From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #86 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, March 25 2001 Volume 07 : Number 086 Today's Subjects: ----------------- The beauty, or lack thereof of, of singers [tenthvictim@mindspring.com] Re: Sinead Lohan [cdavis@tir.com] Re: The beauty, or lack thereof of, of singers [dmw ] Happy @ the Williamsburg Art NeXus [John J Henshon ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 11:17:16 -0600 From: tenthvictim@mindspring.com Subject: The beauty, or lack thereof of, of singers Greetings, I hope to one day read a press release that says, "Performing tonight will be a mildly unpleasant looking singer- songwriter, INSERT NAME HERE, who sings a lot better than he looks." Bye, Lyle ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 13:33:40 -0500 (EST) From: cdavis@tir.com Subject: Re: Sinead Lohan Bill wrote: >On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 23:10:05 -0700, phclark wrote: > >>I'd strongly recommend this one, even at the price. > >I second that emotion. Excellent album all around. And more "indy" to >my ears than "No mermaid". > >- - Bill G. > >np: Over The Rhine - The Darkest Night Of The Year (Christmas music in March???) :^) But "No Mermaid" is an excellent album too. Since my wife gets claustrophobic in small venues, a co-worker (Bob) and I had tickets to see her in Jan.99. Another co-worker (Doug, a latent ectophile whom I've introduced to several artists like OTR and H.Nova) called to tell me about this wonderful artist he had just discovered the day before. He couldn't stop playing the album and pronounced her name as "Sin-ee-add Loan". When I figured out who he was talking about, I told him that Bob and I were going to see her the next night. He almost had a fit before I invited him to come along. Sinead came on stage that night six months pregnant (surprise!) and played for 1 1/2 hours, standing the whole time. She's very good live, but doesn't say much (disappointing as I love her Irish lilt). Doug and I went to see her again in Sept.99 and ran into her on the street in Ann Arbor, she was coming back to the venue after dropping off the baby before the show. She was nice but shy and antsy being approached by fans (we don't look threatening). The dreadlocks were gone and her hair was quite short because of grasping baby hands. Sinead had a second child Jan.12,2001 (Amy) and is writing songs for the next album (no projected release date). I'm really looking forward to her next effort. C. n.p. "No Mermaid" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2001 14:05:58 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: The beauty, or lack thereof of, of singers On Sat, 24 Mar 2001 tenthvictim@mindspring.com wrote: > Greetings, > > I hope to one day read a press release that says, "Performing tonight will > be a mildly unpleasant looking singer- songwriter, INSERT NAME HERE, who > sings a lot better than he looks." Yeah no kidding, and while we're at it, could we please have more success for women who don't, uh, conform to the dominant societal norms for good-lookin' too? One well-written press release wouldn't be too amiss, either. - -- d. np juniper lane, _tightrope_ <-- remember this name for future reference. the record's not out yet, but i think a lot of y'all might like it. - - oh no, you've just read mail from doug = dmw@radix.net - get yr pathos - - www.pathetic-caverns.com -- books, flicks, tunes, etc. = reviews - - www.fecklessbeast.com -- angst, guilt, fear, betrayal! = guitar pop ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 01:01:02 -0500 From: John J Henshon Subject: Happy @ the Williamsburg Art NeXus Greetings Ectofolk, Hope you all will forgive the length of this post, but since I've been quiet lately, and since it's about our muse, I suspect you'll indulge me. Just got back from seeing Ms. Rhodes perform this evening in Brooklyn. I looked about and spied no Ectofolk in the crowd. Happy looked and sounded smashing as usual. Her's and Jaime Babbit's vocals were a bit too far down in the mix, except during the narration passages. I didn't know what to expect and was surprised by the show's popish quality. I don't mean to suggest anything negative by saying that. The show was very entertaining. The band was tight and able, and the songs were well crafted. Eric Nicholas, the frontman/mastermind of the evenings revel reminded me a whole lot of one those Taylor guys, James, Livingston, not sure which. He did most of the singing and wielded a couple of different acoustic guitars. Chris Muth played bass. Bob Muller, bells wrapped around the ankles of his bare feet, played drums and banged on various other percussive devices. Gary Schreiner played keyboards, accordion and harmonica. The program described it as a "chromatic" harmonica. Perhaps one of you more musically minded among us can enlighten me there, are there panchromatic and monochromatic harmonicas on the loose out in the wild as well ??? Ben Butler played electric guitars. During most of the performance a film by Anne Marie Cummings and Allen Martin played on a huge wall to wall screen behind the stage, in what was a real nice room. The gentrification of Willyburg has produced a good crop of great new performance spaces. Happy also contributed to the evening by providing incidental music during the intro and outro videos. The songs Flying Horses The Water Wheel A Once and Future Girl Daddy's Favorite Thing Willing to Fall Penelope's Bed If You Let Me In This Time She Is History My Favorite Nurse On Your Way Amnesty. The Poems (Recitations between songs alternated between Happy and Jaime Babbitt) And now let's us departed folk dispersed as steam convene, condense and rain on back down home through smoke and clay and into streams: New droplets, born today Make landfall in the present tense. The striplings grew, and learned; Like Moses, tasted coals and burned. It's going to need all it's strength to travel this uncoiling length. The breast will be withheld- that's just the start. The one you love the most Will quit his post and break your heart. And now to business in the world. We've learned to read the scroll unfurled. So: what is bad, and what's the good? And how are either understood? Before Mohammed, desert dwellers' legend recollects An angel fell, but just to Earth and not to pioneer in Hell. He liked it here: its blood and sex, the heightened cherishing of mortal time. They called him Djinn, or genie - not Azazel as before. And knowing how he chose our lot, I cannot hate him anymore. The rhapsody needs a moment to attend his lyres, and so it is for us Furies to become the Chorus. A drop of water has become, by turns, an embryo, then some variety of struggling son. So now, encased in flesh and bone Ulysses strikes out on his own. Hand on the wheel, and quick and keen and fortified with nicotine Embraces Fate, which is to roam, and long for love, and dream of home. What was it on that Odyssey that took so long? I fail to see how being gone means being free. You can't keep coming back forever. The romance of the roaming clever hero gets a little old. It may be time to lock the door: And hope your heart is ready for the classroom of the rain and cold. All right ! All right ! He's just a male ! He's back aboard, he's setting sail, An impulse-driven pallid gnome Doomed by one "Y" chromosome. Need we begrudge him compensation, His cyclical self-liberation ? For all the grandeur he may feel, he's just a hamster on a wheel-- and old book on an upper shelf-- a story that he tells himself. The favorite nurse has come again. Try to guess why. Whither. When. Since all of us tonight so far survive Our knowing is constrained, being alive. The real growing up get done, they say Once one who cannot be replaced has carved in you a hopeless space and Really. Really. Gone away. Eric Nicolas March 2001 There's going to be one more performance, this evening, Sunday March 25, 2001. The show will start at 8 PM and there's a preshow reception at 7. Admission is $ 15.00. The Water Wheel A multimedia song cycle in one act. By Eric Nicholas Williamsburg Art Nexus 205 North 7th Street Brooklyn 2 blocks off Bedford Ave. Additional info 718-599-7997 I picked up Eric Nicholas's new disc "Amnesty" at the venue, they were vending them before and after the show. I gave it a run through the player as I typed this and liked it pretty well. Several of the songs on it were performed during this evening's (well now, last nights) show. Happy's on it, and the enchanting Ex-Chanter Chris Cunningham guest's on it as well. Even though Happy isn't really prominently featured, I think I'll try and make it again for this evenings's closing. John ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #86 *************************