From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #48 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, February 19 2003 Volume 09 : Number 048 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friends... [Mike Matthews ] Re: charming hostess [Noe Venable ] Album recommendation [Ed Cole ] Tom McRae/Nick Cave [adamk@zoom.co.uk] mila drumke in nyc tomorrow [JoAnn Whetsell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friends... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Jim Sturnfield (no Email address) ******************** ******************** Juha Kannisto (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless Teresa Ross Wed February 23 1977 pisces Michael Curry Fri February 24 1967 Pisces Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces Peter Clark Thu March 04 1948 Pedestrian Tim Steele Fri March 08 1963 Pisces Matt Bittner Thu March 12 1964 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Bob Dreano Thu March 13 1958 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Jessica Skolnik March 16 Pisces Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Richard Konrad Sat March 18 1944 Pisces - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 23:57:46 -0800 From: Noe Venable Subject: Re: charming hostess Hi there-- regarding the band Charming Hostess, I don't know if they're playing in New York or not, or whether they're officially defunkt, but the woman who started the group, a wonderul, original, genre-bending woman named Jewlia Eisenberg, has other projects as well. But my favorite project of hers, (to my ears just as exciting as Charming Hostess, if not more so), is her nearly acapella record, Trilectic, which she recorded for John Zorn's label. I saw her a couple of weeks ago at the Starry Plough, and I was blown away by hearing the stuff live. It was three women singing acapella, exquisite stuff... at times powerful enough to blow you away, but also quite subtle at times-- in other words, the full gamut of melodic and dynamic range. "One of the most important releases this year, Jewlia Eisenbergs radical setting of texts by Walter Benjamin, Asja Lacis and Gershom Sholem point to a whole new style of acappela vocal music. Drawing upon traditions from doo-wop to Meredith Monk, Eskimo throat singing, to Hebrew cantilation and more, Trilectic is as charming as it is challenging. A brilliant vocalist and bandleader (Charming Hostess) Jewlia has studied a wide variety of vocal techniques, including the secular vocal music of women in the Jewish Falasha tribe in Ethiopia. An astonishing solo debut by this intensely creative musical thinker. http://www.tzadik.com/CDSections/RadicalJewishCulture/jewlia.html anyway, that's my two cents - --noe v. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 06:57:35 -0800 From: Ed Cole Subject: Album recommendation Mornin' all, I bought a CD last week that I haven't heard mentioned on this list. After listening to it several times, I've decided that it is quite excellent. It should appeal to the folks who enjoy the folky, acoustic end of the Ecto spectrum. The title is "Going Driftless: An Artist's Tribute to Greg Brown." Said artist's are: Lucinda Williams, Ani DiFranco, Iris Dement, Ferron, Eliza Gilkyson, Brown's three daughters, Gillian Welch, Lucy Kaplansky, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Shawn Colvin, Victoria Williams, Karen Savoca, Robin Lee Berry, and Leandra Peak. It's a very moving, emotional album. One can tell that the artist's really feel Mr. Brown's lyrics. The songs are as good as any heard on the artist's own albums. Proceeds from the album go to the Breast Cancer Fund. I found it at our local Border's store. Here's a link to the record label site: http://redhouserecords.com/ In the FWIW catagory, Iris Dement and Greg Brown were married last fall. Hopefully, there will be some interesting collaborations in the future. Her duets with John Prine on "In Spite of Ourselves" were absolutely delightful. On another note, yesterday I finally broke down and bought "Looking for Landmarks" by Two Loons. Am listening to it for the first time as I'm composing this message. First impressions are very favorable. Sure doesn't suffer from Sophomore Syndrome. Might ever be better then their debut effort. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:18:36 +0000 From: adamk@zoom.co.uk Subject: Tom McRae/Nick Cave What's the average you feel you have to listen to a cd before you "get" it? Is there one? How many listens do you give a new one before you say "Okay, that's enough. There's other music I need to listen to" and move on? Sure, you may come back to the cd in the fulness of time, and you might even change your mind, but that initial phase....how long does it take? If an album doesn't grab you the first time, you give it a second chance, a third, a fourth.....how many more? These thoughts occurred to me as I struggled with these two releases. Tom McCrae: Just Like Blood. Beautiful, gentle, somewhat formless. If you're expecting any of the clenched-teeth, bile-fueled vehemence like "Dose Me Up" that made his debut album (for me) so outstanding...well, it's not here. Each song drifts in, drifts out, and it's a bit like listening to the ramblings of a depressed man drifting in and out of consciousness. It's intelligent, it's eloquent, it's even barbed in some places, but it's just not involving. Nick Cave: Nocturama. Jeez, what's happening? Has mid-life crisis hit everyone early? I'll admit, I'm not a Nick Cave expert: I just thought that No More Shall We Part was the best album of its year. This, however....it hums along agreeably enough, the slow and sombre songs of sorrow, like offcuts from the previous album. It kicks into life at one point, sits up, spits into the fire, then slumps back into its chair. Back to the rambling reverie. After it has delivered the most cack-handed lyrics I've heard in many a year in "Rock of Gibraltar", it then launches into "Babe, I'm On Fire". Remember that title. You'll hear a lot of it. It's the kind of song that, 30 seconds in, you think "All right! This ROCKS!". Two minutes in, and it's: "Yeah, yeah, okay, clever rhyme". For the next TWELVE BLOODY MINUTES, however, you can only say "Okay, I get it, I GET IT!! Everyone's on FIRE!! Jeez, what was the name of the song again? Oh, thanks, I'd almost forgotten in the 10 seconds since the last time it was shouted". After all the moping and sighing that goes on in the album, some people might welcome this: To me it was just repetitive, dull, repetitive, stupid, repetitive and redundant. And long. And repetitive. adam k. - ------------------------------------------------ This mail sent through http://webmail.zoom.co.uk ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:27:08 -0500 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: mila drumke in nyc tomorrow I know some people are planning to go to Mila Drumke's show at the Fez tomorrow night. I am too (weather permitting) so I'd love to meet up with some ecto folks. If interested in making plans, please email me off list. Thanks! JoAnn ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #48 *************************