From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #120 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, April 30 2003 Volume 09 : Number 120 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Low Fidelity ["John Zimmer" ] Re: Low Fidelity ["Amanda Williams" ] Soul City Cafe Finalists [jjhanson@att.net] Re: Low Fidelity [meredith ] Elysian Fields show, NYC, May 6 [Michael Curry ] Low Thanks! [Robert Lovejoy ] RE: Soul City Cafe Finalists/new jewel single [Jason Gordon ] Re: Louisa John-Krol: new website (Win-centric?) [Andrew Fries ] BOB HOLROYD - JESUS! [Xenus Sister ] Two cds: Pram and Germano [Craig Gidney ] Bob Holroyd again [Xenus Sister ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 04:54:09 -0700 From: "John Zimmer" Subject: RE: Low Fidelity Bob wrote: > So I pose the question to the ecto community - can any of you > recommend some nice tracks that include deep and powerful bass > energy? I recently mentioned Holly Cole's "Train Song" from _Temptation_; in fact that, and another track I came across at about the same time, provided the impetus to get a subwoofer in the first place. That other track was Sarah McLachlan's gorgeous cover of "Unchained Melody", off of the fan club CD _Murmurs Special Release Volume 2_ (don't know if it ever got a release elsewhere). Listening to these two recordings, I could tell there was some low loveliness that my speakers were only hinting at, and I ended up settling on one of the early Sunfire mini-boomers. It's one thing to feel the beauty of the music, and quite another to FEEL the music. In a more Celtic vein, I recently listened to Sinead Lohan's _No Mermaid_ for the first time in quite a while, and was pleasantly surprised at how much bass energy it contained that I didn't even remember -- as well as some killer songs. I also seem to recall that Enya, on her first album especially, doesn't exactly ignore the bottom octaves either. Another one I almost forgot! Loreena McKennitt's _The Book of Secrets_ has a wealth of bass content, not to mention her "hit" song "The Mummer's Dance" (album version). John ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 15:53:45 +1000 From: "Amanda Williams" Subject: Re: Low Fidelity On 29 Apr 2003 15:31:11 +1000, "Andrew Fries" said: > On Mon, 2003-04-28 at 21:15, Robert Lovejoy wrote: > > > So I pose the question to the ecto community - can any of you recommend > > some nice tracks that include deep and powerful bass energy? > > > Lamb - Fear of Fours ... pretty much the whole CD :) yeah the bass in there is really lush What about the bass in Goldfrapp for much of the album... songs with outstanding bass are Pilots and Lovely head - a wonderfully rich bass sound there! Can anyone report on the new Goldfrapp album? Amanda ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~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: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:33:43 +0000 From: jjhanson@att.net Subject: Soul City Cafe Finalists I have to give Kudos to Jewel for giving exposure to new artists in her opening slots. Recent Soul City Cafe artists include Anne Heaton and Katie Todd Band. More info at her website (http://www.jeweljk.com). Hopefully this will bring these artists some much deserved attention. Jeff Hanson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 18:30:41 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Low Fidelity Hi, Andrew noted: >Lamb - Fear of Fours ... pretty much the whole CD :) ... and not just on the CD. I saw them a few summers ago up in Boston. I was wearing a baseball cap (we had gone to a Red Sox game earlier that afternoon, literally across the street from the club) and I kept having to push it back down onto my head throughout the show. The bass was literally knocking it off. =============================================== 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 =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:17:21 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Elysian Fields show, NYC, May 6 A show at the new new Sin-e...... >From: Ashersand@aol.com >Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:03:23 EDT >Subject: don't miss this >To: undisclosed-recipients:; > >E L Y S I A N F I E L D S >play live in NYC >Tuesday, May 6, 2003, 10:00 pm >Sin-e >150 Attorney St >(between E. Houston & Stanton) >ph 212 388 0077 >$10 > > >visit www.elysianmusic.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 20:48:59 -0400 From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Low Thanks! Wow, what a wealth of great suggestions! Leave it to the fuzzy blue spot on the net for help finding music. You guys ROCK, albeit in a quietly intense, somewhat lush and beautiful way. Looks like I'll be having a case of EWS. Bob "Bottom End" Lovejoy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:04:50 -0400 From: Jason Gordon Subject: RE: Soul City Cafe Finalists/new jewel single the first single from jewels new album is online at the site - sounds very bel canto-ish if you can believe that... - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of jjhanson@att.net Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 4:34 PM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Soul City Cafe Finalists I have to give Kudos to Jewel for giving exposure to new artists in her opening slots. Recent Soul City Cafe artists include Anne Heaton and Katie Todd Band. More info at her website (http://www.jeweljk.com). Hopefully this will bring these artists some much deserved attention. Jeff Hanson ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:13:30 -0400 (EDT) From: dmw Subject: Re: Low Fidelity On Tue, 29 Apr 2003, meredith wrote: > Hi, > > Andrew noted: > > >Lamb - Fear of Fours ... pretty much the whole CD :) > > ... and not just on the CD. I saw them a few summers ago up in Boston. I > was wearing a baseball cap (we had gone to a Red Sox game earlier that > afternoon, literally across the street from the club) and I kept having to > push it back down onto my head throughout the show. The bass was literally > knocking it off. this reminds me of one of my most unexpectedly unpleasant concert experiences -- pj harvey a few years back (the tour with rachel's opening, if memory serves). lotsa loud and low synth bass, the lowest notes of which caused really nasty sensations somewhere under my sternum, and, most unnvervingly, in my eyes. i left about six songs in and went around the corner to see a punk band instead. i've seen hundreds and hundreds of shows, but never had another experience like that one. ------------------------------ Date: 30 Apr 2003 11:30:57 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Louisa John-Krol: new website (Win-centric?) On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 09:54, Philip David Morgan wrote: > Needless to say, I am not happy about this. Linux users will especially > be dismayed, especially those (like me) doing the Penguin (in a > dual-boot system) on a Old World Mac. > > And yes,I have notified Louisa about this. That;s right - flash menu on her website didn't work for me either, on Linux, but of the more standard Intel-based variety... The most annoying part is that it is just so unnecessary - what's the point of making a menu Flash? What functionality did it offer she couldn't get from simple HTML? Naughty, naughty Louisa! - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "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 - -- 11:25:36 up 11 days, 19:31, 2 users, load average: 0.26, 0.16, 0.24-- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:09:09 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Low Fidelity Hi, dmw noted: >this reminds me of one of my most unexpectedly unpleasant concert >experiences -- pj harvey a few years back (the tour with rachel's opening, >if memory serves). Rachel's opened for PJ Harvey?! > lotsa loud and low synth bass, the lowest notes of >which caused really nasty sensations somewhere under my sternum, and, most >unnvervingly, in my eyes. i left about six songs in and went around the >corner to see a punk band instead. i've seen hundreds and hundreds of >shows, but never had another experience like that one. Weird. Sounds like they somehow got the bass to be on your body's resonant frequency or something. (I think mine is much higher -- I can't go into the Yale Museum of British Art, because after a few minutes I start to feel really ill. I think it's the security system resonating in just the wrong way in my brain. Either that or I'm just freaking out. ) =============================================== 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 =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 21:44:21 -0500 From: Xenus Sister Subject: BOB HOLROYD - JESUS! No, he's not (Jane still is, I believe), but DAMN! I just got Without Within and I'm having awe attacks here. Even if Happy weren't involved, I'd be having awe attacks, but... HAPPY! SINGING KATE!!! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This cover of "Games Without Frontiers" is sublime. I've probably listened to it 10 times so far, and I think I'll listen to it another 10 times, just to be on the safe side. (you never know, the universe could collapse or something). I'd been looking forward to it ever since Happy said on her web site that she'd be part of Bob's cover and that would mean a melding of my 3 favorite artists. I've only listened to half the album, but it's really incredible. From his bio http://www.sixdegreesrecords.com/artists/holroyd/ww.htm here: "Bob Holroyd's music explores the terrain where technological and primeval music intersect. Although realized in a London recording studio, Holroyd's fourth full-length collection, Without Within, features elements of Asian and African cultures flourishing within the rhythms and melodies." I especially like this part of the bio: "Not surprisingly, he has found inspiration in the work of Peter Gabriel, whose globe-spanning musical agenda is aptly framed by the song "Games Without Frontiers." Holroyd recorded a cover of the track in tribute to Gabriel's pioneering efforts, with cult American solo artist and multi-instrumentalist Happy Rhodes singing the refrain originally voiced by Kate Bush on Gabriel's recording. An additionally modern twist on the duet stems from Holroyd never having met his collaborator in person; they traded files from ProTools sessions via trans-Atlantic courier." I did make an mp3 of it, but since this is a public forum and all (archived on Google, no less), I don't want to give a direct link here. Poke around http://pub3.ezboard.com/bthehomegroundandkatebushnewsandinfoforum and you'll find it. I'm only going to have it up for a day or two. But please, please...Buy. This. Album! It's great and well worth your money, far beyond Happy's involvement! Vickie ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 19:56:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Two cds: Pram and Germano Pram, "Dark Island." Perfect surrealist soundtrack music. Late night jazz, psychedelia, dreampop, horror movie soundtracks, and ghostly vocals form the aural equivalent of a De Chirico painting. http://www.mergerecords.com Lisa Germano, "Lullaby for a Liquid Pig." I like this even better than Kristen Hersh's "The Grotto", which strives for a similair darkly confessional folk vibe. The sonic tricks and surprises are all enveloping. Haunting and sad. http://www.lisagermano.com - --Craig __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The New Yahoo! Search - Faster. Easier. Bingo. http://search.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 22:01:40 -0500 From: Xenus Sister Subject: Bob Holroyd again I just saw this review on Amazon.com Bob Holroyd is a second-generation fourth-world musician. As if sitting in master control of the global village, he slides virtual tendrils across the world from his studio in England, transporting sounds into his computers and keyboards and deploying them across an electronic panorama that eschews big beats in favor of the polyrhythmic groove. On his fourth CD, Holroyd mixes and matches ethnic samples, including Koi San tribesman from the Kalahari desert on the exuberant "Looking Back" and a Chinese erhu in "The Spaces in Between." The album flows unpredictably as Holroyd enters deep space on "Dreams of Olduvai" and inserts highlife horn charts on "Rafiki." He is also a commercially savvy artist. He orchestrates a global groove cover of Peter Gabriel's "Games Without Frontiers," built around the criminally overlooked singer-songwriter Happy Rhodes, that could gain airplay--at least on a global radio of the imagination. --John Diliberto Criminally overlooked is just about right. John Diliberto is the fellow who kindly played Happy on Echoes. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #120 **************************