From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #251 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, September 9 2002 Volume 08 : Number 251 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Farscape cancelled ["John Zimmer" ] movies [anna maria "stjärnell" ] RE: Farscape cancelled ["Foghorn J. Fornorn" ] Re: ectophilic webcasts [Anji Bee ] kjetil thank you ! ecto board/kaitlyn ni donovan ["kaitlyn ni Donovan" ] New Coldplay - comments? ["Sherlyn Koo" ] Re: **RACHAEL SAGE PAGE: SEPTEMBER SHOWS/NEWS!** [meredith ] RE: New Coldplay - comments? ["William Mazur" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 03:58:06 -0700 From: "John Zimmer" Subject: Re: Farscape cancelled Sherlyn wrote: > This means the current season (season > 4, the last episode of which is apparently shooting as we speak) will > be the last. This *really* pisses me off. I know, I know, TV's always been the great wasteland and all, which I guess is why I'm so PO'd when something this good and creative gets stood up against the proverbial wall. John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 04:36:23 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: movies hi.. My favourite movies of the year in case it interests anyone.. Mulholland Drive(released here now) Monster's ball Man without a memory(finnish film) Gosford park Anna Maria np-sarah slean-night bugs Yahoo! Finance - Get real-time stock quotes http://finance.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:07:41 -0400 From: "Foghorn J. Fornorn" Subject: RE: Farscape cancelled Be sure to read the chat link in Sherlyn's post (http://www.farscapeweekly.com/cancelled.htm). There is a small window of hope that if enough mail reaches SciFi about this, they could reconsider. If they think the show's fan base is only the relatively few that participate in chats, they feel justified. If they discover there are alot more than that, who knows. Worth a shot. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 12:31:27 -0700 From: Anji Bee Subject: Re: ectophilic webcasts Hi John-- I was doing an all female electronica station on Live365 for several years, called "Lovely Ladies of Electronica." They recently went to a paid format, so only paid subscribers can listen to my stream now (or, at least until I become a paid broadcaster, that is...) I see the listener's fee is $4.95 a month. I suppose it could well be worth it, since many of the stations are actually pretty enjoyable. As for my station, it includes many of the bands listed in the recent Ecto-Electro discussions (Mandalay, Portishead, Everything But the Girl...) , as well as many others not listed (hey, like my band, Lovespirals!). Some of it could be a tad harder or dancier, but I really prefer mellow, romantic styles of Electronica best. BTW, glad to see the discussion turn back around from TV to music! Take care, Anji Lovespirals www.lovespirals.com On Saturday, September 7, 2002, at 10:55 PM, ecto-digest wrote: > Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2002 23:31:46 -0700 > From: "John Zimmer" > Subject: ectophilic webcasts? > > The recent discussions of both the "internet debacle" (Janis Ian's > phrase) and electronica/trip-hop collided in my brain and got me > thinking. Does anybody have any ecto-friendly webcasts/streams > they'd like to mention that are deserving of a wider audience -- and > hopefully still online? It may conceivably be too little, too late, > but who > knows, a show of eleventh-hour support might be better than none at > all. > > Here's my own short list to start: > > - -- Musical Starstreams: http://www.starstreams.com (spacy, eclectic) > - -- Digitally Imported: http://www.digitallyimported.com (trance, > classical) > - -- Radio Paradise: http://www.radioparadise.com ("eclectic > intelligent > rock") > > I've even recently gone to the trouble of connecting my computer to my > stereo receiver, to listen to these streams and files with better sound > quality than most PC speakers and sound cards allow. There are a > couple of decent USB-to-RCA interfaces available that bypass the > sound card entirely (I use Xitel's), and deliver as much sound quality > as > encoding and bandwidth permit; to my ears the result sounds pretty > good. > > > John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2002 15:21:38 -0700 From: "kaitlyn ni Donovan" Subject: kjetil thank you ! ecto board/kaitlyn ni donovan Hello, I was sent over hereby kjetil(I think I posted on a wrong google board?) to say hello to all. I wanted to say thank you for the support and listeners. a special thank you to Neile. I am trying to figure out how to get on the message board. I am not computer savvy. Hopefully this will reach someone and I will be talkin real soon. thank you! kaitlyn ni donovan ___________________________________________________ Communicate with others using Lycos Mail for FREE! http://mail.lycos.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2002 14:30:05 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: new albums: frou frou and veda hille Hi, Joann reviewed: >As for Veda... it is wonderful to have new Veda. Isn't it, though!! And two at once is a wonderful bonus. >There are a few things I don't like: "The Ballad of Marie Sanders," "Song >for Snake," "With no caring" (mostly because of the horns, I think). Ack!! When I first heard "With No Caring" with those horns, I just about fell over. It is *so* unexpected, and yet *so* wonderful ... it's a complete reinterpretation of the song, and I think I might even like it better than the original. >And "Precious Heart," one of my favorite songs ever, I find fairly >unrecognizable here. I hope it will grow on me. That one was kind of jarring, but it is growing on me. >It's not necessarily easy to go from "birdsong" to "Killzone!" but she >does it with naturalness and ease. This is something she does live very often. Usually there is no pause for applause like there is on the album -- I wish she had clipped out the applause, and just had the one go right into the other. When I have seen her do those two songs back to back, the immediate juxtaposition knocks everyone back on their heels, and it's a beautiful thing. It's a wonderfully aggressive version of "Killzone!", too. :) > I've never seen Veda live in concert, but _Auditorium_ certainly makes > me want to. Hopefully we can lure her back to the U.S., specifically the NY area before we all die of old age. :/ >_Silver_ > >I just absolutely love this album, and it's such a pleasure. It's the >first Veda Hille album in a while that has not had to grow on me; I just >loved it from the start. I love it too -- it's kind of funny to think of it as an "album", though, since it's basically just a quick recording of a one-off song cycle that may never be performed in the same way again. >"You Know That Song?" is a clever amalgam of songs, many of which you will >recognize. "Please don't sue me." Hee! I'm hoping to slip that track into the between-set music at the Eli Whitney Folk Festival next weekend. >"Instructions" is redone on the theme of campground rules. Actually, she is quoting (mostly) verbatim the official rules of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival, which commissioned the entire song cycle for their 25th annual festival this summer. woj and I got to go to it in 1999, and it was a great weekend. I had forgotten most of those rules until I heard this CD. When we first heard the song we were laughing hysterically - -- I can just imagine how the crowd reacted when they noticed what she was doing! "People! The marsh is not a toilet!!" >"Road to Nowhere" is so joyful, I can picture a crowd singing along, and I >feel like I am there with them. I don't think the world realizes just how big a Talking Heads/David Byrne fan Veda is, or at least was during her formative years. >All the songs are wonderful, and they range in styles. Some like >"Nostalgia Song" sound like they could have come from _Here Is a >Picture_. "Stepdaughter's Delight" is solo piano with traditional Irish >elements while "Comrades" contains some words from "Selected Jewish Songs >for Members of the Armed Forces," and I hear traditional Jewish elements >or influence in the music too. "Bedlam" would fit on _Spine_ or _YDNLITWA_. Yes ... she is quoting herself as well as many other traditions. In the liner notes she says she was trying to evoke the musical traditions of the world as much as she could in the limited time she had. I'm not sure if everything she was trying to do comes 100% clear, but it's still a beautiful piece of work. ============================================== 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://muzak.smoe.org NEXT UP: Annie Gallup, Saturday, 9/28 at 8 pm ============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 20:07:36 -0400 From: "Sherlyn Koo" Subject: New Coldplay - comments? Hey folks, Has anyone heard this and want to comment? - -sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo | sherlyn@pixelopolis.com | Sydney, Australia "...claims to be a human, from a planet called Erp..." - Farscape - -- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 22:18:39 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: **RACHAEL SAGE PAGE: SEPTEMBER SHOWS/NEWS!** Hi, Since this MPress mailing was for September only, I know why this isn't on it... but nonetheless I'd just like to add this little addendum for the ectofolk. Rachael Sage will be Live At The House O'Muzak on Sunday, October 6 at 4 pm. Maybe she'll even play our piano in addition to her keyboard. :) This is just a week after our Annie Gallup show ... but I'm sure all you area ectophiles won't mind. :) I'm accepting reservations for both shows, so e-me if you'd like to come. It's going to be great!! ============================================== 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://muzak.smoe.org NEXT UP: Annie Gallup, Saturday, 9/28 at 8 pm ============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 23:16:09 -0400 From: Stuart Myerburg Subject: Re: New Coldplay - comments? > Has anyone heard this and want to comment? It's a really solid followup to _Parachutes_, that in many ways surpasses that album. This time around, the band has branched out a bit from the mostly mellow sound of the first album. While there are still a lot of tracks that wouldn't sound out of place on _Parachutes_ (and that's not a bad thing by any means), _A Rush of Blood to the Head_ is more sonically adventurous and varied in tone. MTV2 showed a Coldplay concert shortly before the new album was released. While they performed all the "hits" from _Parachutes_, it was songs from the new album like "God Put a Smile on Your Face," "Politik," and "Daylight" that really stood out. They all take the band's signature sound to new areas, adding more rhythmic experimentation and instrumentation. Hopefully, _ A Rush of Blood_ will help the band establish a name for themselves apart from all of the Jeff Buckley and Radiohead-lite comparisons. Stuart - -- ______________________________________________ Stuart Myerburg http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~stuart ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 8 Sep 2002 21:03:55 -0700 From: "William Mazur" Subject: RE: New Coldplay - comments? Stuart, Thanks for the review. Your review is very similar to what a good friend told me about the CD. He's the one that turned me onto Coldplay in the first place (right after Parachutes was released). I personally haven't heard the new CD yet. Some reviewers have criticized the CD as being *too* similar to Parachutes. They say that they played it safe and weren't adventurous enough. What's your take on that criticism? I loved Parachutes, especially the mellower side of the CD. So I'm sure that I will like this new CD. I'm not one that believes that a band needs to take a huge leap forward on every CD they release. If they stay in the same mode release after release they can become stale. There needs to be some progress. It just doesn't necessarily need to be drastic with each new release. A good example of where some folks here feel that a drastic change in style didn't work was with Sarah Slean. BTW, the Duncan Sheik CD has received some very positive reviews. They said that it has a good mix of his first CD, from a pop perspective, and his last CD which went more into a Nick Drake sort of mood. Has anyone else here on Ecto heard Duncan's CD and want to post a review? Thanks! Bill M. n.p. Nick Drake_Way to Blue_ - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Stuart Myerburg Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2002 8:16 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: New Coldplay - comments? > Has anyone heard this and want to comment? It's a really solid followup to _Parachutes_, that in many ways surpasses that album. This time around, the band has branched out a bit from the mostly mellow sound of the first album. While there are still a lot of tracks that wouldn't sound out of place on _Parachutes_ (and that's not a bad thing by any means), _A Rush of Blood to the Head_ is more sonically adventurous and varied in tone. MTV2 showed a Coldplay concert shortly before the new album was released. While they performed all the "hits" from _Parachutes_, it was songs from the new album like "God Put a Smile on Your Face," "Politik," and "Daylight" that really stood out. They all take the band's signature sound to new areas, adding more rhythmic experimentation and instrumentation. Hopefully, _ A Rush of Blood_ will help the band establish a name for themselves apart from all of the Jeff Buckley and Radiohead-lite comparisons. Stuart - -- ______________________________________________ Stuart Myerburg http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~stuart ______________________________________________ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #251 **************************