From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #239 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, August 24 2003 Volume 09 : Number 239 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Thea reviews/Jewel slating ["Adam K." ] Re: ecto-digest V9 #237- Beth Orton [Kjetil Torgrim Homme Subject: Thea reviews/Jewel slating Braving the blizzard of spam that the juvenile arsewipes have set upon the cyber world, I'm going to try and get this one out: Final words on Thea Gilmore's "Avalanche" (promise, until I see her in November, at least), courtesy of Time Out's Ross Fortune (a closet ecto, if ever there was one) and the Guardian. Selected lines from Fortune's review of a couple of weeks ago: "This album is a marvellous thing, period, with no concession to youth or inexperience." He goes on to compare her to Linda Thompson, The Waterboys, Heidi Berry "and, yes, even Bob Dylan.here are songs that hit hard and tarry long Layered and textured, the music is strikingly original yet somehow familiar. Richly realised and utterly contemporary, there is something about the sound and the songs and the nagging sense of implicit melancholy that just knocks you back and opens you up.it is a voice that glows. And floats and sours..She is liquid, self-defining, ever changing.there is blood in her veins and ire in her bones. Truth and beauty hurts." The Guardian, meanwhile, give "Avalanche" 4/5 stars, saying: "Gilmore is blazing her own path towards classic status as a songwriter..A grower". In contrast, the lead review this week is of Jewel's "0304", which gets 2/5 stars and a right kicking: "it's simultaneously cloying and exhausting, like being trapped in a confined space with an over-eager puppy. If Kilcher did indeed want to produce 'music that makes you want to escape', she has succeeded beyond her wildest dreams." Any other criticism, I suspect, will be drowned out by the ringing of cash registers. adam k. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:14:10 +0200 From: Kjetil Torgrim Homme Subject: Re: ecto-digest V9 #237- Beth Orton [London, Sherry]: > > Beth Orton is releasing a CD in a couple of weeks, called the > Other side of Daybreak which is mostly remixed of the Daybreak CD > plus a new song or two. very exciting! I loved the electronica treatment William Orbit applied to her music. > BTW...Heather Nova is releasing a new CD too. hooray! > All her US fans have been hoping for a US tour but it seems that > she is going to have a baby and touring over here will be put on > hold.:-( good for her! I can be generous since she's coming to Oslo Sep 21! (lots of exclamation marks: a sure sign of an excited mind!) - -- Kjetil T. np: Nina Gordon: Tonight And The Rest Of My Life nr: Sheri Tepper: The Fresco ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2003 17:19:51 -0700 From: "John Zimmer" Subject: Re: SARAH, NELLY F, MILLA, LISA, and a BETH question Cool news about Sarah's new one, I hope the rumors are true. The Sea of Waking Dreams fansite (http://www.aquezada.com/sarah/) mostly echoes the same information, so we'll see. The _Underworld_ soundtrack, in addition to a track by Milla (woohoo!), also has some other artists that may be of interest here: Lisa Germano, Johnette Napolitano, and Sarah Bettens (of K's Choice). Oh, and some relative unknown called David Bowie. :) Gonna have to pick this one up ASAP. September is looking to be rather expensive... John ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #239 **************************