From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #38 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, February 5 2001 Volume 07 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Fw: [4ad-l] Louise Rutkowski ["phclark" ] Epiphany Project sound samples [runly@hvi.net] [none] ["JoAnn Whetsell" ] Does anyone know NYC (and surrounding area) venues well? ["Hotel America"] I propose a doubleheader [Paul Blair ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 03:00:05 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Stephen Thomas (no Email address) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Peter Clark Thu March 04 1948 Pedestrian - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:15:36 -0700 From: "phclark" Subject: Fw: [4ad-l] Louise Rutkowski This is a forward from what used to be the biggest/best/unofficial(official) 4ad mailing list. Jo is the gal who handles mail order for 4ad/Beggars Banquet. I suppose it would be desirable to subscribe to 4ad-L if you reply, but I also doubt that 4ad-L is the only place she has offered this. Use the address mailorder@almaroad.co.uk to communicate with Jo on this. Enjoy. Peter C - ----- Original Message ----- From: "jo" To: <4ad-l@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Friday, February 02, 2001 3:59 AM Subject: [4ad-l] Louise Rutkowski > Hi > > Well as I'm still here, I figure I may as well make the most of it ;) > > Next Thursday I'll be interviewing Louise Rutkowski (This Mortal Coil, > Hope Blister etc) for AV Deck, the Beggars Group online radio. > > I've got a few ideas for questions to ask her, but thought I'd run this > by everyone here, as you're all a lot more knowledgeable than me, and > might be able to help with any questions or directions you think the > interview should take. > > All help will be greatly appreciated, please email me at work on > mailorder@almaroad.co.uk > > For anyone who doesn't know, I have done a deal with Louise direct, to > release her 6 Songs EP, which is on her own label, via 4ad Mail Order. > If anyone is interested in pre-ordering a copy, please email me at my > work address and I will contact you nearer the time - it is released > late March. > > thanks for any help you can offer! > > jo > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! 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I found a great still of the Capitol being destroyed that my boss likes and the publisher likes, but unfortunately the art director does *not* like, so I don't know if we'll go with it or not. Anyway, back to music. I've gotten a *lot* of stuff lately. Binged at Virgin Records last week, did get some Scandinavian stuff. I do know Northside Records, and I think it's an awesome label. Highly recommended. The Rough Guide to Scandinavia compilation is really good. It has a cd-rom component with info on the artists, but I haven't checked that out yet. Lately I've been really into bagpipes and accordions. Maria Kalaniemi is an accordionist from Finland, and she's really really cool. Her band is called Aldargaz, and I think they have 3 albums out. There are folk songs, a lot of jazz influences, tangos... Very cool. She also plays in a group called Accordion Tribe, which is 5 different accordionists who play 5 different kinds of accordions. Also very cool. Both are all instrumental. Susana Seivane's self-titled debut is one of my 2 favorite albums of 2000. She's a bagpiper, from Spain I believe, and the music has a lot of Celtic feel, mostly very bright, dances and stuff. She's backed by other instruments, flute, guitars, among them. Piano? Vocals on one track. I think someone here has talked about Mandalay. I picked up their cd, Instinct, at Virgin after a listen. It's really good, reminds me of something, but I can't think what. It's a male-female duo from england. It's ectronica, ethereal vocals. I've only had a couple listens so far. Also, Sheila Chandra's Nada Brahma was **finally** re-released on Narada on Jan. 23, so if you don't have it yet, go get it. It's brilliant. JoAnn np: Yang Xiao-Lin, _I Take You There_ _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 01:04:54 -0500 From: "Hotel America" Subject: Does anyone know NYC (and surrounding area) venues well? Hey, I figure there's no better place to ask, since there is a wealth of pertient knowledge simmering in each one of you... I'm looking for gig places in NYC that would be appropriate for my "act": it's basically a singer/songwriter (me :)) whose instrument is piano and is usually accompanied by a drummer. We get pretty loud sometimes, but could definitely adjust our sound to fit coffeeshop-type environments. I guess the style would be similar to the art-rockier side of Tori, with more jazz and weird time signatures thrown in (think songs like January Girl, Pandora's Aquarium, the 10/8 breakdown at the end of Hotel, etc.) The place that I've seen that would work the best is the Fez (Under Time Cafe) but I think gigs there are kinda hard to get for acts with little experience and press. So if anybody here lives in NYC and/or knows lots of places that sound appropriate for what I've described, PLEASE PLEASE send me an [off-list] e-mail. In fact, if you know about any such venues within 3 hours of New Haven, CT (in ANY direction), let me know about those too. (I'm starting to suspect that Koffee? and The Acoustic Cafe are the ONLY venues in the entire state appropriate for said genre. :() Anyway, I will be forever grateful for any help you can give me! --Chuck n.p. Emily Bezar, Moon in Grenadine _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 01:35:02 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: I propose a doubleheader Those in the New York area who've been following Sharon's posts will already know about Epiphany Project's gig this coming Wednesday night: >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. > >Epiphany Project will play in New York City on Wednesdays, February 7, >21 and 28, at 8 p.m., at West Bank Cafe, 407 W. 42nd St, near 9th >Street. Tickets are $12 and well worth it. Reservations: 212-724-6862. >Give them a listen and feel it in your cells! Or buy their heavenly >self-titled CD at That's at 8pm. Then, at 10pm, Big Lazy is in Williamsburg. I've been following this band for a year, and I'm crazy about them. It's an instrumental trio--guitar, bass, drums--that's somewhere along the lines of surf meets rockabilly meets Ennio Morricone meets lounge meets film noir... >Big Lazy is the instrumental trio from New York City formerly known >as Lazy Boy. In a lost battle with the La-Z-Boy Furniture Company, >the recliner executives forced the band to change its name, fearing >mass confusion between spooky, evocative music and the overstuffed >chairs. > >...The trio plays twangy, lurid, primeval, mournful, frantic, >pretty, ugly, reverb drenched instrumentals from the outskirts of >sound... > >"Instrumental trio Big lazy play mournful, twangy and lurid musical >vugnettes that could be the soundtracks to Raymond Chandler novels. >With a reverb-drenched Telecaster, a booming 1910 German string bass >and drums (plus percussion objects found in dumpsters), Big Lazy's >music will make you want to take a deep drag off a Lucky Strike, >pound a shot of Scotch and hide at the dark end of the street..." >[Bloomington Independent] > >"Slinky, Smoky, Sexy, Slightly askew surf guitar." [Milwaukee Journal] > >Black Betty >366 Metropolitan Ave >Williamsburg, Brooklyn >Wed. 2/7 and 2/21 10pm Clips and more reviews at . I'm going to both. Anyone want to join me? pb ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #38 *************************