From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V7 #170 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, June 18 2001 Volume 07 : Number 170 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: belated disappear fear review [Neal Copperman ] Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] THE HAND and EFW [CptBryant@aol.com] Re: New stuff (to me at least) [Gordoja@aol.com] Veda Live in CT 6/29 6/30 - need a place to crash for the night / saturday bbq? [Gordoja] Un-Happy Hand [dmw ] Dectopia ["Foghorn J Fornorn" ] meghan toohey article [meredith ] [none] [Craig Gidney ] Happy decennary ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] Miranda Lee Richards [RocketsTail@aol.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2001 23:44:43 -0600 From: Neal Copperman Subject: Re: belated disappear fear review At 8:24 PM -0700 6/16/01, Sherlyn Koo wrote: > > Wait, you flew from Australia to Virginia to see disappear fear, and >> then went back home?!?!? Wow, you must get some sort of award for > >Heh - I'm flattered that you think that I'm that crazy. Close, but not >quite true. I only flew from Vancouver to Baltimore for the weekend, then >back again. Ah, that's right. Forgot you were in Vancouver now. My memory isn't so good, so from now on I'll probably always remember you as the person nutty enough to fly from Austrlia to DC for a weekend :) >I'd never been to the Birchmere - it's a nice room. Nice room? It's pretty much my favorite listening room in the country (commercial one that is). It's always a treat to see someone there. >We got there early >and snagged table right at SONiA's feet. The venue was pretty full, and >everybody was very appreciative. I didn't note the set list, but it >included most of the old df standards - they did stuff from all the df >albums as well as a few songs from SONiA's solo albums. So, what kind of band was there? Sonia seems to mostly play by herself, but when she's back in the DC area, all sorts of old band members come out of the woodwork, making for a pretty interesting show. >Album news - SONiA's got a new live album coming out called "Live at the >Down Home" which was recorded in (I think) Johnson City TN. It'll be >officially available in September but will be available at shows before >then. There's a label deal in the works as well (unfortunately I can't >remember with which label). I hope this helps make her music more easily >available, because this woman has a message that more people need to hear. They had advanced samplers of it at Folk Alliance with two tracks, Washington Work Song and Me, Too. They sound great. No label info on it. Not much more I can say at the moment, as I seem to have misfiled it in my collection, so I probably won't see it again for years. neal np: Lookin' Out The Screen Door - Adam Carroll ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 03:00:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************* Albert Philipsen (no Email address) ******************* ******************** Neal R. Copperman (neal@swcp.com) ******************** ********** Susan Kay Anderson (Susan.Kay.Anderson@m.cc.utah.edu) ********** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Susan Kay Anderson Tue June 17 1969 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing List Tue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini Greg Dunn Thu June 18 1953 + Paul Blair Thu June 18 1964 Objectivist Mike Connell Sat June 18 1955 Apollo David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Leo rising Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer Samantha Tanner Tue June 30 1970 Wild Goose BunkyTom Tue July 02 1968 Cancer Anders Hallberg Tue July 03 1962 Cancer Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer John J Henshon Mon July 05 1954 The Year Of The Horse / Ruled By The Moon Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Lisa Wilson Fri July 08 1960 Moonchild with Java Rising Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Ellen Rawson Thu July 13 1961 Double Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer Rich R. Wed July 14 1954 Cancer John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Dan Stark Sun July 16 1961 Cancer - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 10:19:05 EDT From: CptBryant@aol.com Subject: THE HAND and EFW Dearest Ectophiles, I wanted to thank you all for your support and update you on things........ I had surgery Friday morning at The Hospital for Special Surgery in NYC, to repair the deep flexor tendon and re-attach a nerve in my ring finger. Healing time will be about 6 weeks and physical therapy is needed if I want to play guitar again. This is all very badly timed of course, when I have to record my album among other things. I had also wanted to do a show in NY with a band.....that may still happen but timing will be key. At any rate, I just wanted to say how grateful I am to you all. EFW was a tremendous success thanks to you guys, Shelly and Michael and especially the performers. I feel like I owe the West-Coasters a performance from me when I recover. Thanks again and be well... HR (spooky-chick) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:13:37 EDT From: Gordoja@aol.com Subject: Re: New stuff (to me at least) I do like Beth Hirsch's album "Early Days" very much (Terami's Hirsch's album is also very nice)...I picked Beth's album up because she was the haunting voice on a couple of Air's moon safari tracks - The album reminds me a bit of Lori Carson's Stars. There is also a 4 song ep by Beth called "P-Town Rubies" but I would recommend starting with the full length. - -Jason n.p. Kathryn Williams "Little Black Numbers" n.r. David Foster Wallace "The Broom of the System" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:31:23 EDT From: Gordoja@aol.com Subject: Veda Live in CT 6/29 6/30 - need a place to crash for the night / saturday bbq? I am willing to open up my apartment (and my landlady's house if necessary as she is out of the country indefinately) for anyone interested in coming into CT to see Veda at the acoustic cafe on friday 6/29 with erin mckeown and jess klein and then again at woj and meth's house of scared cats on 6/30. I could also throw an ecto-barbecue (I just need some volunteers to help get woj to sit still on the grill and baste him every few minutes :) - Woj "The other other white meat" ) if interested at my place if there are enough people interested on saturday afternoon Contact me directly if interested Jason n.p. Beth Hirsch "Early Days" ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 11:35:50 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Un-Happy Hand For whatever it's worth, I am entreating the universe to provide a recovery for Happy's hand so quick and complete that it must be regarded as medical aberration. What a horrible and terrifying thing to happen to a musician! My deepest, deepest sympathies. - -- d. = i do what i am told. i am not opinionated. i accept without | dmw@ = questioning. i do not make a fuss. i am a good consumer. |radix.net = pathetic-caverns.com * fecklessbeast.com * shoddyworkmanship.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 15:01:17 -0400 From: "Foghorn J Fornorn" Subject: Dectopia Just a reminder, the ecto 10th anniversary CD is now available. This is the CD of ecto members covering Happy Rhodes tunes to commemorate the imminent 10 year anniversary of the ecto mailing list. More information is at: http://home.earthlink.net/~foghornj/ecto10 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 16:13:44 -0400 From: meredith Subject: meghan toohey article Hi, For the Meghan Toohey fans out there, there's an article on her in today's Boston Globe, online at . ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 18:38:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: [none] Cranes: Future Songs. http://www.dadaphonic.com 1. Future Song 2. Submarine 3. Flute Song 4. Sunrise 5. Dont Wake Me Up 6. Driving In The Sun 7. Fragile 8. Eight 9. Even When 10. Everything For 11. The Maker Of Heavenly Trousers The character Drusilla is one of the most appealing (or appalling) recurring characters on Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel. A prim Victorian beauty, prone to visions and with penchant for dolls, she is easily one of the deadliest of nemeses in the contained world of the programs. In spite of her little girl airs and precious affectations, shes stark raving mad and void of morality. Cruelty and the hunt for blood, for her, is at best a childs game and its worst an aesthetic pursuitthe undeads version of needlepoint. Cranes have always encompassed that dichotomy. Jim Shaws compositions vacillate between pastoral minimalism and grinding urban cacophony. Singer Alison Shaws voice, a love it or hate it little girl squeak, is either gothic and spooky or uncomfortably twee. Future Songs is a more ambient affair, adding a healthy dose of Electronica into the familiar terrain of minor chords, gentle guitars and stalwart drumming. The strain of classicism, missing in the previous release, Population 4, makes a welcome return, in particularly in the sampled organ and flute tones on the appropriately titled Flute Song. The title track is highly reminiscent of 1991s Watersong, which isnt necessarily a slamthe band is fond of reprises. Several pieces here reach for a glistening Cocteau Twins-like beauty; others, like the brooding Submarine are eerie and perverseAlison sounds like a child murderer against the industrial-lite background. Future Songs will not win Cranes any fans; but it satisfies those already entranced. - --Craig L. Gidney ===== Craig L. Gidney http://profiles.yahoo.com/quisquose11 Reviews of books and music, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ethereality Online Journal, Egg-centric http://egg-centric.blogspot.com/ Spot the hottest trends in music, movies, and more. http://buzz.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 00:35:09 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Happy decennary It is now officially the tenth birthday of the ecto mailing list as we know it. I was on the list the first day, and continuously since. Ecto was the first online community in which I participated actively; I remember those days with great fondness. It remains one of my favorites, even though other electronic social systems now get greater shares of my attention. I have this list to thank for my academic interest in the dynamics of online community. Ecto has introduced me, directly or indirectly, to a lot of marvelous music. Hopefully, I have managed to introduce the ecto community to some music, as well. I have always cherished my offline interactions with ecto people. The list, and the social system that has grown around it, have afforded me opportunities for creativity, as well as community--from the inimitable Ecto Product File, to the Happy Gift and Birthday Project compilations, to my contribution to the recent Dectopia CD. So here's to us all. And here's hoping for even greater things for ecto in the decades to come. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 01:37:52 EDT From: RocketsTail@aol.com Subject: Miranda Lee Richards I was going through my roommates cd's after she cleaned her car out and found a cd called "The herethereafter" by Miranda Lee Richards...and I LOVE it. She doesn't know where it came from so I've adopted it. Anyway, I was wondering if any of you knew anything about her or were fans. There's not much online except for a site at Virgin Records. She has a great voice that reminds me a little of Innocence Mission and very etheral production, etc. So yeah--that's my new find. ~eric "Happiness canbt be trusted, shebll fool you every time" ~miranda lee richards ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V7 #170 **************************