From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #110 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, April 20 2003 Volume 09 : Number 110 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Angelique Concert Review ["Amanda Williams" ] Fwd: [9thWave] Prosper Falls [noam tchotchke ] Re: Fwd: [9thWave] Prosper Falls [Neile Graham ] RE: Azam Ali - Children of Dune's Inama Nushif (plus: Hi, I'm newhere) :) ["jzitt@metatronpress.com" Subject: Angelique Concert Review Some of you may know that here in Oz over Easter, we have the Byron Bay Blues and Roots festival, which normally attracts several international artists. This year brought Angelique Kidjo and Morcheeba to our sunny shores. Unfortunately I missed out on going to Morcheeba's concert (it was on a Monday night and would have just been too much with work the next day)...apparently it was a good concert and they were in fine form and did all their old hits, which I was of course upset to hear, but anyway, I consoled myself that we were going to see Angelique on the Thursday evening. I had seen her last 5 years ago when she was last out here, and was intrigued to hear how much she had changed, as she had been in the process of discovering her roots between now and then, with the release of her album, "Black Ivory Soul". She had also of course released the timeless, ethereal version of "Summertime", with her voice doing at least ten different parts, including percussion. I was particularly looking forward to a high-energy evening, remembering how she had made audience participation compulsory, exhorting us to sing and dance along with her, and then outdoing us all by shaking her booty in the unique, uninhibited and malleable way that she does. I told my husband (who had never seen her live before) that we could expect all this, and I also told him how at the end of the show she normally got the audience up on stage wih her, and then hoped to God that she would do all this, since I was beefing up both his and my expectations of her. I needn't have worried. From the moment that she came out, she carried with her a Presence and a poise that showed that she was in control and that she would deliver everything that was promised, though she did so in a measured way. The first couple of tracks were in her new light, jazzy, groovy and almost wistful style where she was only accompanied by an accoustic guitar and her tap of the microphone. It was reminiscent of a small smokey jazz bar (we were at the Prince of Wales in St. Kilda, for those of you who know Melbourne). Then all of a sudden her full band was there and they started the bright african beats and away we went, caught up in the fever of the sound and the beat. Like Laurie Anderson, she has gone back to simplicity, she did not even have a synth on sage - trad. African percussion (played by a Brazilian Indian), drums (played by a Milwaukeean) Accoustic Guitar (played by a Portuguese Brazilian), Electric Guitar (played by a French Guinean), Bass (played by a West Indian. Her backing singer was half Irish and half Italian, so it was a truly global band. Everyone looked like they had a good time, and you could see from the musicians' faces, that they just adored her and were enjoying creating something special with her. She made it clear that going to one of her concerts was entering a contract - she expected the audience to sing, dance and have a good time, and she also spread the word that she wanted us all to be able to look in the mirror at ourselves and see that we were basically pretty good human beings, so that we could say to ourselves approvingly "not bad!" She hoped that by creating an atmosphere of joy and love in the concert, we could lift our vibration, and in doing so, could then send love and peace to those that needed it around the globe. She succeeded. All barriers were broken down, and we boogied together, smiling beatifically at each other and at her with wonder - she truly possesses a magic quality. Toward the end of the concert she played some of her old tracks from Oremi and Aye...the highlight of the show for me was when she invited the crowd on stage (she had been going to do that at a previous track and then changed her mind, but some of the audience decided to come on up anyway, and it put her out a bit..there was a humorous moment where she screwed up her face at them climbing up and went over to a wall and began to lightly bang her head against it, but she recovered, and did a track from her new album, and the next song that she did (when she really wanted the crowd there) was indeed Aye, and we all grooved along. At the end of the song, she went up to every single audience member on stage and gave them a hug. She delivered her final piece walking through the audience...it was so amusing, having this pint-sized singer marching through a crowd that towered over her...so that she could get through easily, she had a minder walk behind her shining a torch for her path - he was over six feet tall. All in all, it was a fabulous, magical evening, and we left carrying that vibration with us, that we were a part of something that was very special and unique. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ooooooooooooooooooo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The man who realizes "It is the Supreme Life that shines in and through all life" does not waste words. His Pleasures and his love are then all in the soul. He becomes the most enlightened among the philosophers. - -Mundak Upanishad, III-(I)-4 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 15:18:28 -0400 From: noam tchotchke Subject: Fwd: [9thWave] Prosper Falls potentially of interest...i haven't had a chance to visit their mp3.com page but thought i'd forward it along anyway. woj >To: 9thWave@yahoogroups.com >From: "Phenomenamantha" >Delivered-To: mailing list 9thWave@yahoogroups.com >Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 03:56:09 -0000 >Subject: [9thWave] Prosper Falls >Reply-To: 9thWave@yahoogroups.com > >I know there are quite a few Happy Rhodes fans on this list, so I >thought I'd post about a trip hop band called Prosper Falls that I >just "discovered," whose lead singer sounds so much like Happy >Rhodes sometimes, that I've had to double-take on several occasions. > >The singing and music both remind me a lot of several songs on >Rhodesongs > >The CD I have gives the following link: > >http://www.mp3.com/prosperfalls/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 14:56:21 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Fwd: [9thWave] Prosper Falls I gave the samples a listen. The vocals definitely have a Happy-like tone at time. The songwriting wasn't so interesting to me, though. - --Neile At 3:18 PM -0400 4/19/03, noam tchotchke wrote: >potentially of interest...i haven't had a chance to visit their >mp3.com page but thought i'd forward it along anyway. > >woj > >>To: 9thWave@yahoogroups.com >>From: "Phenomenamantha" >>Delivered-To: mailing list 9thWave@yahoogroups.com >>Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 03:56:09 -0000 >>Subject: [9thWave] Prosper Falls >>Reply-To: 9thWave@yahoogroups.com >> >>I know there are quite a few Happy Rhodes fans on this list, so I >>thought I'd post about a trip hop band called Prosper Falls that I >>just "discovered," whose lead singer sounds so much like Happy >>Rhodes sometimes, that I've had to double-take on several occasions. >> >>The singing and music both remind me a lot of several songs on >>Rhodesongs >> >>The CD I have gives the following link: >> >>http://www.mp3.com/prosperfalls/ - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham .... neile@sff.net/@drizzle.com ... www.sff.net/people/neile Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal ........ www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ....................www.ectoguide.org Co-Administrator, Clarion West ...................... www.clarionwest.org ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:52:59 -0400 From: "jzitt@metatronpress.com" Subject: RE: Azam Ali - Children of Dune's Inama Nushif (plus: Hi, I'm newhere) :) Ah, I knew the voice sounded familiar! That was an utterly lovely track, and we'd had a couple of people come into the store looking for the soundtrack. (We sold out of them almost instantly, but I did convince one of them to buy Peter Gabriel's _Passion_ -- I figured if she liked the score to CoD, she'd *love* the Gabriel.) Original Message: - ----------------- From: Sander ecto@juima.org Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 04:34:11 +0200 To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Azam Ali - Children of Dune's Inama Nushif (plus: Hi, I'm newhere) :) Anyway, I'd been planning for a few days now to fire off an email to the list to see if anybody knew who was actually singing in Inama Nushif (as it is most definitely ecto-fair), when just now I stumbled upon an interview with her; her being finally revealed as Azam Ali (from Vas). - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2003 21:57:26 -0400 From: "jzitt@metatronpress.com" Subject: RE: How do they do this? > And what is a string type drink? This just *had* to trigger an old joke: A string comes into a bar and asks for a beer. The bartender throws him out, saying that he doesn't serve strings. The string goes into another bar, and the same thing happens. Before he goes into a third bar, the string wraps himself in a loop and frizzes his ends. The bartender looks at him warily: "Hey, aren't you a string?" He replies calmly: "No, I'm a frayed knot." Original Message: - ----------------- From: Phillip Hudson aiku@pacbell.net Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 01:16:55 -0700 To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: How do they do this? ceramiumThe following is a header of a spam offering mortgage refinancing that came to me. How did these weasels make the Happy connection? Do they mine addresses from the digests, or is Happy moonlighting in the online refi business? And what is a string type drink? Inquiring minds, etc. p -----Original Message----- From: md9daiku@yahoo.com [mailto:md9daiku@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 11:47 AM To: aiku@pacbell.net Subject: HAPPY RHODES StringType drink loeslich - -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #110 **************************