From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #32 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, January 30 2001 Volume 07 : Number 032 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ecto-digest V7-DC Borders Lead [SpiritWe@aol.com] Re: ecto-digest V7-DC Borders Lead [SpiritWe@aol.com] Heather Eatman @ Fez/November Project Guitarist? [SpiritWe@aol.com] abby travis [anna maria "stjärnell" ] Louisa John-Krol: _Ariel_ [Philip David Morgan ] RE: ecto-digest V7-DC Borders Lead ["Bill Adler" ] Mary Fahl [rich.rapp@effem.com] Re: Roxy Music reunion [Ted ] Re: Roxy Music reunion [Sue Trowbridge ] Re: Roxy Music reunion [Joseph Zitt ] Divine Comedy, was Mary Fahl? [Steve VanDevender ] Re: Roxy Music reunion [Billi Mazur ] Re: Louisa John-Krol: _Ariel_ [Billi Mazur ] more reunions [Neal Copperman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:52:28 EST From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: Re: ecto-digest V7-DC Borders Lead <> oops! I did it again...gotta get rid o' that trigger finger, or quit using "reply". sorry guys :) xoxo Rachael PS - Bill, Walter & I might be at this show, if I'm not playing, we really wanna see her & we might take the train :) Fun, fun... - ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 02:49:08 EST From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: Re: ecto-digest V7-DC Borders Lead Hey Walter. maybe I should play here? Just a thought! File away :) - -R - ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2001 16:24:54 -0500 From: "Bill Adler" Subject: RE: Jonatha Brooke Jonatha Brooke is playing in Washington, DC at Borders (5333 Wisconsin Avenue) on Friday, February 16th at 8pm. Any Ectophiles going? Babysitter willing, I'll be there. - - --Bill n.p. Fisher, True North >> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 03:00:08 EST From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: Heather Eatman @ Fez/November Project Guitarist? Heather Eatman -- first show in 4 months! Solo at Fez (under Time Cafe, Lafayette & Great Jones St.) Friday, February 9th, 8pm (doors open at 7:30) $12 cover, (212) 533-2680 for reservations Short set of songs from her upcoming record, opening for Carol Lipnik "Carol Lipnik's Spookarama evokes a Coney Island of the ear, full of ghostly, carnivalesque moments" - New York Times - - - - Just got this from Heather Eatman...can't make it cuz I'll be away, but I wish I could! xoxxo Rachael PS - thanks for that review of the November Project show, I wish I could've gone! Their new album is amazing. Does anybody know who the sub-guitarist was? Their former guy (who produced the new album), Jerry Leonard, is apparantly no longer playing with them, so I'm kinda curious... ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 01:35:30 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: abby travis Hi.. Abby Travis has done a superb album called Cutthroat Standards and Black Pop. It's a cabaret tinged thing that might easily be filed beside Ute Lemper. She sings suberbly and the final song is a brilliant glamrock thing. "Everything's wonderful" might have been penned by Cole Porter if not for the line "he dropped me on my ass". www.abbytravis.com. Oh and she looks like a silent movie star too. Anna Maria Yahoo! Photos - 35mm Quality Prints, Now Get 15 Free! http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:01:34 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Louisa John-Krol: _Ariel_ Good Morning, Ectofolk: I had tried to send this last night, but I had networking problems (I had installed a router with a 10/100 mbps switch to network my parents' PC and mine with a cable modem, but I forgot that I would have to change my Linux box's e-mail settings, oh well)...let's try this again... I'm saying this now: Louisa John-Krol's _Ariel_, is the first album to make my personal "Best of 2001" list, even if it has a 2000 Copyright. And in more enlightened times, the opening track, "Blackbird," would have "HIT" written all over it... it is _that_ good, and Louisa has every right to be proud of it. Yesterday I played it for a friend of mine who is a painter/illustrator, and she was fascinated. Very much so. Later she told me that music has a "warming" effect on her garage-turned-studio. And she may be right: I'm in the midst of modeling for what may be a series of portraits, and it's usally chilly in the studio when it's quiet. I like that, actually. When I revise my homepage, maybe I'll mention that in my review. There you have it, folks. Get _Ariel_ - no, get every Louisa John-Krolk album you can find (there have been three: _Argo_, _Alexandria_, and _Ariel_), put them in your player or CD-changer, and feel the warmth as we edge closer to Spring. They probably won't cut your heating bills, but hey.... ^.~ Philip David (now if we were all in Australia right now...) 1/29/2001 - --- http://members.dencity.com/SakuraNation/ - --- "I think I understand why people crave the Super Bowl every year: the squirrels beat both the Ravens and the Giants, hands down." - - Polly Chieh Stephanson, on North America's new-time religion. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 04:18:32 -0800 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 28 January 2001 New Guide entries added for: * Mary Fahl * Allie Fox * Ashley Maher (by multiple request) * Splashdown (by request) Changes made to the entries for: * Emily Bezar (additional comments) * Grey Eye Glances (new albums) * Imogen Heap (additional comments) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 07:38:06 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: ecto-digest V7-DC Borders Lead On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 02:52:28AM -0500, SpiritWe@aol.com wrote: > < Avenue) on Friday, February 16th at 8pm. Any Ectophiles going? Babysitter > willing, I'll be there.>> > > oops! I did it again...gotta get rid o' that trigger finger, or quit using > "reply". sorry guys :) > xoxo Rachael > > PS - Bill, Walter & I might be at this show, if I'm not playing, we really > wanna see her & we might take the train :) Fun, fun... > ------------------------------ I also hope to be there. - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:38:24 -0500 From: "Bill Adler" Subject: RE: ecto-digest V7-DC Borders Lead Rachael, I do that *all* the time -- hit reply and then a few minutes later realize that wasn't want I wanted to do... I'm 99 percent certain that I'll be at Borders on the 16th. I hope you can make it. (And everyone else within shouting distance of Washington, DC.) - --Bill n.p. Tied, Kaydi Johnson - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of SpiritWe@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 29, 2001 2:52 AM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: ecto-digest V7-DC Borders Lead <> oops! I did it again...gotta get rid o' that trigger finger, or quit using "reply". sorry guys :) xoxo Rachael PS - Bill, Walter & I might be at this show, if I'm not playing, we really wanna see her & we might take the train :) Fun, fun... - ------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 15:22:08 +0100 From: "Dirk Kastens" Subject: Roxy Music reunion Hi, I just read a message that Roxy Music (Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera, Andy McKay) reunited for a world tour. It's not know if they will release a new album before or after the tour. Dirk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 08:18:57 -0500 From: rich.rapp@effem.com Subject: Mary Fahl Previously said by Bill: <<<< Mary Fahl's voice is as incredible, lovely, haunting, and beautiful as ever. It is rich and vibrant, with a quality that puts Mary Fahl in a class of her own. No matter what, it's hard not to compare Lenses of Contact to October Project. Fahl's singing style is different on her solo CD than it was with October Project; it's more forceful and a little less ethereal. The songs on Lenses of Contact are about love, relationships and loss, but I don't think that the lyrics are as strong on this CD as they are on the first October Project CD, for instance. But there are only four songs on Lenses of Contact, so perhaps the full-length album will be different. All in all, Lenses of Contact was worth the wait. >>>> Agree 100% Bill, I received the Mary Fahl EP a few days ago, and it's worth the wait. After a few listens I found it very good, having shed the "Is it as great as OP?" frame of mind. Not as complex musically as OP, with Mary's voice and piano dominating the EP, but it's a great must have..... Rich R ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:14:45 -0500 From: Ted Subject: Re: Roxy Music reunion There is nothing about this on the Virgin's Official web site, where did this info come from? Dirk Kastens wrote: > Hi, > > I just read a message that Roxy Music (Bryan Ferry, > Phil Manzanera, Andy McKay) reunited for a world > tour. It's not know if they will release a new > album before or after the tour. > > Dirk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 09:24:56 -0800 (PST) From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: Roxy Music reunion On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Ted wrote: > There is nothing about this on the Virgin's Official web site, > where did this info come from? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010128/re/music_roxymusic_dc_1.html Britain's Roxy Music to Reform for World Tour LONDON (Reuters) - Seventies rock group Roxy Music have reformed for a new world tour, 18 years after they originally split up. Three of the group's original members, including lead singer Bryan Ferry, 55, have signed a deal to perform 50 concerts across the world, Britain's Sunday Times reported. Also joining the reunion are guitarist Phil Manzanera, 49, and saxophonist Andy Mackay, 54. Founding member Brian Eno, now a successful music producer for groups such as U2, is not taking part in the reunion tour, which is expected to take in Europe, the United States, Australia and Japan. A spokesman for the band was quoted as saying: ``We don't know the dates yet; they only came to an agreement a few days ago.'' Founded in 1970, the group enjoyed a string of memorable hits throughout the 1970s and early 1980s with songs such as ``Virginia Plain'' and ``Love is the Drug.'' The group's only number one hit was with a cover version of John Lennon's ``Jealous Guy,'' recorded as a tribute to the murdered former Beatle. Lead singer Bryan Ferry was back in the news last month when he was a passenger on a British Airways flight from Nairobi which came close to crashing when a crazed man broke into the cockpit and tried to grab the controls. Ferry, who has also enjoyed a successful solo career, said at the time that he had feared for his life. ``I have done a lot of plane flights in my life but this is the most eventful,'' he said. > Dirk Kastens wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I just read a message that Roxy Music (Bryan Ferry, > > Phil Manzanera, Andy McKay) reunited for a world > > tour. It's not know if they will release a new > > album before or after the tour. > > > > Dirk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:37:18 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Roxy Music reunion On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 09:24:56AM -0800, Sue Trowbridge wrote: > Britain's Roxy Music to Reform for World Tour > > LONDON (Reuters) - Seventies rock group Roxy Music have reformed for a new > world tour, 18 years after they originally split up. [snip] > Lead singer Bryan Ferry was back in the news last month when he was a > passenger on a British Airways flight from Nairobi which came close to > crashing when a crazed man broke into the cockpit and tried to grab the > controls. They should at least invite Eno back to cover his "Burning Airlines Give You So Much More". :-) - -- |> ~The only thing that is not art is inattention~ --- Marcel Duchamp <| | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | Latest CD: Jerusaklyn http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 11:54:26 -0800 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Divine Comedy, was Mary Fahl? Joseph Zitt writes: > On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 09:30:18PM -0800, Bill wrote: > > On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Bill Adler wrote: > > > > > n.p. Milla, The Divine Comedy > > > > I'm glad someone else thinks this is worthy. For it is. > > One of my faves. I wish she'd do another album sometime... I bought it recently and really enjoy it. I should have bought it a long time ago. However, much of my listening time lately has been occupied by Hooverphonic (I keep intending to work up a review of all three albums I got; the capsule review is: Buy them, hear them, love them!) and Kristeen Young's _Enemy_, which I ordered by mail after consulting the ectoguide. I'm liking it a lot too, although it does get pretty high on the Galas scale. I'd estimate Kristeen Young as being about 0.3 to 0.5 Galas (where 1.0 == Diamanda Galas doing _Plague Mass_). Nearly all other performers have very low Galas scores, not that this is bad. Recently a friend of mine was interested in knowing what kind of music I liked, and since I've never been able to easily describe what I like (at least when "ectophilic" isn't a word in common use) I offered to lend him a couple of things that I liked. He professes to like techno, but being mostly unfamiliar with the genre I didn't quite know what that meant. I lent him Happy's _Many Worlds Are Born Tonight_ and Hooverphonic's _A New Stereo Sound Spectacular_, on the theory that they both used a lot of electronic instrumentation and some elements that I associated with techno. His reaction to Happy was something like "she's whacked-out sci-fi", and he admitted later that he actually found her kind of disturbing. I would not routinely think of Happy as disturbing, but I guess if you're not used to her it might be plausible. He didn't seem to have much reaction to the Hooverphonic. In return, he lent me something he liked, a Paul Oakenfold album titled _Tranceport_. I returned home that evening and found my copy of _Enemy_ in my mailbox. So I listened to them both in succession, which was a pretty remarkable study in contrast. I did find myself vindicated in not being previously interested in techno, as the Oakenfold album was not inspiring, although not horrible. Mostly it was the repetitiveness that got to me. There'd be an interesting musical phrase once in a while, but it would get repeated until it got boring. And every damn song had the same thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa rhythm in it, except for one all-too-brief period when a more complicated rhythm track turned up, only to be mixed out in favor of the thumpa thumpa thing. But, having cleared my aural palate with the musical equivalent of white bread, Kristeen Young was a spicy Szechuan delight (the most authentic kind, with various disturbing things mixed in that turn out to be tasty once you bite down on them). I told my friend about how I had been splitting my listening time between the album he lent me and _Enemy_, but that if he thought Happy was disturbing, he would probably find Kristeen Young utterly terrifying. I think this was when I made up the term "scary girl music" to characterize some of my musical taste. "Don't you want to listen to music to be happy?" he said. "I want to listen to music to be a lot more than just happy," I said. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:59:13 +0000 From: runly@hvi.net Subject: Speaking of Projects... October Project...November Project...here's another Project for ye! Quick lesson for heathens: the Epiphany is a Christian festival generally observed on January 6 to commemorate Christ's manifestation to the gentiles. An epiphany can also be the manifestation of any deity. Don't know if the Great and Powerful Oz will make an appearance at the next gig of Woodstock-based Epiphany Project, but you can bet it will be other-worldly. Speaking of bets, meet vocalist Bet Williams and pianist John Hodian. The work of this duo, as presented on Epiphany Project's self-titled CD, is a musical marriage that blends traces of Clannad's mystic airs, Tori Amos' loveliest emanations, Bar Scott's most haunting melodies, and Imogen Heap's passion. And, inexplicably, there's even a bit of Kate Bush in a Can. Gorgeous currents of strings and dreams will transport listeners to a magical place, from the tempest of a swallowing sea back to the fragile rain of a dark wood. Powerful stuff. Epiphany Project will perform their first local gig with special guest musicians this weekend at the Center for Performing Arts in Rhinebeck, NY, as they celebrate the their CD's release. Following their performance, they invite the audience to hang out and party it up. @Sharon Nichols Epiphany Project CD release concert and reception, Center for Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Friday, February 2, 8 p.m., $12/general, $10/kids and seniors, 845-876-3080. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:39:37 -0800 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: ecto-digest V7 #28 - -----Original Message----- From: Russ Van Rooy Please don't unsubscribe ! Anyone who digs Happy's music and/or the general musical discussions that go on in this group is valuable to the group !.... I agree with Russ. I just picked up this thread when I got into work today. I would hate to see this group suffer ANY attrition based on the reasons and topics recently discussed. I think this is one of the most supportive, considerate and flame-free groups of people with which I have the pleasure of communicating. The demographics of this group completely defy Sturgeon's Law ( 90% of everything is crap), and I have had some great exchanges both on post and privately, with many different and wonderful people on the list, including Happy, who is, after all, the main reason for this discussion group, not politics or geography or nationalistic differences. Music is supposed to be the glue that binds us together, overcoming such differences, and Happy makes the best glue. It would be a shame to see people feeling that they are being driven away by negative posts. Better to work toward turning the threads around and away from the posts that are generating negativity. Each time we lose someone who feels morally compelled to unsub, this list loses a few more "collective humanity" points. Personally I think the list has an abundance of "CH" points, but every one is precious, and to lose any at all is a great shame and a dire warning. Please don't leave. Phil NP in rotation: Yardbirds: "Baby please don't go!" Peter Gabriel "Don't give up" Beatles "Please Mr. Postman ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:55:19 -0800 From: Billi Mazur Subject: Re: Roxy Music reunion Thanks Dirk for the post! I read this last night under the Entertainment News section of My Yahoo page. I'm glad that someone posted this info on Ecto. Great news! Roxy is/was one Phil Hudson's and my favorite bands. They had a more than a passing influence on our late 80s musical project known as Voodoo Economics. Dirk Kastens wrote: > Hi, > > I just read a message that Roxy Music (Bryan Ferry, > Phil Manzanera, Andy McKay) reunited for a world > tour. It's not know if they will release a new > album before or after the tour. > > Dirk ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 21:59:31 -0800 From: Billi Mazur Subject: Re: Louisa John-Krol: _Ariel_ Alexandria is a beautiful and haunting CD. Ariel is on my "must get very soon" list. Philip David Morgan wrote: > I'm saying this now: Louisa John-Krol's _Ariel_, is the first album to make > my personal "Best of 2001" list, even if it has a 2000 Copyright. And in more > enlightened times, the opening track, "Blackbird," would have "HIT" written > all over it... it is _that_ good, and Louisa has every right to be proud of > it. > > There you have it, folks. Get _Ariel_ - no, get every Louisa John-Krolk album > you can find (there have been three: _Argo_, _Alexandria_, and _Ariel_), put > them in your player or CD-changer, and feel the warmth as we edge closer to > Spring. > Philip David > (now if we were all in Australia right now...) > 1/29/2001 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2001 23:51:40 -0700 From: Neal Copperman Subject: more reunions Ok, so I doubt people will care about this quite as much as Roxy Music, but it appears that the Blake Babies have reunited. The latest Rounder catalog says that a new album, the first in 10 years, will come out in March. It's going to be called God Bless The Blake Babies. (The Blake Babies were the band that Juliana Hatfield was originally in. Other members went on to be in various bands like Mysteries of Life and Antennae.) BTW, the Rounder catalog is selling Sarah Harmer's CD for only 7.99 (http://www.rounder.com) neal np: tape of children's music show on KUNM nr: national park service book on Lava Bed National Park (vacation of several years ago) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #32 *************************