From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #75 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, March 18 2003 Volume 09 : Number 075 Today's Subjects: ----------------- mnah mnah/tori amos [adamk@zoom.co.uk] Re: mnah mnah [Greg Bossert ] Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide ["The Ectophiles' Guide" ] mary timony ["Donald G. Keller" ] Re: mary timony and songs:ohia. [dmw ] Re: St. Patrick's evening event in San Francisco ["Joseph Zitt" ] Kristin Hersh and more [Steve VanDevender Subject: Re: mnah mnah On Monday, Mar 17, 2003, at 00:56 US/Pacific, adamk@zoom.co.uk wrote: > The mna mna song (does it have a name?) also puts in an appearance in > an > episode of the second series of "The Office". without doubt, my favorite version of the mnah mnah song is from the album "Space Ghost's Musical Bar-B-Que". stopitstopitstopitstopit-beee-yoo-tiful-stopitstopitstopit! mnah mnah (foo-tah foo-tah-tah) - -g - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 04:15:51 -0800 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 16 March 2003 New Guide entries added for: * Ekova * Hooverphonic - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.smoe.org/ectoguide/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 07:27:04 -0600 (CST) From: Carolyn Andre Subject: Speaking of Natalie Merchant At Joan Baez' concert in Chicago last night, she performed "Motherland", and said that the song will be on her new album, to be released this summer. (gee - now I have two more albums for my summer EWS list!) Judging from the applause for her intro of the song (seemed like mine & only a few others in the hall), this will be introducing Natalie's music to a new audience (which I sometimes think is an audience of the political as much as the musical). The arrangement of the song was striking, and I've got to drag out Motherland tonite to compare ... Carolyn Andre candre@house-of-music.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 09:04:09 -0500 (EST) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: mary timony Long post warning--possible subtitle: "Everything I Know About Mary Timony (And You Might Be Sorry You Asked)." But I'll try to keep it short. (Beware the stack of CDs by the computer.) Mary Timony's recording career goes back to 1991, when she played second guitar in a D.C. band called Autoclave. They didn't last long, but their single EP--still available from Dischord, I think--is one of the best records of its time, full of nervous, brittle, brilliant pop songs. (The bass player from Autoclave, Christina Bilotte, switched to guitar for her first band, the punkish Slant 6, which folded after two albums; she has now put out two albums with her current project, Quix*o*tic, swell angular guitar songs.) By 1993 Mary Timony was in Boston, and had formed Helium. Their first EP, =Pirate Prude=, is a fine example of that seeming Boston specialty, pop songs slathered with lots of guitar distortion (see Swirlies and, later, Dirt Merchants). The opening track, "Baby Vampire Made Me," is =still= my favorite Mary Timony song. The first Helium full-length, =The Dirt of Luck=, was less successful at the same formula; I've never liked it much. It was preceded by a stronger single/EP, =Superball= (both 1995). The next Helium recordings came in 1997, when another good EP, =No Guitars= (not true), preceded the second full-length, =The Magic City=, which is almost a complete change of style: it's unmistakably prog-rock, sounding at times something like the minor 70s band Camel (and very like former Swirlies guitarist Seana Carmody's one-album project Syrup USA). A very likable record. Then a considerable gap; I think it was during this period that Timony participated in at least three other projects: Mind Science of the Mind, Green 4, and The Spells (the latter a duo with Sleater-Kinney's Carrie Brownstein). Don't quote me, because I don't own any of them. By 2000, Helium was finished, and Timony put out her first solo album, =Mountains=. To my ear, she had arrived at a place strikingly similar to where Kristin Hersh had arrived after she thought Throwing Muses were no more, and Shannon Wright after the demise of her little-known band Crowsdell: a few piano songs, more guitar songs, in a songwriting style of such intense inwardness it becomes almost scary. Hersh's 1994 =Hips and Makers= (which I just listened to for the first time in a while recently: I'd forgotten how great an album it is) is the best of this subgenre, and Shannon Wright's =Maps of Tacit= (also 2000) the second-best, but =Mountains= and last year's =The Golden Dove= are very good examples as well, and I think Timony's best recordings yet. Footnote: I saw Helium live a few times, and Mary Timony opening for Sleater-Kinney about the time of =Mountains=, and she struck me as having as close to no stage presence as any performer I'd seen; but I saw her twice on her =Golden Dove= tours last year, and her stage manner has improved noticeably. She'll be at Maxwell's in Hoboken, NJ on March 29th, and I'm planning to go see her again. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:39:50 -0500 (EST) From: dmw Subject: Re: mary timony and songs:ohia. On Sun, 16 Mar 2003, Neile Graham wrote: > At 2:38 PM -0600 3/16/03, Michael Eisenberg wrote: > > >...anyway...so Mary Timony has another solo disc out besides "Golden > >Dove"? How is it? > > I would say that it (_mountains_) is good, but not quite as > compelling as _Golden Dove_. I had it long before I got _Golden > Dove_ and while whenever I listen to it I like it fine, I reach for > _Golden Dove_ first--the songwriting just seems stronger to me. i see Don Keller covered this ground in more detail than I, but i'll second his recommendation of the helium eps as the best place to see if you like timony's slightly louder/more distortion-y incarnation (although really: at least half of "golden dove" could fit on a helium record). i'd give the nod to "no guitars" in part coz i seem to see it cheap in used bins a lot. looks like the autoclave stuff is out of print at dischord; dischord has been violating their policy lately of keeping almost everything in print because they're in the process of what promises to be a comprehensive catalog remeaster. - -- d. np destroyer _streethawk: a seduction_ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2003 20:44:54 -0800 From: "Joseph Zitt" Subject: Re: St. Patrick's evening event in San Francisco Argh -- this sounds great, and I would definitely be there, but it's also the night of Purim. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "William Mazur" To: "My Fuzzy Blue Friends" Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 7:55 PM Subject: St. Patrick's evening event in San Francisco > Bay Area Ectophiles, > > If you are looking for a fun, alternative way to spend the evening of > St. Patrick's Day, I have a suggestion for you. Phil Hudson, John Kozak > (singer/songwriter from Of the Arcane) and I will be performing at the > Geary Theater in San Francisco. > > Sonnets & Strings > ACT's Geary Theater / Fred's Columbia Room > 415 Geary Street > San Francisco > Monday, March 17 @ 7:30pm > Information: (415) 637-3154 > Suggested Donation: $15 > Benefit for The Acting Shakespeare Company ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:37:14 -0800 From: "Joseph Zitt" Subject: Re: Natalie Merchant goes independent - ----- Original Message ----- From: "meredith" To: Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 6:10 PM Subject: Re: Natalie Merchant goes independent > Natalie Merchant setting medieval Latin liturgical texts to music. When > can I pre-order that???? Do I recall correctly her having sung one of these on "Sessions at West 54th" with Phillip Glass? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:42:38 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: New Jane Siberry song on CBC Radio One Good Evening, Ectophiles: A quick heads-up for those not in the mood for the Washington blues... Philip David 2003.03.17 - ---------- From: "SHEEBA RECORDS" Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 13:53:29 -0500 (EST) To: pmorgan@suffolk.lib.ny.us Subject: MUSELETTER - New Jane Siberry song airing tonight on Canada's CBC CBC Radio One's Sounds Like Canada show will be airing a new Jane Siberry song entitled "Walk On Water" tonight at 8pm EST as part of their Heavenly Virtues series. Jane's original composition is on the virtue of Faith. To listen in Canada find out your local CBC frequency at http://www.cbc.ca/frequency/. You can also listen on-line at http://www.cbc.ca/audio.html. As well on Wednesday 16th April Jane will be taking part in The Well-World Music and Dance Gala at the Betty Oliphant Theatre in Toronto. For more information please visit - http://www.janesiberry.com/tour.php Best Wishes, SHEEBA - -- To unsubscribe/change profile: http://www.mailermailer.com/x?u=12436763,$1$cBOUj$4GBB/c5E9Cz8/FBfLzOcG%2e To subscribe: http://www.mailermailer.com/x?oid=09469w Email list management powered by http://MailerMailer.com ------------------------------ Date: 18 Mar 2003 15:41:42 +1100 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Natalie Merchant goes independent On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 13:10, meredith wrote: > It's interesting that leaving Elektra was her choice. I'm not sure whether > or not to be encouraged by that. I'm encouraged. Of course I make no secret of my hatred of entertainment industry, so it's no surprise I'd see any artist leaving a major as a good thing. If it's an artist that actually managed to sell some records, so much the better. How was that line from Ani DiFranco - "I could be the million that you'll never make"... So go Natalie! I wish Tori had done the same thing - if "Scarlet's Walk" came out on her own label, I'm sure it would be a part of my collection by now. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "I have always tried to live in an ivory tower, but a tide of shit is beating at its walls, threatening to undermine it." -- Gustave Flaubert - -- 15:30:28 up 1 day, 38 min, 1 user, load average: 0.15, 0.03, 0.01-- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:04:18 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Kristin Hersh and more I've been really bad about commenting on the new music we've been listening to. I really love _The Grotto_, though. It seems like some of Kristin Hersh's best solo work. Really soulful. I like the Throwing Muses disc, too, but I've been more in the mood for the solo stuff. Also got and am enjoying the newish Massive Attack, and the new Cat Power still plays at our house frequently. I think it's her best so far. - --Neile ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 22:51:18 -0800 From: Steve VanDevender Subject: Kristin Hersh and more Neile Graham writes: > I've been really bad about commenting on the new music we've been listening to. > > I really love _The Grotto_, though. It seems like some of Kristin > Hersh's best solo work. Really soulful. I'm still really liking _The Grotto_, too. Every time I listen to it a few more lyrical details come out. > I like the Throwing Muses disc, too, but I've been more in the mood > for the solo stuff. I'm gradually getting into the new Throwing Muses; I've found that I sort of have to be in the right mood to really start grokking one of their albums, and then after that I warm up to it more. And very late Saturday night (as in early Sunday morning) I happened to be in the right mood. > Also got and am enjoying the newish Massive Attack, and the new Cat > Power still plays at our house frequently. I think it's her best so > far. I once picked up a Massive Attack album and I was kind of underwhelmed, but I think it is a rather early one. My copy of _Breasticles_ arrived last week and it is really spectacular (and I'm getting less twitchy about the title, even if I pronounce it like "Pericles" -- who else but woj could find a way to take something disturbing and make it seem even _more_ disturbing :-). In a way listening to Kristeen Young is like standing in front of a musical sandblaster, loud and abrasive and it helps to have a thick skin, but amazing if you can stand the grit. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #75 *************************