From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #234 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, August 19 2003 Volume 09 : Number 234 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: ecto-digest V9 #233 [Michael Bravo ] Jen Chapin ["neal copperman" ] Virt Undiscovered Gems / NYC showcase 9/15 [DanStark <2003.carnivore99@ve] Re: Virt Undiscovered Gems / NYC showcase 9/15 [Andrew Fries Subject: Re: ecto-digest V9 #233 ecto-digest wrote: > ecto-digest Monday, August 18 2003 Volume 09 : Number 233 Yep, I'm on digest format for the time being - so forgive me my slowness in replying. > From: "Robert Lovejoy" > Subject: Re: back here > Hi Michael! Welcome back! Thank you! I have also stumbled on meth previously in LiveJournal. > Michael and I have thanks on Building The Colossus, to give relative list > newbies an idea of how long he's been involved with things ectonian. My friend Paul Antonov, too, however, I don't know if he's still subscribed, we're rather rarely in touch these days. > It's > wonderful to see you back on the list. How's the weather in St. Petersburg? > You folks as hot as the rest of Europe or is your northern location offering > some relief? We had the heat spell before the rest of the Europe, so now we enjoy our customary August - 16 to 2 Celsius on average, plus the added moisture pent up during the previous month or so showering us on a regular basis. I'm to depart to Moscow today for a whole week, though, to attend a CIS-wide equestrian exhibition. > Have you been following the adventures of Ms. Rhodes during your absence > from ecto? Life is full of changes. I've been checking Auntie Social from time to time, and also there's a community in the abovementioned LiveJournal, dedicated to Happy; not that it is too lively, though. I also kind of tried to start a blog of my own, at http://mbravo.spb.ru/blog/, but it has been stagnating since I returned from vacations in June. I do intend to revive it, honest, and put some things musical on it, too! > One album I would recommend to you off the bat is Kevin Bartlett's new solo > release, "Near Life Experience". It comes with a kind of sonic glue that > makes it difficult to remove from your cd player. Duly noted :) In fact, to celebrate my return, I have just shelled out for the DCD 1991-1998 boxed set on Amazon, which will get back to me around the start of September :) > Bob Lovejoy > Fairly Ancient Order of Ectophiles We need to ramp up on heraldics, I think :) BTW, wht is the status of various ecto web pages? Ectophile's Guide to Good Music is obviously alive, but most other pages seem to be last modified in 2001. There's at least some info about me that I'd like to bring up-to-date :) - -- /\/\ike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:16:34 -0000 From: "neal copperman" Subject: Jen Chapin Anyone out there familiar with Jen Chapin (daughter of Harry Chapin). She's apparently a NY staple and her songs are as much jazzy and bluesy as folksy. Rickie Lee and Norah Jones were both namedropped as comparison points. Sounded potentially promising, neal np: jumpin' tracks - Albert & Gage ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 19:42:00 -0400 From: DanStark <2003.carnivore99@verizon.net> Subject: Virt Undiscovered Gems / NYC showcase 9/15 Culled from the Virt website at http://www.virtrecords.com/news.html: "Virt Records is thrilled to announce its newest release, Undiscovered Gems, a specially-priced compilaton featuring a collection of lush, melodic songs from some of the brightest emerging independent artists, all female singer/songwriters or female-fronted bands. ... "On 9/15, we will be celebrating the release of Undiscovered Gems with a special showcase at the Bitter End in NY, with 5 of the artists featured on the compilation performing. Come out and see Beth Boucher, Greta Gertler, Terami Hirsch, Alice Marie, and Monica Schroeder share the stage, beginning at 7:30 sharp." - -- http://www.virtrecords.com/undiscoveredgems/listen_buy.html ------------------------------ Date: 19 Aug 2003 14:06:30 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Virt Undiscovered Gems / NYC showcase 9/15 On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 09:42, DanStark wrote: > Culled from the Virt website at http://www.virtrecords.com/news.html: > > "Virt Records is thrilled to announce its newest release, Undiscovered > Gems, a specially-priced compilaton featuring a collection of lush, melodic > songs from some of the brightest emerging independent artists, all female > singer/songwriters or female-fronted bands. > ... > "On 9/15, we will be celebrating the release of Undiscovered Gems with a > special showcase at the Bitter End in NY, with 5 of the artists featured on > the compilation performing. Come out and see Beth Boucher, Greta Gertler, > Terami Hirsch, Alice Marie, and Monica Schroeder share the stage, beginning > at 7:30 sharp." > -- > > http://www.virtrecords.com/undiscoveredgems/listen_buy.html GRETA GERTLER !!! She's the voice (and brains) behind one of my all-time local faves and inventors of a new genre they called "chamber pop": Peccadillo. As far as I know Greta has been residing in New York for the last few years, so I'm not too surprised to see her name pop up. Go and see her, tell her old Peccadillo fan says "hi"! Looking at the roster of Virt Records I recognised the name and face of Rachel Gaudry - she is also from Sydney... I didn't know she relocated to the States as well? But my heart really jumped when I saw the name Beth Boucher - for a moment, especially appearing along with Greta and Rachel, I thought this might be misnamed Becca Boucher... Sadly, reading her bio I see that's not the case. Who is Becca Boucher, you ask? Well, she used to front excellent Australian band called Mercy Bell, then (along with rest of Mercy Bell) disappeared without a trace somewhere overseas... Sigh. - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Grrr...Arrgh!" -- Mutant - -- 13:50:52 up 24 days, 3:02, 3 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00-- ------------------------------ Date: 19 Aug 2003 14:48:44 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Blow up the pokies, was: Virt Undiscovered Gems / NYC showcase 9/15 On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 14:06, Andrew Fries wrote: > GRETA GERTLER !!! She's the voice (and brains) behind one of my > all-time local faves and inventors of a new genre they called "chamber > pop": Peccadillo. Just to add to my previous post, because I'm currently busy procrastinating.. I bet every Australian and possibly Kiwi reading this knows at least one Greta Gertler song - sing along with me: ".. And I wish I, wish I knew the right words To blow up the pokies and drag them away..." Yep, that big hit for The Whitlams, JJJ's top one hundred or whatever, was in fact penned by Greta Gertler and recorded by Peccadillo as "Dwell" good few years before it became the base for "The Pokies". Tim Freedman who can be often heard saying things like "I wrote blow up the pokies..." only wrote the words. I always got very annoyed by him never acknowledging the fact he was using someone else's tune. But then, Tim Freedman always struck me as a bit of an ass... it's not a tall poppy syndrome speaking - I didn't like him when he was a nobody playing Tuesday nights at the Sando, just around the corner from my house, and I don't like him still. In case anyone's wondering, pokie = poker machine :) OK, shutting up now... back to work! - --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Grrr...Arrgh!" -- Mutant - -- 14:30:11 up 24 days, 3:41, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00-- ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #234 **************************