From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #93 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, April 1 2001 Volume 07 : Number 093 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Boa [Joseph Zitt ] Boa again - fixed link [DanStark ] eliza carthy [meredith ] Sandy Dillon (again, this time with Cousteau)/Sunny Border Blue ["Adam K.] space weather report [meredith ] good news / bad news [Jeffrey Burka ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:04:25 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Boa On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:38:41AM -0500, DanStark wrote: > I know they were mentioned on the list at least once before, but I've just > started hearing Boa this week. Great band! I'm trying to think of who > the lead singer reminds me of, it's driving me crazy...maybe a cross > between Imogen Heap and...Dido? There's some audio on their website, > http://website.lineone.net/~boaweb/pages/home.html , and another song > at http://ami.animenetwok.com/xelloskun/fool.zip . It seems like most > people know of them from their inclusion on a Japanese amine soundtrack, > but their new album, Twilight, is out this week in the US. Looks like I'll > be on a mission to get it this weekend. :) Yup, they remind me a lot of Dido, too. In fact, I have Dido's "Here With Me" and Boa's "Duvet" tangled inextricably in my head... which would create the theme for a TV show that was some sort of cross between Roswell and Lain, which would just be... er, frightening. I gotta grab the new CD, though. n.p. Serial Experiments: Lain (soundtrack) (Ah, synchronicity) n.r. Virginia Anderson: Experimental British Music - -- |> ~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: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 02:15:16 -0500 From: DanStark Subject: Boa again - fixed link One of these days I'll actually post something without a typo in it. Try this with a "r" instead: http://ami.animenetwork.com/xelloskun/fool.zip It's a "Song of the week" at that site so it should be there until they change it. Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:18:51 -0500 From: meredith Subject: eliza carthy Hi! Thursday night, woj and I braved the rain and headed down to NYC to see Eliza Carthy perform at Joe's Pub. Joe's Pub is a miserable venue from an audience standpoint -- it manages to combine the very worst of both Fez and the Bottom Line (two other miserable venues), yet like those two other winners, it's small and intimate and the sound is great. Go figure. :P The tickets as well as the food and drinks are WAY overpriced (the evening came to almost $100 for the two of us, yack), and the ladies' room ranks as the vilest and most disgusting I have ever encountered. (Coming from someone who has had to make many stops at Grand Central Station, and was once reduced to going on a Metro-North train, this should serve as a warning to you all.) But anyway, all that aside, Eliza Carthy and her band put on one of the best shows I've seen in a while, and it was well worth having to deal with the location. Kevin So opened, and he confirmed my suspicion that he's really not very good at all. Fortunately, his set was short. Eliza came on stage alone and did what sounded like a traditional song, accompanying herself just on her 4-string tenor guitar. Then the rest of the band came on stage: they numbered seven in total, squeezed into an area that would have been tight for four. They somehow managed, though. The band consists of drum, bass, acoustic guitar, backup singer (who also does some percussion things), accordion player (who also plays keyboards and runs a little synthesizer), fiddler, and Eliza, who plays fiddle (two of them) and guitar and keyboards when nobody else is over there. And they rock. I have to admit I don't listen to _Red Rice_ all that much, and we don't have the new one yet, so I was unfamiliar with all of the songs they played. They were all great, though. At times I was reminded of Garmarna, and at others of Lamb -- there's a lot going on in the instrumentation, with all sorts of flavors mixed in. Eliza's voice floats beautifully above it all. They did one traditional song, which I never would have thought of as trad unless she'd specifically introduced it as such. The band had made it indelibly their own. Eliza was charming and funny between songs, and proved the catalyst for a hilarious moment when they were trying to work out a technical problem with the bass. She said "so is it time for a crazy dance, then?" and the keyboard player allowed as yes, probably it was. So he went over to the keyboard (while Eliza grabbed her video camera) and then he proceeded to play a staccato bit on the piano while doing this jumpy Cossack-dancing thing that ended with his hitting the last few notes on the keyboard with his feet. It has to be seen to be believed (Eliza noted afterwards that she was videoing it to show her grandkids, because otherwise they'd never believe it). :) They didn't seem to be selling CDs, so I had to order _Angels And Cigarettes_ yesterday (which led to an orgy at amazon.com, aiee). I hope it arrives soon -- if it's anything like what we heard the other night, it's going to be at the top of this year's list for sure. ======================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= ***!!!GO UCONN!!!*** ======================================= http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 00:00:21 +0100 From: "Adam K." Subject: Sandy Dillon (again, this time with Cousteau)/Sunny Border Blue 1) Saw Sandy Dillon, again, at the Mean Fiddler in London, this time in a support slot. Most, most impressive. The guy next to me, who'd turned up for the headliner, was blown away, and asked me all about her. This woman is best seen live -- rubber-faced, rubber-bodied, with a voice that sounds like a cross between Tom Waits and Billy Holliday coughing up a furball, it's full of humour and energy. The headliner was Cousteau, a much-hyped band. They're not the most exciting live band, but the music shines through --- a swoony, croony, soulful kind of thang, as if an indie band found themselves possessed by the spirits of Robert Palmer and the Commodores. Worth checking out. 2)Kristen Hersh's "Sunny Border Blue" is my first new purchase of the year. I like it, I like it a lot, but I still prefer her very first solo album. That had, for me, a rawness about it, as well as several songs that leapt out and lodged themselves under my skin right away, while nothing else since has managed to come as close. "Sunny Border Blue"for me, is the best since "Hips and Makers", with a couple of standout songs, but it still doesn't have that impact. I also shelled out for the "Limited" edition, which amounts to nothing more than a cardboard sleeve and a couple of interlocking cardboard inserts -- a far cry from the limited "Hips and Makers", which is really very, very special. Still, highly recommended, and it's hard to believe she plays all those instruments herself. Thanx for the info about her performing. I wondered why, in the small venue where I saw her do "Sky Motel", she kept staring over the heads of the audience. It bothered me then, but now I understand it. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 21:10:51 -0500 From: meredith Subject: space weather report Even if you don't think there's a chance you could see the Northern Lights, get on out there this evening and check! (Unless, of course, you live in Connecticut, where the clouds have been thick since Thursday. Argh.) >Space Weather News for April 1, 2001 >http://www.spaceweather.com > >A severe geomagnetic storm that began around 0100 UT on Saturday, March >31st (8 pm EST on Friday, March 30th) is still raging a day later. Sky >watchers should remain alert for auroras after nightfall on Saturday >--even if you happen to live someplace where auroras are rare. Last >night's Northern Lights, for example, extended as far south in the United >States as Texas, Arizona, and southern California. ======================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= ***!!!GO UCONN!!!*** ======================================= http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 22:55:26 -0500 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: good news / bad news Once upon a time (er...2+ years ago), Marion Kippers posted about a version of KaTe's "Army Dreamers" by an Israeli singer named Mazi Cohen. At the time, I looked for, but did not find any of her albums. Well, you can now download a decently encoded version of it from http://www.playj.com/sportsnetwork/static/Artist_5145.html The track is called "sam b'even." The bad news is that while you can stream it just fine, the only way to download it is in this ridiculous PlayJ format -- basically an alternate MP3 encoding which will only play via a plug in -- one which sticks ads on your screen while the track is playing. But if you want to hear a truly weird KaTe oddity -- "Army Dreamers" in Hebrew, it's worth checking out... jeff ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #93 *************************