside, I wish I could say that 'HUS elicits the same raves as 'FMU, but... well, we're trying 9and we now have our best people on the job). We WERE one of the first of a handful of stations to play Happy pretty regularly (and were recently rewarded with several promo copies of MWABT from Samson (no relation)). We have some newly dedicated DJs for HR, now and a new one is born every now and then. I don't know 'FMU but I think I understand what it accomplishes to inspire such dedication... We're trying that up here in the 'quiet corner'. {/Plug Off} Chris Sampson ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 16:56:40 -0400 From: Paul Kim Subject: move me I'm sort of settled in here at Berklee. I think i'll be using this address for list related stuff and the AOL address (paul2k) for personal stuff. Or maybe not. We'll see. Anyways, I've resubbed to these various lists through this berklee account. It's nice to be back. I hate school. Learning sucks :) Paul "mmmm...cafeteria food" Kim ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 20:27:59 -0400 From: pauly on the shore Subject: upcoming at the living room (nyc area) new york area 'philes, some shows of interest at the living room in the next couple weeks. between dorothy scott, kate jacobs, rebecca martin, and lisa cerbone, i'm tempted to just move in next week. rachel sage is also worth checking out. hillary jackson loaned us her album. while i haven't listened to it enough to form an opinion -- or even a review, meredith rather likes it. >Wed 9/2 - 8:30 Molly"s Last Word / 10:00 Joy Askew / 11:00 Amanda Thorpe / >12:00 Wet Paint w/Dug Elliot >Thu 9/3 - 8:30 Mark Teamaker / 10:00 The Angstones / 11:00 Mannix >Fri 9/4 - 8:30 Goats in Trees / 10:00 Nini Camps / 11:00 Suzi Ragsdale >Sat 9/5 - 8:30 Carl Mateo / 10 Melissa Huffsmith / 11:00 Miss Crabtree >Sun 9/6 - 8:30 Movies! >Mon 9/7 - 8:30 Movies! >Tue 9/8 - 8:30 Leslie Nuchow / 10:00 Julia Douglas / 11:00 Dorothy Scott >Wed 9/9 - 8:30 Chris Chandler & The Convenient Store Troubadours / 10:00 >Hummer / 11:00 American Circus / 12:00 Wet Paint w/Dug Elliot >Thu 9/10 - 6:30 community mtng. / 8:30 Kate Jacobs / 10:00 Barbara Brousel >/ 11:00 Rebecca Martin >Fri 9/11 - 8:30 Lisa Cerbone / 10:00 Piewacket / 11:00 Lezlee >Sat 9/12 - 8:30 Trina Hamlin / 10:00 Jake / 11:00 Sami Abadi / 12:00 Drumalama >Sun 9/13 - 8:30 Jim Allen / 9:30 Pamela Sue Mann & Gerry Leonard >Mon 9/14 - 8:30 Neil Furio's birthday bash / 10:00 Jenifer Jackson / 11:00 >The Ferdinandos >Tue 9/15 - 7:30 Richard Julian / 8:30 Leif Arntzen / 10:00 Dayna Kurtz / >11:00 Rachel Sage >Wed 9/16 - 7:30 Laura Ponce / 8:30 Molly's Last Word / 10:00 Christ >Brothers / 11:00 Nancy Magril & friends / 12:00 Wet Paint w/Dug Elliot >Thu 9/17 - 8:30 The Living Room Series presents "Dylan - Songs of the 60's" pity that i didn't get this list sooner as we would have been tempted to see joy askew tonight. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 20:57:27 -0400 From: pauly on the shore Subject: Re: The Big Lebowski (was Re: HAPPY- Big Question) also sprach athol-brose: >I was surprised at how much I liked "The Big Lebowski", given that I >absolutely *hated* the commercials. I rented it on the strength of how >much I liked "Fargo" (the only other Coen brothers movie I'd seen) and I >wasn't dissapointed, even though it was not much like Fargo at all. It was >more a long, rambling train-wreck of a movie that remained interesting and >engaging all the way through even so. i'd liken "the big lebowski" to a tom robbins novel -- archetypcical characters, tangential plotline, lots of odd little twists -- except that it wasn't quite as robbinsesque as i suspect the coens hoped it to be. that said, i still liked it quite a bit -- heck, i stayed awake through the whole thing after spending the afternoon with ectophiles, going into boston to catch a rain-delayed red sox game and stuffing myself with jeff's most excellent tomato chicken pasta dinner. by all rights, i should have been asleep within five minutes! woj n.p. martha and the muffins -- far away in time ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 21:10:40 -0400 From: pauly on the shore Subject: Re: Tori in Denver also sprach alex.teitz@state.co.us: >My big problem is Tori >shortened her show dramatically. The show ran just over an hour and a half. typically, shows on this tour have ranged between 90 and 110 minutes long, so the red rocks show was on the short end. however, that's about how long her shows were during the last solo tour. they tended to be slightly shorter during the under the pink tour (80 to 90 minutes) and were significantly shorter back around the first album (70 minutes was typical then). the shortest show this tour was in boston, where she clocked 85 minutes while rather ill. >Songs like Me and A Gun, and Happy Phantom weren't played. In all the times >I've seen Tori I've never seen her not play Me and a Gun. "me and a gun" has been played only twice this tour. somewhere, i remember reading a quote where tori basically said that she was "retiring" the song for this tour since it didn't really fit the tour's mood. if anyone is really curious, i can dig up the exact quote, but "me and a gun"'s absence is a conscious decision >She did have ample opportunity. The band left mid-set for 3 songs. true, but there are a *lot* of songs she can chose from to fill that slot (which is usually only two songs long, not three). >Tori still has her stage >chatter, but it sounded more rehearsed than times before. that's odd. one of the more common complaints i've heard about thos tour is that she is hardly speaking between songs -- a short hello, introduction of the band and maybe a sentence or two during the solo piano segment. woj ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 21:29:42 -0400 From: Michael Doyle Subject: Re: Where have I been? While observing this Veda Hille thread, I read a review of _Spine_ in a NYC joke tabloid called "The Rotten Apple" which dismally read: "..._Spine_, during the dark ages of popular music, is a godsend. Veda has produced her own little masterpiece on Bottom Line Records and does anybody know about it? Hell no!" Clearly, a man who does not read ecto. - - Mike Michael Doyle maeldun@i-2000.com =========================================================================== "Nothing is too wonderful to be true." - - Michael Faraday ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 20:31:16 -0600 From: Sharon Nichols Subject: Ectophiles...a raise of hands? Hi All, I would like to get an estimate of how many Ectophiles there are (at the request of Samson). Who has that information? The tour will not begin until October. Other than that info, nothing is 100% confirmed. Once it's set in stone, get ready to rock. Sharon Terra Incognita http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/3450/terra.html ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 21:55:11 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: Ectophiles...a raise of hands? On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 08:31:16PM -0600, Sharon Nichols wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to get an estimate of how many Ectophiles there are (at the > request of Samson). Who has that information? There are 193 people on the regular list and 161 people on the digest. Why does Samson want to know? - -Jeff ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 18:56:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Subject: Re: Ectophiles...a raise of hands? On Wed, 2 Sep 1998, Sharon Nichols wrote: > I would like to get an estimate of how many Ectophiles there are (at the > request of Samson). Who has that information? /me raises his hand. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 23:03:39 -0700 From: "C. K. Coney" Subject: Happy Tour/Ectophile Show of Hands Sharon Nichols wrote: > Hi All, > > I would like to get an estimate of how many Ectophiles there are (at the > request of Samson). Who has that information? Don't forget there are also many Happy fans who are *not* on this list! In fact, the guy who turned me on to Happy by putting some trax on a sampler tape, Dewey Wasek, well, I've never seen his name on this list. Has he ever been? > The tour will not begin until October. Other than that info, nothing is > 100% confirmed. Oh, please please don't let it begin Oct 31 when I'm in San Fran! If you want to see something *really* scary on Halloween, all you'll have to do is just look at my face if I find out I'm going to miss Happy again. ;-) Carol > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1998 23:56:27 -0400 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Tori in Denver pauly on the shore wrote: > "me and a gun" has been played only twice this tour. somewhere, i remember > reading a quote where tori basically said that she was "retiring" the song > for this tour since it didn't really fit the tour's mood. if anyone is > really curious, i can dig up the exact quote, but "me and a gun"'s absence > is a conscious decision She did it quite effectively in DC. From my vantage point in the front row of the nosebleeds, she seemed to have a captivated audience, with barely a sound from them during that song, and respect and frenzy scattered appropriately otherwise. I wonder if she decides which solo songs to do on the fly, based on what she can tell of audience response (which might be hard to tell in a stadium). (Only vaguely relatedly: on a rare whim, I listened to Boys for Pele for the first time in a while last night, and the album, which I had greatly disliked, clicked for me for the first time. I found I was listening to it rather like a Morton Feldman album: not individual songs, but a fairly consistent soundscape with interconnected, oblique lyrics, to wander around in for an hour. It might be that I'm preparing to go into the studio to do an hour-long piece, or that I was in the right mood to sink into the musical swamp... but it worked. Hmm.) n.p. Tori Amos: Little Earthquakes n.r. A note telling me that I had waited too long to get tix for Monsters of Grace at Wolf Trap and it's sold out. Grr... - -- - ---------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 \| ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 00:31:16 -0700 From: "C. K. Coney" Subject: Anyone Heard of the Syrens? Since ya'll know so much more about female recording artists than I do, I'm wondering if on ecto the band the Syrens has been mentioned. A friend on another email list wrote: > How I can get a hold of "St. Elmo's Choir" by The Syrens? A friend has a copy of a copy (poor quality, really). It was done as a benefit, and it was an all female group based out of Seattle (I think), singing Sea Chanties. I think this band sounds interesting too...especially 'cause I love Ireland so, and sea chanties really get me goin' over a nice pint o'Guinness! :-) Any leads would be appreciated. Thanks, Carol > > ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:56:09 -0700 From: samsamiam@juno.com (Sami T.) Subject: Re: Today's your birthday Hi, again, I don't have access to the web right now, so I can't check out the FAQ. How does one get their b'day information on MatthewM's birthday list? Could someone please e-mail me privately and let me know? Thanks! :-) jah love Sami P.S. Forgive the "newbie" question....but what does the "np:" at the end of some people's e-mails mean? _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1998 22:50:03 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Anyone Heard of the Syrens? C. K. Coney wrote, quoting a friend: >> How I can get a hold of "St. Elmo's Choir" by The Syrens? A friend has >>a copy of a copy (poor quality, really). It was done as a benefit, and >>it was an all female group based out of Seattle (I think), singing Sea >>Chanties. Well, the problem in finding it might be that it's the other way around. The group was/is(?) called St. Elmo's Choir and _Syrens_ was their first release. I have their second release from 1993 on tape, called _White Stocking Day_. They were/are great fun to listen to and a blast live. Anyway, the info I have on my tape says for sales or booking information call 1-800-484-1044 or 206-525-8891. The Squire's Own Music, POB 15754, Seattle, WA 98115. With any luck the contact info still works. I don't know if the tape is still available around here, but a good place to try would be Cellophane Square http://www.cellophane.com/. They have their new and used discs online. I don't know about tapes, though. P.S. Thanks for letting me know I'm famous. Or perhaps infamous. Yow! - --Neile n.p. pepper acton, _marrow_, about which I will have a lot to say in the future--imagine if Robin Holcomb had continued with the style of her work from her first self-titled album, or if Tori was working in the style of "Icicle" but more urgently than meditatively... Wonderful stuff. At least I think so. http://pepper.by.net - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ..... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ..... neile@sff.net The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music .... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V4 #303 **************************