From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V8 #264 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, September 22 2002 Volume 08 : Number 264 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: new shivaree? ["John Zimmer" ] Irene Farrera live in Tucson ["Bill" ] cheap import CDs... [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: ecto-digest V8 #263 ["abaton" ] Re: cheap import CDs... [Dan_Stark ] Re: New Joy Askew: Echo CD In Stores Now! [Joseph Zitt ] Natalie M on ACL [kerry white ] Caitlin Cary ["Karen Hester" ] Dixie Chicks' versions of Patty Griffin songs ["Karen Hester" Subject: Re: new shivaree? "atholbrose" wrote: > I can't track down any information on whether or not it > will be rescheduled or if the American release was just quietly > shelved or what. > > And, dammit, I was waiting for this one. Ditto. If it has been pushed back for the US release, it'd sure be nice if somebody would update the website to that effect. John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 01:33:59 -0700 From: "Bill" Subject: Irene Farrera live in Tucson I just came back from seeing Irene Farrera live in Tucson. What a voice. She can stand right there with Happy Rhodes. A few years ago JoAnn Whetsell mentioned her in here, I bought a CD, got hooked, and ended up with all four of her albums. And tonight I got to see her live, front row, small hall, eye contact. Her last CD, a live recording, is mostly Venezuelan folkloric or popular music. But even if you don't dig the latin rhythms, or the spanish lyrics, her low, crisp, perfectly-pitched voice, and her musicians' brilliance will make you want to run home and call mom to thank her for having given birth to you. (that's second to having heard Happy Rhodes live and having run home to call dad to thank him for having bumped uglies with mom nine months earlier...) Buy her CDs (www.farrera.com or www.towerrecords.com), catch her live while she's still playing small venues (Albuquerque is her next stop), and tell all your friends about it. Tell your friends so that she doesn't have to sing to a half-empty hall like she did tonight. But hey, I got to shake hands with her and her band, so the balance of the Universe remains. - - Bill G. npimh: Irene Farrera live in Tucson ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:22:23 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: cheap import CDs... I found out about http://www.cd-wow.com/ on another mailing list I'm on. They're selling most CDs for UKP 9, with free shipping to anywhere. - -j ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 13:02:50 -0700 From: "abaton" Subject: Re: ecto-digest V8 #263 > Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:41:41 -0400 > From: Jeff Wasilko > Subject: New Joy Askew: Echo CD In Stores Now! > ".... It's perfect for Sunday morning coffee OR the backdrop at your next big corporate party...." > Gee, that about covers it. A Sunday morning java or anonymous background music for corporate get-togethers. Make up your mind or get a new publicist. mdabc ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 14:22:21 -0400 From: Dan_Stark Subject: Re: cheap import CDs... At 12:22 PM 9/21/2002 , you wrote: >I found out about http://www.cd-wow.com/ on another mailing list >I'm on. They're selling most CDs for UKP 9, with free shipping to >anywhere. > >-j Based in Hong Kong it seems, although the customer service contact suggests it is in Europe. >Registrant: >Music Trading On-Line (BVI) Ltd >co Music Trading Online (HK) Ltd >17 Fl, Benson Tower >74 Hung To Road, Kwun Tong HK >HK ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:29:32 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: New Joy Askew: Echo CD In Stores Now! On Fri, 20 Sep 2002 17:41:41 -0400 Jeff Wasilko wrote: > ----- Forwarded message from Christopher Kornmann > ----- > > 3I can9t say enough about this record. When I realized the artist was > Joy Askew, I nearly fell over. I've been a big fan of hers. Anyway, > this record is so melodic and beautiful, but also very contemporary. > It's one of those records that you can play for everyone...with > complete confidence that they'll like it. It's perfect for Sunday > morning coffee OR the backdrop at your next big corporate party. Run, > don9t walk. Buy this record!!!2 A NY Music Fan Eek. While I'm excited that Joy has a new album, putting this in the PR turns me off -- I think I have enough pretty-yet-anonymous music already. And someone sending such a blurb should know the difference between punctuation and numbers (and if the numbers actually were punctuation in some non-standard encoding, should get an intro book on email to learn how to send mail that is designed to be read). *Sheesh* - -- | josephzitt@josephzitt.com http://www.josephzitt.com/ | | http://www.metatronpress.com/jzitt/ http://www.mp3.com/josephzitt/ | | == New book: Surprise Me with Beauty: the Music of Human Systems == | | Comma / Gray Code Silence: the John Cage Discussion List | ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 20:53:02 +0100 (BST) From: "Mr. P. Kulawec" Subject: Re: cheap import CDs... On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Dan_Stark wrote: >At 12:22 PM 9/21/2002 , you wrote: >>I found out about http://www.cd-wow.com/ on another mailing list >>I'm on. They're selling most CDs for UKP 9, with free shipping to >>anywhere. >> >>-j > >Based in Hong Kong it seems, although the customer service contact suggests >it is in Europe. > The CD's are indeed shipped from Hong Kong, but they take only 2-3 days to reach me here in the UK. As far as I can see there is no "catch" - the CDs seem to be normal releases, normally packaged - except that they only stock _really_ big sellers. You can examine their entire stock list on one web page! You can't order anything that is not in stock. peter ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 17:18:06 -0500 (CDT) From: kerry white Subject: Natalie M on ACL Hi, A repeat of N Merchant on Austin City Limits on PBS is on tonight or this weekend (CYLL). Bye, KrW Time flies like the wind Fruit flies like the banana ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 14:24:17 +1200 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Caitlin Cary While you weren't looking by Caitlin Cary I'm really enjoying this melodic alt.country album, with its sometimes Irish arrangements and vocal lilt. Caitlin was a minor player in Whiskeytown (Ryan Adams shows up here as co-writer and guest vocalist on the extra ep) but she succeeds as a solo artist. Lyrically she has come up with some descriptive gems, for example Shallow heart, shallow water's "So learn to swim while you are young, old men can't tread water. She'll be floating by one day, and you'll be missing each other." The lyrics are elegant and not immediate in their emotions, unlike much other country-tinged music. Songs like "Sorry" are pretty enough that it doesn't matter if you are moved by the words. This intelligent sensitive rock reminds me of Amy Rigby, though I'm not quite sure where to place it. Not sure either why I need to 'place it', but such are my hang-ups! There are distractions from the music, such as the carnival caller announcing the slithering reptile lady in 'The Fair', the touches of theatre like the musical pauses for "And the fireworks went [pause] Pop, Pop, Pop," and the stop-start tempo breaks of some of the more rocking songs (eg 'Hold on to me'). And maybe the album falls between rock and country and folk in a way that means there is something to annoy as well as please everyone. But I'm enjoying it. Karen ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 15:04:34 +1200 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Dixie Chicks' versions of Patty Griffin songs I got the new Dixie Chicks album out of the library to hear the Patty Griffin covers, two of the best tracks off her unreleased 'Silver Bell'. Patty is permitted to re-record 5 (I think, or 4) of her Silver Bell songs, and my guess is that Truth #2 and Top of the World are now less likely to turn up on her future records because of this release. So these are perhaps the definitive public versions. I always expect to enjoy the Dixie Chicks (the comparatively traditional country instruments and cheeky image), but as usual it all seems rather bland to me. There is much pleasantness as far as melody and instruments, and there's sentimentality, a singer who belts, and entertaining failures (a clunky countryised version of Stevie Nick's 'Landslide', showing neither strength nor delicacy). Neither of the Patty covers are as pointless as the carbon copy of 'Let him fly'. The first is 'Truth no. 2', a lively country jangle, which choses to emphasise the rhythm with the bowed and plucked strings of the fiddle, banjo, mandolin etc. This approach is a bit too obvious for me compared to Patty's full-band arrangement on Silver Bell, but the song is a charmer and maybe more enjoyable than her version. Top of the World is such a moving 'story song', I just adore it. This isn't so simple and moving as Patty's take - the strings are a bit syrupy to me and I've come to like the ghostliness of Patty's mom's deep vocalisations. Still, lovely, and the dramatic strings make odd almost whale-like noises, so I'd really like them if I thought they belonged to this song in particular. Natalie's approach to singing Top of the World sometimes involves singing to the beat like she might forget the time signature without it laid out on top of the melody like an exoskeleton (see the lead up to the choruses 'there's a whole lotta singing..." done like da da da da da), and othertimes it seems she knows what notes must be used before the end of a word and executes the slide randomly, whereas a singer like Sarah McLachlan would move through the notes perfectly. Natalie has different character to her voice when singing in different registers (not unusual) - I like the breathiness of the deeper parts, she amost sounds tipsy, but higher up she belts in a nasal way. It's silly to criticise the Dixie Chicks' Top of the World when I don't like the Silver Bell one (particularly its pauses) as much as some live versions, but it sure is interesting to compare people's interpretations of the same songs! Karen ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V8 #264 **************************