From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #249 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, September 7 2004 Volume 10 : Number 249 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Free music from the BBC [birdie ] Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide ["The Ectophiles' Guide" ] Popular Hits in the Public Domain? [Joseph Zitt ] Re: Burning Man, dust storms, wendy rule and i in england, seattle tour & hope for mankind [cyo] vienna teng at bumbershoot ["JoAnn Whetsell" ] "13 Ways to Live" compilation [Sherlyn Koo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 23:07:50 -0700 From: birdie Subject: Re: Free music from the BBC Check out the link on the BBC site for Alex Parks - Bottom right. Calling unsigned acts..... http://www.bbc.co.uk/cornwall/alex_parks/audio/introduction.shtml ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 03:00:03 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************** Richard Dean (rld@pcisys.net) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Dean Wed September 06 1967 Virgo Jason Gordon Tue September 07 1976 monkey collector David Blank-Edelman Sat September 09 1967 Neon Holly Tominack Thu September 10 1970 Virgo Sharon Nichols Wed September 11 1963 As Above So Below Heather Russell September 11 Total Virgosity Karron Lynn Lane Tue September 14 1751 Ophelia Virgo Troy Wollenslegel Mon September 18 1972 Virgo Mark Frabotta Sun September 19 1965 Don't even THINK about parking here Joe Zitt Sat September 20 1958 Will Hack for CDs Ani DiFranco Wed September 23 1970 Virgo Lord Tyr Mon September 24 1979 Libran Paul Kim Sat October 01 1977 fetal position JoAnn Whetsell Fri October 01 1976 Pendulum William Gill Wed October 05 1960 A wide-eyed wanderer - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 04:15:52 -0700 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 05 September 2004 New Guide entries added for: * Collide * Jenn Lindsay * Britney Moore * Jennie Stearns * Bird York Changes made to the entries for: * Capercaillie (additional info + comments) * Lisa Cerbone (new album) * Tracy Chapman (new album) * Cordelia's Dad (new album) * Elysian Fields (new album) * Miranda Sex Garden (additional comments) * My Scarlet Life (additional comments) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.ectoguide.org/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.ectoguide.org/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:05:56 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: barry-ism Catching up on this after a few weeks away from Ecto... I'm interested in hearing more about this perception. I'm an avid record store guy, eager to turn people on to music that they don't know and might enjoy, and, from what i can tell from our returning customers, rather good at doing so. I also can get rather animated at doing so. Yeah, I have up-sold a few Nelly Furtado disks in my day, but the top things that I've been turning people onto nowadays include Vas, Damien Rice, Dolly Rocker, Bill Frisell, Judy Collins, John Adams, Deva Premal, Sofia Gubaidulina, Matt Haimovitz, and Stan Getz. (And I would be selling a lot of Ekova and things like that if we could keep them in stock -- my supervisor and I have a running gag that we'd like to do a sales endcap of the Craig Gidney Collection :-] ). OTOH, I don't think I would pull the Barry maneuver of dissing the customer who wanted to buy the Stevie Wonder song. An important part of the process is actually listening to what the customer wants, trying to get inside of and empathize with the customer's tastes and criteria, and suggesting something appropriate. And that means that in the past week I have indeed eagerly recommended and sold discs by Ferrante and Teicher, Britney Spears, and Wilson Phillips to customers, despite triggering my coworkers' gag reflexes. So what, to you, distinguishes enthusiastic record selling from barryism? On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 02:33, anna maria stjC$rnell wrote: > hi.. > apart from copy-protected discs and "new" "improved" > sites i have a pet hate..the barrys(apologies to > people by that name) of the record stores. barry was > the clerk who bullied people into buying stuff in high > fidelity(picture jack black). > i meet more and more of them in stores. they try to > force you into buying what they believe is good music. > one said to me"you like chick music huh? get this" and > implied nelly furtado. i don't mind her but this made > me march out in anger. > barrys are never women. you can only win by ignoring > them or snubbing them with your vast knowledge of > obscure music. up and get em i say. > anna maria > np-mirah-c'mon miracle ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 06 Sep 2004 10:28:11 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Popular Hits in the Public Domain? Throwing this open to the group mind... I've been working on a project doing version of older songs, for which copyright would have expired. (It's partly a political thing, and partly a way to not deal with business issues :-] ) So far, we've been dealing with songs such as "House of the Rising Sun", "Plaisir D'Amour", "All My Trials", "Salangadou", and a mix of a Bach aria with "This World Is Not My Home." I'm wondering what popular hits there have been that fit into this category. (And by "hits" I don't necessarily mean top 10, but something that people who aren't folk aficionados would recognize from casual listening.) As I've researched and asked about, I've come up with surprisingly few, including "I Know You Rider", "Danny Boy", and possibly "El Condor Pasa". So... I have a hunch that many more are out there, and y'all might know of some. Any clues? ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2004 14:24:24 -0700 (PDT) From: cyo@landoftheblind.com Subject: Re: Burning Man, dust storms, wendy rule and i in england, seattle tour & hope for mankind thanks to whoever tried to see me and Blind perform at Burning Man. Everywhere we were listed and promised to play was a wash. There were so many dust storms every day that it became impossible to bring my stuff out into the dust. Each day I was asked to sing many places and each day it began to blow...and blow until all was covered in fine white playa dust. I am not a singer-songwriter who strums an acoustic guitar that can be sandblasted, I have electronica gear that can get toasted, a vocal effects unit designed just for me and certain songs, plus a fantastic looper with 4 channels that is irreplacable and no longer made. I did sing and play harmonium and Krystov played didg acoustic but I wanted to say I did not get to "do my thing" out there, so sorry for those that stopped by. Krystov played in a dust storm at Burning Man once 3 years ago and the circular breathing deal means he breathed dust deep into his lungs and was sick for months afterwards, so we just didn't play if it blew at all, with my equiptment and his lungs. Hopefully anyone that was there from the Portland-Eugene-Seattle area can see us when we tour up north in October. I did hook up with Wendy Rule and we had tons o' fun and are planning a double tour to England in the Spring. More on other gigs later. Just wanted to say sorry if you took the time to seek us out....it wasn't that we were all drugged out and missing (that was later in the evenings tee hee) but could not handle the dust. Sometimes the biggest lessons I learn at Burning Man each year are about expectation. Whatever you expect will or might happen out there does not, but everything else does, just like life. It's a wonderful harsh lovely hard fun beautiful time out there, just like life. I am now back in the green of SF, thinking of the barren desert and how creative people turn it into a thriving artistic fun community, a crazy city of neon, with each other's help we all survive and it's all out of nothing and then back to nothing, just like a dream. That is what BM really is to me, hope for mankind's future, it's not just another "chance for my ego to perform" and be noticed and seen and heard amoungst the cacophony of sound out there. still reeling from it all with much appreciation cyo ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 00:42:24 -0400 From: "JoAnn Whetsell" Subject: vienna teng at bumbershoot For the record, every positive thing you've heard about Vienna Teng's concerts is true. She played solo yesterday afternnon at Bumbershoot, Seattle's annual Labor Day weekend arts festival, and was as wonderful as reviews here had led me to expect. She was personable and warm, telling stories about her music and offering other light chatter in between most of the songs. She was in great voice, and her piano playing was as wonderful as it is in studio. My notes: I'm here at the Northwest Court Lounge, and I'm happy for Vienna that all the chairs are full and I'm one of the people sitting on the ground. Now with my shoes off. 5 minutes to 4. I can see Vienna, dressed all in black (actually it was a dark plum shirt) drinking water, laughing, and reading something. She must be boiling. Vienna starts with "My Medea," probably my favorite from Warm Strangers. "Shasta" now which I knew when she said she'd play a deceptively perky song. "Homecoming" now, of course. "Gravity," which she says was a personal love song, a shy awkward little boy she was friends with in grade school who became the popular boy in high school. "The Tower." "Mission Street" which has an interesting story, being written on guitar and during insomnia in a noisy new San Francisco apartment. A slower, mellower (more melancholy?) version of "Hope On Fire" preceded by the usual Greenpeace activist story. A song written for her father from her first album ("Daughter"). Damien Rice's "Cannonball." Because she's on the jazz stage she plays a jazzy song she wrote in high school for a boy, a popular boy who played the piano in the cafeteria at lunch time, on whom she had a crush. For high school it's pretty good, nothing to be embarrassed by, though not up to the standard of her later work. Now for small children in the audience, "Anna Rose," though she says whenever she plays a lullaby children cry. This song comes off very well on solo piano as the album version is too sweet. "Unwritten Letter #1" about falling in love with someone of the wrong sexual orientation. Apparently the guy and his partner have another of Vienna's songs as their song. Which is this next song. From her first album with the lines "You know I forgive/You see how I live." "Harbor," a 5/4 song that she calls the last in her arsenal of perky songs. I figured she'd end with "Green Island Serenade," so I'm very happy she does. All in all a wonderful set. There was a long crowd for album sales/autographs afterwards which I was very happy to see. I hope Vienna made some new fans. She certainly made this old one very happy. JoAnn - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Dont just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:41:15 +1000 From: Sherlyn Koo Subject: "13 Ways to Live" compilation Hey folks, There's a new compilation called "13 Ways to Live" coming out on September 21 which has both Patty Griffin and Abra Moore on it, as well as a bunch of other Austin artists: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0002PUH8S/qid%3D1094535522/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/002-4623002-0560004 Looks interesting... - -sherlyn - -- Sherlyn Koo - sherlyn@pixelopolis.com - Sydney, Australia ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #249 ***************************