From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #37 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, February 6 2002 Volume 08 : Number 037 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Hi Folks [adamk@zoom.co.uk] Re: berklee artists on new compilation [Jessweiser24@aol.com] Re: Bel Canto [JavaHo@aol.com] knee-coal beth? ["Donald G. Keller" ] Re: Bel Canto/Shai no Shai [JoAnn Whetsell ] Re: Hi folks. [Brian Bloom ] Re: Hi folks. [Neile Graham ] Re: Hi folks. [Greg Bossert ] Sleepwalk ep (Tanya Donelly) ["Karen Hester" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:32:35 +0000 (GMT) From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: Re: Hi Folks "A couple of days ago I realized the socks I was wearing were 20 years old." Jeez, dan, I hope you've changed them once in a while! ;-) Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 08:57:16 EST From: Jessweiser24@aol.com Subject: Re: berklee artists on new compilation Kyler is really good and I'd recommend checking her out. www.kylerengland.com. She has 3 albums, but her first "Cocooning" is hard to find. "If the world would just end" is *beautiful* and her new EP "How Many Angels?" is a compilation of songs that she wrote for/about her mother's death 2 years ago. She also organized some benefit shows to raise money for the hospices that helped her mother. AND a fellow Ectophile played cello on several of her songs--Paul Kim :) I think you guys would like her music... her voice is similiar to Paula Cole's, imho. jess www.jessicaweiser.com | www.aftersilence.net debut LP "after silence" coming 4/2002 ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 09:11:39 EST From: JavaHo@aol.com Subject: Re: Bel Canto Black Dove asks: <> Check out Shai no Shai (I'm probably spelling that wrong, but I'm not at home to check it). Comparisons have been made to BC although I'm not sure which BC era it would most closely resemble. I believe they are French. Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 10:05:06 -0500 (EST) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: knee-coal beth? from =The Village Voice=, "Voice Choices," 2/5/02: "KNEE-COAL BETH Yet another sad, poetic local warbler with a non-linear sense of melody to devote to her post-Tori piano. This particular ice princess appears to be in love with snow, though, which might make her more post-Bjork instead, if your ears allow for such distinctions. Death, Paris, and death in Paris also figure in there...." As I said when I first read about Kristeen Young, sounds like something I should check out. Unfortunately, I had a conflict and couldn't make it to this particular show. A net search was quite unhelpful. Anyone else know anything about this person? (I'll be keeping an eye out for a future show.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 22:00:08 -0500 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: Re: Bel Canto/Shai no Shai Shai nO Shai is a really good French group (sing in English) with one album, Human Condition, that's similar to Magic Box-era Bel Canto. They have a page on the ectoguide: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/guide.cgi?alpha/s/shai.no.shai JoAnn At 09:11 AM 2/5/02 EST, you wrote: >Black Dove asks: > ><> > >Check out Shai no Shai (I'm probably spelling that wrong, but I'm not at home to check it). Comparisons have been made to BC although I'm not sure which BC era it would most closely resemble. I believe they are French. > >Lisa ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 20:48:05 -0800 From: Brian Bloom Subject: Re: Hi folks. At 01:32 PM 2/4/02 -0500, n'woj wrote: >when we last left our heroes, Greg Bossert exclaimed: > > >10+ years. yeepers. i wonder what percentage of, say, the first > >month's subscribers are still on the list? Well, while I may not be in the rarefied elite of the "first-monthers", if you allow some of us third-monthers to slip in unnoticed, then I at least can join the 10+ years clan... :) Sadly however, time and budget constraints conspire to keep me from reading all the music posts, but I at least faithfully skim the topics and read any important announcements and posts about ectophiles themselves... :) moo. brian the mooman... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 21:51:40 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Hi folks. Brian Bloom wrote: >Well, while I may not be in the rarefied elite of the >"first-monthers", if you allow some of us third-monthers to slip in >unnoticed, then I at least can join the 10+ years clan... :) While I can't claim to have joined in the first months of the list, I did join and have been subscribed continuously since April 1992, so it's coming up on 10 years. I first heard Happy in February 1992, when I picked up _Warpaint_ after reading rave reviews on rec.music.gaffa. The rest was history. Ten years! Hard to believe! Mind you, I have a lot of trouble when I remember that Jim and I have been together for 20 years now. How is that possible? - --Neile - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 22:04:43 -0800 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: Hi folks. On Wednesday, February 6, 2002, at 08:48 PM, Brian Bloom wrote: > Well, while I may not be in the rarefied elite of the "first-monthers", > if you allow some of us third-monthers to slip in unnoticed, then I at > least can join the 10+ years clan... :) let me just note, to avoid misinterpretation, that my point wasn't "hey, we were here first" but rather "hey, the list has continued to be so cool that we are still here later". um, that wasn't any more clear now, was it ;) to put it another way, i think everyone on the list, regardless of when they joined, are all part of that 10+ year clan. or something like that -- i am pretty jet lagged, and feeling anything but elite (though definitely a bit rarefied :) > Sadly however, time and budget constraints conspire to keep me from > reading all the music posts, but I at least faithfully skim the topics > and read any important announcements and posts about ectophiles > themselves... :) > > moo. > brian the mooman... mootah! - -g n.p. Axiom of Choice "Niya Yesh" - -- "i have never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 19:38:35 +1300 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Sleepwalk ep (Tanya Donelly) Tanya Donelly makes perfect eps, and whenever I think of what a silly format the ep is (the high expense to consumer per song, throwaway tracks, more care taken with packaging than music), I remember how Tanya redeems the little discs. Her brilliant eps are like exquisite short stories, perfect in every note and word, the most moving ballads and sparkling pop songs, nothing sagging like in longer albums (the 'Slow dust' ep even set me up for disappointment with 'Star'!). Everything has a place, and you have to play the disc over and over so the magic world doesn't end. And few of the songs turn up on her albums, so they *have* to be bought. On 'Slow Dust', the simple versions of 'Dusted' and 'Slow Dog' are a delight, and the delicate 'Dancing Gold', 'Dusted' reprise and 'Low Red Moon' (less gothic than on the album) make it my pick of the Perfect EP. The first 'Gepetto' ep has 'Sweet Ride', as swoonsome as later song 'Swoon'! 'Feed the tree' has paired a dreamy, untrustworthy cover of Disney's 'Trust in Me' with sweet besotted 'Dream on me'. 'Pretty Deep' has the spaghetti western 'Spagetti' which is so catchy and bubbly, and 'Sliding and Diving' alternatively rocks hard ('Bum' and 'Human') and sighs with country ballad 'Restless' and the confusion and love of 'Swoon'. Plus 4ad are masters of digipack design. The ornate dark wall-paper pattern on the 'Sliding and Diving' disc, however, is eating away at my cd - anyone else having this problem?! The ghostly flower x-rays on 'Sleepwalk' float like antique jellyfish, graceful and violet, and suit the wet and thoughtful songs 'The Storm' and 'Last Rain'. I'm not so keen on cute 'After your party' and pretty guitar-pop 'Days of Grace', both co-written with her husband Dean Fisher - they're fun songs, but the other two are stunning. 'The storm', only track on 'Sleepwalk' which is on her upcoming album, is dominated by an organ, which I usually don't like, but the chorus ("when I stumble, it will be under your spell, at your command) is gorgeous and dark and swoonsome, which is a word I can never avoid with Tanya, since she melds perfect perfect melodies with the most loving and fragile of emotions. There is a mid-song pause for the aftermath of the storm, catching the post-fury silence and disquiet so well. "Last rain" closes the ep, and oh how besotted I'll be with this song all February! "Sometime today it will rain, one of the last of the 1900s. Should we go out and try to save it?" ... "This is my stolen time, my piece of the sky, my story-line...".. "so glad to be here [with you], it's kind of pathetic..." ... Sigh, so much beauty in something so small. NZ is doing miserably at the cricket, so I need this music! Karen ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #37 *************************