From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #132 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, May 11 2004 Volume 10 : Number 132 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] keyth lawrence [anna maria "stjärnell" ] Casey Stratton [Ethan Straffin ] kristeen young news [fingerpuppets ] australian ecto ["JoAnn Whetsell" ] Vienna Teng news [Nadyne Mielke ] Susan McKeown at South Street Seaport Museum (NYC) [Michael Curry Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Heidi Maier (maier@joynet.com.au) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heidi Maier Wed May 10 1978 Taurus Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Philip David Morgan Sat May 12 1962 Chinese Tiger in Bull Clothing Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Julia Macklin Mon May 20 1968 ethereus Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini Lisa Laane Tue May 22 1973 Gemini Jewel Kilcher Thu May 23 1974 The Gem Chandra Sriram Thu May 27 1971 Gemini Taina Sahlander Mon May 28 1973 Gemini Urs Stafford Thu May 31 1973 Give Way Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 02 1966 Kaksoset Alex Gibbs Thu June 08 1967 Betelgeuse Gleb Zverev Tue June 09 1964 Gemini Sonja Juchniewich Mon June 10 1963 Pegasus - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 02:43:42 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: keyth lawrence Hi.. casey stratton was a good tip. he seems very talented. on the same tip keyth lawrence and the purple circle's debut is lovely. a male tori it says and that's probably true. anyone who gets Narnia into a lyric is a friend of mine. cdbaby has it for samples. oh nice to see you got so much out of eastern europe jason. tara fuki are the best. anna maria np-jorane-vent fou __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Win a $20,000 Career Makeover at Yahoo! HotJobs http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/careermakeover ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:57:50 -0700 From: Ethan Straffin Subject: Casey Stratton My initial stab at an Amazon review of _Standing at the Edge_, after a half-dozen listens or so, in case anyone's interested... Ethan - -- Not all the way there yet, but plenty of potential (4 stars) Well, let's get this much out of the way immediately: while I believe in considering every singer-songwriter on his or her own terms, the Sarah and Tori comparisons are indeed inevitable. Casey's general approach to songwriting and his voice are Sarah-esque; his classically-influenced piano stylings and many of his vocal harmonies scream Tori. The bad news is that this debut isn't exactly the earth-shattering debut that Tori's was. The good news is that it's easily better than Sarah's was, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if he were to arrive at her level of acclaim once he gets a few more albums under his belt. Make no mistake: _Standing at the Edge_ is very, very pretty, and that's never something to be taken lightly. The main problems I have with it are that it's too laid-back and too self-similar. While pretty much any of the tracks here could fit in just fine on adult contemporary radio, only a few strike me as more likely to grab your ear and/or throat than whatever they decided to play on either side. Some have suggested that this album is overproduced. That's one criticism with which I don't necessarily agree. In fact, three of my favorite tracks -- "House of Jupiter," "Blood," and "Cellophane" -- are all given some extra edginess by the use of nifty electronic effects that probably weren't in the original demos. What might be even better, if it's not heresy to suggest, would to bring in an electric guitar once in a while, and let it show some bite. (With the incisors at least, if perhaps not the canines.) Going back to the Sarah analogy: if you can't yet pull off a "Fear" -- and most artists can't - -- you can still manage a "Plenty," which was plenty good because it knew how to augment the tension in the lyrics with the tension in the instrumentation. But then, of course, there's Casey's "Bloom," which uses nothing but strings and a deceptively simple lyrical theme -- "I don't want to bloom/breathe/be/sleep/laugh/die/love without you" -- to arrive at one of the most haunting, heartbreaking, gorgeous things I've heard in quite some time. So it's not as though minimalism doesn't work for this indisputably talented man. I guess I just hope to see him have a little more fun. While a good half of this album strikes me as better pretty background music than something with which to seriously engage oneself, the seeds have clearly been planted. Definitely someone to watch. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 12:50:23 -0400 From: fingerpuppets Subject: kristeen young news - ----- Forwarded message from Kristeen Young ----- From: Kristeen Young Subject: Wednesday's child Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 11:09:09 -0400 You know what Wednesday's child is full of?......no, not that....it's whooooahhh!....because we've got another show this Wednesday! (Maybe pr shouldn't be a fall back vocation for me.) Kristeen Young (with drummer, Whitey) at CBGB on Bowery in Manhattan (as opposed to the one on Grand in St. Louis) at 9pm on Wednesday, May 12 You don't have to slum it.... put on your pretty May bonnet. - ----- End forwarded message ----- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 13:11:08 -0400 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: australian ecto Thanks for all the great recommendations. I'm putting a list together to send to my sister. Unfortunately, she won't be in Melbourne at all, just Sydney and thereabouts. Would you guess the availability recommendations for Melbourne are accurate for Sydney too? JoAnn - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Stop worrying about overloading your inbox - get MSN Hotmail Extra Storage! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 15:46:40 -0700 From: Nadyne Mielke Subject: Vienna Teng news Vienna Teng is going to be performing at a free private concert sponsored by San Francisco Bay Area radio station KFOG on Sunday, 30 May. The only way to get tickets is to win them from the radio station, but y'all can enter the contest at: http://www.kfog.com/Events/fifth_sunday/may04/default.html She's got a few other concert dates Also, I just noticed that her Mountain Stage performance will be aired on the week following 28 May. Mountain Stage doesn't play anywhere near me (boo!), but you can see if your local NPR station carries them at: http://www.mountainstage.org/html/radio/radio_stations.html (Speaking of Mountain Stage, Catie Curtis is on this week's show.) It appears that we just missed her on Acoustic Cafe. :( /nm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 20:53:07 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Susan McKeown at South Street Seaport Museum (NYC) From the Calendar of Programs and Events at http://www.southstseaport.org/ Tuesday, June 8, 2004 6:00-8:00 p.m. New York Packet presents Susan McKeown. Recording star Susan McKeown possesses one of the finest voices in folk music. She hails from Dublin and performs a wide-ranging repertoire of immigration songs and other Irish folk songs. $5 adults, $2 children. Melville Gallery, 213 Water Street (between Beekman and Fulton streets) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #132 ***************************