From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #103 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, April 14 2003 Volume 09 : Number 103 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] House Concert Midwest - Terami Hirsch [DLynngarrett@aol.com] Bel Canto: Dorothys Victory. [Craig Gidney ] Bob's percussion [meredith ] RE: Bob's percussion ["William Mazur" ] Re: Bob's percussion [Greg Bossert ] Re: Bob's percussion [Greg Bossert ] OT: why am I not surprised? [kerry white ] The Nation formerly known as France.. [Phillip Hudson ] Fwd: Wired: Apple to Buy Universal Music? [Neb Rodgers Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ************************ Jerry (no Email address) ************************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jerry Tue April 13 1971 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus Marty Lash Sat May 01 1948 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian Tue May 03 1966 Taurus Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Heidi Maier Wed May 10 1978 Taurus Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Philip David Morgan Sat May 12 1962 Chinese Tiger in Bull Clothing Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 08:12:32 EDT From: DLynngarrett@aol.com Subject: House Concert Midwest - Terami Hirsch Anyone in the Detroit, Ann Arbor, Toledo, Cleveland Area?? If so, come on out and hear Terami Hirsch and Natalie Wattre perform! Living Room Concerts check the link! Live In My Living Room Presents..... Tuesday, April 29th at 7 pm Two For the Road....an Indie Artist Tour TERAMI HIRSCH with Natalie Wattre Toledo, Ohio Suggested donation: $10 Beverages and Snacks Provided email me to reserve a spot. RSVP dlynngarrett@aol.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 05:51:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Bel Canto: Dorothys Victory. Bel Canto: Dorothys Victory. 1. Foolish Ship 2. Feels Like Im Already Flying 3. You Rock My World Tonight 4. Disappear Club 5 5. Night Lady 6. Dorothys Victory 7. Tree 8. Happy Times Fly Fast! 9. Im Best N Beihs 10. Corals, Jade and Pearls 11. Ladonia Blend Abba-like melodies, Hooverphonic-style electronica, a dash of 4AD sensibility, a smidgen of Bjork and you have Norways Bel Canto. The lead singer, Anneli Drecker, has a gorgeous voice, the equal of Elizabeth Fraser, and when multi-tracked, conjures up a glacial beauty. Her compatriot, multi-instrumentalist Nils Johansen, has a penchant for mixing pure popcraft with electronic and ambient textures. The results are mixed. For one, Dreckers lyrical skills dont quite match the grandeur of her voice; this is most noticeable in the radio-friendly songs. Feels Like Im Already Flying, and You Rock My World Tonight are bits of fluff that could be sung by anyone, anywhere; and the backing tracks are firmly targeted on the top 40. The best of these pop songs are the collaborations with Rokysopp, such as Foolish Ship and Night Lady, which have enough unusual twists built into their structure to avoid blandness. The album gets much better as the mainstream tendencies fall away, revealing more distinctiveand Bel Canto-likematerial. Tree is partially sung in French, and has the same feel as Massive Attacks collaborations with Fraser. Happy Times Fly Fast! places Dreckers trademark folktale retellings (this one a Japanese tale) into slick, techno dreampop. Im Best an Beihs is a wordless Artic hymn wedded to an Aphex Twin inspired ambient piece, while the closing Ladonia starts off with medieval-trance sounds before becoming a modern Hooked-On-Classics piece (complete with discobeats) and Dreckers operatic warbling in German. http://www.annelidrecker.com - --Craig L. Gidney ===== Reviews of esoteric, atmospheric literature, music and movies: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Ethereality/ Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 11:24:44 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Bob's percussion Hi, For those who were wondering about Happy's percussion accompaniment last week -- she sent me this, but I haven't had a chance to forward it along until now (busybusybusybusybusybusyeeep!!!). >Bob was playing a bodhran and a >darbouka...other perc. varied between a triangle, splash cymbal, finger >cymbals, goat nails, ankle bells, shakers and a bell tree. "Goat nails" sounds rather ... icky as a term. But as percussion they sounded really cool. :) =============================================== 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: Sloan Wainwright, 4/13 =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 13:11:23 -0700 From: "William Mazur" Subject: RE: Bob's percussion Thanks Meth for the info on Bob's percussion! Very interesting. The drum that you and I thought was the doumbek was actually the darbouka. I did a Google search. Here is what I found out about it on an Internet site that was all in French. I hit the translation option. Here is what I got: The darbouka (or darrabouka) is a percussion instrument in the shape of bowl which can be manufactured in pottery, wood or metal and covered with a skin of animal. The origin of this instrument goes up with Babylonienne antiquity where one used drums with drinking in the neighborhoods of 1100 before JC. This instrument is very widespread in all the Arab world, in the Middle East as in the Maghreb. One generally plays of the darbouka seated, by wedging the instrument under the arm and by striking the skin with the fingers or the hands. According to the place where one strikes one obtains a more or less deaf sound, all the art of the play to the darbouka is to alternate the deaf beats and the clear beats. One finds the darbouka in all the styles of Eastern music, the clear sound that it produces underlines the melody effectively. In the classical music, only the men have the right to play of the darbouka. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of meredith Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2003 8:25 AM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Bob's percussion Hi, For those who were wondering about Happy's percussion accompaniment last week -- she sent me this, but I haven't had a chance to forward it along until now (busybusybusybusybusybusyeeep!!!). >Bob was playing a bodhran and a >darbouka...other perc. varied between a triangle, splash cymbal, finger >cymbals, goat nails, ankle bells, shakers and a bell tree. "Goat nails" sounds rather ... icky as a term. But as percussion they sounded really cool. :) =============================================== 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: Sloan Wainwright, 4/13 =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:41:18 -0700 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: Bob's percussion Which is to say, everyone was right, since "doumbek" and "darbouka" refer to the same family of goblet-shaped drums. These drums are traditionally found in a range from northern Africa to central Asia, and have picked up a number of names on the way. Dumbek is probably onomatopoetic (the drum has two distinct tones -- one low and doomy, one sharp and, um, peckish -- and classical music in this traditional "transcribes" drum parts as a series of spoken syllables. yup, beatboxing is an ancient tradition... as Sheila Chandra are well aware. but i digress.) "Dar" or "Tar" is a root meaning drum, and probably also the source of the Turkish "Zarb", which is a type of wooden darbouka... I should add that woj is not the darbouka player, nor is he the darbouka player's son neither... (wow! in searching for the history of that little non sequitur, i found a wacky digest from days of ecto past. just look for dumbek in the archives. man, my posts make *no* sense ;-) On Sunday, Apr 13, 2003, at 13:11 US/Pacific, William Mazur wrote: > Thanks Meth for the info on Bob's percussion! Very interesting. > > The drum that you and I thought was the doumbek was actually the > darbouka. I did a Google search. Here is what I found out about it on > an > Internet site that was all in French. I hit the translation option. > Here > is what I got: > [...] - -g ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 14:49:43 -0700 From: Greg Bossert Subject: Re: Bob's percussion oops, one more note on dumbek names -- when i said that everyone was right, i meant it: the original post from Foghorn J' (a.k.a. J-Fo) said: "tabla (I think)", and in Arabic tradition, "tabla" refers to a dumbek-style drum. since i am already avoiding work -- here's a wacky thought: anyone of you house-concert types have a lot of bandwidth? i'm thinking simulcast here...! it's just a notion. - -g - -- "i've never been afraid to change the circumstances of the world" - -- Happy Rhodes - -- "except for bunnies..." - -- Anya ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 18:11:12 -0500 (CDT) From: kerry white Subject: OT: why am I not surprised? Hi, OT: Halliburton, Cheny's old company, has the lucritive job of putting out the Iraqi oil well fires. No-one else was asked to bid. Questions about the bidding process can't be answered because "in war that is considered classified information". It is also one of hundreds of companies who pay little tax, due to off-shore accounts. It is said that the money not paid by these companies in taxes equals the $70 billion cost of the war. For more: see NOW at PBS.ORG. Bye KrW "I'm even thinking of having a list of my possessions tatooed on my forehead!" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 17:18:25 -0700 From: Phillip Hudson Subject: The Nation formerly known as France.. Bill said: To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: RE: Bob's percussion Here is what I found out about it on an Internet site that was all in French..." Er Bill, you can't use the word "French" any more, the correct term these days is "Freedom". The US Administration is currently re-naming all things Gallic as an act of punishment to the French for their opposition to the war. I believe we're also sending back the Statue of Liberty. There are many Internet sites that now require translation from the original Freedom. France will henceforth be known as Freedonia, under the presidency of Ms. Margaret Dumont. Apropos of nothing in particular, except perhaps, stupidity, the following site has been around for a while, but it is good fun, irregardless of one's political views. phil http://www.dancingbush.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2003 21:58:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Neb Rodgers Subject: Fwd: Wired: Apple to Buy Universal Music? Well, I doubt they'll call it Apple Records... somebody already thought of that... - -Neb - -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Apple to Buy Universal Music? > > http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,58448,00.html > > By Associated Press > > Apple Computer is in discussions about buying Universal Music > Group, the world's largest record company, for as much as $6 > billion, according to a published report Friday. > > Talks between Apple and Vivendi Universal, Universal Music Group's > parent company, have been held secretly for months, the Los Angeles > Times reported. > > Apple may offer $5 billion to $6 billion for the music company > before Vivendi's April 29 board meeting, the newspaper said, citing > sources it did not identify. > > When reached by the newspaper, representatives for both Apple and > Vivendi declined to comment about the possible deal. > > Vivendi has been trying to sell some of its assets and raise about > $7 billion this year after barely staving off bankruptcy in 2002 as > it struggled to cope with billions of debt, a collapsing share > price and boardroom infighting. Top executives such as Barry Diller > and former chairman Jean-Marie Messier have departed within the > last year. > > Investor Marvin Davis has offered about $13 billion for 65 percent > of the entertainment assets and has been the only known bidder to > express serious interest in the music company. A separate sale of > the music operation would appear to work in favor of Liberty Media > and others that are focused on the company's other entertainment > properties. > > Apple, which has annual sales of about $5.7 billion, owns less than > 3 percent of the desktop computing market but has indicated that > supplying music to customers may be its future. > > The company has been testing a service that allows users to buy and > download digital music for their computers. The service is expected > to debut by the end of April. > > Universal reaps about $6 billion in sales annually from artists > such as 50 Cent, Shania Twain and U2, but has seen operating > profits slide 23 percent last year. It accounts for about 25 > percent of all CD sales and has such top labels as Interscope and > Def Jam. > > Vivendi first approached Apple CEO Steve Jobs in December, not long > after its music executives visited Apple's headquarters to view a > demonstration of Apple's new digital service, sources told the > Times. Yahoo! Tax Center - File online, calculators, forms, and more http://tax.yahoo.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #103 **************************