From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #195 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, July 7 2003 Volume 09 : Number 195 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Polyphonic Spree [Kjetil Torgrim Homme ] Re: Polyphonic Spree [meredith ] Three days of heat, grass, and music ["Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************** Jim Gurley (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Lisa Rouchka Fri July 08 1960 Moonchild with Java Rising Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Ellen Rawson Thu July 13 1961 Double Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer R. Rapp Wed July 14 1954 On a Gray Eye Sojourn John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Dan Stark Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Cathy Guetzlaff Mon July 18 1955 Cancer Vlad Sat July 18 1970 Warning: severe tire damage Jani Pinola Thu July 20 1972 Jonquil Alvin Brattli Sun July 27 1969 Lefthanded Christy Eger Smith Thu July 27 1944 Horse Crossing Shirley Ye July 27 Lioness woj Sun July 28 1968 children at play John Relph Sat July 28 1962 Leo Bob Kollmeyer Wed July 28 1971 Leo Steve Lusky Tue July 29 1952 Bike! Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Chuck Smith Wed July 30 1958 Reboot Yves Denneulin Fri July 30 1971 Lion-Heart Joel Kenyon Wed July 31 1963 Leo Eli Brandt August 05 Leo Amanda Williams Tue August 05 1969 phoenix - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 16:08:37 +0200 From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Subject: Re: Polyphonic Spree [Lyle Howard]: > > In case you didn't hear the little story on Polyphonic Spree the > other day on All Things Considered, here is your chance to listen > to it: > > http://www.npr.org/programs/asc/archives/asc38/index.html#polyphonicspree hmm, couldn't get it to work. anyway, Polyphonic Spree was one of the pleasant surprises of this year's Roskilde Festival for me. their jubilant performance is really contagious, just thinking about the head-banging harpist brings a smile to my face. and their music is very agreeable. "hey, this could have been Supertramp! and this next song sounds like early David Bowie. and surely this one was supposed to be on The Wall, but didn't fit." I fear I'm getting old. it's one thing to listen to and appreciate "old" music, but to listen to new music, made in the old style, to appeal to my generation? the alarm bells are ringing! - -- Kjetil T. np: Art Of Noise: the FON mixes nr: Kazuo Ishiguro: an artist of the floating world ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2003 11:55:05 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Polyphonic Spree Hi, Kjetil commented: >I fear I'm getting old. it's one thing to listen to and >appreciate "old" music, but to listen to new music, made in the old >style, to appeal to my generation? the alarm bells are ringing! I'm starting to know exactly what you mean. I'm seeing bands like Interpol and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs -- bands which clearly are trying to recreate the more interesting aspects of 80's music -- and liking them quite a bit, while at the same time wondering if that's only because they remind me of Joy Division and Echo and the Bunnymen (in the case of Interpol) or early Siouxsie and the Banshees (in the case of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs). Though I think I mainly find the Yeah Yeah Yeahs fascinating because their singer is so clearly insane. Like Kristeen Young on a really bad trip... she's truly a wonder to behold. =============================================== 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: Sun, 6 Jul 2003 20:52:22 -0500 (CDT) From: "Mitchell A. Pravatiner" Subject: Three days of heat, grass, and music This year's Taste of Chicago, the City of Chicago's summer festival of overpriced food; overcrowding; and free entertainment, afforded me the rare opportunity to hear three singer-songwriters in as many days, at no charge. Typologically, the three almost fall into a dialectical (thesis-antithesis-synthesis) pattern: Maria Hines, a local independent artist whom I happen to know personally; Sheryl Crow, a national headliner whom I don't know personally :-); and Alice Peacock, whose name I had heard before but about whom I knew nothing, and whom I assumed to be an up-and-coming alternative artist with some national name recognition. Maria Hines' performance on Friday was by far the best of the three. It was held at the festival's secondary stage, far from the madding crowd. Many of the audience toward the front apparently were friends of hers, whom she recognized from the stage (including me) in the course of her performance. Maria's music is more unplugged than not, though not strictly acoustic. Her first number was true sensuality in music--the kind of thing some people think they're going to get from _Liz Phair_, though of course they really won't. The rest of her set maintained the same high artistic standard. Most of it is material written since her self-published CD came out a couple of years ago, though she performed a few older selctions toward the end. She certainly has enough good material for a new album, and I told her so after the show. She told me she was working on it. Sheryl Crow's performance on Saturday was already in progress when I arrived, thanks to conflicting information about the start time. Somehow I doubt if what I missed was all that different from what I didn't. This one was at the main stage, with a large crowd; I saw the performance on a video screen, probably getting a better view than those seated where they could see the stage with the naked eye. Musically, Crow seemed to be mostly preaching to the converted, as it were. The set was replete with Greatest Hits, and what I assume to be other album tracks. A few numbers deviated from normal radio rock, shading into folk or maybe country; perhaps unsurprisingly, those are the selections I found most interesting. The crowd certainly did its fair share of clapping and singing along to the music. But somehow I doubt that any of them learned anything new, musically--a stark contrast with Hines' performance the previous day. I arrived at the main stage on Sunday at the announced start time for Alice Peacock's set as the opening act for Elvis Costello, but she, too, had already started. And so the first of the blanks was promptly filled in: she is a rocker, and a good one. Her lyrics seem more complex, or at least less high concept, than Crow's. She plays both guitar and keyboards, and performed a fair number of covers along with her original material. The audience was more restrained in its applause, etc., than was Crow's--hopefully a sign of a more serious atitude toward the music. The set may or may not have been cut short by a brief thundershower that hit just at the end of one number, a few minutes before Costello was scheduled to go on. But after a long weekend of free music where Hines' performance would have been worth twice the price :-), while the price was right for Crow's performance :-), my brief introduction to Peacock can be summed up by paraphrasing the old Remington shaver commercials: I was so impressed, I bought her CD on the way home. Mitch ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #195 **************************