From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #36 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, February 3 2001 Volume 07 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Wendy Rule - the US tour! ["Anthony Horan" ] day of new music (long) ["Troy J. Shadbolt" ] Roxy Music style points ["Adam K." ] white house ["Adam K." ] Re: Roxy Music style points [Joseph Zitt ] RE: Roxy Music style points [Phil Hudson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 03:00:05 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Bob Lovejoy (rlovejoy@home.com) ********************* ******************* Diane Burke (dburke@wellesley.edu) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless Teresa Ross Wed February 23 1977 pisces Michael Curry Fri February 24 1967 Pisces Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 22:10:44 +1100 From: "Anthony Horan" Subject: Wendy Rule - the US tour! Hi all, It's been a long, long time between posts for me, but rest assured that the Ecto folder in my mail program has been happily collecting list digests and I've happily been trying to find the time to read through them all (over 260 of them are sitting there at the moment :-) I'm quickly posting now, though, because I was just speaking to Wendy Rule and she gave me the wonderful news that she is planning a visit to the US around May this year - the exact date depends on whether or not she ends up playing at a festival in Kansas around that time. Anyway, Wendy is very, very keen to play live in as many US cities as possible during her time there. The thing is, she doesn't quite know where to start in terms of finding suitable venues to play at. "Panic not," I said, "I'll just ask the Ectophiles, they'll know!" And so here I am. :) Wendy will be playing solo acoustic on this tour - just her and her guitar (which is plenty compelling, I assure you :). She'll be travelling with her eight year-old son Rueben, and any suggestions anyone might have both for possible performance venues and/or cheap accommodation would be hugely appreciated. Being an independent artist she of course has no tour budget to speak of...! If anyone has suggestions (or even would just been keen to see Wendy play in their area) please drop me an email, either at anthony@wendyrule.com, or my main email address, anthonyhoran@bigpond.com (the Ozemail.com.au address listed in the birthdays list doesn't work any longer - I moved ISPs). You can also contact Wendy directly, at wendy@wendyrule.com (she checks her email regularly - using the very same Pentium 75 that once did the editing and mastering of the "Live" CD and the track coding on "Zero" and "Deity" :) If you are from a venue and need more info on Wendy, you can find lots of it at her website (http://wendyrule.com) and listen to plenty of music (including a completely different, unreleased recording of "Artemis") at http://www.mp3.com/WendyRule And finally, I hope all of you are well - it's good to see there's still some familiar names lurking around Ecto! - - Anthony ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 09:10:31 -0800 From: "Troy J. Shadbolt" Subject: day of new music (long) well, it was a good day yesterday, when two long awaited disks showed up in the mail. Mary Fahl's EP, _Lenses of Contact_ and Sloan Wainwright's _From Where You Are_. As different as they are, they do have some things in common, but here's a highly biased review of both. Mary Fahl. I admit it, I'm one of those October Project fans that's been awaiting this since the day she left OP. After nearly killing that joke of a company she's using for distribution billed me twice for the CD, and never shipped it; I finally got refunded and 2 days later, amazon had it on my doorstep (hrumpf.) The worst thing I can say about it is that there are only four songs. Nearly two years for four songs. But here we go. Mary's voice is still as stunning to my nervous system as ever. She does some really nice vocal acrobatics and while not as technically difficult as the OP stuff, its quite enjoyable. I must admit that the first track, Ragin Child, is the one which most catches my attention. I'm looking forward to the full album, and perhaps some more difficult pieces, which I think make her voice shine. Sloan Wainwright. Purchased without hearing a single word from her mouth, but from the recommendations of ecto. I cringed at the first song on this disk. Really NOT my kinda song (very tin-pan, rhapsody feel.) After that, boy-howdy, hold on! Eventhough others have said it, i will add my vote that Sloan has the most amazing contralto voice. The band is very tight, very well constructed, and while I enjoy the sound, my favorite song is without a doubt the title track, From Where You Are. A double bass, some piano chords and that voice. I would kill to hear this woman do old classic blues. The only word that comes to mind is whoa. The other two disks were Reunion Hill by Richard Shindell and (finally) the Green World by Dar Williams. Haven't listened to either yet, but I expect Richard to be Richard, and Dar to be the newly incarnate pop girl... thanks again to ecto for broadening my horizons. Troy np: Sloan Wainwright ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:25:38 -0000 From: "Adam K." Subject: Roxy Music style points I tried to emulate Eno. Not in talent, unfortunately, but in hair style. Taking my cue from the sleeve of "Hear Come the Warm Jets", I unwittingly started having my hair cut in a mullet, long before I realised what it was. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:29:13 -0000 From: "Adam K." Subject: white house '"A picture of the white house collapsing would be great--maybe there are some film stills of something like this?" Does anyone know of any movies that might have scenes like this? ' Pity there's nothing from the 1812 war. I believe we kicked the shit out of it then. (I'm sure we could do it again, if you really wanted) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 13:09:51 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Roxy Music style points On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:25:38PM -0000, Adam K. wrote: > I tried to emulate Eno. Not in talent, unfortunately, but in hair style. > Taking my cue from the sleeve of "Hear Come the Warm Jets", I unwittingly > started having my hair cut in a mullet, long before I realised what it was. Emulating his current hair style is far easier. - -- |> ~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: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 11:34:25 -0800 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: Roxy Music style points My all-time favorite is still Peter Gabriel's 1970s "inverse mohawk": a shoulder-length hairstyle with a 2" clear-cut swath in center, from front to back. With his face made up, and under stage lights, he looked like some ethereal Egyptian prince, and would have been a shoo-in for the part of the alien godling ruler in the "Stargate" movie. - -----Original Message----- From: Joseph Zitt [mailto:jzitt@metatronpress.com] Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 11:10 AM To: Adam K. Cc: phil@tiaranetworks.com; ecto Subject: Re: Roxy Music style points On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 08:25:38PM -0000, Adam K. wrote: > I tried to emulate Eno. Not in talent, unfortunately, but in hair style. > Taking my cue from the sleeve of "Hear Come the Warm Jets", I unwittingly > started having my hair cut in a mullet, long before I realised what it was. Emulating his current hair style is far easier. - -- |> ~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 | ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #36 *************************