From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V10 #320 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, November 21 2004 Volume 10 : Number 320 Today's Subjects: ----------------- **RACHAEL SAGE PAGE: DECEMBER (MA, NY & NEW TUNES!) [SpiritWe@aol.com] shibboleth [Adam K ] Re: Epiphany [Michael Hewett-Hicks ] Re: Temporal Shibboleths ["Robert" ] Re: Temporal Shibboleths [andrew fries ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 02:09:22 EST From: SpiritWe@aol.com Subject: **RACHAEL SAGE PAGE: DECEMBER (MA, NY & NEW TUNES!) Shalom, serendipitous snowlakes! Just a note to let you know what our favorite glitter-frau is planning for the icy season: 1) Firstly, Rachael & Co. just got back to NYC from their whirlwind 3 month "Burlesque Tour" all over these (not-so-united) ' States, and are oddly excited to do simple, yet purposeful things such as: machine laundry, reading holiday catalogs, ordering deli at 2am, etc. 2) Secondly, Rachael has just begun planning her next album, and though no specifics have been nailed down as far as who, when or where - she *does* have 13 brand new songs she's anxious to capture in January/February. Stay tuned for more juicy details as they unravel... 3) Though Rachael will be off the road most of January and February, she'll resume promoting "Ballads & Burlesque" starting March 1st and continuing through Autumn 2005. If you're interested in helping to present Rachael Sage in concert, either in a houseconcert setting or at your favorite local venue, please contact: info@mpressrecord.com with your ideas as Spring/Summer scheduling is already underway! 4) VERY LAST CHANCES TO CATCH RACHAEL LIVE IN 2004... Below are a few remaining shows during Novemer /December where Rachael will be continuing to perform songs from "Ballads & Burlesque", while also previewing some new material. Hope to see some of you there! xoxo, The Lascivious Latkes @ MPress * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Monday, November 22 Elevens 8:30pm (w/ Marianne Osiel on oboe) Also Appearing: Athena Reich & Sarah Wolf for more info call 413-586-3268 140 Pleasant St. Northampton, MA Tuesday, November 23 Private House Concert for more info email: info@mpressrecords.com New York, NY Thursday, December 2 NYU Music Business School (Students Only) **Rachael will be a guest-lecturer!** New York, NY Friday, December 3 Girl's Room 10pm (w/ Dean Sharp on drums) 210 Rivington Street New York, NY Saturday, December 18 Cyber Cafe West 9pm (w/ Dean Sharp on drums) for more info call 607-723-2456 176 Main Street Binghamton, NY - - RACHAEL IS CURRENTLY THE FEATURE ARTIST AT WWW.WOMANROCK.COM (NOVEMBER ISSUE)... - - CHECK OUT RACHAEL'S INTERVIEW IN "RELEVANT MAGAZINE"! (AVAILABLE NOW AT BARNES & NOBLE) - - SPRING/SUMMER 2005 DATES CURRENTLY BEING BOOKED SO STAY TUNED TO THE WEBSITE FOR DETAILS! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * WEB: www.rachaelsage.com | EPK: www.sonicbids.com/RachaelSage SUGGEST: venues or sponsor a houseconcert! info@mpressrecords.com "BALLADS & BURLESQUE" IS NOW AVAILABLE AT: WWW.CDBABY.COM! * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * "Sage writes a love song with the verve & edgy introspection of Joan Armatrading & Sarah McLachlan...& love, whether joyous or heartbroken, has rarely sounded better for it." - AMPLIFIER | "a balance of flamboyance and femininity...Rachael Sage's show was stamped with her personal style, a performance as distinctive as it was entertaining." - WASHINGTON POST ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:23:25 +0000 From: Adam K Subject: shibboleth I have a feeling I'm going to get completely the wrong end of the stick, here, and make a damned, damned fool of myself, but I need to warm my fingers up on this freezing day, so... My parents listened to music, but very much of their time. I grew up with showtunes, soundtracks, songs from the 30's and 40's, and one of my first albums was a Fred Astaire compilation. By the age of 10, I was a Noel Coward fan (I still have his autograph, somewhere), and by the age of 12, when we'd moved to the States, I knew all the words to all the songs from Warner Brothers musicals like "Footlight Parade" and the "Gold Diggers" films. Occasionally, the pop world intruded: "American Pie", the theme from "Billy Jack", stuff like that, but they were just postcards from another world. And then, one day, while in a shopping mall somewhere in Waterbury, Ct., I heard them playing the title track from "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road", and something clicked. Not exactly ecto, I realise, but it was only then that I started buying albums. From there, I into the Electric Light Orchestra via "Can't Get it Out of My Head" and became fascinated with the possibilities of music ("So, you can use violins in rock? And cellos?") which led me, via a hearing of "I know what I like" into Genesis and progrock. This, in my high school, was the province of the "heads", the stoners in blue denim, but I wasn't one of them -- I wasn't even cool enough to be a geek, just a skinny kid with a weird accent and an oversized parka. Natch, the progrock thing died out by the late 70's, but by then I had graduated through Yes, Pink Floyd and finally into Van der Graaf Generator, where I found Peter Hammill, who pretty much got me through the 80's I got into REM around the time of Document, and then I heard the Indigo Girls "Closer to Fine" on the radio, and I guess that must have been my first true "ecto" moment. That said, Hammill -- with his personal commitment to his music, and the combination of gut, heart and head -- must be my proto-ecto, and it was through him and the ph7 list that I found the Happy Rhodes site, and then onto the fuzzy blue whatever. by that time, finding nothing in the current English scene, I was already well into the Girls, Tori Amos, Suddenly Tammy!, Jonatha Brooke and the like, but ecto opened up whole new channels of beautiful music for me. Thank you. My name is Adam and I'm an ectophiliac. adamk np: Pinback/Summer in Abaddon ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:02:44 -0800 From: Michael Hewett-Hicks Subject: Re: Epiphany On 19 Nov 2004, at 22:55, ecto-digest wrote: >> What do the different age groupings of Ectos remember as their own >> {is >> Epiphany too strong?} music thingy? bye, >> As a Canadian teenager my 'epiphany' (and it was an epiphany) was listening to late night CBC radio. Brent Banbury had a show called 'Brave New Waves' and he played an amazing selection of the very rich, individual and imaginative music that was coming out of the UK at that time.... I remember Momus, Rupert Hine, Fad Gadget, Swansway, Red Box, Talk Talk, Yazoo, The The, along with many other well known Geniuses - Kate, Peter Gabriel, Queen, Bowie etc...... What a time for 'pop' that was! (or was it just because I was young?) cheers Michael. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 17:27:34 -0500 From: "Robert" Subject: Re: Temporal Shibboleths I had a multiplicity of musical epiphanies! Age 13, I heard Freddy Cannon's "Buzz-Buzz A-Diddle-It" on a decent HiFi (this was just before the age of stereo!). It shook me. Age 20, The Beatles "Sgt. Pepper" album arrived, and that, combined with a certain aromatic herb which will go nameless provided another musical epiphany. Age 44, Happy Rhodes Releases "Warpaint". WXPN Plays "Feed The Fire" as I'm driving to the supermarket; I have to pull off the road and Listen. Never before had an artist reached so deeply into my soul. There were many others. but these stand out in my mind. Bob Lovejoy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:08:07 +1100 From: andrew fries Subject: Re: Temporal Shibboleths neal copperman wrote: > meredith said: > > >>I'm in the "early 30s" age grouping, and for me it was *definitely* KaTe. > > > I'm in the late 30's group, or, more precisely, the really damn close to 40 > group :) Kate was definitely a turning point for me too. I'm trying to > remember where the music stuff really kicked in. With apologies to Neal, who got his own private copy of this message - it was meant to go to the list! damn "reply-to" button... My early musical interest was mainly prog rock with bits of this and that thrown in. I knew of Kate Bush and sort of liked her, but she didn't do *that* much for me... The turning point, the record that focused my attention on what was to become my 'Ecto interest' was Tori Amos and her "Little Earthquakes" (minus "Me and a Gun" which I must admit I've always disliked) ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V10 #320 ***************************