From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V5 #251 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, July 28 1999 Volume 05 : Number 251 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Kinetic demo [Andrew Fries ] new Sophie B. Hawkins? ["Mark Anthony Miazga" ] Re: new Sophie B. Hawkins? [JudoEWF@aol.com] New letter from Bon Lozaga [rich.rapp@effem.com] Ghost of Tom [Bill Adler ] RE: new Sophie B. Hawkins? [Valerie Richardson ] IVA BITTOVA [jjh969@juno.com] Ecto compilations? [Shirley Ye ] Re: IVA BITTOVA [Neile Graham ] Re: Rose Polenzani's latest [Ofer Inbar ] Michelle Tumes at the Lambs.. [dave ] Re: New letter from Bon Lozaga [neal copperman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 03:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Alvin Brattli (no Email address) ********************* ****************** Christy Eger Smith (no Email address) ****************** ***************** Shirley Ye (shye@uclink4.berkeley.edu) ****************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Alvin Brattli Sun July 27 1969 Lefthanded Christy Eger Smith Thu July 27 1944 Horse Crossing Shirley Ye July 27 Lioness woj Sun July 28 1968 children at play John Relph Sat July 28 1962 Leo Bob Kollmeyer Wed July 28 1971 Leo Steve Lusky Tue July 29 1952 Bike! Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Chuck Smith Wed July 30 1958 Reboot Yves Denneulin Fri July 30 1971 Lion-Heart Joel Kenyon Wed July 31 1963 Leo Eli Brandt August 05 Leo Martin Bridges Sat August 08 1970 BigGuy Happy Rhodes Mon August 09 1965 HolyGhost Michael Stevens Sat August 12 1967 For Sale or Lease Vickie Mapes Wed August 15 1956 WretchAwry Martin Dougiamas Wed August 20 1969 Positive Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Sam Warren Tue August 22 1961 Leo Henk Van Wulpen Sat August 22 1970 Leo Kerry White Wed August 22 1951 Exact Leo/Virgo Don Gibson Wed August 26 1959 Virgo - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:14:38 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Kinetic demo Ever since I heard our local band Kinetic late last year I've been a champion for their cause :) Now I'm happy to announce they've released a demo and it's available on my site in mp3 format. The demo was recorded at home and the disks were printed on an iMac with a CD burner attached - totally independent production, isn't it great? Kinetic can wear many hats - usually I include them in our new genre of Ectronica, but they can sound like a pop band in a pub, a dance act in a club and almost a goth act in a mellow setting... their demo shows a bit of each. Pumping, rythmic "Struggle" is more typical of their faster, electronic/techno numbers, but it's somewhat unusual in that it's Howard rather than Caroline who holds the main mike. "Blind" almost reminds me of the Elysian Fields at times, while "Glass" is perhaps my favourite, just because I think it shows Caroline's voice better. Check them out: - ------------------------------------------------------ 62,400 repetitions make one truth. - Aldous Huxley - ------ http://www.zip.com.au/~afries/hall.html ------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 06:43:57 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mark Anthony Miazga" Subject: new Sophie B. Hawkins? Anyone bought it yet? She's really an odd artist, and I've never really known how to peg her (top 40? hippie chick? R&B diva? Light Pop?). But I generally enjoyed _Whaler_, or a few tracks from it... and reviews for the latest album have been somewhat intriguing. It's called _Timbre_, and apparently Ms. Hawkins and her record company had quite a battle about releasing it (one that saw masses of Hawkins' fans' e-mails help get the company to release it). So I'm just wondering if any ecto listers have ventured this purchase yet and have any sort of review.... It's probably a bit top-40 for Ecto, but "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" sure was a great song. Thanks, Mark -- Mark A. Miazga e-mail: miazgama@msu.edu voice-mail: 517-355-9380 Personal Home Page: http://www.msu.edu/~miazgama (reviews, resume, ramblings) Program Coordinator, The Common Grounds Coffeehouse Homepage: http://www.msu.edu/~coffee (schedule, mailing list info, much more) Cheap concerts every weekend night during the school year in the basement of Akers Hall on the MSU campus. "The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men." - -Alice Walker "I don't sleep, I drink coffee instead... trying to burn a hole through my aching head." -- Brenda Kahn ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 10:28:11 EDT From: JudoEWF@aol.com Subject: Re: new Sophie B. Hawkins? Mark said: << Anyone bought it yet? She's really an odd artist, and I've never really known how to peg her (top 40? hippie chick? R&B diva? Light Pop?). But I generally enjoyed _Whaler_, or a few tracks from it... and reviews for the latest album have been somewhat intriguing. It's called _Timbre_, and apparently Ms. Hawkins and her record company had quite a battle about releasing it (one that saw masses of Hawkins' fans' e-mails help get the company to release it). So I'm just wondering if any ecto listers have ventured this purchase yet and have any sort of review.... It's probably a bit top-40 for Ecto, but "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" sure was a great song. >> Now I say: Yes, I'm curious as to how it sounds, also. I read a couple reviews of it, and _Girlfriends_ magazine gave it a C-, while _Rolling_Stone_ gave it 3 stars out of 5. I work at Tower Records and I noticed that it has that parental advisory sticker on it. I had to give it a double take when I first saw it, I was like, "Sophie B.?? With 'the LABEL'??" Guess she put one too many "damn"'s in that "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" song. Stacy np: "Drugstore" -- Stabbing Westward ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 11:51:17 -0400 From: rich.rapp@effem.com Subject: New letter from Bon Lozaga Received the following letter from Bon Lozaga. - --------------------------------------------------- Hello friends! Just a friendly note on some LoLo Records activity. Bon will be touring in late summer/early fall. More dates are to be added soon, so check out the website for the latest info: www.lolorecords.com Hansford Rowe's solo release will be available in Sept. This cd titled "Like No Other" features Hanny on vocals & bass, David Fuiczynski, Happy Rhodes, Jon Catler, Bob Muller, & others. We will have copies available, along with most of the LoLo catalog at the BON shows. Project Lo w/ Happy Rhodes will be touring in Nov. Six dates have already been confirmed. More to come soon! BON Bon Lozaga - guitar Hansford Rowe - bass Vic Stevens - drums Aug. 27 - Valentines Albany, NY 17 New Scotland Ave. (518)-432-6572 28 - Brass City Records Waterbury, CT 489 Meadow St. 2nd fl (203)-574-7805 29 - TBA 30 - TBA 31 - Knitting Factory N.Y.C. 74 Leonard St. (212)-219-3006 Sept. 1 - Café Tattoo Balt., MD 4825 Belair Rd. (410)-325-7427 2 - Hole In The Wall Richmond, VA 307 N Laurel St., (804)-225-7103 3 - Bessies Wilmington, NC 133 Front St. (910)-762-0003 4 - Local 506 Chapel Hill, NC 506 W Franklin St. (919)-942-5506 5 - Borders Books & Music Raleigh, NC 8825 N Six Forks Rd. (919)-845-1154 10 - Down To Earth Mt. Holly, NJ 82 High St. (609)-265-0368 12 - Iota Arlington, VA 2832 Wilson Blvd. (703)-522-8340 24 - Borders Books and Music Cuyahoga Falls, OH 335 Howe Ave.(330)-945-7683 Oct. 1 - Upstairs At Nick's Phila., PA 16 South Second St. (215)-928-0665 2 - Phantasmagoria Wheaton, MD 11319 Elkin Ave. (301)-949-8886 - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------------- Rich R. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:01:46 -0400 From: Bill Adler Subject: Ghost of Tom Has anybody heard of Ghost of Tom? They're playing at my local Borders (Friendship Heights, Washington, DC) August 28th, and are described as performing "ethereal music." I'm probably going to go, but was wondering if anybody knows about them. - --Bill Bill Adler www.adlerbooks.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:31:13 -0400 From: Valerie Richardson Subject: RE: new Sophie B. Hawkins? This is a multi-part message in MIME format. - --------------F92CCA7E08F1E5E981FBF4E5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haven't heard the CD. It did get a good review in the Village Voice. I guess the Sony folks were upset that the song "Lose Your Way," the would-be single from the CD, had banjos in it, which I guess is a no-no for top 40 radio. She refused to change the song and requested that her fans write to Sony in favor of banjos. It's interesting that Bela Fleck, a banjoist, had a hit single last year with a song from his "Left of Cool" CD. - --Valerie > JudoEWF@aol.com wrote: > > > > Mark said: > > > > << Anyone bought it yet? > > > > She's really an odd artist, and I've never really known how to peg her (top > > 40? > > hippie chick? R&B diva? Light Pop?). But I generally enjoyed _Whaler_, or > > a > > few tracks from it... and reviews for the latest album have been somewhat > > intriguing. It's called _Timbre_, and apparently Ms. Hawkins and her record > > company had quite a battle about releasing it (one that saw masses of > > Hawkins' > > fans' e-mails help get the company to release it). > > > > So I'm just wondering if any ecto listers have ventured this purchase yet and > > have any sort of review.... It's probably a bit top-40 for Ecto, but "Damn, > > I > > Wish I Was Your Lover" sure was a great song. >> > > > > Now I say: > > > > Yes, I'm curious as to how it sounds, also. I read a couple reviews of it, > > and _Girlfriends_ magazine gave it a C-, while _Rolling_Stone_ gave it 3 > > stars out of 5. > > > > I work at Tower Records and I noticed that it has that parental advisory > > sticker on it. I had to give it a double take when I first saw it, I was > > like, "Sophie B.?? With 'the LABEL'??" Guess she put one too many "damn"'s in > > that "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" song. > > > > Stacy > > > > np: "Drugstore" -- Stabbing Westward - --------------F92CCA7E08F1E5E981FBF4E5 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-ID: <379DD964.2C1F6396@igc.org> Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 12:08:04 -0400 From: Valerie Richardson Reply-To: valkraemer@igc.org Organization: WPKN-FM X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JudoEWF@aol.com Subject: Re: new Sophie B. Hawkins? References: <8a89154d.24cf1bfb@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I haven't heard the CD. It did get a good review in the Village Voice. I guess the Sony folks were upset that the song "Lose Your Way," the would-be single from the CD had banjos in it, which I guess is a no-no for top 40 radio. She refused to change the song and requested that her fans write to Sony in favor of banjos. It's interesting that Bela Fleck, a banjoist, had a hit single last year with a song from his "Left of Cool" CD. - --Valerie JudoEWF@aol.com wrote: > > Mark said: > > << Anyone bought it yet? > > She's really an odd artist, and I've never really known how to peg her (top > 40? > hippie chick? R&B diva? Light Pop?). But I generally enjoyed _Whaler_, or > a > few tracks from it... and reviews for the latest album have been somewhat > intriguing. It's called _Timbre_, and apparently Ms. Hawkins and her record > company had quite a battle about releasing it (one that saw masses of > Hawkins' > fans' e-mails help get the company to release it). > > So I'm just wondering if any ecto listers have ventured this purchase yet and > have any sort of review.... It's probably a bit top-40 for Ecto, but "Damn, > I > Wish I Was Your Lover" sure was a great song. >> > > Now I say: > > Yes, I'm curious as to how it sounds, also. I read a couple reviews of it, > and _Girlfriends_ magazine gave it a C-, while _Rolling_Stone_ gave it 3 > stars out of 5. > > I work at Tower Records and I noticed that it has that parental advisory > sticker on it. I had to give it a double take when I first saw it, I was > like, "Sophie B.?? With 'the LABEL'??" Guess she put one too many "damn"'s in > that "Damn, I Wish I Was Your Lover" song. > > Stacy > > np: "Drugstore" -- Stabbing Westward - --------------F92CCA7E08F1E5E981FBF4E5-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:00:33 -0500 From: jjh969@juno.com Subject: IVA BITTOVA I clipped this from Bruce's Downtown Music Gallery newsletter. It got slightly scrambled on it's way to me so it might not be word-for-word to the original. >>IVA BITTOVA - Classic (Supraphon 931) w/ the Skampa String Quartet, Lelky Girl's Choir plus, many other guests to list here. This marvelous release from the ever-wonderful violinist, vocalist Iva Bittova, whose duo was one of the high-points of this year's Victoriaville New Music Fest. Iva is always a complete charmer who can both touch your heart and make one smile with her child-like joyous mischievous innocent aura. In the past, most of her half dozen releases have been solo or duo affairs, except for the last double cd of "Bile Inferno", which had Iva in a variety of small groups. One of the nice things about this cd is the inclusion of Iva's interesting autobiographical info. Iva's family lived for music and while at college she studied acting & singing. She has appeared in a number of films, including the Fred Frith documentary - 'Steps Across the Border. She has and continues to study the classics on violin. On this 'Classic' cd she does a couple of pieces by composer Leos Janacek, as well as a number of Moravian folk songs. This superb release opens with a Iva's long string quartet for our late cello hero - Tom Cora, with Iva added on vocal & violin. Immensely sad, yet touching and beautiful like a prayer soothing the loss of a loved one, luscious and consistently transporting us. Once more there are a few exquisite duos with Michael Zpevak on clarinet, tarogato, pan-pipes - where notes caress each other in haunting resonance. The Moravian folk tunes are sung in their native tongue are accompanied by the Brno Radio Folk Instruments Ensemble in a pure familiar way, not unlike Marta Sebestyn with Muzukas. Janacek's "Speech Melodies" are the strangest pieces found here with draining drones, a ghost-like girls choir and twisted folkish melodies. Is that a bird chirping or a birch leaf being blown through on the final mesmerizing Moravian folk tune?!? The cd cover has Iva wearing that ridiculous half-mask that she wore up at Victo. What more could you want?!? An extremely worthy Czech import.<< Has traffic been light or have I been banished from the Ecto fold ? Thought I'd see a gaggle o' posts with Happy just having played Philly. John ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:13:05 -0700 From: Shirley Ye Subject: Ecto compilations? What ecto compilations are floating around? I'd like to get a copy of 'em. Of course I will pay costs Please email me with details!! Shirley Ye Berkeley, California shye@uclink4.berkeley.edu I am not an angry girl, but it seems like I've got everyone fooled. Every time I say something they find hard to hear, they chalk it up to my anger and never to their own fear. - -Ani Difranco, Not a Pretty Girl ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:42:00 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: IVA BITTOVA At 3:00 PM -0500 7/27/99, jjh969@juno.com wrote: >I clipped this from Bruce's Downtown Music Gallery newsletter. >It got slightly scrambled on it's way to me so it might not be >word-for-word to the original. > >>>IVA BITTOVA - Classic (Supraphon 931) >w/ the Skampa String Quartet, Lelky Girl's Choir plus, >many other guests to list here. Heh! I scooped him--a review of this cd already appears on The Ectophiles' Guide. I got my copy through a German online course (which unfortunately only seems to be willing to mail order discs to placed in the EU--I'm grateful to the kind ectophile who was willing to receive and forward the disc for me!) - --Neile P.S. Comments about Happy's performance have been few. How many ectophiles were there? n.p. lamb - fear of fours - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....... http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 17:26:20 -0400 From: Ofer Inbar Subject: Re: Rose Polenzani's latest Mark Miazga wrote: > Has anyone actually heard it? I keep hearing it's out, but there's no > info on the web site. I once read an interview with her that said > there's an alternative rock chick in her trying to get out, or something > like that... so I assume there's more production on this one?? I posted about it they day I first heard it, about two weeks ago, here on ecto. And yeah, it's got "more" production than Dragersville, but that's still hardly any. It's very acoustic and folky sounding. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- cos@leftbank.com cos@polyamory.org -- WBRS Waltham 100.1 FM -- info@wbrs.org http://www.wbrs.org/ try some ssspam, greeen eggsses and sssspam, my precioussssss... -- Gollum-I-Am ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 19:44:09 -0400 From: dave Subject: Michelle Tumes at the Lambs.. Michelle Tumes will be on 'Live from the Lambs' (from the Lambs Theater, Times Square) this Sunday, Aug 1. 5-7pm Eastern time. It'll be broadcast in realaudio at: http://music.crosswalk.com/lambs It's also broadcast on the radio, last week I heard Nicole Nordeman (great show btw) on Philly station WXHL (89.1, 103.5, 97.1) Don't know what other stations its on, but the radio shows seem to be a week behind, meaning Michelle will probably air on Aug 8th, and here it was on a bit later, either at 7 or 8pm... If you like nice ethereal vocals, give a listen... The crosswalk page also has some show archives, I can highly recommend Carolyn Arends, Cindy Morgan, and Rebecca St. James. - -- +-----------------------------------------------+ + dave + + Visit Sideshow Bob's House of Wax and Waffles + + Female vocalists, Christian, and Polish music + + -=-=- and the fabulous Kasia Kowalska -=-=- + + http://magpage.com/~sspan/ + +-----------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 21:59:44 -0400 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: New letter from Bon Lozaga At 11:51 AM -0400 7/27/99, rich.rapp@effem.com wrote: I often wonder how these tours come about. The DC area dates are pretty odd. Cafe Tattoo seems like a totally horid place for Project Lo to play at. I went there once to see Lisa Cerbone years ago, and have never gone back. Tiny neighborhood bar place that is known for it's chili, it's definitely a place where people go to drink, eat and talk, not to see music. Seems like Project Lo wouldn't fly that well there. Plus, their previous Baltimore show was in a recording studio that ran a prog series, which was an excellent match, and resulted in a phenomenal sounding show. And they are giving Phantasmagoria a second try, even though they broadcast talk radio through the PA during the first half of their set, and through their monitors for the second half. I like Iota though, and seeing them there promises to be the best choice (though I also think it's not really a great match). >1 - Café Tattoo Balt., MD 4825 Belair Rd. (410)-325-7427 >12 - Iota Arlington, VA 2832 Wilson Blvd. (703)-522-8340 >2 - Phantasmagoria Wheaton, MD 11319 Elkin Ave. (301)-949-8886 neal np: Happy at the Tin Angel :) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V5 #251 **************************