From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #277 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, October 1 2003 Volume 09 : Number 277 Today's Subjects: ----------------- lili haydn in nyc ["Donald G. Keller" ] New Emmylou Harris. ["maier" ] Painters/ or the man from another era/ or Emma Peel sings ["Lyle Howard" ] Fwd: The Reputation update [Michael Curry ] The Green Linnet 5: Irish Musicians To Protest At Offices Of Green Linnet Music In Danbury, Connecticut October 13, 2003 [] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:41:18 -0400 (EDT) From: "Donald G. Keller" Subject: lili haydn in nyc Lili Haydn Bowery Ballroom August 21, 2003 For roughly five years I wondered what had become of Lili Haydn. Not long after the release of her fine debut album =Lili= (one of my 1997 Top Ten), I saw her perform at Mercury Lounge (June 18, 1998), a terrific show of which I have fond memories. According to a recent one-page feature in =Interview=, her other New York show that tour, opening for Page and Plant at Madison Square Garden (out of my price range), was also a tremendous success, winning over a crowd restless for the headliners. Then, nothing for a long while. Sometime last year, I checked her website and discovered a handful of demos (in a kind of New Age style); not too much later she turned up on PBS, accompanying mainstream pop singer Josh Groban on several songs during his TV concert (including "Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring" on which she sits in on his album); she was also featured in a Folger's commercial playing with a country band. Quite a stylistic range, but not difficult for a violinist of her abilities. Finally this August her second album =Light Blue Sun= was released. Where =Lili= was dark, turbulent rock (just the way I like it), straying towards classical structures and culminating in a chaconne for violin and piano, =Light Blue Sun= (co-produced by the celebrated Bill Laswell) is more relaxed and melodic, drifting into worldbeat and jazz grooves, and coming to a conclusion on a long, calm duet with venerable saxophonist Pharaoh Sanders. What hasn't changed is her knack for strong pop hooks and her abundant, exciting violin playing. I'm the first person to applaud an artist's growth and change, especially given her long absence; but being a rock band guy, I found that the stylistic switch on the new album took some getting used to, though I liked quite a lot of it (most particularly the big duet). When I discovered she was playing in New York again, I was excited, though with reservations: she was the opening act (for Particle, apparently a West Coast jam band), therefore it would be a short set; it was an expensive ticket; and I suspected (correctly) that she was only going to play music from the new album. But I couldn't resist, so I bit the bullet and went. And when she began her set with a short solo, her echo unit set to repeat about two notes behind, peaking with sawing Baroque quadruple stops, I stood there, jaw agape, happy to concede that coming to the show had been worth it for that brief moment alone. On her previous tour she played with a full rock band; this time she was accompanied by a bassist, two keyboard players, and a tabla player, quite enough to put across the mixed electronic and ethnic rhythms of the new album. After a good ensemble instrumental, she continued with the album's single, "Anything," not my favorite track but one I expected her to play; it's certainly catchy. Following was "The Chinese Song," sung in Mandarin; under its floating progress Haydn underlays a frantic electronic beat, which would seem contradictory if her playing and singing weren't so convincing. (Love that driving solo in the middle.) It transpired that the tabla player was also adept at conventional trap drums, and his very strong rock/funk groove on "Wounded Dove" was a significant improvement on the more electronic groove of the album. It's one of the more complex of the new songs, darker in tone (more like the earlier album), a vocal piece that also has extended instrumental sections. It was probably the highlight of the set. But the last two numbers made quite an impression as well. "Seek" is a long instrumental that begins with bracing figurations, centers on a memorable tune, and blisters through a thrilling solo as it develops. Finally, there was "Home," my favorite of the pure pop songs on the album. So those last three numbers, among the disc's best, brought the set to a strong conclusion. I hadn't forgotten, and I was glad to reaffirm, how wonderful a performer Lili Haydn is: a very good singer and composer, and one of the best violinists I've heard in a pop context. I also came away with a greater appreciation of the new album. It was too long an interval between opportunities to see her play, and I hope the next interval is much shorter. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2003 00:16:56 +1000 From: "maier" Subject: New Emmylou Harris. I just wondered what others were thinking of it? For some reason it took me quite a while to track down a copy (well, probably because I didn't want to buy it at one of the big chain stores) and when I did the guy behind the counter decided to engage me in a lengthy discussion about copy control :) Heidi. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:56:03 +0000 From: "Lyle Howard" Subject: Painters/ or the man from another era/ or Emma Peel sings Joe said: <> So just drop me in the specimen jar and label me. I come from another era. It was bound to happen. If you are on the earth long enough, you go through enough decades that you qualify to be from a past era. I will attempt to embrace my strange, other-eraness. I initially didnt like _American Pie_, the album. A friend let me listen to it thinking I would rave about it, but it didnt hit me at the time, circa 1971. I was a slave to the Beatles. But in 1976 when I listened to it again, I found the neo folksongs on the album to be beautiful. I still have qualms about "American Pie," the song, and "Vincent." I guess they are a little slick and "Vincent" is too sentimental. But the rest of the songs on the album affect me. Sara Hickman has a very nice song, though a bit overwrought, about Salvador Dali, "Salvador." The music is very pretty and her singing puts the song across. While Todd Rundgrens song "Just Another Onion Head," (chorus: Da, da, dali, hello) isnt about painters, it is about dadaism so maybe that counts. The funniest broken heart/painter song I know of is a Utopia song called "There Goes My Inspiration." Me and Gaugin used to party down I was hung in the Louvre, I was Renoir's pal Vincent Van Gogh used to joke with me Now they don't come 'round It's all over town that the master's lost his touch I'm so lost I can hardly hold a brush Chorus There goes my inspiration My reason for creation There goes my inspiration I felt it fly away when you said goodbye About Thea Gilmore: <> Emma Peel does sing. I picked up a used vinyl copy of A Little Night Music a while back just to see if Dame Diana Rigg can sing. Yes she can. She does a very creditable job. One day I hope to get Linda Carter, Diana Rigg, Stephanie Zimbalist, and a host of other actresses into the studio to produce a pop album. But that will have to wait until I get the band of Lyle's together to record. Members: Lyle Lovett, Lyle Workman, Lyle Mays, Lyles West, etc. Bye, Lyle _________________________________________________________________ Get MSN 8 Dial-up Internet Service FREE for one month. Limited time offer-- sign up now! http://join.msn.com/?page=dept/dialup ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:00:35 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Fwd: The Reputation update For those interested.... >Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 17:40:49 -0700 (PDT) >From: elizabeth@reputationmusic.com >To: reputation@reputationmusic.com >Subject: The Reputation update Reputation update > >Upcoming shows: > >Oct. 1 Madison, WI UW-Madison Club 770 w/ Mates of State and Victory at >Sea 6:30pm sharp! >Oct. 2 Detroit, MI Magic Stick w/ Nada Surf and Ozma 8pm sharp! >Oct. 3 Chicago, IL Metro w/ Nada Surf and Ozma 6:30 pm sharp! >Oct. 4 Champaign, IL Cowboy Monkey (the old Blind Pig) w/ Starlight Mints >and Menthol 10pm sharp! > > >Oct. 21 Columbus, OH Little Brothers w/ Q and not U, Black Eyes, French Toast >Oct. 22 Bryn Mawr, PA Bryn Mawr College w/ Dear Nora >Oct. 23 New Haven, CT Rudy's >Oct. 24 NYC CBGB's for CMJ >Oct. 25 Providence RI AS220 w/ Cara from V for Vendetta > >more dates soon! >xo >e > >_______________________________________________ >Reputation mailing list >Reputation@reputationmusic.com >http://reputationmusic.com/mailman/listinfo/reputation_reputationmusic.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 23:06:07 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: The Green Linnet 5: Irish Musicians To Protest At Offices Of Green Linnet Music In Danbury, Connecticut October 13, 2003 For those interested.... FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 22, 2003 DALY COMMUNICATIONS 333 WEST 39TH STREET SUITE 603 NEW YORK, NY 10018 212-465-2444 // anitadaly@yahoo.com IRISH MUSICIANS TO PROTEST AT OFFICES OF GREEN LINNET MUSIC IN DANBURY, CONNECTICUT OCTOBER 13, 2003 Claim years of non-payment of royalties and inappropriately applied deductions WHEN: OCTOBER 13, 2003 WHERE: 81 BEAVER BROOK ROAD, DANBURY CONNECTICUT TIME: 5:00 P.M Major Irish and Irish American recording artists have combined to take legal action against Green Linnet Music in a law suit unprecedented in the history of Irish music. They plan to lead a musical protest at the company's offices in hopes of galvanizing this grass roots cause. There will be renditions of old labor movement tunes and appearances by guest artists joining them in the protest -- the likes of which has not been seen since the mid 1960's. They ask that fellow musicians, their fans and others who believe in their cause come out to support them. The famed Irish groups Altan and Cherish the Ladies, nine time All-Ireland fiddle champion and musical star of Riverdance, Eileen Ivers, National Heritage Award winner Mick Moloney and All Ireland Champion multi-instrumentalist Joanie Madden have come together because they share a common outrage at the way they have been treated by one of the major recording companies in world music. Green Linnet Records has been a leading force in recording and distributing Celtic music for over 25 years. The company has over 300 masters licensed and features a star Irish music roster. Owner Wendy Newton has been quoted to say, "We certainly have the best profile of any Celtic label, because we not only release the records, we actively sell and promote them." "It would probably shock most Irish music fans to know that the artists who recorded their favorite Green Linnet albums have not been paid," said famed fiddle player Eileen Ivers. The law suit recently filed by the artists (who irreverently refer to themselves as "The Green Linnet Five") highlights the fact that Green Linnet has consistently failed and refused to provide timely accountings or royalty statements to their artists; that the company underpays and fails to report income regarding the commercial exploitation of the artist's master recordings; that they improperly reduced the rate of royalties due and inappropriately applied deductions without a contractual basis to do so and to everyone's amazement has the unfettered gall to continue to commercially exploit master recordings for years after the licensing agreements for these albums expired. Additionally the company fails to list income and pay royalties on a number of compilation albums that contain recordings from the artists. World-class musician Joanie Madden pointed out that "we tried to negotiate with them for a year. Ultimately we realized that they had no intention of bargaining in good faith or paying us." According to their attorney, Bob Donnelly, "'The Green Linnet Five' are simply demanding that Green Linnet's numerous and continued breaches of contract warrant full payment of royalties owed, a return of their master recordings and an immediate cessation of exploiting the artists' work." The protest will hopefully aid in bringing to light the cause of the Green Linnet 5 and a lead to a fair and just result. If you love Irish music and want to support these artists PLEASE JOIN US! Directions: Take I-684 North towards Brewster. Merge onto I-84 East - exit 9E towards Danbury. Take Exit 8 US-6 E / Newtown Road Exit. Turn Right onto Newtown Road go down 3/4's of a mile (you'll pass Holiday Inn, Taco Bell and McDonalds). Make a right at light onto Old Newtown Road. Go 3/10ths of a mile and the road comes to a Y. Bear Right before the stop sign onto Beaver Brook Road. After 2/10th's of a mile you'll see West End Power Equipment on your left. Go slow and turn left into next driveway. You'll see a big red Brick Building with Pilgrim Electronics written on the side - address is 60 Beaver Brook Road. Park in rear of the building. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #277 **************************