From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V6 #141 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, May 21 2000 Volume 06 : Number 141 Today's Subjects: ----------------- jorane [meredith ] more lily frost ramblings [Damon ] Re: jorane [John Drummond ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 14:03:11 -0400 From: meredith Subject: jorane Hi! Jorane album _Vent Fou_ arrived from HMV yesterday. Oh my. The sound samples on her site don't BEGIN to do this one justice. I would definitely file this under the "essential ecto" category, as in every member of the list NEEDS this in their collection. Lush, dreamy, dark, lovely, wonderful. Wow. P.S. Kristeen Young ruled at CB's Gallery on Thursday night. Lots of new songs, and an unbelievably mundane wardrobe! She's got one more Thursday left in her residency there, so the NY philes should make a point of checking her out next week... +==========================================================================+ | 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: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 May 2000 13:08:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Damon Subject: more lily frost ramblings hi! so, i'd just like to once again put forward a hearty recommendation of lily frost. i found their latest release, _lunamerium_, which does have some overlap with _cosmicomic country_ but also a lot of different material. i've been listening and trying to find a more coherent way of describing what i like about them. so some miscellaneous thoughts: instrumentally, it is mostly guitar based, though there's a lot of other stuff in there that wasn't in the live performance i saw. most of the arrangements are quite lush and layered to my ears... i'll hear the main note at any given moment, and then something else will sort of emerge from behind it. mostly quite acoustic. moments of beautiful clarity amidst the lushness. and some really neat sounds that add interest, like the sort of skittering whining sounds at the start of "who am i?" stylistically they do range around quite a bit, as i've said previously, but perhaps not quite so much as i sensed at their live performance. still, the mix keeps it interesting. i think some of the music reminds me a bit of edie brickell or maybe slightly frente, but i have a hard time defining that, and it's also her voice. i guess i don't have a *lot* in my collection that i feel i could really compare it to, so that's the best i can do. lindsey davis' vocals are really beautiful; that languid quality i mentioned before is definitely there - i think i've decided it's partly due to a certain effect that neile has mentioned in relation to susan court's vocal style: she'll sort of hit a note and slide off it a bit, or be just *very* slightly at odds with the music in a sort of thrilling way... hard to describe. in a few places her voice reminds me of kate bush's, especially in the first track, "who am i?", but in a few other places too. sometimes i hear a more languid edie brickell. the lyrics really contribute to the overall mood, which is ... hard to really put a finger on, but sort of "dark but rejoicing" to me. and there's that languidity. i think the end of "the love for me" sort of typifies it for me: love is often off and on (x3) and now it's off and i'm alone again and though i now you're not the one for me love is often off and on (x3) and now i'm off to find the love for me. but of course there's variation there too. :) there's a sort of dark and dreamy effect, created by the combination of the vocals, the music, and the lyrics, that *really* works for me. anyway, definitely recommended for anyone who finds the above ramblings sound even slightly interesting. i'd say both _cosmicomic country_ and _lunamerium_ are wonderful, and i'm glad i have both. _lunamerium_ is probably the more polished of the two, though, and i'd recommend it just slightly more. - -damon Damon Harper _/\_ "Only two things are infinite: damon@jumeaux.bc.ca __\ /__ the universe and human stupid- \ / ity. And I'm not sure about http://jumeaux.bc.ca/damon/ |/||\| the former." - Albert Einstein ------------------------------ Date: 20 May 2000 16:12:39 -0700 From: John Drummond Subject: Re: jorane meth invoked my jealousy thusly: > I would definitely file this under the "essential > ecto" category, as in every member of the list NEEDS > this in their collection. *squeal* My copy was shipped WEDNESDAY and it hasn't arrived yet! I'm starting to despair! *SOB* I cannot WAIT to get it... good gravy! John [scandalous and fabulous both end in -ous] Quote of the YEAR 2-THOU' : "i want to brush my teeth with your katana, potluck." - - Baby _______________________________________________________________________ Why pay when you don't have to? Get AltaVista Free Internet Access now! http://jump.altavista.com/freeaccess4.go _______________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V6 #141 **************************