From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #155 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, May 1 1999 Volume 05 : Number 155 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: laurie anderson's moby dick tour dates [neal copperman ] Re: New Secret Garden [Billi Mazur ] gaiman... [Irvin Lin ] beth orton review. sorry this is long [Irvin Lin ] Rose Polenzani: Concert Review [joann.whetsell@oberlin.edu (JoAnn Whetse] Sleeping ["Donald G. Keller" ] RE: gaiman... ["girl with curious hair" ] Re: gaiman... [Nadyne Mielke ] RE: gaiman... [Paul Kim ] Re: gaiman... [Michael Colford ] emm gryner trading post ["girl with curious hair" ] Re: beth orton review, lanois and eno with u2 [Paul Kim Subject: Re: laurie anderson's moby dick tour dates Man, the Philly dates are before I get back, and I see no sign of DC in there. Wonder why? I've seen her in DC at least a half dozen times. Mabye it'll be in later legs of the tour. If anyone gets info, please post! And Mark, we're still waiting for that review. Hey Meth, let me know what your plans are for buying tickets to one of the BAM shows. I'd be up for a trip to NYC for this and would be interested in getting tix with you guys. neal np: Black Rain - Susan McKeown and Lindsey Horner nr: Mondo 2000 from several years ago ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 00:16:09 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: YEEHA! Beautiful South on Tour with BNL, plus more At 10:29 AM -0400 4/30/99, Paul Kim wrote: >I just opened the Boston Phoenix and saw that the BEAUTIFUL SOUTH ARE >OPENING FOR BARENAKED LADIES IN JULY! Oh my freakin lord. I dont' even >know the last time the Beautiful South was on this side of the Pond >touring. yay! While I don't think that comment really needed an answer, I'll throw out that I saw the Beautiful South at a very packed 9:30 Club in October of 95. So maybe that was the last time? They were touring without Briana, but were still quite wonderful, though the crowd was pretty unruly and annoying. Not meaning to be rude, but it seemed like the place was jam packed with drunk and exuberant British soccer fans. Big burly guys in rugby shirts spilling beer all over the place, high fiving, and singing along at the top of their lungs. Not what I thought a Beautiful South concert would be like, but still pretty entertaining. (Maybe that wouldn't happen as much outside of DC.) neal np: Who Knows Where The Time Goes? - Sandy Denny ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 03:00:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** *********************** Marty Lash (MRL220@aol.com) *********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. 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Thu November 14 1968 Grocible Dave Cook Mon November 15 1971 Scorpio Jeff Pearce November 16 Orpheus Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Valerie Kraemer November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 queen_nefertiti@prodigy.net Damon Harper Tue December 16 1975 COOL BANANAS Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius Mark Lowry Mon December 22 1969 Capricarius Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 00:29:13 -0700 From: Billi Mazur Subject: Re: New Secret Garden dave wrote: > > Picked up the new Secret Garden CD "Dawn of a New Century" today. > > Along with the beautiful violin of Fionnuala Sherry and piano of Rolf > Lovland, this, their third album, features more vocals than their first > two which were mainly instrumental. Six of the thirteen songs have > lyrics , with the title track also featuring a narration. > > Lead vocals are performed by Karen Matheson, Fionnuala Sherry, Nikki > Matheson, and Anne Karin Kaasa. The choir is Anuna, and the narrator is > John Kavanagh. > > Overall a quite enchanting album. Dave, Thanks for the mention and brief review of Secret Garden's new CD! I was turned onto them a few months ago by my good Internet friend from The Netherlands, Lucien Stam. He has a very nice web site with a number of tribute pages to Ectophilic artists (Tori, Sarah, Loreena, Cowboy Junkies). I have told him about Happy and her music. He is very interested. Marion Kippers helped me with some good suggestions of music stores in The Netherlands that carry Happy's CDs. I have passed that info on to Lucien. Lucien has a very nice tribute page dedicated to Secret Garden. I picked up both "Songs From A Secret Garden" and "White Stones" because of that page. I enjoy them both very much. Their neo-classical style is, as you well stated, enchanting. I would also describe it as romantic and sensual. Fionnuala Sherry's violin playing is very lovely indeed! BTW, here are the URLs for Lucien's home page and for his tribute page to Secret Garden: http://www.coolness.demon.nl/ http://www.coolness.demon.nl/mymusicsecret.htm Take care, Bill M. n.p. Solstice _New Life_ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:06:37 -0700 From: Irvin Lin Subject: gaiman... > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 14:58:53 PDT > From: "Nick Nadel" > Subject: Neil Gaiman > > Any fans of Neil Gaiman on the list? > Any Gaiman fans with new info ( all i know is that he's working on teh > Neverwhere movie and he wrote a story for the Matrix website) email me > and lets chat. you'll find lots of GAIMAN fans on the list. i know that the NEVERWHERE movie is in the works already, and is going into production with the JIM HENSON company working on the puppet animation for some of the effects. a nineties version of LABRYNTH maybe? though i don't know if it will be released this year or next, in which case it will be a new millenium LABRYNTH eh? what i would love to get my hands on is the BBC radio production NEVERWHERE, which TORI was suppose to have scored some of the incidental music for. does anyone know if this is available at all, or if it ever gotten done? also missing on your list of stuff is ANGELS AND VISITATIONS which compiled a bunch of his short stories - some of it, i think was republished in SMOKE AND MIRRORS, the children's book he did with DAVE MCKEAN (THE DAY I TRADED MY DAD IN FOR TWO GOLDFISH i think is the title) and the SANDMAN BOOK OF DREAMS short story compilation. granted it is only edited by GAIMAN, it still features the characters from THE SANDMAN, with some great short stories by other authors. oh yeah, and the compilation of SANDMAN covers that was released last year had the very "last" short story that GAIMAN did about the SANDMAN. i still need to pick that up, but i read the intro and short story several times while working at my bookstore. i am probably missing other stuff as well, but if you haven't read any of the above, perhaps that will hold you over until NEVERWHERE is released. in the meanwhile, i don't know if GAIMAN is working on anything else that is due to be released soon (i mean, i am sure he is working on stuff, but when it will see the light of day, who knows....). STARDUST and SMOKE AND MIRRORS were just released six-eight months ago, and are still around in hardback. usually new stuff doesn't come out until the old stuff is in paperback (about a year lag time). that is, unless you are JOYCE CAROL OATES, the one woman book of the month club. damnit. if only i could be that prolific in my writing. irvin ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:06:41 -0700 From: Irvin Lin Subject: beth orton review. sorry this is long > Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 01:10:36 -0400 (EDT) > From: joann.whetsell@oberlin.edu (JoAnn Whetsell) > Subject: Beth Orton is coming! > > ...to a web browser near you! I just e-mailed the entry to Neile, so if > someone can tell her or me the producer for Best Bit EP, it should be ready > soon. > > Thanks to everyone for their help. I had a lot of fun doing this entry (my > first!) and look forward to doing many more. > > JoAnn hey joann is it too late to add my two bits about the wonderful BETH ORTON and get it in the entry? probably, but i wanna anyway. i haven't had a chance to read my email for ages, and i have to say that BETH has been one of my favorite discovers in the past couple of years. i still haven't gotten ahold of SUPERMANDYPINKY (someone on the list mentioned that CD's in JAPAN never get deleted and they were WRONG WRONG WRONG! i spent an entire month in TOKYO just trying to track this CD down, and i had no luck. the damn thing is impossible to find), BETH's first solo CD (it is actually a collaboration with WILLIAM ORBIT, but for whatever reason, her name was given solo credit). anyone have a copy, i would LOVE LOVE LOVE you if we could work out a trade or something. i really really REALLY want to hear it. and i haven't had a chance to check out her other work on STRANGE CARGO (the WILLIAM ORBIT CD's that have some of her songs on it). but i have been quite obsessed with her contribution to the CHEMICAL BROTHERS' album DIG YOUR OWN HOLE - the track WHERE DO I BEGIN. starting off slow and mellow with a guitar loop, BETH's crystaline brilliant voice sings four lines over and over as the beats and the instrumentations build and build, until her voice fades to the accompanying crescending beats. "sunday morning; i'm waking up. can't even focus on a coffee cup. don't even know whose bed i'm in. where do i start. where do i begin". worth the CD alone for that song. does anyone know if this song was ever released as a separate single? but it was actually an earlier song she did with the CHEMICAL BROTHERS that seemed to perk the interest of record companies, and that landed her the contract with HEAVENLY recordings (ALIVE: ALONE from EXIT PLANET DUST). she subsquential released the critically acclaimed TRAILER PARK with stand out tracks being SHE CRIES YOUR NAME (produced by WILLIAM ORBIT), SUGAR BOY, and TOUCH ME WITH YOUR LOVE. to hear her perform SUGAR BOY live, is amazing. absolutely amazing. her stage presence is phenomenal, real, and intense. though BETH ORTON wasn't the first person to mix "electronica" with strong songwriting - - the press dubbed it "folk-hop" - she was the first to appear after the phrase "electronica" had hit the stage as the latest and greatest thing. why the press didn't jump on this trend with people like LORI CARSON and the remixed dance version of EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL is beyond me. but BETH really did deserve some of the praise. it just happened that it was good timing as well. a couple of singles/eps later, and she released BEST BIT, which far surpassed TRAILER PARK for the strength of songwriting. there were no real stand out tracks for me as i felt every song was amazing. but collaborations with TERRY CALLIER was fantastic. The liner notes mention how BETH and TERRY were to collaborate, and she wasn't sure how their voices were meld with each other. TERRY just said, "well, you're going to try and sound like me, and i'm gonna try and sound like you" it worked beautifully. BEST BITS was just a precursor to the lastest CD that was released a couple of months ago. CENTRAL RESERVATIONS so far has been an amazing album, one that not only immediately grabs you, but that lasts as well. while her first one was good, this one seems great. nearly every track is amazing, and the focus is away from the the electronica influence, and more on the songwriting folk aspects, though i hestitate to use the phrase folk. BEN WATTS from EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL comes on board to remix and produce a couple of songs, as well as a return from TERRY CALLIER and others (BEN HARPER and DR. JOHN). emotionally the albums is incredibly, with the haunting and beautiful songs like PASS IN TIME , featuring TERRY CALLIER a song written about the passing away of her mother, SWEETEST DECLINE and CENTRAL RESERVATION anchoring the CD in the emotional as opposed to the electronical. little factoid. beth was going to call the album SWEETEST DECLINE but then decided that sounded too pretentious. gotta love her. anyway, all i can't recommend this CD enough to people. i introduced BETH to my roommate and he immediately ran out and bought everything (he wanted his own copies for the times when i was out with my copies). he has also be passing the gospel of BETH around to all his friends. so this is my two cents about beth. *sigh* and it is probably too late to get into the ecto entry, but i tried my best. irvin ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 04:54:05 -0400 (EDT) From: joann.whetsell@oberlin.edu (JoAnn Whetsell) Subject: Rose Polenzani: Concert Review I had a wonderful evening listening to Rose Polenzani play an intimate concert in Baldwin, our campus' women's collective, and one of the loveliest buildings. She's worth checking out. She has at least one cd, called Dragersville, and she said another cd (a collection of her tapes and cd with one new track) is coming. Just her and guitar. She has a wonderful voice-- sweet, clear. Her songs tell stories. She has a real warmth, connection... what's the word?... with the audience. Rapport! That's it. Yes, she would joke, tell little stories, got excited that the Indigo Girls are putting backing vocals on a track on her upcoming cd, taught the crowd choruses so that we could sing along. I really enjoyed it. She's engaging. And she sings and plays well. She sang one song a cappella, a cover, but I didn't know the song, so can't tell you what it is. She got really into it, and her voice was soaring high and low. It was really good, and I think it showed her voice off best of all the songs she did. Most of her songs were in the mellow, folk/acoustic range. "Peacetime" the only song title she mentioned was really good. Also, a song called "Get Off My Back" was really good. Some of her songs were more up tempo, including that one. I missed quite a bit of the concert, but caught a good bit. She played until past 11, almost 12 maybe? Then we took a break, and hung out in a circle, different people playing guitar and singing songs. I played 3 songs on the mandolin: "Brahms Lullaby," "Humpty Dumpty," and the Indigo Girls' "Galileo" which everyone sang along to. It was a LOT of fun. Then the evening degenerated into a girlfest of people eating and talking about love, sex, and death (a student told amazing stories of her experiences surviving the war in Bosnia). Ah, college. JoAnn np: _Public_ Emm Gryner ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 07:30:13 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: Sleeping It really =is= amazing what people will sleep through. I dozed through most of Hawkwind's first-ever U.S. performance in 1973 (I was really tired, but I was also bored). Not to mention a Soft Machine set around the same time. The strangest, though, was a performance of Schoenberg's =Pierrot Lunaire= by Peter Maxwell Davies' ensemble the Fires of London. I'd never heard the piece before, and though it's more than 80 years old now it's still one of the weirdest pieces of music ever written. I kept dozing off and waking up in the middle of it, which was a really warping experience. It was a couple years before I could really listen to the piece again. And the author of the previous comment must =really= have been asleep on that stage: it's not Beethoven's 5th that has the choral finale. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 07:35:12 -0000 From: "girl with curious hair" Subject: RE: gaiman... - - also missing on your list of stuff is ANGELS AND VISITATIONS which compiled a bunch of his short stories - some of it, i think was republished in SMOKE AND MIRRORS, the children's book he did with DAVE MCKEAN (THE DAY I TRADED MY DAD IN FOR TWO GOLDFISH i think is the title) and the SANDMAN BOOK OF DREAMS short story compilation. granted it is only edited by GAIMAN, it still features the characters from THE SANDMAN, with some great short stories by other authors. oh yeah, and the compilation of SANDMAN covers that was released last year had the very "last" short story that GAIMAN did about the SANDMAN. i still need to pick that up, but i read the intro and short story several times while working at my bookstore. i am probably missing other stuff as well, but if you haven't read any of the above, perhaps that will hold you over until NEVERWHERE is released. you're also forgetting violent cases, black orchid, (both graphic novels), warning: contains language (his spoken word cd), and the musical he is currently working on. is anyone planning on seeing him in san diego at the comic book convention? i'm flying from texas just to see it, but then again, i'm going with someone who is friends with him, so i'm hoping for a chance to schmooze. :) jessa ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 08:44:05 -0400 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: gaiman... At 01:06 AM 4/30/1999 -0700, Irvin Lin wrote: [snip] > what i would love to get my hands on is the BBC radio production NEVERWHERE, >which TORI was suppose to have scored some of the incidental music for. does anyone >know if this is available at all, or if it ever gotten done? IIRC, Tori has been approached to score the movie. She didn't score the BBC radio production. I -really- hope that she does score the movie. > also missing on your list of stuff is ANGELS AND VISITATIONS which compiled a >bunch of his short stories - some of it, i think was republished in SMOKE AND >MIRRORS, the children's book he did with DAVE MCKEAN (THE DAY I TRADED MY DAD IN >FOR TWO GOLDFISH i think is the title) That's about the title, IIRC. It's a cute little story. :) >and the SANDMAN BOOK OF DREAMS short story >compilation. granted it is only edited by GAIMAN, it still features the characters >from THE SANDMAN, with some great short stories by other authors. oh yeah, and the >compilation of SANDMAN covers that was released last year had the very "last" short >story that GAIMAN did about the SANDMAN. i still need to pick that up, but i read >the intro and short story several times while working at my bookstore. You missed _Good Omens_, written by Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. It is, IMHO, one of the funniest books I've ever read. > i am probably missing other stuff as well, but if you haven't read any of the >above, perhaps that will hold you over until NEVERWHERE is released. in the >meanwhile, i don't know if GAIMAN is working on anything else that is due to be >released soon (i mean, i am sure he is working on stuff, but when it will see the >light of day, who knows....). STARDUST and SMOKE AND MIRRORS were just released >six-eight months ago, and are still around in hardback. usually new stuff doesn't >come out until the old stuff is in paperback (about a year lag time). that is, >unless you are JOYCE CAROL OATES, the one woman book of the month club. I recall reading somewhere that _Stardust_ may be made into a movie also. Is my memory failing me, or did someone else hear that rumor too? /nad ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 08:50:20 -0400 From: Paul Kim Subject: RE: gaiman... Also, don't forget that Neil Gaiman wrote the translated script for the Japanese Animation movie Mononoke Hime (THe Princess Mononoke) which is being released by Miramax this summer on July 9th. http://www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/ Neil Gaiman, a writer who is known by such works as "The Sandman" has worked on the English script of Mononoke Hime. He did not "rewrite" the script. He just made the literal English translation of the script into "lines that people can say". According to the news release by Miramax, Gaiman stated, "I couldn't be more excited to write this script," and "My goal is to remain faithful to the story while providing a translation that a non-Japanese audience will be able to follow. To that end, I've been researching Japanese folklore." there's a very nice list of stars who are providing voices for the English version : The voice cast of the English version includes Billy Crudup as Ashitaka, Claire Danes as San, Gillian Anderson as Moro, Minnie Driver as Eboshi, and Billy Bob Thornton as Jiko Bou. Angelina Jolie and Sean "Puffy" Comb (a.k.a. Puffy Daddy) are also in the cast. The movie was the top grosser at the Box Office in Japan before Titanic was released over there. Paul Kim ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 10:03:49 -0400 (EDT) From: Michael Colford Subject: Re: gaiman... Gaiman has also written episodes of Babylon 5. I don't watch the show, but I am a huge Gaiman fan. Michael n.p. Sarah Brightman - Eden n.r. The Mission Child by Maureen McHugh - -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Colford | Reading Public Library Head of Technical Services | Reading, Massachusetts colford@noblenet.org | *North of Boston Library Exchange* - -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 09:17:23 -0000 From: "girl with curious hair" Subject: emm gryner trading post i am adding an emm gryner bootleg trading post to my webpage (www.chickpages.com/girlbands/wisdombushq/). i am now looking for people who are interested in joining. right now, i'm just looking for people WITH emm gryner bootlegs. if you have none and want some, visit the page when i get it up and talk to the people who are on the list. anyway, if you want to join, just tell me: name: location: trading URL: (if you don't have your list on a page, you can email me the list and i will be happy to put it up on my page for you...) five artists you'd trade for: thanks... jessa ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 16:14:38 +0200 (CEST) From: Yves Denneulin Subject: Re: gaiman... Hi Irvin, Irvin Lin writes: > what i would love to get my hands on is the BBC radio > production NEVERWHERE, > which TORI was suppose to have scored some of the incidental music > for. does anyone know if this is available at all, or if it ever > gotten done? It is available as a set of two tapes. I saw it often in various comics stores a couple of years ago and always supposed that it was only a reading of the book instead of the radio show. Yes, you can call me stupid. :-( - -- Yves. (who still hasn't read _Stardust_ and is 6 months behind in _Books of Magic_) n.p.: Rachael Sage _Smashing the Serene_ I ordered it through A&B Sound (together with Jane Siberry CDs) based on the ecto guide recommandation. I wouldn't compare her to Ani (at least not with this record), I can't find a good comparison which is quite flattering. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 10:37:46 -0400 From: Paul Kim Subject: Re: beth orton review, lanois and eno with u2 At 01:06 AM 4/30/99 -0700, Irvin Lin wrote: > i still haven't gotten ahold of SUPERMANDYPINKY (someone on the list >mentioned that CD's in JAPAN never get deleted and they were WRONG WRONG WRONG! >i spent an entire month in TOKYO just trying to track this CD down, and i had no >luck. the damn thing is impossible to find), BETH's first solo CD (it is >actually a collaboration with WILLIAM ORBIT, but for whatever reason, her name >was given solo credit). anyone have a copy, i would LOVE LOVE LOVE you if we >could work out a trade or something. i really really REALLY want to hear it. Geeze...I'm writing way too much these days. Anyways, the grouping of William Orbit and Beth Orton was originally called Spill, but when that project got quashed, the resultant album was released only in Japan under Beth's name. You can hear mp3's of several of those songs from the album at http://www.williamorbit.com/online.html good stuff. According to billboard online, Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois are teaming up with U2 again for their next album. Cool. Interestingly enough for me, in my Production Analysis Lab class this past week, we discussed and listened to Daniel Lanois' records (Emmylou, Willie Nelson, Luscious Jackson, his own albums) and compared them to the albums produced by Mitchell Froom and Tchad Blake. Needless to say, I felt right at home in the discussion. The teacher even got around to playing Possession from Fumbling Towards Ecstasy to show Lanois' effect on Pierre Marchand. Paul "he was just a social drinker but social every night" Kim ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #155 **************************