From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #89 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, March 30 2002 Volume 08 : Number 089 Today's Subjects: ----------------- 8th Annual Chlotrudis Awards (OT) ["Michael Colford" ] RE: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows [Phil Hudson ] Re: Highlights from the impromptu EctoFestSouth (very south) / An Awesome Aussie show upcoming in Northhampton MA 4/11 [] Re: Highlights from the impromptu EctoFestSouth (very south) / An Awesome Aussie show upcoming in Northhampton MA 4/11 [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 08:18:42 -0500 From: "Michael Colford" Subject: 8th Annual Chlotrudis Awards (OT) Hi everyone, I'm a little late making this announcement this year, but I know there are some independent film fans on this list (in fact, I met one of Chlotrudis Awards' Board of Directors through Ecto!) and Happy's a movie fan as well. My non-profit organization, Chlotrudis Awards, is holding its Eighth Annual Ceremony on April 6 at the David Friend Recital Hall, 921 Boylston St., Boston, MA. Special guests include director Hal Hartley and actress/producer Arsinie Khanjian. Food, drink, entertainment, gowns and tuxes... it's a whole lot of fun. We're handling the voting a little different this year, but the public is still invited to place their vote for our public awards which will be listed on the website. (Or, if you're interested in becoming a member, your vote will count toward the Chlotrudis Award that is presented at the event!) Check out our website (http://www.chlotrudis.org) for more details, movie reviews, movie resources, a list of this year's nominees and an online ballot where you can place your vote! Thanks! Michael C. n.p. Ivy - Long Distance n.r. Fraud by David Rakoff ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:56:20 -0800 From: "Vienna Teng" Subject: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows (Thanks for all the record-label help, everyone! Much good advice, and I'll heed it, fear not.) I'll shamelessly rehash what so many others have said here...I got Christine Fellows' _The Last One Standing_ this week (that's 2.5 weeks through MapleMusic, for the record), and my Amazon order arrived with Over The Rhine's _Films For Radio_ as well. Deliciousness. I'm completely hooked on OTR's album right now, from start to finish. Amazon's oddly backhanded review says they're "working in the increasingly marginalized adult-contemporary-for-smart-people niche," and the description fits well: intriguing arrangements, free wandering across a couple of music genres, and lyrics worth reading the liner notes for. I was definitely reminded of an earlier Ecto thread about "thinking music" with this one. I'll need a few days to give Christine Fellows her due attention, but for now I'm just playing my initial favorite "A Day In The Road" over and over again. There's a sweet spot somewhere between raw and polished when it comes to music, and she's definitely found it. More off-topic is my simultaneous addiction to Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues (the Vladimir Ashkenazy recording), also courtesy of Amazon. If any of you are music geeks who melt at hearing a good contrapuntal line, this is highly recommended. :^) - - Vienna ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:38:13 -0700 From: "Bill" Subject: Re: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:56:20 -0800, Vienna Teng wrote: >More off-topic is my simultaneous addiction to Shostakovich's Preludes and >Fugues (the Vladimir Ashkenazy recording), also courtesy of Amazon. If any >of you are music geeks who melt at hearing a good contrapuntal line, this is >highly recommended. :^) That, I am! (a contrapuntal geek); will check this out. And pardon the "me too" you all, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to come out of the closet about my love for baroque, since I'll take all the recommendations I can get, especially in this less-commonly-popular genre of music. - - Bill G. np: Natalie Imbruglia - White Lilies Island nr: John Fowles - The French Lieutenant's Woman ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 13:35:10 -0800 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows An interesting mental visualization, the baroque closet. Big doors, stained glass, arched ceilings and intricately carved grotesques. Plenty of room, though :) Phil, (who is trying to be real modo as opposed to quasi) - -----Original Message----- From: Bill [mailto:bill@wagill.com] ..... And pardon the "me too" you all, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to come out of the closet about my love for baroque, since I'll take all the recommendations I can get, especially in this less-commonly-popular genre of music. - - Bill G. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:24:39 -0800 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows Phil Hudson had his modo working: > An interesting mental visualization, the baroque closet. Big doors, > stained > glass, arched ceilings and intricately carved grotesques. Plenty of > room, > though :) > > Phil, > (who is trying to be real modo as opposed to quasi) > >> From: Bill [mailto:bill@wagill.com] >> .... >> And pardon the "me too" you all, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to come >> out of the closet about my love for baroque, since I'll take all the >> recommendations I can get, especially in this less-commonly-popular >> genre of music. ooh! i want to play! lessee, i've got the experimental musical instrument closet, which is made out of brake drums, cloud chamber jars, and bamboo (a bit hard to get into, but full of nooks and crannies and unexpected treasures), and next to it the Harry Partch closet, which is pretty similar but a slightly different size from all the others, and then there's the traditional music closet which is built by hand and is huge and untidy and so full of stuff that you could get lost forever (luckily it's got lots of room!) and here's the Eno closet, a bit oblique and more dark, kind of peaceful and quiet 'cept for the leopard-skin leotards, not real big (it's measured out in shirts) but fiiled with unlikely things, and hey, here's my baroque closet, a bit more modest than Phil's (just a few partitas, erm, partitions in Back, though the Handles are kind of ornate), and here's a little nook shared by Vaughan Williams and Debussy, pretty much exposed to the open air... and this one here is warm and fuzzy and blue and filled with friends. hmm, you have enough closets, you don't *have* to come out ;) - -g (who is taking a fool-ish-tah break from an otherwise busy and discouraging day) - -- "i have never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 14:40:16 -0800 From: Phil Hudson Subject: RE: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows " Measured out in shirts" ? That's not the closet, that's the passage-way ;) phil now driving Debussy - -----Original Message----- From: Greg Bossert [mailto:bossert@suddensound.com] Sent: Friday, March 29, 2002 2:25 PM To: Ecto Mailing List Subject: Re: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows Phil Hudson had his modo working: > An interesting mental visualization, the baroque closet. Big doors, > stained > glass, arched ceilings and intricately carved grotesques. Plenty of > room, > though :) > > Phil, > (who is trying to be real modo as opposed to quasi) > >> From: Bill [mailto:bill@wagill.com] >> .... >> And pardon the "me too" you all, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to come >> out of the closet about my love for baroque, since I'll take all the >> recommendations I can get, especially in this less-commonly-popular >> genre of music. ooh! i want to play! lessee, i've got the experimental musical instrument closet, which is made out of brake drums, cloud chamber jars, and bamboo (a bit hard to get into, but full of nooks and crannies and unexpected treasures), and next to it the Harry Partch closet, which is pretty similar but a slightly different size from all the others, and then there's the traditional music closet which is built by hand and is huge and untidy and so full of stuff that you could get lost forever (luckily it's got lots of room!) and here's the Eno closet, a bit oblique and more dark, kind of peaceful and quiet 'cept for the leopard-skin leotards, not real big (it's measured out in shirts) but fiiled with unlikely things, and hey, here's my baroque closet, a bit more modest than Phil's (just a few partitas, erm, partitions in Back, though the Handles are kind of ornate), and here's a little nook shared by Vaughan Williams and Debussy, pretty much exposed to the open air... and this one here is warm and fuzzy and blue and filled with friends. hmm, you have enough closets, you don't *have* to come out ;) - -g (who is taking a fool-ish-tah break from an otherwise busy and discouraging day) - -- "i have never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2002 02:19:54 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Bill wrote: > On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:56:20 -0800, Vienna Teng wrote: > > >More off-topic is my simultaneous addiction to Shostakovich's Preludes and > >Fugues (the Vladimir Ashkenazy recording), also courtesy of Amazon. If any > >of you are music geeks who melt at hearing a good contrapuntal line, this is > >highly recommended. :^) > > That, I am! (a contrapuntal geek); will check this out. > > And pardon the "me too" you all, but I thought it wouldn't hurt to come > out of the closet about my love for baroque, since I'll take all the > recommendations I can get, especially in this less-commonly-popular > genre of music. > My brother is a freelance cello player with baroque music as his special field, and I'm for sure gonna ask him tomorrow what recordings he would recommend the most these days. It is way too late to ask anyone anything right now here in Norway right now, so you'll have to wait a few hours :) To another genre within classical music - when mentioning Shostakovitch then one can't get past his string quartets and the symphonies (I would particularly recommend the recordings by Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with Mariss Jansons for the symphonies.) I got this thing for the second movements in soloist concertos and his first violine concerto got one of the most intriguing of those (The recording with Mullova on violine is way lovely). - -- Yngve n.r. Mercedes Lackey - The Lark and the Wren ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:12:51 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 01:35:10PM -0800, Phil Hudson wrote: > An interesting mental visualization, the baroque closet. Big doors, stained > glass, arched ceilings and intricately carved grotesques. Plenty of room, > though :) And if you can dig your way past the ruffled shirts, Narnia is on the other side. - -- | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems | | http://www.metatronpress.com/nj/smwb.html | | Latest CDs: Collaborations/ All Souls http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: 30 Mar 2002 12:40:16 -0500 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: Highlights from the impromptu EctoFestSouth (very south) / An Awesome Aussie show upcoming in Northhampton MA 4/11 On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 23:16, Jason Gordon wrote: > The impromptu EctoFestSydney was wonderful :) Three people [the two > sydneyphiles and myself], three bands :) with three of us there it was probably the biggest Ecto gathering this country has ever seen. Yet while history was made the media were elsewhere. Typical :) > I have piles and piles of cd's to go through :) Immediate things worth > checking out is the debut album by George which is utterly fantastic! The > Killjoys "Sun Bright Deep" is a must listen for any fan of the Sundays. Poor Killjoys. For years, record after record they produce some of the most perfect, radio friendly pop songs ever written and none of them ever get any radio play, or any attention from the mainstream media. They must be scratching their heads, and I occasionally wonder just how much longer they can keep at it. Don't wait for the major labels to notice them. If you like sweet yet soulful classic pop make an effort to track down some Killjoys! (chaosmusic.com can probably get them for you, and remember you get bargain rates due to favorable exchange rates) George... well, Jason and Sherlyn seem to like them, but I just have a problem with the guys' voice. Like Sherlyn said, he can sound somewhat like Jeff Buckley. Unfortunately for me, I cannot stand Jeff Buckley! It's a bit like I felt about Dead Can Dance - if only Brendan would shut up, they'd be close to perfection in my book... But hey, that's just me. - ---------------------------------------------------------------- "I'm out of bed and I'm dressed, what more do you want?" - spotted on a T-shirt - ---------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:37:19 -0500 From: meredith Subject: RE: mmmm...Over The Rhine, Christine Fellows Hi, Phil noted: >An interesting mental visualization, the baroque closet. Big doors, stained >glass, arched ceilings and intricately carved grotesques. Plenty of room, >though :) Just as long as the Rococo closet isn't anywhere to be found elsewhere in the house, I for one will be fine. ======================================= Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth ======================================= Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html ======================================= (: New England Patriots - Super Bowl XXXVI CHAMPIONS :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:38:50 -0600 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Highlights from the impromptu EctoFestSouth (very south) / An Awesome Aussie show upcoming in Northhampton MA 4/11 On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 12:40:16PM -0500, andrew fries wrote: > George... well, Jason and Sherlyn seem to like them, but I just have a > problem with the guys' voice. Like Sherlyn said, he can sound somewhat > like Jeff Buckley. Unfortunately for me, I cannot stand Jeff Buckley! > It's a bit like I felt about Dead Can Dance - if only Brendan would shut > up, they'd be close to perfection in my book... But hey, that's just me. Ya know, maybe they should make a supergroup with this guy, Brendan Perry, and Einar from the Sugarcubes. They could bill them as The Three Terrors. - -- | jzitt@metatronpress.com http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt | | New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems | | http://www.metatronpress.com/nj/smwb.html | | Latest CDs: Collaborations/ All Souls http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt | | Comma: Voices of New Music Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 20:55:37 -0500 From: badly drawn woj Subject: Re: Highlights from the impromptu EctoFestSouth (very south) / An Awesome Aussie show upcoming in Northhampton MA 4/11 when we last left our heroes, Joseph Zitt exclaimed: >Ya know, maybe they should make a supergroup with this guy, Brendan >Perry, and Einar from the Sugarcubes. They could bill them as The >Three Terrors. you know, i'd be first in line to see that show. dunno about the rest of youse guys, but i liked the contrast and tension that einar brought to the sugarcubes and brendan perry brought to dead can dance. so there. :P woj ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #89 *************************