From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #1 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, January 5 2004 Volume 10 : Number 001 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Happy CD and two 03 favorites ["Suzanne DeCory" ] sarah slean and others in L.A. this month [Paul2k@aol.com] SONiA in Oz/NZ/Fiji [Sherlyn Koo ] some sort of terrible synthpop virus [drumz@drumz.best.vwh.net] Heather Duby, "Come Across The River." [Craig Gidney ] Katy Carr, Passion Play. [Craig Gidney ] Re: some sort of terrible synthpop virus [Valerie Richardson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 03:00:04 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************* John Sandoval (sandovalj1@cox.net) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 ...of the Saint Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Steve Hughes Thu January 24 1963 Aquarius Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 03:48:17 -0500 From: "Suzanne DeCory" Subject: Happy CD and two 03 favorites Happy New Year everyone! :) Just wondering what ever happened to the possible live CD burning of one of Happy's shows that was posted. Is it still going and where do I sign up? (I did email that person and haven't heard word yet.) Also wanted to add just two favorites of 2003 that I was surprised no one commented on yet... (unless it slipped past my eyes) Best album: Near Life Experience!! KB... truly a gift to the heart & ears.. Movie: Rabbitt Proof Fence... the absolutely incredible moving true story/journey of three aborigine girls with soundtrack by non other than the great Peter Gabriel. Suz (email filtered and set to exclusive contacts) _________________________________________________________________ Make your home warm and cozy this winter with tips from MSN House & Home. http://special.msn.com/home/warmhome.armx ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 07:00:03 EST From: Paul2k@aol.com Subject: sarah slean and others in L.A. this month Hey y'all, It looks like Sarah will be at the Mint on Pico next wednesday at 9 PM, according to the Mint's website www.themintla.com Later in the month, we have Terami Hirsch and Sylvie Lewis and Charlotte Martin at the Hotel Cafe on the 19th (wow, what a great triple bill); Anne Heaton at Genghis Cohen on Saturday the 24th; and Odessa Chen and Vienna Teng at the Hotel Cafe on Wednesday the 28th. I'm dang psyched. Paul ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 23:33:05 +1100 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: SONiA in Oz/NZ/Fiji Hey folks, For those of you in the Asia/Pacific region... SONiA (of disappear fear) will be playing around the place over the next couple of months. I understand that dates are still being added but here's what's on her site so far... Jan 10, The Rob Roy, Melbourne Jan 18, The Harp, Sydney Jan 24-26, Auckland Folk Festival Feb 13, Kulcha Cafe, Kooroy QLD Feb 14, Kilcoy QLD Feb 15, Brisbane QLD April 1-4, Fiji International Jazz Festival April 7-12, Montana International Jazz & Blues Festival, NZ Check out www.soniadf.com for more info - there will be a lot more dates to come I'm sure... - -sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo | sherlyn@pixelopolis.com | Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 01:33:19 +0000 (GMT) From: drumz@drumz.best.vwh.net Subject: some sort of terrible synthpop virus Aieee! I recently picked up 25 compilations of modern synthpop, because I've got this whole Depeche Mode/Erasure/Pet Shop Boys/Book of Love thing going on from my adolescence that still seems to demand feeding now and again. And now, "Monkey in the Moon" by Alphaville and "The End Starts Today" by bis simply refuse to be ejected from either my CD changer or my iTunes playlists. Seriously: I try it, and they slap me. Ethan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:07:00 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Heather Duby, "Come Across The River." Dear Ms. Duby: This CD has become one of the most listened to in my collection. It is a perfect balance of ethereality and earthiness, catchiness and sonic exploration, with just the right touches of ornamentation. The lyrics are clever, personal hard-won observations. Your vocals have a husky edge to them, no doubt in part due to your voice-threatening bout of tonsilitus. The new husk in the voice gives your interpretations a gravity, conferred with the Dew of Wisdom I'll demonstrate: MAKE ME SOME INSOMNIA flirts with lo-fi indie rock before soaring into icy heights on the bridge. The double-tracked vocal is angelic and sweet. Great line: "To rely on anyone else is like sinking for the fun of it--there's no one, no help." THE RARE VAVOOM is a midnight cabaret piece, with a startling and effective trumpet solo that sounds almost mariachi-influenced. "Would you break my knees, make me kneel and pray..." THE BLUE SHOES is a slocore lullaby with a soaring chorus, complete with cricket chirps. "Off to bed, dreamless dead, you cannot keep mocking me..." Summer reminscience, the undercurrent of sweet regret. PROVIDENCE is catchy enough to be a sing. Again, you make regret sound so good. "Never was one to lay blame, til they took her from me." Your echoey ballads, COIN JAR and AUTO IMMUNE are almost neoclassical in their execution. The phrasing is tentative, heartbreaking, and the lyrics have a self-deprecating air about them, that remind me of Jane Siberry and Suzanne Vega, though not in any way I can put my finger on. GOLDEN SYRUP is a self-affirmation hymn that ends this song cycle. It's like a piece of '20s ragtime, discreetly updated with words that daringly flirt with the sentimental. In short, you more than deliver the promise you showed on POST TO WIRE, your excellent debut. ("FOR JEFFREY" helped me tremendously when I lost my father and my aunt within a week of each other). Special kudos to the song titles--they should make any 4AD afficianado lick their lips. Please keep creating. Sincerely yours, C __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2004 10:09:37 -0800 (PST) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Katy Carr, Passion Play. http://www.katycarr.com Deluce Recordings 1. Paper Castle 2. Druggie 3. Sharkesville 4. Alsation 5. Spaceboy 6. Borderline 7. Jellybean 8. Turpin 9. Snake Kiss 10. Reddle Woman Kate Bush has just finished writing Wuthering Heights. Shes walking home through Camden Town, in gloaming. She sees a drug deal go down in the corner, on the rain-slicked streets. A drag queen, drunk off her arse, stumbles down the stairs of her flat, and catches a cab, doubtlessly head to Soho. A couple is having an argument outside of a Fish and Chips shop. Kate is cold, and its getting dark besides, so she walks a little faster, ignoring the wolfish stares of soccer blokes, and brazen strutting of the strumpets. She ducks into a small Mom and Pops record store, the kind where nothing is in alphabetical order and the bulletin board is overflowing with adverts for flatmates and bands looking for drummers. Over the sound system, the Satanic babble of a shrieking opera threads over bombastic gothic organ. Shes intrigued, so she goes to boy behind the counter, whos all pierced and mohawked and a bit stinky, and asks him whos playing, and he says, Diamanda Galas. She knows that this discovery is important, an epiphany. She will never be the same, as a million musical ideas begin to take root. Paper Castle opens Katy Carrs second recording, sounding like an outtake from one of Kates early recordings. A 70s style guitar, airy-fairy English schoolgirl vocals roam over a pleasant melody shimmering with Wurlitzer goodness. Druggie opens with the strains of a sitar, as Carr warbles about the joys of drug taking, the Incredible String Band hanging out with Ravi Shankar. Alsation mixes a mournful French Horn, drunken male backing vocals with the rogueishly erotic lyrics. Spaceboy, Borderline and Jellybean cross-pollinates P.J. Harveys rootspunk with Beth Ortons folktronica experiments. This central trilogy explore, in frank, colloquial terms, female sexuality and the war between the sexes. Turpin, a tale of a highwayman, and the darkly mystical Reddle Woman honor the British folk traditionbawdy tales and bloody ballads and all. (The disturbing Reddle Woman seems to describe some murderous sheela-na-gig persona). Carrs voice is a bit thin, and chilly. It reminds one of Laetitia Saedler of Stereolab, and her icy detachment. It makes her observations and images all the more potent. Its a writerly voice. This surgically precision underscores the swampy subject matter. In one song, filled with S&M imagery, she sings, snake kiss is so sexy and sweet, let me bite your neck and draw blood They are words that manage to be whimsical, morbid and erotic at once. It underscores the themes described in this unusual album. - --Craig __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 22:18:13 -0500 From: Valerie Richardson Subject: Re: some sort of terrible synthpop virus I'm also infected with a Bis song: "Dead Wrestlers." Bis is one of a number of groups/individuals I've come upon recently who fall into the category of I-don't-know-how-to-correctly-pronounce-the-name when I go to say it aloud. What is it? Bees? Bis (to rhyme with kiss)? Bee? With a long "i" as in "bike"? Dido is another one of these names for me. Noe Venable was yet another, but Meredith just gave me the correct pronunciation. - --Valerie Richardson __________________________________ drumz@drumz.best.vwh.net wrote: ...And now, "Monkey in the Moon" by Alphaville and "The End Starts Today" by bis simply refuse to be ejected from either my CD changer or my iTunes playlists. Seriously: I try it, and they slap me. Ethan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 22:21:00 -0500 From: Valerie Richardson Subject: Re: some sort of terrible synthpop virus Oh, and which compilations did you get? Which would you recommend? - --Valerie ____________________________________ drumz@drumz.best.vwh.net wrote: >Aieee! I recently picked up 25 compilations of modern synthpop, because >I've got this whole Depeche Mode/Erasure/Pet Shop Boys/Book of Love thing >going on from my adolescence that still seems to demand feeding now and >again. > >And now, "Monkey in the Moon" by Alphaville and "The End Starts Today" by >bis simply refuse to be ejected from either my CD changer or my iTunes >playlists. Seriously: I try it, and they slap me. > >Ethan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2004 08:37:02 +1100 From: Ash Hind Subject: RE: SONiA in Oz/NZ/Fiji In addition to the e-mail below, Terry informs me that SONiA will be on stage from about midnight at the Rob Roy Hotel in Fitzroy on January 10th. Ash. -----Original Message----- From: Sherlyn Koo [SMTP:sherlyn@pixelopolis.com] Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2004 11:33 PM To: ecto@smoe.org; indigo-girls; fear@things.org Subject: SONiA in Oz/NZ/Fiji Hey folks, For those of you in the Asia/Pacific region... SONiA (of disappear fear) will be playing around the place over the next couple of months. I understand that dates are still being added but here's what's on her site so far... Jan 10, The Rob Roy, Melbourne Jan 18, The Harp, Sydney Jan 24-26, Auckland Folk Festival Feb 13, Kulcha Cafe, Kooroy QLD Feb 14, Kilcoy QLD Feb 15, Brisbane QLD April 1-4, Fiji International Jazz Festival April 7-12, Montana International Jazz & Blues Festival, NZ Check out www.soniadf.com for more info - there will be a lot more dates to come I'm sure... ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #1 *************************