From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V11 #36 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, February 6 2005 Volume 11 : Number 036 Today's Subjects: ----------------- **RACHAEL SAGE: SPRING (FEBRUARY) FEVER!** [SpiritWe@aol.com] Re: Kaki King on Paste Magazine DVD [neal copperman ] Kate Bush article in this week's New Statesman [Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: Kaki King on Paste Magazine DVD Look for Kaki to join Patty Larkin in support of La Guitara, a tour and CD to highlight "the contributions women have made to the modern guitar". There's a tour in the works later this year. Other names I've seen bandied about for the tour are Badi Assad and Sharon Isbin. http://www.pattylarkin.com/laguitara/ neal np: Kathy Cashel samples At 5:29 PM -0600 2/4/05, Eric Volker wrote: >I'm a few days behind on the the digest, but for those interested in >Kaki King, she has a video available in the latest copy of Paste >Magazine's bi-monthly DVD called Playing With Pink Noise. There are >no vocals, but she does some amazing things with her guitar. It's >very interesting, though it doesn't exactly suit my taste. There are >several other videos on the DVD as well, a few of which might >qualify as ectoish. > >Eric Volker > >> >>Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 23:58:14 -0500 >>From: "Suzanne DeCory" >>Subject: Vickie Mapes MP3, Kaki King >> >>Firstly, a BIG shout out to Vickie!! Thank you Thank you Thank you. >>You are truly a Godess next to Happy :) You always bring Happy to >>our lucky ears, the few who can't always attend her shows :( >>I just love you for it. And, with permission of course, keep >>sending! I'm sure I speak for many.. we appreciate and adore you >>for it! >> >>As for Kaki King, have I been in the dark? Lol... I've only just >>heard of her. I like her. She's so different. Reminds me of Ani >>Difranco a bit. Nice to see another female guitarist out there.. >> >>Okay, back to humming ...... Into the West..... >> >>Suzanne (: ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 12:02:56 -0800 (PST) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Kate Bush article in this week's New Statesman Hello. The new New Statesman arrived in the post yesterday, and there's a two-page article on Kate Bush in it. Unfortunately, I believe you have to be a subscriber (or have a subscriber's code) to read it for free. But here's the very beginning of it. The wow factor Jason Cowley February 7 2005 With her first single up for a Brit Award and a new album soon to be released, Kate Bush is back in a big way. It's been a long wait, writes Jason Cowley, but she's worth it When I mentioned at a recent New Statesman editorial conference that I wanted to write about Kate Bush, who is preparing to release her first album for 12 years, colleagues responded with a mixture of incredulity and awe. The incredulous still associated her with a single song, "Wuthering Heights", her first. Inspired by her teenage reading of Emily Bronte's great and rather sinister novel about unfulfilled love, "Wuthering Heights" must be one of the strangest songs ever to reach number one, as it did in 1978. Nobody who has heard Bush's wailing falsetto on that song, and its chorus of "Heathcliff, it's me, Cathy/I've come home", is likely to forget it. Nor is it any easier to forget her eccentric rendering of the song on Top of the Pops: with her thick, hennaed hair flowing wildly, as if she were running straight into a wind machine, she performed in a kind of rapture. Bush was 19 at the time and, a former student of dance and mime, desperately sincere. ===== "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 15:29:17 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Kate Bush article in this week's New Statesman Hi, Ellen forwarded: >The new New Statesman arrived in the post yesterday, >and there's a two-page article on Kate Bush in it. > >Unfortunately, I believe you have to be a subscriber >(or have a subscriber's code) to read it for free. >But here's the very beginning of it. This link to the full article was posted on love-hounds, and it appears to work: http://www.newstatesman.com/200502070034 =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2005 18:01:02 -0500 From: "Bill Adler" Subject: Saddest love songs, West of Eden Some time ago there was a thread on the saddest songs. There was no lack of sad love songs recommended by Ecto members -- more than enough to keep us teary-eyed for weeks. These included songs like Second Avenue by Lisa Moscatiello, St. Mary's of Regret by Susan Werner, Ariel by October Project, and Steer by the Stars by Beth Patterson. I've found another lovely, but sad song by a group that's new to me. The band is West of Eden, www.westofeden.com, and their supremely melancholy song is The Boy From Yesterday. The lyrics to The Boy From Yesterday start this way: "Where is he now, the boy from yesterday/He stole my heart and then he walked away/I must have told him that I loved him/Such a stupid thing to do/Because the boy from yesterday he didn't want to know." West of Eden's CDs have been on heavy rotation on my machine for several days. It's not just their outstanding lyrics that make this band so special; the sound of Jenny Schaub's voice is among the most beautiful out there. I've always been partial to well-enunciated lyrics sung by a exquisitely stunning voice, especially if those lyrics are poignant and smart. As one reviewer wrote, "Gvteborgarna i West of Eden blandar pop med irldndsk tradition...Musikaliskt hamnar de negonstans mittemellan the Corrs och Fleetwood Mac..." Which brings me to the other thing I want to mention about West of Eden -- they're a Swedish band that performs what's best described as nouvelle/progressive Celtic pop. They sing in English and if you hadn't known beforehand, you'd swear they were from Ireland or the UK. If you like October Project, Vienna Teng, Capercaillie, Eddi Reader, Dar Williams, Equation, or Dido (to name a few) then you'll like West of Eden. West of Eden's CDs can be hard to find in the US. Look for them here: www.tayberry.com - --Bill Adler n.p. West of Eden, "A Stupid Thing to Do" ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V11 #36 **************************