From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #215 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, July 30 2003 Volume 09 : Number 215 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Fwd: Ectophiles' Guide - Artist Request [Neile Graham ] too many good concerts in L.A. next week [Paul2k@aol.com] Help, who is this artist? ["Rod Kratochwill" ] Re: Help, who is this artist? [Sander ] new toyah mini album [anna maria "stjärnell" ] My first house concert!!! ["London, Sherry" ] LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) [iflin@speakeasy.net] Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) [Yngve Hauge ] Re: innocence mission at fez [Jeff Wasilko ] RE: New CD Baby offerings [Jason Gordon ] Rachael Sage's new album [Todd Pierce ] Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) [Paul Blair ] damon's folk festival experience [Damon ] Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) [AzeemAK@aol.com] RE: New CD Baby offerings [Yngve Hauge ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 23:30:17 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Fwd: Ectophiles' Guide - Artist Request This from an Ectophiles' Guide reader. Thought some here might be interested. - --Neile > >Name: Paula >Topic: Artist Request > >I was wondering if one could request a certain band possibly be >added to the database? > >This isn't for me (I don't have a band), or any people I know, there >is just a band I think some of the people in this community might >also like, that I absolutely love. > >The name of the band is Nightwish. They are from Finland. > >Their website has their full discography. http://www.nightwish.com/ > >The lead singer is a female with opera training. It is combined >with metal music, and I think it sounds so exquisite and beautiful, >and very medieval and haunting at times. > >My favorite album of theirs is Wishmaster, but Oceanborn is a close second. > >Thanks for reading this, even if you are unable to take reader >requests about bands one likes:) > >Paula > - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham .... neile@sff.net/@drizzle.com ... www.sff.net/people/neile Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal ........ www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines Editor, The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ........... www.ectoguide.org Workshop Administrator, Clarion West ................ www.clarionwest.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:16:46 -0400 From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: too many good concerts in L.A. next week First we have The Like on Sunday at the Troubadour as well as Les Nubians and Zap Mama at the Palace; then Leona Naess at Hotel Cafe on the 4th; then Erin McKeown at Largo, Leona at the Troubadour, and Charlotte Martin at Hotel Cafe on the 5th; Blue Man Group at the Shrine Auditorium on the 7th. Hmm, and Delerium will be here in September, Goldfrapp in October. I'm going to aim for Leona on the 4th and Erin on the 5th. Both will probably be a real bitch to get into though. Dang. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:32:44 -0400 From: "Rod Kratochwill" Subject: Help, who is this artist? Sometime ago someone posted a link to music download from a young female folk singer from somewhere in Europe, (Netherlands, Sweden, Norway?) I have a downloaded video of the song "Where To Start" and can't for the life of me figure out who it is. I went through this once before and somehow I found the original link in an old digest somewhere, but this time I haven't been so lucky. Does any one know who it is? Rod ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:15:44 +0200 From: Sander Subject: Re: Help, who is this artist? Rod Kratochwill wrote: > Sometime ago someone posted a link to music download from a young female > folk singer from somewhere in Europe, (Netherlands, Sweden, Norway?) I have > a downloaded video of the song "Where To Start" and can't for the life of me > figure out who it is. I went through this once before and somehow I found > the original link in an old digest somewhere, but this time I haven't been > so lucky. Does any one know who it is? Elin Sigvardsson - http://www.elinsigvardsson.com/eng/index.html - from Sweden. (I remembered because she's still making the rounds in my playlists - and from there gazing somewhat reproachfully at me that I haven't yet found a way to buy her album.) Sander ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 06:36:11 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: new toyah mini album Hi.. there's a new toyah mini album called velvet lined shell. i think this is great news. older albums have also been reissued it seems. elysian fields new album dreams that breathe your name is out in france and can be ordered at fnac.com. anna maria __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:56:16 -0700 From: "London, Sherry" Subject: My first house concert!!! Hi everyone Thanks for the tips(house concert) Meth...I had my first house concert on Sunday, featuring Michelle Malone, and it was more wonderful than I could have ever imagined!!!! The acoustics in my room were amazingly good (at least to my ear). Michelle was so terrific and I am hopeful to have a nice recording of the evening. I think she had a nice time, she was the last one to leave. :-) Anyway...because it was such a rewarding experience, I am going to do it again. I am working out the details with Natalie Wattre, mentioned on this list by others and someone I have followed since her early days. She is a local southern California singer who was formally with a group called the Extinct. She has gone solo and just released her first CD. If there is anyone on this list who lives in southern California and would like to attend, just drop me an email. If I can keep a regular crowd, I would love to make this into a fairly frequent happening. Any tips on how to keep the momentum going will be appreciated. Peace, sherry This e-mail/fax message, including any attachments, is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail/fax and destroy all copies of the original message. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:06:42 +0000 From: iflin@speakeasy.net Subject: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 20:39:41 -0700 (PDT) From: Neb Rodgers - - ---Original Message--- > Annie Lennox will sing the title song for the much-anticipated third Lord > of the Rings movie. The former Eurythmics star has already started work on > the track for The Lord Of The Rings: The Return Of The King, which will be > released this Christmas. Annie follows in the footsteps of Irish singer > Enya, who sang the title song for the first blockbuster. actually i believe ANNIE LENNOX is following in the footsteps of SHEILA CHANDRA, LIZ FRASER and EMILIANA TORRINI who all sang song for the LORD OF THE RINGS: THE TWO TOWERS soundtrack. strangely, even though i own the FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS four disk set, i still haven't gotten around to watching it again. too much of a time commitment. *sigh* i guess i'll just wait for the four disk TWO TOWERS to come out and just do a marathon and watch both. that way it'll be fresh in my head for RETURN OF THE KING. i really can't wait until RotK. i've been meaning to reread the whole LotR books but am waiting until the i've seen all three movies first. i've made the mistake before of reading a book before the adaption. i realize they are two different entities, but i think going into a movie with a blank slate is probably best - at least for me. complete nonsequitorial shift. i realized there was a lot of talk about LIZ PHAIR's recent album, but i wonder how many people actually ended up buying/listening to the whole album? and i also wonder what their reaction was to it. especially in the light of all the scathing reviews of the CD. after all the talking about the "selling out" of LIZ PHAIR, i didn't really get a sense that anyone (other maybe one or two people who mention songs specifically) actually went out and listened to the whole CD, or bought it and lived with it for awhile. rather it was a lot of talk about the articles and the reviews, and little about the music. i'm not defending the CD, i'm just curious. i know there are a lot of people on this list that DON'T have a problem with pop music. and i am just wondering if there were people who actually liked it.... and finally i am interested to hear if anyone did buy the album, and then downloaded the online EP, the one that she made for her "old fans" that had the non pop stuff on it, including her old song HURRICANE CINDY (which was actually previous released on a japanese import of whitechocolatespaceegg). what interests me most about LIZ PHAIR's recent album was that despite all the claims of selling out, i thought the album was a direct growth from her previous album whitechocolatespaceegg. in that album, you could already tell that LIZ was leaning toward a slicker, more pop/radio friendly sound. i wonder if she would have gotten the same sort of reaction from her release if she had released the album a year after whitechocolatespaceegg. the long gap in time between albums always makes the "new" album more dramatic in it's presentation. irvin ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:31:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 iflin@speakeasy.net wrote: > complete nonsequitorial shift. i realized there was a lot of talk about > LIZ PHAIR's recent album, but i wonder how many people actually ended up > buying/listening to the whole album? and i also wonder what their > reaction was to it. especially in the light of all the scathing reviews > of the CD. > > after all the talking about the "selling out" of LIZ PHAIR, i didn't > really get a sense that anyone (other maybe one or two people who > mention songs specifically) actually went out and listened to the whole > CD, or bought it and lived with it for awhile. rather it was a lot of > talk about the articles and the reviews, and little about the music. i'm > not defending the CD, i'm just curious. i know there are a lot of people > on this list that DON'T have a problem with pop music. and i am just > wondering if there were people who actually liked it.... > I haven't heard the whole thing myself, but my friend who works at a local record store says it is quite good, so I guess I'll have to listen to the whole thing when I get to it. On another topic - I noticed that Dadafon did play in London earlier this month (before I did mention them here actually) - did anyone by chance get to see them? A concert in St.Petersburg is listed for next month sometime - - don't have the thing in my head so I can't say the exact date. I'll keep my eyes up for more european dates. - -- Yngve ****************************************** * E-mail: onealien@mo.himolde.no ********* * Cell: +47 41330571 ********************* ***** Blessed be!!! ********************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 13:47:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) iflin@speakeasy.net wrote: [snip] > complete nonsequitorial shift. i realized there was a lot of talk > about LIZ PHAIR's recent album, but i wonder how many people actually > ended up buying/listening to the whole album? and i also wonder what > their reaction was to it. especially in the light of all the scathing > reviews of the CD. I did buy the CD and have listened to it several times. I feel like it's pretty lightweight. I can't say that I have any particular issues with it, and have gone so far as to load it into my iPod [1]. As pop music, it's fine. It's certainly more intelligent than quite a lot of pop music. But I have to admit that I expect more from her, since her past releases have been so good. (I haven't downloaded the online EP yet, though. Thanks for the reminder! I'll do that when I get home tonight.) /nm [1] My iPod is full, so loading new music onto it means that I have to remove something else. Thus it's an issue, because I actually have to think about it. :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:59:07 -0400 From: Stuart Myerburg Subject: Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) iflin@speakeasy.net wrote: >after all the talking about the "selling out" of LIZ PHAIR, i didn't really get a sense that anyone (other maybe one or two people who mention songs specifically) actually went out and listened to the whole CD, or bought it and lived with it for awhile. rather it was a lot of talk about the articles and the reviews, and little about the music. i'm not defending the CD, i'm just curious. i know there are a lot of people on this list that DON'T have a problem with pop music. and i am just wondering if there were people who actually liked it.... > I like it! The album is not nearly as bad as many people would have you believe. In fact, it's actually quite good. I think a lot of the backlash is simply people having a kneejerk reaction to what they perceive as selling out. I was guilty of that myself. I was very dubious when I heard Liz was working with the Matrix. But I gave the album a try and like it. Yes, it's poppy. But why is that so often seen as an immediate negative? Stuart ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:03:14 -0400 From: broadway jack Subject: innocence mission at fez noticed this in the latest fez mailshot (apologies to non-new york city area folks): >Tuesday, August 12 >The Innocence Mission >From the quiet city of Lancaster PA, the three members of the >Innocence Mission make their music, all of it exalting love and >friendship, peace and joy. Rare New York appearance! >Doors open at 7:00; Cover is $15. Tickets available now on Ticketweb.com! anybody else considering this show? woj ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:04:46 -0400 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: innocence mission at fez On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:03:14PM -0400, broadway jack wrote: > noticed this in the latest fez mailshot (apologies to non-new york city area > folks): > > >Tuesday, August 12 > >The Innocence Mission > >From the quiet city of Lancaster PA, the three members of the > >Innocence Mission make their music, all of it exalting love and > >friendship, peace and joy. Rare New York appearance! > >Doors open at 7:00; Cover is $15. Tickets available now on Ticketweb.com! > > anybody else considering this show? count me in! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2003 17:42:24 -0500 From: Jason Gordon Subject: RE: New CD Baby offerings I think Neile is reading my mind...my cd baby to buy list consists of: Daughter Darling-Sweet Shadows DEB TALAN: a bird flies out HANA-Omen Atrium-Freefalling s.e.k.s. Life In Venus Lisa Cerbone Ordinary Days lauri kranz all this time we could have been friends chelsea beauchamp - little star?? Bora Yoon-Proscenium?? Mckinley Stacy Kray-Broken Symmetry Petracovich-Blue Cotton Skin!!! Plink-The Sleeping Lines Bird York-The Velvet Hour Mercymachine-In Your Bed Charity Kahn-firstborn Stephanie Wright-The Turning Point They should have a subscription service or something! - -Jason np Michelle McAdorey - Swirl - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org]On Behalf Of Jeff Wasilko Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 9:44 PM To: Neile Graham Cc: Ecto Subject: Re: New CD Baby offerings On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 05:50:29PM -0700, Neile Graham wrote: > Hi, all-- > > Besides now having Lisa Cerbone's new album, yesterday they listed > the new Innocence Mission, _Befriended_. They also carry my > favourite disc of the year so far I think, Daughter Darling's > delightful _sweet shadows_. > > It has a variety of moods and flavours, but is basically moody trip > hop pop, full of gorgeous, evocative vocals, interesting sounds and > melodic lines. It's haunting. Kind of a combination of Halou and Two > Loons for Tea. > > For those who like offbest indie-ish stuff, I salso really like the > Britney Moore disc, _Home for Story Time_. It reminds me of Rebecca > Moore's first album, a little. > > And I still highly, highly recommend Kat Terran's _Lion & Blue_, and > don't forget Petracovich - Blue Cotton Skin. Curse you, Neile! I should just give up and have part of my paycheck sent to CD Baby each month! Anyway, thanks for the heads-up about the new Innocence Mission cd. I've got Daughter Darling's samples playing now. I suspect I won't be able to get away with less than 6 CDs in the order again... - -j ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:59:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Pierce Subject: Rachael Sage's new album Hi, wanted to say Rachael Sage's new album Public Record is well worth buying when it comes out next week. I saw Rachael perform at a street festival last weekend in Asheville NC - and it was a great performance, with Rachael sporting her new hairdo, plus backup musicians on drums, cello and harmonica. I got the new CD there (and Rachael was kind enough to autograph it after the performance). If you liked her last album Illusion's Carnival you will like this one - it carries on in the same style, but with even more use of horns and strings. I'm awful at describing music - just go buy it! Todd Pierce Asheville, NC __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:10:04 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) At 20:06 +0000 7/29/03, iflin@speakeasy.net wrote: >strangely, even though i own the FELLOWSHIP OF THE RINGS four disk >set, i still haven't gotten around to watching it again. too much of >a time commitment. *sigh* i guess i'll just wait for the four disk >TWO TOWERS to come out and just do a marathon and watch both. that >way it'll be fresh in my head for RETURN OF THE KING. Me too--I think I actually watched the whole movie, just to see the few bits that weren't shown in the theater, but I never got around to seeing all the extra material. So why did I get it then? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 16:18:43 -0700 From: Damon Subject: Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) On 29 Jul, Paul Blair wrote: > Me too--I think I actually watched the whole movie, just to see the > few bits that weren't shown in the theater, but I never got around to > seeing all the extra material. So why did I get it then? Supporting Your Country's Economy In These Troubled Times? *snark* - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 19:25:25 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: innocence mission at fez > >Tuesday, August 12 >>The Innocence Mission >>From the quiet city of Lancaster PA, the three members of the >>Innocence Mission make their music, all of it exalting love and >>friendship, peace and joy. Rare New York appearance! >>Doors open at 7:00; Cover is $15. Tickets available now on Ticketweb.com! > >anybody else considering this show? I'm considering it, but I have a dance class at 8:30 that I'll have to miss... If they say doors at 7, what time do they actually start? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 17:01:47 -0700 From: Damon Subject: damon's folk festival experience here's what i wrote to some friends after the vancouver folk fest two weekends ago, for those who might be interested. jill sobule, jorane, andrea koziol, sarah-jane morris and billy bragg were all there this year. speaking of which, does anyone have any coments on sarah-jane morris? i was blown away by her performance that i caught and very interested to find out more, but haven't had a chance to follow up yet. - -damon - ---- so yes, i did go to the vancouver folk festival on saturday, i even dragged myself out of bed to be there *almost* at the start. i had good bus luck and got there in about the minimum amount of time; it started at 10 and i was there a little after 10.30. i looked at their map quickly and couldn't locate stage three, which is where the silver hearts (a `folk orchestra' who sounded exciting) were playing in the morning; thought about buying a programme but figured i'd be ok just wandering around to re-orient myself; the setup looked much the same as two years ago. i wandered by stage 2 (the nice shady one), stage 5 (the off in the corner one) and stage 4 (the in-the-middle one) and finally got to what i *thought* was stage 3, there was a huge group of people on stage with a large array of different instruments and i figured it must be what i was looking for. sat down on the grass and thoroughly enjoyed 15 minutes of all sorts of different types of music segueing into one another, plus some exciting dancing. it was fun to just watch this huge group of people all playing and enjoying themselves, let alone the great noise they were producing! i learned later that i was in fact watching the vancouver world music collective on stage six, which made a lot of sense in retrospect. there were a lot of cameras in evidence; apparently they were being filmed for a documentary. then i wandered over to stage 5 for the `secret life of the heart' workshop with andrea koziol and jorane, as well as two artists i didn't know, niamh parsons from ireland and julie murphy from wales (actually england originally). the last two both did traditional songs from their respective countries which while very nice to listen to didn't really capture my imagination. andrea koziol was *exactly* as i remember her from two years ago - wonderful torchy-jazzy-soulful music, a butter-melting voice and so much stage presence and enthusiasm she's a joy to watch. jorane (powerful cello player from quebec) did a couple of pieces, one was in her very funny cute english mangling mode, one more solemn; i was a little disappointed as both songs were plucked and i *really* love it when she bows, she can produce some extremely powerful sounds from her cello. i did find it interesting to watch her pluck though, because she'd always draw her hand away in a very controlled movement that *looked* like bowing; i wonder if that movement just becomes ingrained after a while. back to stage four to see jill sobule (yay!) playing with three others i didn't know: scott merritt, martina sorbara, and sarah-jane morris. jill was just as much fun live as i'd expected her to be; i'm really glad to got the chance to see her as i don't imagine she makes it up here too often. she has the *cutest* little guitar, i *assume* it's a guitar but it looks more like a cross between a mandolin and a ukelele. probably has some other name i'm not aware of. she started with `bitter', then played `mexican wrestler', and finally a cover of david bowie's `all the young dudes' which i think i've heard before. the workshops generally go in rounds, so each musician will play something in turn, then again, until they run out of time. martina sorbara seemed to me a pretty forgettable mostly-pop artist from ontario; pleasant enough but nothing i'll remember - though who knows, i may not be doing her justice there. scott merritt was kind of a nice surprise; sort of interesting `head music' i thought. at least the first song, `beautiful mess', made me vaguely want to check out his stuff further. it reminded me a bit of john etnier's disc `modem' which i reviewed for the guide a few years ago and kept because while it wasn't generally really `my thing' it was very interesting to listen to; of course i don't think any of you know that disc so the comparison won't be very meaningful. but the biggest new discovery for me of the whole folk fest was sarah-jane morris. i was very sad that i didn't hear her sing at any of the other workshops; she was in one more afterwards that i tried to make it to but didn't make it in time to hear her again. she has an intense, gravelly deep voice which seemed kind of incongruous coming from this quite beautiful woman - she *looked* more like a loreena mckennit or something so i was kind of expecting ethereal and was quite amazed when she sang a few lines during the sound tests beforehand. everything she sang (accompanied by her guitarist) was powerful and moving. she's apparently quite famous and has been around for a long time. to quote the description from thefestival.bc.ca: "The term "living tradition" sometimes sounds like it is about something found in a museum or a pamphlet from a well-meaning government agency. In real life it is actually as juicy and cool as anything in the universe. Case in point, Sarah-Jane Morris who hails from the days when it took at least 20 years to reach diva-hood. When she sings, and good God she surely can, she evokes women singing through generations. It becomes clear that there is an unbroken river of song from Bessie Smith to Ella Fitzgerald to Dusty Springfield to the present." i may not know those singers very well but nonetheless they *are* names that popped into my own head while she was singing. i almost bought one of her cds there but figured i could probably find it for less than $22, and kind of wanted to do my research first anyway as she's apparently done a *wide* range of different things - i'd like to start with something along the lines of what she was doing at the folk fest, like i said it was very powerful. anyway, after the `with a twist' workshop i stuck around at stage four for `the view from here', again featuring jill sobule, along with billy bragg, maria dunn and david francey. i didn't realise i'd actually heard billy bragg before (though i knew i'd heard *of* him) but then he opened with a song i knew - sexuality. also a lot of interesting (and funny) talk about a recent attempt in england (his homeland) to instate a gay man as the archbishop of canterbury, which was overthrown by the church - as he put it the idea of a bunch of old queens in their long robes and jewellery arguing about whether or not to allow an openly gay man to be the bishop is just silly. :) his second song was about british politics, third was `the bush-war blues' to which he got all the other artists to contribute a verse (jill's was very amusing :) - and at the end they even had time for him to do a fourth, `whose side are you on?' which i also think i must have heard before. anyway, it made me realise i'd like to check out something by billy bragg too; he's obviously a man with a lot to say. jill of course had to follow up billy bragg's `sexuality' with `i kissed a girl' - which we learned was (unsurprisingly) banned in some southern states when it came out. she preceeded it with a disturbing-jill-mode short song she'd been working on about a gay boy growing up in the bible belt... she also did `lucy at the gym' and one she said she's been working on but was `a failure', `war correspondant in love' - i have to agree it's not really album material but it was fun for a folk fest. david francey (who i'd never heard of before) did a couple of songs that were quite nice (and the second was an interesting observation about being in the states on the anniversary of september 11 and thinking that it looked a lot like the fourth of july) but not terribly memorable for me. the funny thing was, he'd introduce the song and tell us how it came about, and then proceed to sing pretty much the same thing he'd told us, concept by concept. ;) and maria dunn (and her partner/violinist) was an interesting activist sort from alberta who had a lot to say about the provincial gov't there (ralph klein is the only canadian premier at this point who's said that when the gay marriage law is made national, he will block it in alberta grrr...). not terribly memorable musically but definitely interesting. somewhere in the middle of this set i realised i hadn't thought at all about sunblock - another reason i really needed to have someone along with me; if someone else is going they'll remember sunblock and remind me to put some on but if i go by myself i forget. i haven't had sunburn for many years so i didn't have anything visceral to remind me. i was starting to get lobster red on my legs and arms and knew that was going to hurt later. i begged some sunblock from someone else there but it was obviously too late at that point. back on over to what i still thought was stage three to see andrea koziol again, but that was when i learned it was stage six. i went off in a panic looking for stage three; as it turned out i needn't have hurried as that stage was running very late and someone else was still playing when i got there - nothing too memorable. luckily there was a nice shady tree for me to hide under there so i sat back and relaxed a bit until andrea finally came on; and stayed there through her performance which *looked* really good from where i was but i was well out of the line of the speakers so it didn't have a lot of auditory impact... ah well. shade was worth missing out for. when she was done i booted it over to stage two to see if i could still catch sarah-jane morris but like i said i missed her. for the next segment there was no one i really wanted desperately to see so i took a break to get water, use a porta-potty (ick!) and scope out the cd tent (too expensive - and sorry, sherlyn, but andrea has no new albums out... but speaking of which how is _mission:bliss_ in comparison to _simple_? i didn't buy it but now i'm wondering if i should regret that). then back to stage two to see what was going on; it was the `lipstick traces' workshop (who comes up with these anyway?) featuring rani arbo & daisy mayhem, po'girl, `and any number of silver hearts'. so i did get to see the silver hearts after all, even if it was only apparently a `skeleton crew' - they were pretty amazing even as such and i really wish i'd seen the whole thing. i counted at *least* a tuba, trumpet and trombone, two guitar players, a guy on washboard, and... uh...a couple of others i can't recall. they played a couple of fun songs, and most of them sang in addition to playing. apparently the full ensemble also contains a musical saw and a theremin (since when is that an instrument appropriate for a `folk orchestra'?) so i guess i missed out. still a lot of fun. actually the whole workshop was very energetic and fun, but i was so far away for most of it i never really even managed to sort out who was po'girl and who was `rani arbo & daisy mayhem'. ah well. then i stayed at stage two (and scooted up to the front in the shuffle) for `heart and soul' featuring andrea and jorane again, plus suba sankara & ed hanley both from the band autorickshaw. i missed another set with jill sobule but it was kind of a tossup and i'd already seen her twice. suba is a powerful singer (ed plays drums) and i'm intrigued to hear more of autorickshaw. she and andrea and jorane harmonise extremely well. apparently this group met up for an extended jam session a couple of days before the festival and that's what we got treated to - an extension of that extended jam session. it was a lot of fun. suba and andrea played off each other vocally *very* well, and andrea's bass guitarist and jorane's guitarist are a real treat to watch, they obviously had a lot of fun playing off each other too. both of them can get very funky. :) jorane was the only disappointment - she never really took the lead even with quite a bit of prompting from andrea; she did start off one song and got the audience to participate and she obviously is a real character, but maybe was having a quiet day - and all plucking, no bowing again. and i wouldn't say she was disappointing, *except* that i have her cds and i *know* what incredibly powerful music she's capable of. while they were testing the sound system she bowed for about 10 seconds and i thought wow, this is what i came to hear, but that was basically it. sigh. i love the cello and was really looking forward to hearing her actually play it! once they finished i still had time to go catch a bit of the henrys' set over at the real stage three; they're a band whose cd i corrently have (and have had since september last year i think) for review for the ectophiles' guide, but i haven't been able to get enthused about it enough to write anything. it's nice enough, kind of groovy, but really doesn't inspire me at all. sadly i found they had exactly the same effect live; nice enough but no gut response from me. the crowd really seemed to like them a lot though, so there's hope i can pass this disc on to someone who *will* be enthused... and after that i was too tired, sick of crowds, and sunburned to stay for the evening concerts, which all take place on the big main stage. as usual, all the ground around the main stage *way* out into the field was already claimed with blankets by 10.30 when i arrived, and there just seemed no real point as there wasn't anyone i specifically wanted to see in the evening lineup anyway. i would have been interested to see white cockatoo (an aborigine band from australia) but wasn't willing to hang around in the crowd through three other acts that didn't intrigue me to hear them. i'm sad now that i didn't go friday night, as both sarah-jane morris and billy bragg played in the friday night concert; and i would have liked to go sunday to see jorane have a whole stage to herself (there would *have* to be bowing then! :) and see ani difranco (who seemed to be *only* at the sunday night concert this year; i thought artists *had* to sign on for at least two days of the festival or they weren't allowed in?) but one day was definitely enough for me and saturday had the highest density of acts i wanted to see. so my souvenirs are memories of a good day, a few new artists to check out, and one hell of a painful sunburn - my face and lower legs are bright red, my arms less so - luckily the only part that hurts a lot is my knees because they're about the worst and the skin flexes there - - my face feels tight and dry but not painful. still, i'm interesting to look at right now. all in all, well worth the $55, could have done without the sunburn but at least i've probably learned my lesson now - first thing i did the next day was buy sunblock - while i was picking up my cds from cdbaby, so now i have a whole swack more new music to listen to... this was supposed to be a summary, looks more like a blow-by-blow account now! hope you weren't all bored. more information on the bands/performers is still available at http://thefestival.bc.ca/artists.cfm for the time being if you're intrigued by anything. - -- dl+ecto@usrbin.ca: protecting my real address since 2002 (too late!) > EWS starts here! < ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 20:56:23 EDT From: AzeemAK@aol.com Subject: Re: LORD OF THE RINGS and LIZ PHAIR (unrelated threads) In a message dated 30/07/2003 00:13:06 GMT Daylight Time, ciriwe@phobot.net writes: > Me too--I think I actually watched the whole movie, just to see the > few bits that weren't shown in the theater, but I never got around to > seeing all the extra material. So why did I get it then? > I've watched all the extras from the 4DVD set of the first film - they are superb, really fascinating, thoroughly recommended! Can't wait for the Two Towers... Azeem in London ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 03:07:25 +0200 (CEST) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: RE: New CD Baby offerings On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Jason Gordon wrote: > I think Neile is reading my mind...my cd baby to buy list consists of: > Daughter Darling-Sweet Shadows > DEB TALAN: a bird flies out > HANA-Omen > Atrium-Freefalling > s.e.k.s. Life In Venus > Lisa Cerbone Ordinary Days > lauri kranz all this time we could have been friends > chelsea beauchamp - little star?? > Bora Yoon-Proscenium?? > Mckinley > Stacy Kray-Broken Symmetry > Petracovich-Blue Cotton Skin!!! > Plink-The Sleeping Lines > Bird York-The Velvet Hour > Mercymachine-In Your Bed > Charity Kahn-firstborn > Stephanie Wright-The Turning Point > If you haven't got Ephemera already then they should be added to you list ... > They should have a subscription service or something! and yes! they should definitely ... - -- Yngve ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #215 **************************