From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #38 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, February 7 2002 Volume 08 : Number 038 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Shai no Shai [Dracovixen@aol.com] Over the Rhine [Dracovixen@aol.com] beautysleep [adamk@zoom.co.uk] Re: Over the Rhine ["Bill" ] CD Baby/Molly Zenobia/Alicia Dara ["Todd Pierce" ] Fwd: No more passive listening! [Neile Graham ] Re: Fwd: No more passive listening! [meredith ] Re: Fwd: No more passive listening! [Andrew Fries ] Re: Cyo lurking, Joe meeting, Bill thanking... [cyo@landoftheblind.com] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:31:43 EST From: Dracovixen@aol.com Subject: Re: Shai no Shai Thanks for the recs on Shai no Shai. I am trying to download a couple mp3s to check them out now. Black Dove ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:34:47 EST From: Dracovixen@aol.com Subject: Over the Rhine Hey, I just discovered an Over the Rhine album at my station, and I have to say I love it! What a beautiful voice and lyrics, and the music is wonderful! I have listened to it three times already today! :) Black Dove ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:56:47 +0000 (GMT) From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: beautysleep Is there a release date on the actual album in the UK? 'cos I already seem to have a copy, picked it up from Steve's Sounds off Charing Cross Road a couple of days ago, and have been listening to it ever since. I mentioned I was listening to it on another list, and someone wrote to me saying "Is this OUT?". Well, is it? I can't wax quite so beautifully as hester about it (lovely review, hester) -- as I mentioned to the fan who wrote to me, successive listenings are helping it grow on me. It's the sign of an artist staking out mature ground, and some of it's definitely lovely, but I miss the brash and jagged pop of her work with Throwing Muses and Belly. That said, I think it's an improvement on the rather (imho) anodyne rock of "Love Songs for Beginners" and I DID find myself humming "the night you saved my life" last night (oddly, while waiting for Remy Zero to play the Borderline). It's also interesting to hear the duet with Morphine's Mark Sandman, who's been dead for a couple of years. Get your own zoom email - click here - http://www.zoom.co.uk/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:25:19 -0700 From: "Bill" Subject: Re: Over the Rhine On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 02:34:47 EST, Dracovixen@aol.com wrote: >Hey, I just discovered an Over the Rhine album at my station, and I have to >say I love it! What a beautiful voice and lyrics, and the music is wonderful! >I have listened to it three times already today! :) >Black Dove It must have been either _Good Dog Bad Dog_ or _Films for radio_, both delicious albums. You may want to read up on them at The Guide: http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/guide.cgi?alpha/o/over.the.rhine - - Bill G. np: La Oreja de Van Gogh - El viaje de Copperpot nr: don Miguel Ruiz - The mastery of love ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 13:11:27 -0600 From: "Todd Pierce" Subject: CD Baby/Molly Zenobia/Alicia Dara Hi list, a recent posting mentioned the web site cdbaby.com. So I checked it out, and it's worth looking at and has some great music. I ordered the latest from Molly Zenobia (Wind Chains) and Alicia Dara (Alchemy) and both arrived three days later. On Molly all I can say is "wow" - some very intense, personal, alt/gothic piano-based music - I am terrible at describing albums so I would say, go to the Ecto Guide to music, and read her entry - and you can believe all the good stuff written there. The Alicia Dara album is piano-based folk/alt pop music, more like Tara MacLean than Tori Amos, and very listenable with catchy melodies and strong vocals. And yes the emails from CD baby are as interesting as the music - here is what I got when my order was shipped! "Your CDs have been gently taken from our CD Baby shelves with sterilized contamination-free gloves and placed onto a satin pillow. A team of 50 employees inspected your CDs and polished them to make sure they were in the best possible condition before mailing. Our packing specialist from Japan lit a candle and a hush fell over the crowd as he put your CDs into the finest gold-lined box that money can buy. We all had a wonderful celebration afterwards and the whole party marched down the street to the post office where the entire town of Portland waved 'Bon Voyage!' to your package, on its way to you, in our private CD Baby jet on this day, Friday, January 11th." Todd Pierce Asheville NC 28704 tpierce@terrabase.com ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:14:07 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Fwd: No more passive listening! For those interested. Kind of an interesting site! (Again, though, with fonts that don't work on the Mac/Netscape combination.) - --Neile >Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 15:41:30 -0800 >Subject: No more passive listening! >From: Terami Hirsch >To: Terami Hirsch >X-Exempt-Data: No >X-Exempt-IP: No >X-Renamed-Executables: Not checked >X-Disabled-Scripts: Not checked >X-Spam-Identifier: [STRICT]: Not addressed or CC'd to neile@sff.net > >Hi everyone! > >I don't usually send out promo emails...nobody likes a mass >email...impersonal and cold...lurking in cyberspace like a limp >fish...clogging up their inbox. I don't. > >Buuut...today I got my music accepted at a really neat music website. >Adoptaband.com These people are just *so* cool. They set up a page for an >artist and then when listeners drop by they can hear the music, comment on >it, and leave a "tip" if they'd like. Very cool stuff. > >So, I'm turning you on to this site now (because I think it's just going to >get bigger and bigger! Right now there's a very small handful of artists >listed.) so that you can go out there, support great music and know that >your voice, your appreciation, and your contribution is what makes indie >music work. > >Secret ulterior motive: The more activity I have on my page, the better the >chance that I will be "promoted" from my newbie status on the site. I will >get more promotion. And what girl doesn't want that? > >So, if you haven't already heard my new song "The River", you can listen to >it there. If you've already heard it - share your thoughts...let me know >what you think by leaving a comment! And then go on to discover some new >music!!! > >My page is: http://www.adoptaband.com/showcase/teramihirsch > > > >Thanks - and I won't pester you again with a mass email unless I have >something else worthwhile to say. > >Terami > > >-- >Piano and fingers together. >http://www.terami.com > > >* To remove yourself from this email list, reply to the email and type >REMOVE in the subject line. But I'll be sad to see you go. - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 18:43:57 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Fwd: No more passive listening! Hi, Neile forwarded: >For those interested. Kind of an interesting site! (Again, though, with >fonts that don't work on the Mac/Netscape combination.) AdoptABand.com was one of the sponsors of last year's ectofest. They are indeed a cool site, fonts notwithstanding. It's a great idea that deserves support, for sure! ======================================= 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: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 16:52:25 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Fwd: No more passive listening! On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 14:14:07 -0800 Neile Graham wrote: > For those interested. Kind of an interesting site! (Again, though, > with fonts that don't work on the Mac/Netscape combination.) But it works perfectly with Mac/Mozilla and as long as your system allows, I cannot think of any reason for *not* using Mozilla... I still have the old Netscape lurking on my system but I can't even remember when was the last time I fired it up. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- "All I know is that I'm being sued for unfair business practices by Microsoft. Hello pot? It's kettle on line two..." - Michael Robertson, founder of Lindows - ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:44:09 -0800 From: cyo@landoftheblind.com Subject: Re: Cyo lurking, Joe meeting, Bill thanking... dear Bill and Joseph, (and all Ectos out there) thanks so much for coming out to hear me perform with the "new" Blind in Berkeley on Friday night. We had a great time and it was wonderful to finally meet Joseph after almost hooking up while back east but never quite. I am sorry I had to miss his performance in SF, it sounded very cool, but I am in the midst of two new albums and two soundtracks!!!(overload, overload) But if you all remember discussing the song Albino Luciano from CD #2 two years ago, all of you figuring out what the latin meant, well Joseph came up with the phrase "ex-Jewish huge flying popcorn machine" and that just laid me and the band right out. I think I laughed for days and have been wanting to meet him ever since! Great to finally meet you Joseph! What can I say about Bill Mazur, loyally showing up and surprising me & his excellent ear for music. (I ran to him right after performing to get his opinion, there is something about one person who really knows your music and work vs 25 folks mooning and saying "oh you sing beautiful", it means so much more) Thank you Bill for that wonderful review to Ecto. What to say, you "got" it all, it feels wonderful when "gotten" as an artist, especially what we are trying to do by stripping the songs down to essences. I sent your "ecto-review" onto "dah boys", Krystov, Kungha and Roland as I am sure they will appreciate it also. Thanks! It is our first review in our newest form and I must add that I am very happy to work with such talent as Kungha and Roland, they both come from hot SF world projects and are totally on board with me, ready to roll and tour and do anything that's "coole".... I am a lucky girl. Please stay tuned cause we are already starting to record together this week. anyway, I have been a list lurker for so long since i am up to my ears in soundtrack work, but just today recieved the trailer for the movie I am doing the whole soundtrack for, an illustrated version of HG Lovecraft's The Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath. It looks and sounds fantastic, I will let you all know when it is finished, til then, had to say thank you, hello out there and of course, peace, hippie child cyoakha grace O'Manion Music PO Box 198 Mill Valley, CA 94941 cyo@landoftheblind.com http://www.landoftheblind.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #38 *************************