From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #9 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, January 9 2002 Volume 08 : Number 009 Today's Subjects: ----------------- re: Voices on the Verge [Jessica Byers ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Top 10 of 2001 ["Marcel Rijs" ] Fwd: VOICES on THE VERGE national TV on CBS this saturday [Carolyn Andre ] allison moyet/yaz/yazoo [BiSKinikill@aol.com] Velvet Belly news [Yngve Hauge ] Firsts/Where are they now? [adamk@zoom.co.uk] Sigur Ros [Jerene Waite ] Tara MacLean [dave ] Epiphany Project Shows [runly@hvi.net] I remember--I think ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" ] Re: MicroCrap [dmw ] Re: My first concert [betcey ventrella ] Re: Firsts [betcey ventrella ] Firsts [Greg Dunn ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 00:54:40 -0700 From: Jessica Byers Subject: re: Voices on the Verge Hmm, well I just want to present another perspective on Voices on the Verge. Erin McKeown is my least favorite, her songs dont have any real emotional resonance with me, brilliant as she may be. I think Rose Polenzani and Beth Amsel are my favorite. Rose is probably the most ecto-ish I think, whatever that means int his contect. She has so much to say, but her lyrics are very dense, so they take a lot of listens to really get. Her latest CDs has some amazing songs on it though. Beth Amsel has what Nerissa Nields called "the most gorgeous voice in the universe". Arguable, but still its perfect and really brings a lot to Voices. Anyway, go to http://www.voicesontheverge.com which I think links to all their individial sites (all the usual name.coms). Jess PS Now Kris Delmhorst's new CD Five Stories... THAT is folk music. Do you like it Meth? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 03:00:08 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************** Tony Garrity (tonyg@sco.com) *********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 ...of the Saint Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 09:00:56 +0100 From: "Marcel Rijs" Subject: Top 10 of 2001 Hi all, A little bit on the late side, here's my top 10 over the year 2001. A difficult year, since I only found 10 albums which I've played regularly that are from last year - and I think one or two are even from 2000. 1. Regeneration - The Divine Comedy One of the best British bands today releases one of their finest works yet. Although it's quite hard to tell, as their previous albums were already so brilliant. The lyrics are brilliant as always, but the music was very different this time. Gone were the orchestras and lush arrangements, to make way for a more stripped-down, almost indie approach. I wasn't sure if I liked that at first, but strong tracks like "Timestretched", "Perfect lovesong" and of course the great "Lost property" soon convinced me that the Divine Comedy will continue to amaze me for years to come. 2. Far away trains passing by - Ulrich Schnauss My colleague Bill Bird listens to what he calls "electronic music" and what I continue to refer to as "noise". But in November he suddenly came up with this. It starts off so calmly and continues in that way, but never forgetting that rhythm and melody are important when listening to totally instrumental music. Now, I don't like instrumental music in general, but this disc has been playing all through December 2001 and I'm still not bored of it. In short: I was impressed. 3. Living for the weekend - Dimestars 2001 was the year of Kim Wilde for some strange reason. Must be because I followed her around in England for a mere two weeks and then met her in Brussels only three weeks after that. If you know my main website you might conclude I'm somewhat of an obsessed maniac, but that would be a bit prejudicial. Let's just say I like her music. Kim did release a compilation album, but those never end up in my end of year lists as a rule. Kim's little sister joined the band Dimestars last year and they were supposed to release this album. They never did, and it was only issued as a promo. Most people will never hear this music, which is a shame because it's bloody brilliant! Ten original tracks plus a cover version of "Echo beach", originally performed by Martha & the Muffins in 1980. It's poppy, it's a lot of fun and it's very sad to never see this in shops. 4. No angel - Dido Not much to tell about this album, except that I was a bit suspicious to hear about Dido when I heard she'd worked with this Eminem character. He should simply be tortured to death. In the mean time, she turned out to be a very good singer who just happened to hang out with the wrong people at the wrong time. It doesn't make much of a difference to this album: "Hunter", "Don't think of me" and "Take my hand" are wonderful tracks, and the other nine are pretty good as well. 5. Water on snow - Colin Vearncombe Ah, the genius that is Colin Vearncombe... He used to be Black, singing "Wonderful life" back in 1987, blah blah blah. He's been back since 1999 and it's been such a pleasure up until now. The title track is so beautiful, as is "Black eyed Susan", a very intense little track. Seeing him live in Liverpool in November is one of this year's landmark memories for me, especially since he greeted me from the stage... (Order from www.colinvearncombe.com, where you can also hear some soundclips. This man deserves as much support as Happy Rhodes, you know!!) 6. Fever - Kylie Minogue I won't try to disguise the fact that I like pop music. It seems a shame to many people my age, they think credibility stands or falls with boring old men who play boring music on boring guitars. Thankfully, people like Kylie Minogue are still making music that take you right back to the eighties without sounding dated. "Can't get you out of my head" was a big hit this year, of course, but tracks like "In your eyes" and "At first sight" are just as catchy. This album lifts your spirits even when you're totally depressed. 7. Felt mountain - Goldfrapp I was very late discovering Goldfrapp, but on the up side, this meant that I could buy this album in the special edition which was released in the UK this year. Found out about this group when I saw Lovely head on TV a week before I was due to go to England in November. Bought all the singles and the album when I was there, and listened to them when I came back. I'm sure this would have ended up higher if I'd had the time to listen to it more. It's the first time since Angelo Badalamenti's wonderful soundtrack to Twin Peaks that I've head such strange, eerie music! 8. Heden - Frank Boeijen Dutch music is always a bit difficult to appreciate with all the crap that is being produced in this country. Well, at least we've got Frank Boeijen. When he releases an album you can bet it's good. A lot of the tracks on this new one were already very familiar because of the live tour that went before it. Perhaps that's also why I don't like the tracks I didn't already know as much as the ones I already did know. Still, for any artist this would be outstanding, for a Dutch artist this is phenomenal. 9. Subtitles - Jules & Jim A collaboration between Julianne Regan from All about Eve and a French guy I don't really know. A mini album filled with electronic pop songs that are simply charming. (Order this from www.julesetjim.net) 10. Remixed - Sarah McLachlan I doubted for a while if I should include this one in my top 10, but luckily - or tragically - no more good albums were released this year. Or at least, I didn't listen to them much. (Who can blame me, with things like, for instance, Tori Amos's appalling covers album.) These reworkings of Sarah McLachlan's songs were energetic and sometimes overwhelming. I especially like the remixes of "Fear", "Sweet surrender", "I love you" and "Silence". One thing though: I've found that you have to be in the mood for this, otherwise it will just get on your nerves... Kind regards, Marcel Rijs afd. Communicatie / Communication Department Koninklijke Bibliotheek / National Library of the Netherlands ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 05:46:24 -0800 (PST) From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Fwd: VOICES on THE VERGE national TV on CBS this saturday considering recent conversation here ... from the folkbiz list: - --- GDUnger@AOL.COM wrote: > Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 01:49:59 EST > Reply-to: Folk Musician Issues > Subject: VOICES on THE VERGE national TV on CBS this saturday > > > The touring collective VOICES ON THE VERGE released > their debut CD on > Rykodisc in Oct. 2001 and were featured on NPR's > Morning Edition Dec. 2nd > will now make their TV DEBUT on CBS. > > VOICES ON THE VERGE (ROSE POLENZANI, JESS KLEIN, > BETH AMSEL, ERIN MCKEOWN) > will DEBUT on NATIONAL TELEVISION this SATURDAY JAN > 12th on CBS SATURDAY > MORNING (the Saturday version of THE EARLY SHOW) > > VOICES ON THE VERGE will play two songs as part of a > weekly feature of the > show called "Second Cup Cafe" plus some extra > tidbits of songs will play here > and there during the show. > > CBS SATURDAY MORNING AIRS in NYC from 9-11am. Check > local listings as SHOW > TIMES and local affiliates will VARY by market (the > show airs from 7-9am in > many cities). Please wake up with us or set your > VCRs. Tell your friends. > > ALSO stay posted for details on the voices website > on how YOU can come to the CBS studios in > NYC Saturday morning Jan 12th and be part of the > LIVE audience for this > exclusive VOICES performance. > > National tour to start in less than three weeks. > check www.voicesontheverge.com for more information. > New dates added weekly. > the debut album LIVE IN PHILADELPHIA available in > fine stores everywhere and > at amazon.com > > -Gabriel Unger > Gabriel Unger Artist Management > Management for > Voices on The Verge, Lori McKenna, Jess Klein, Erin > McKeown > Meghan Toohey ===== Regards, Carolyn Andre candre@house-of-music.com Carolyn's House of Music http://house-of-music.com/ Send FREE video emails in Yahoo! Mail! http://promo.yahoo.com/videomail/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:41:06 EST From: BiSKinikill@aol.com Subject: allison moyet/yaz/yazoo Hey! Neat to see some talk about Allison Moyet/Yaz/Yazoo. The first time I heard about her was when my cousin sent me an address book especially for me....er, every Allison. On the back was a list of "famous Allisons" and Moyet was one of them. It wasn't until a while later that I linked her up with all those fabulous '80s songs so popular as "blasts from the past" at my sixth grade rec nights. Anyway, since you're all now up on the whole musical thing, here's another little tidbit: a bunch of artists (the remarkable Marianne Nowottny, Electrosquad, Spray, Empire State Humans, and a whole bunch more), as well as fans, have contributed cuts of Yazoo songs for a tribute album! There's more info at http://www.lexiconmagazine.com/dontgo.html, where you can also vote for the cover art. All submissions are pretty damn impressive, though I'm rooting for "M". Anyway, it's a little late, but happy new year and all that.... - -- Alli(son) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 17:24:11 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Velvet Belly news Hi, Next week (Jan 14) Anne Marie Almedal (Velvet Belly) together with Erik Honore (VB producer), Jan Bang and Nils Chr. Moe-Repstad is releasing an album called Going Nine Ways From Wednesday. For those able to go there will be a release concert at Blaa in Oslo. - -- Yngve ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 17:41:02 +0000 (GMT) From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: Firsts/Where are they now? It's hard enough to remember what record I bought first, let alone what single, tape and cd I bought -- I managed to avoid the 8-track phase (what a crap format THAT was), although someone did give us Arlo Guthrie's "Hobo's Lullaby". As for cd -- I was fairly late in coming to that, but the first cd I picked up was Michael Penn's excellent "March", which was never a hit over here, so was going for about three pounds in a discount cd shop. But concert...well, I think I've already bored people with the fact that it was Yes playing live in Colt Park in Hartford, Ct in 1976 or 77. (I was lucky -- it was almost Bad Company, but we couldn't get tickets). Opening for them was the Pousette-Dart Band, and I actually came across one of their albums in a used vinyl shop in Soho a year or so ago. One of the members also crops up on a Patty Griffin bootleg I recently got, as well. I often wonder what happens to these bands that open for famous names (okay, or not so famous names). I saw a band called Charlie open up for the Kinks in Chicago in '78, and a funky band called Law opened for Gentle Giant in Chicago in the autumn of '77 (they won extra kudos for launching into their final song by saying "you don't know who we are, but we don't know who you are, eithe -- we're just here to have fun"). City Boy and Lake opened for Nektar shortly after that, and Starcastle opened for the Electric Light Orchestra in New Haven in '77. I remember a band called the Michael Spencer Band opening for Todd Rundgren. Anyone know what happened to any of these bands? adam k. Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 10:25:12 -0800 From: Jerene Waite Subject: Sigur Ros Anyone know how to get Sigur Ros cd "Von"? Their website says it is available at www.badtaste.de, but this comes up as a page of nothing and nothing clicks. www.badtasterecords.se is the wrong company and they just sent me back to the Danes' page of nothing. (First concert: Pete Seeger and other unremembered lefty folkies at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium circa '65. My first live concert step out of Hutchinson, MN into Life.) Jerene ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 18:05:16 -0500 From: dave Subject: Tara MacLean A little late with this, but I checked Tara's webpage today and I see in the Diary entry for Dec. 19th that she had a baby girl, named Sophia, just over 8 pounds. Congrats and best wishes to her.. Ok, now who wants to admit what their first 8-track was? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 18:12:58 -0500 From: runly@hvi.net Subject: Epiphany Project Shows Yes, the King and Queen of the otherworldly are back, checkitout!!! For those of you who have never seen Bet solo (her hilarious, mesmerizing rock-folk offshoot), she'll be performing the operatic song "Bar-B-Q" in Philly... that's worth the price of admission alone. She is whack to the max. Sharon *****PHILADELPHIA****** Friday, JANUARY 11 8pm EPIPHANY PROJECT (John Hodian and Bet Williams' collaboration) COMMONGROUND COFFEEHOUSE The Commonground is in Bryn Athyn Pa. http://www.commongroundcoffeehouse.org For info and reservation (215) 914-4888 A wonderful place to hear music. Like a chalet. A candlelight concert with homemade deserts. Very intimate. About Epiphany Project: "A wild and powerful female voice with dramatic piano... transcendent." - -Philadelphia Weekly *****WOODSTOCK, NY***** Saturday, JANUARY 12 8pm EPIPHANY PROJECT COLONY CAFE Colony Cafe is at 22 Rock City Road in Woodstock Tickets available at the door. (845) 679-5342 This is a new venue in Woodstock. Its a beautiful old building complete with fireplace and balcony. Great atmosphere, nice piano and good food from Horn of Plenty. *****PHILADELPHIA***** Friday, January 25 8pm (one show) BET WILLIAMS TIN ANGEL TIn Angel is at 20 S. 2nd St. in Phila. http://www.tinangel.com For ticket reservation (215) 928-0978 The famous Tin Angel in the heart of Philly is always a good time. Reservations recommended. (This will be Bet playing guitar with her trio of upright bass and drums. Songs like "Bar-B-Q" and "Ooh La La" and the "Ballad of the Broken Winged Angel" as well as songs off Bets latest CD "Rose Tattoo") NEWS Bet is recording a new solo CD to be released in the late spring. John is also recording a new solo CD and Epiphany Project as well. So were very busy but loving life up in Woodstock and in the City. ALSO Our big sale is still on at the website http://www.epiphanyrecords.com. When you buy 2 CD's you get another free. WOW! Such a deal. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 19:12:26 -0600 (CST) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: I remember--I think I also remember "If You Want To Be Happy" from the early 60s, but I always thought it was by Dave Apple and the Applejacks (at least that is what I recall from American Bandstand, or now think I do). Wonder if either Apple or Soul covered the other. I have the top of the line version of Ad Subtract, but I should probably recheck its configuration--sometimes I get blank popunders, and sometimes I get ads in spite of everything, even on sites that are not explicitly on my permitted list. I will certainly check out the Swing out Sister website for info on their later releases. Mitch ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2002 23:44:00 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: MicroCrap On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, kerry white wrote: > Hi, (heavy breathing) I just barely survived a massive POP-UP mugging. > My first experience with this crap. I was looking for South Park Episode > info when I was hit from behind. Every :30 they came, repeating over and > over, all with "close" options that were LIEs of the first order. Back at > home I was covered with the little nipping icons of the un-closed pieces > of shit. one thing i like about netscape -- it alwasy seems to crash about 10 seconds after a popup bomb goes off. - -- d. - ------------------------------------------------- Mayo-Wells Media Workshop dmw@ http://www.mwmw.com mwmw.com Web Development * Multimedia Consulting * Hosting ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:36:33 -0700 From: betcey ventrella Subject: Re: My first concert <> nahh . . . at least the Osmonds had a couple of cute guys in the band. That is, is you were 13 at the time. Captain and Tennile just had that scary-looking bug-eyed guy. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ live to bead . . . bead to live ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ Betcey from Beyond http://www.beyondbeadery.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:41:57 -0700 From: betcey ventrella Subject: Re: Firsts <> Mid-80's, driving to the Winterhawk Bluegrass Festival and hearing "Ashes to Ashes" on the Woodstock radio station, just as I was driving out of range. I pulled over to listen to the rest of the song thru the static. . . then called the radio station and asked WHO was that?! When I got home, I bought _Rhodesongs_ . . . and within the week, I'd collected every CD she had. It wasn't until years later that I realized that she recorded in a Woodstock studio and lived (semi-) locally - when I saw her in K-Mart! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* iMac . . . . therefore, iAm ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Betcey from Beyond http://www.beyondbeadery.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 01:04:32 -0500 From: Greg Dunn Subject: Firsts Ah well, I guess I'd better add my voice to the din: First concert... in 1969, a friend and I drove 100 miles to see this band out of the Windy City that played some astonishing progressive jazz/rock with funky rhythms and loud crunchy guitar. Yes, Virginia, there was a short period in the late 60s where Chicago didn't suck, and they played their *sses off that night (mostly stuff from the just-released first album, and some unreleased jams). How sad to see them descend into slurpy pop music within a couple of years... First album... was either Blood, Sweat, and Tears' second effort, or Cream's "Disraeli Gears". Got 'em almost simultaneously. I guess I didn't buy any Beatles albums before then because a friend of mine had all their stuff, and the Who, and Paul Revere, and DC5, etc. etc. and I heard them almost every day anyway. First 45-single... had to have been Bert Kaempfert's "Wunderland Bei Nicht", circa 1960; whiplash, anyone? First CD... definitely Dark Side Of The Moon; I got my CD player on a Saturday night, and Target started their "CD Sunday" sales the next morning, so... I visited them regularly for their $12 bargains, back when all CDs came in those cumbersome vacuum-sealed plastic containers or cardboard longboxes. - -- | Greg Dunn | Those who will not reason, are | | gregdunn@indy.net | bigots; those who cannot, are | | The Sultan of Slack(tm) | fools; and those who dare not, | | http://www.indy.net/~gregdunn/ | are slaves. -- Lord Byron | ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #9 ************************