From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V9 #347 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, December 10 2003 Volume 09 : Number 347 Today's Subjects: ----------------- year end list [anna maria "stjärnell" ] WeirdAcid in Jersey City ["abaton" ] RE: year end list ["Paul Jensen" ] pain in the Yahoo [breinheimer@webtv.net] Re: pain in the Yahoo [Jeff Wasilko ] Re: pain in the Yahoo [raven@igc.org] Re: pain in the Yahoo [Yngve Hauge ] Jane Siberry news: Messiah soul? [Philip David Morgan ] Re: All Music Guide ["Peter Clark" ] Re: All Music Guide [Yngve Hauge ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 03:24:05 -0800 (PST) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: year end list Hi.. thought i'd do a best of the year list. dresden dolls-s/t (the best by far) Noe Venable-the world is bound by secret knots(very close..) carina round-the disconnection(dito..) david bowie-reality hera-not your type rory merritt stitt-harlequin lazy lane-the chills an pierle-helium sunset anna maria __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New Yahoo! Photos - easier uploading and sharing. http://photos.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 10:41:18 -0800 From: "abaton" Subject: WeirdAcid in Jersey City Abaton Book Company presents: WeirdAcid @ The Waterbug Hotel ...rested I there on a planet of beauty. Strains of harmony filled all the air. Shapes there were.... Friday December 12th @ 8pm 143 Columbus Drive at Barrow Street (topfloor) Jersey City NJ info@thewaterbughotel.com Donation at door Featuring: Pothole Skinny (Experimental acid-folk) http://www.potholeskinny.com/home.htm Trees Of Nerve Endings (Ornamental chaos) http://www.treesofnerveendings.com/ Emerald Tablets (Drones & overtones) Julia Vorontsova (Melancholic folk-pop) http://www.abatonbookcompany.us/JuliaVorontsova.html www.abatonbookcompany.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 18:24:39 +0000 From: "Paul Jensen" Subject: RE: year end list My list would include: Azure Ray: "Hold on Love" Rufus Wainwright: "Want One" Sarah Brightman: "Harem" Liz Phair: "Liz Phair" Faith & Disease: "Passport to Kunming" Paul ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "I'm more of a napkin; Not blessed with the vision.." -Liz Phair ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _________________________________________________________________ Browse styles for all ages, from the latest looks to cozy weekend wear at MSN Shopping. And check out the beauty products! http://shopping.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 14:06:32 -0500 (EST) From: breinheimer@webtv.net Subject: pain in the Yahoo A few days ago Neile mentioned an interesting looking group (list-not music): electoambientdreampop. I attempted to join but while providing Yahoo with the information they require I ran into a problem. When I clicked on the field for (job) title nothing really happened. Without completing that field I was unable to join and I could not find a way to contact Yahoo directly with my problem. Anyone here who might have some useful advice? It would be muchly appreciated. np: Cale/Eno-Wrong way up ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:58:01 -0500 From: Jeff Wasilko Subject: Re: pain in the Yahoo On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500, breinheimer@webtv.net wrote: > A few days ago Neile mentioned an interesting looking group (list-not > music): electoambientdreampop. I attempted to join but while providing > Yahoo with the information they require I ran into a problem. When I > clicked on the field for (job) title nothing really happened. Without > completing that field I was unable to join and I could not find a way to > contact Yahoo directly with my problem. > Anyone here who might have some useful advice? It would be muchly > appreciated. you should be able to subscribe via email without having to give yahoo personal info. Just send a mail to electroambientdreampop-subscribe@yahoogroups.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 13:05:11 -0800 From: raven@igc.org Subject: Re: pain in the Yahoo At 11:06 AM 12/09/2003 , breinheimer@webtv.net wrote: >Anyone here who might have some useful advice? It would be muchly >appreciated. You have to have javescript turned on when you join (they assume everybody has it on , then after you join, you can turn it off again. I don't know if WevTV even offers the option, you may need to join on a friend's computer, then you can use WebTV after that, at least I have turned off javascript for years, no problem. - -- John ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:33:06 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: pain in the Yahoo On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Jeff Wasilko wrote: > Just send a mail to electroambientdreampop-subscribe@yahoogroups.com > Just add subscribe in the body and it works. I discovered somethng peculiar - the group didn't show up while searching through the webpage so I couldn't join that way. - -- Yngve ****************************************** * One alien has come, unalien to one ***** ****************************************** ***** Blessed be!!! ********************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2003 19:20:49 -0500 From: Philip David Morgan Subject: Jane Siberry news: Messiah soul? Good Tidings, good Ectofolk: The following came via Jane Siberry's mailing list. Looks like her holiday offering's a must. Philip David 2003.12.09 - ---------- From: "S H E E B A " Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:13:04 -0500 (EST) To: pmorgan@suffolk.lib.ny.us Subject: MUSELETTER - Third Time Lucky? Hi There You may be getting this for the first time or maybe for the third time. We apologize but we had a glitch with our last newsletter. Here is what we meant to send you: We thought you would like to hear more about what the tour is like. There is a wonderful review below. We have had fantastic audiences (Jane has had standing ovations every night) and there are still tickets available. Please forward this to your friends if you think they would not mind receiving this kind of mail. We hope you are all having a lovely December and we hope to see you on the road. Happy Holidays from all of us at Sheeba Messiah, with Siberry soul Adrian Chamberlain Times Colonist Saturday, November 29, 2003 (JANE) SIBERRY: A soulful Yuletide celebration. Trust Jane Siberry to invent Messiah soul. The Canadian art-pop priestess touched down in Victoria Thursday night to perform a Christmas show. Of course, Siberry being Siberry, it was a singular yuletide celebration. The show was mostly offerings from her new disc, Shushan the Place (Hymns of the Earth). It's a Christmas recording showcasing works by Handel, Bach and Mendelssohn. In concert, Siberry and her backup singers, Amanda Homi and Rebecca Campbell, absolutely transform this familiar music. Messiah selections such as I Know That My Redeemer Liveth -- always highly spiritual - -- became deeply soulful in the musical sense as well. Or to put it another way, there's Memphis soul, Philly soul... and now, thanks to Siberry and Co., there's Messiah soul. It makes sense, really, if one considers that Handel's oratorio is one of mankind's greatest artistic statements about human redemption -- right up there with Otis Redding's Try a Little Tenderness. The Messiah soul effect is directly linked to the trio's harmonies which, while beautifully rendered, have a slight edge to them. Rather than self-consciously blending into one seamless whole, each singer retains her individual vocal characteristics, thus producing a more complex sound suggestive of wind gusting through torn silk. The Alix Goolden Hall was the perfect venue for this Christmas concert. The hall, a former church, boasts stained glass windows, a boldly curving balcony and massive organ pipes jutting up behind the wooden stage. Siberry first entered off-stage in complete darkness, singing the Mendelssohn hymn, A Star Shall Rise Up Out of Jacob. With her blond hair swept high, black Japanese robes and ritualized movements, the singer resembled a kabuki actor. The backup singers also wore the black robes, soon discarded to reveal highly colorful costumes dreamed up by Siberry herself. One singer sported an orange fun-fur vest, purple-pink trousers and Ziggy Stardust gold boots; another wore a popsicle orange jacket. Siberry's pink, orange and cream outfit matched, although sunglasses (for the audience, not Jane) might have been a blessing. Garbed more conservatively was keyboardist/band-leader Tim Ray. His contributions on synthesizer and grand piano were first-rate; he's a highly intuitive musician with superb technical skills. Two string players rounding out the sextet performed with considerable brio: Saltspring cellist Paula Kiffner and Vancouver violinist Sheila McDonald. The focus was purely on Christmas, and Siberry fans hoping to hear Mimi on the Beach and other old favourites were likely disappointed. If so, they keep it quiet; indeed, the Siberry band was met with applause, cheers and two standing ovations. A few of Siberry's own compositions were performed, but they were chosen to fit in with the seasonal theme. We heard, for instance, Calling All Angels, which commences with a role call of the saints (Santa Maria, Santa Teresa, Santa Anna etc) before wrapping itself around the heavenly sounding refrain, Calling all angels. Siberry also played her song, Hockey, but changed it to suit a family audience. The original lyrics are exuberantly raunchy (Don't f----- tell me where to f----- go!). In this new interpretation, Hockey became a more wistful meditation on the ineffable joys of frozen rivers and willow trees on Sunday afternoons. Siberry improvised lyrics in a performance-art manner as she went along This is not a song, this is a painting! she declared) while Ray built a musical cathedral with repetitive gospel-style chording. At 48, the singer-songwriter gives the impression of being at the peak of her creative powers. Everything Siberry touches -- be it the 19th century hymn In the Bleak Midwinter or her own pieces -- reflects a restless search for authentic artistic expression. And while she is dead serious about this journey, she also has the wit to imbue the proceedings with humour. In a typical Siberry-ian piece of stage business, she pretended a trio of water bottles were Three Wise Men marching across the stage. Similarly, one of the encores, The Twelve Days of Christmas, turned into a girls' night out laughfest. Siberry's 21/2 hour concert began with a short set from singer-songwriter Adrienne Pierce. The Vancouver musician (who sang one song set to a poem by Lorna Crozier) is certainly promising, showing a knack for creating well-crafted pop tunes. Pierce sings in a little-girl voice, adopting a style heavily influenced by such Lilith Fair stalwarts as Lisa Loeb and Patty Griffin. ) Copyright 2003 Times Colonist (Victoria) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 05:17:56 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: All Music Guide Hi, Is it only me or do you all find that All Music Guide is so full of misleading and directly false information that it at times is a pain to read? I haven't looked it up lately, but the review of Happy's Many Worlds is one of the worst I've ever read. - -- Yngve ****************************************** * One alien has come, unalien to one ***** ****************************************** ***** Blessed be!!! ********************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 22:36:44 -0700 From: "Peter Clark" Subject: Re: All Music Guide Yes, the AM may not turn out to be completely accurate at times, but it's damn good for the most part and I consider invaluable. If it's so objectionable, then perhaps you'd best not use it and remain in darkness. Peter C - -= High Performance Analogue =- www.redpoint-audio-design.com - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Yngve Hauge" To: "The Fuzzyblue Universe" Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:17 PM Subject: All Music Guide : Hi, : : Is it only me or do you all find that All Music Guide is : so full of misleading and directly false information that it : at times is a pain to read? I haven't looked it up lately, but : the review of Happy's Many Worlds is one of the worst I've ever : read. : : -- Yngve : : ****************************************** : * One alien has come, unalien to one ***** : ****************************************** : ***** Blessed be!!! ********************** : ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:55:29 +0100 (CET) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: All Music Guide On Tue, 9 Dec 2003, Peter Clark wrote: > Yes, the AM may not turn out to be completely accurate at times, but it's > damn good for the most part and I consider invaluable. If it's so > objectionable, then perhaps you'd best not use it and remain in darkness. > The problem is that for the most part the info is correct enough, but there are so many small blips inbetween that if you don't know the correct facts you'll end up being quite ignorant. For example - Christine McVie is mentioned as founding member of Fleetwood Mac which she wasn't even though she did join the band early enough, and Carole King did not try to pursue a recording career in the 60s. Just small things really but the whole thing isn't better than the separate pieces. And a problem is also that they don't reply to emails and don't correct their infos either, which I find rather strange if they wanna be serious about what they do. I guess I'm getting used to the ectoguide :) On Carole King - Is someone here working on an entry for her in the Ectoguide? There should be one :) - -- Yngve ****************************************** * One alien has come, unalien to one ***** ****************************************** ***** Blessed be!!! ********************** ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V9 #347 **************************