From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #14 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, January 14 2002 Volume 08 : Number 014 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Even a bad tape can still be pretty good [meredith ] Music lists [Neile Graham ] NYT Article on "Peter And Wendy" [meredith ] Announcing a new list for music from the 50s, 60s & 70s! [Mike Connell ] Sara Ayers News [Neile Graham ] Conversation With Tori Amos [meredith ] Bummer [Paul Blair ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:24:05 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Even a bad tape can still be pretty good Hi, Mitch reported: >Since I almost always sleep in on Saturday mornings, I programmed the VCR >to tape _The Saturday Early Show_, featuring Voices on the Verge. My >reception of CBS is truly terrible, and much of the show came out all but >unintelligible. Miraculously, the VOTV segment came out at least >semi-intelligible. And their performance was good. I'm not sure how >closely their style actually tracks that of Indigo Girls, but I liked the >song they performed. Their style doesn't track that of Indigo Girls at all, and I cringed (both times :P) when whasername, the Katie Couric clone hosting the show made the comparison. I'm sure the members of the group did, too. Jess Klein's songs are greatly improved in the group setting. I wish the full song performed had been one of Erin's, but at least it was a catchy one, and if nothing else the Bangles fans watching probably pricked up their ears. (I can't be the only one who thinks Jess Klein sounds exactly like Susanna Hoffs!) ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 13:57:24 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Music lists Hey, all-- Does anyone know of other mailing lists that cover electronic music, alternative music, music with female vox? I'm trying to think of other venues that might be intersted in hearing about Two Loons for Tea, a wonderful local band that was on my best of the year list. Their second album is in the final mixing stage and they would like to get word out to appropriate places. If you don't remember them, this is what I said about them: I have utterly obsessed over this debut album. This is a wonderful combination of jazz, pop, trip hop, electronica, atmospheric guitar, and great raspy/rich vocals. I had been listening to their files at mp3.com for quite a while, but listening to the album as a whole was a revelation. There's something about their sound that is just what I want to hear so much of the time--the mix of smoothness with liveliness and depths of the flowing sound. And of course the great guitar and vocals. Heavenly. Thanks! - --Neile n.p. their debut disc, again - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ............ http://www.ectoguide.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:08:44 -0500 From: meredith Subject: NYT Article on "Peter And Wendy" Hi, In this weekend's Arts & Leisure section there are two articles on the Mabou Mines theater company, best known to us as the company responsible for "Peter And Wendy", featuring the vocal talents of Susan McKeown. One article is mostly about the company and its current production, "Ecco Porco", and the other is an interview with Karen Kandel, who does all of the voices in "Peter And Wendy". She is simply incredible to see in action. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/01/13/arts/theater/13DON.html (Registration is required to view the article, but it's free and generates no spam.) ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 20:48:52 -0500 From: Mike Connell Subject: Announcing a new list for music from the 50s, 60s & 70s! Hi folks :-) My name is Mike, and I own/run a number of lists here at smoe.org, most notedly the Jewel, Patty Griffin & Tiny Tim lists. A few of us had tossed this idea around for over a year, and I finally decided to make it happen.....a list devoted to the discussion of the many evolving genres of music from the 1950s, 1960s and the 1970s. (yeah...I know...I guess this has to include disco too......oh well....so much for a "perfect list") I know there's a rather decent number of "baby boomers" on many smoe lists, so to them this will be a welcome addition. For others who did not grow up during the 50s, 60s or 70s, this list could be a very good learning tool that can turn you on to some of the best and most influential music of those eras, which is also some of the best and most infuential of all time. So, if you want to learn, or want to discuss any music genre or artist/group from those decades, please join us. As far as I am concerned, you can discuss ANY music from those eras: pop/top 40, rock & roll, folk, new age, jazz, broadway musicals, R&B...you name it...and yes....... I guess disco too. This list, like most others on smoe.org comes in loose mail and digest formats and you are welcome to join to either one or both. So, to join up on the loose-mail version of this list, send an email with the following two-line command subscribe 50s60s70s end in the body of an email to majordomo@smoe.org To join the digest version of the list, send the two-line command subscribe 50s60s70s-digest end in the body of an email to majordomo@smoe.org Hope to see many of you there real soon! Born the year "Rock Around The Closk" was the number 1 record in the USA, Mike Connell :-) 50s60s70s list owner ducksoup@quackquack.net mikec@smoe.org P.S. I was just joking about the Tiny Tim list. :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:03:26 -0500 From: meredith Subject: bizarre Hi, I was just channel-surfing and came across something really bizarre on CBS. Looking at my TV Guide I see it was the tail end of a show I've never seen called "The Education of Max Bickford". It involved Isaac Hayes (Chef!), who I'm guessing was playing himself, talking to a young girl about music. I have no clue what they were talking about, because I didn't start payign attention until Chef said "You know who you remind me of? Laura Nyro." This led into a whole conversation about Nyro and her music, and how important and beautiful a person she was. The girl promised to listen to her music, and that was pretty much the end of it. Reporting from The Twilight Zone, ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 17:11:53 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Sara Ayers News For those interested. - --Neile >Delivered-To: taurus-saraaye-newsletter-list@phoebe.hosting4u.net >Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 00:06:35 -0500 >To: >From: Sara Ayers >Subject: Sara Ayers News >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) >Mime-Version: 1.0 >X-Rcpt-To: >Sender: majordomo-owner@saraayers.com >Precedence: bulk >X-Exempt-Data: No >X-Renamed-Executables: Not checked >X-Disabled-Scripts: Not checked > > >***** SaraAyersNews: The Sara Ayers Mailing List ****** > > >Hello everyone, > >Two quick notes -- > >A reminder about my performance Friday (tonight), >January 11, 2002, with Jupiter Circle: >8:00 pm at Caffh Lena (www.caffelena.com) >47 Phila Street, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866 >reservations and info: (518) 583-0022 >$12.00 / $10.00 (caffe members) / $6.00 (students) >Reservations strongly suggested. > >We'll each play a set and then play a >short set together. It will be exquisite. > >******************************************** > >In a bit of promotional frenzy, I've decided >to offer a free sampler CD to people who join >the mailing list. But it seems rather mean >and unfair not to offer the same deal to >those kind and supportive souls who are already >on the list...so...if you're already on the >Sara Ayers Newsletter List (hmmmm, you're >getting this, aren't you?) and you'd like >to possess a free sampler CD, point your >browser to: > http://www.saraayers.com/mailthanks.htm > >Fill in a mailing address as well as the email >address that you used to subscribe to the >list (and have a little patience, please) >and soon you'll have a CD sampler of some >of my music, suitable for gifts, daydreams, >very slow dancing... > >*********************************************** > >Thanks for listening, > >-- Sara > > >---------------------------------------------- >Get Me Off This List! To unsubscribe to this list: >send an email message to majordomo@saraayers.com >with the word "unsubscribe" in the body of the >message (the body, not the subject line.) >You'll shortly receive a notice that you've been >unsubscribed from the list. > >To subscribe to SaraAyersNews: send an email >message to majordomo@saraayers.com with the >message "subscribe" in the body of the message, >or visit http://www.saraayers.com/maillist.htm > >---------------------------------------------- > - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham ...... http://www.sff.net/people/neile ....... neile@sff.net Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal . http://www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ............ http://www.ectoguide.org ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 21:27:21 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Conversation With Tori Amos Hi, Last night woj and I attended a rather unique event: the New York Times' rock music critic Ann Powers interviewed Tori Amos, in a forum open to the ticket-buying public. About 300 Tori fans sat in an auditorium at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and watched Tori sit at a 7-foot Steinway and talk to Ann Powers about the creative process, among other things. It was fascinating. Powers is a longtime Torifan (the first professional review she ever published was a review of _Little Earthquakes_ for The Village Voice -- now she's at the Times and is a curator of the Experience Music Project), so she knew what she was talking about and clearly enjoyed her chance to talk to Tori. Tori seemed to relate to her well too, and since she was sitting at a piano she was able to communicate in a remarkably lucid fashion. Tori played next to nothing, despite the fact that Powers kept asking her to and everyone in the audience clearly wanted her to. She noodled around a bit to illustrate a few things about how she writes, and played an interlude as people got ready for the audience Q&A session. Surprisingly, the audience Q&A turned out to be pretty good. As soon as I saw the microphones set up in the aisles, a hundred nightmare scenarios from Xena conventions past went rushing through my head, but fortunately the 10 or so people who got to ask their questions weren't all that scary at all, and had generally good questions to ask. Someone did ask her to play something new, but all she did was sing us a lullabye she sings to her daughter (she clearly knew a bunch of people in the audience were taping the proceedings, which I'm sure is why she didn't want to play anything). It was really cute, though. I don't really remember any specific quotes, though I'm sure a full transcript will be posted to The Dent (http://www.thedent.org) before too long. It was definitely worth the trip into Midtown. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth "an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind" -- mahatma gandhi ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:16:29 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Bummer ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #14 *************************