From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #65 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, March 11 2006 Volume 12 : Number 065 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: "Brave Sir Robin" mp3 [Yngve Hauge ] Sophie Moleta - new single Te-Atawhai ["Karen Hester" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 10:04:30 +0000 From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: "Brave Sir Robin" mp3 On Thursday 09 March 2006 23:43, you wrote: > I know I had Ectofest '99 on my computer but I can't find it. I > know I had it on my old hard drive, the one that frizzled. I > have a CD of it, and will re-rip it. > I got it somewhere both as single files and a complete file. I just need to find it cause I have no clue which CD and/or DVD I have it stored on. I'll look into it when I get home. - -- Yngve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 12:29:40 +1300 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: Sophie Moleta - new single Te-Atawhai Kia ora New Zealand's Sophie Moleta has a new single out, Te-Atawhai, a charming song about a young girl she knows. Sophie's piano music is highly melodic and her lyrics poetic. Often the words are too concerned with relationships for me, or slightly new agey. Othertimes they are compellingly abstract ("ridges were sculpted and smoothed... by eruptions over hundreds of thousands of years" - 2nd song on the single, also sampled in an electronic song). Te-Atawhai is different again, a story-song full of very real and very particular details - quite alive. Just when it might get too cute (I wish she hadn't spelt out "I love that girl Te-Atawhai, she reminds me of her inner child"), Sophie sings "And it's Clare's birthday and I wanted to see her, but I'm so tired and I can't talk about this (to) committed couples and me, wanting it so much with a playboy and his daughter, Te-Atawhai." Te-Atawhai is one of Sophie's singing-and-talking songs. She speaks unusually melodically, but sometimes I find the songs disappear a bit when she speaks. In certain instances her use of voice reminds me strongly of Shona Laing, which really surprises me because I don't listen to Shona, and I see them as very different types of musicians. The album will be along eventually. I hope! She has been involved in various electronica projects lately, but I have to run out the door now - Over the Rhine are playing at a local 'hoedown'. Hmm. the samples on her site are a bit random - www.sophiemoleta.com or buy the single from my dad! on ebay (he's a big fan of hers and is selling them for her) http://cgi.ebay.com/Sophie-Moleta-New-Zealand-limited-edition-NZ-CD-single_W0 QQitemZ4847832890QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 16:59:09 -0800 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: Sophie Moleta - new single Te-Atawhai She just sent us a 12-song sampler for review for The Ectophiles' Guide. I said (in my vague description to send to prospective reviewers*): Piano-based folkie pop (Europop beat based song at the end). Vocals has a quirky, slighty Siberry-ish or perhaps Victoria Williams-ish delivery. http://www.sophiemoleta.com - --Neile *Anyone with time and energy want to commit to volunteering for reviews? We're particularly in need of singer-songwriter folk/pop fans. At 12:29 PM +1300 3/11/06, Karen Hester wrote: >Kia ora >New Zealand's Sophie Moleta has a new single out, Te-Atawhai, a charming >song about a young girl she knows. Sophie's piano music is highly melodic >and her lyrics poetic. Often the words are too concerned with relationships >for me, or slightly new agey. Othertimes they are compellingly abstract >("ridges were sculpted and smoothed... by eruptions over hundreds of >thousands of years" - 2nd song on the single, also sampled in an electronic >song). > >Te-Atawhai is different again, a story-song full of very real and very >particular details - quite alive. Just when it might get too cute (I wish >she hadn't spelt out "I love that girl Te-Atawhai, she reminds me of her >inner child"), Sophie sings "And it's Clare's birthday and I wanted to see >her, but I'm so tired and I can't talk about this (to) committed couples and >me, wanting it so much with a playboy and his daughter, Te-Atawhai." > >Te-Atawhai is one of Sophie's singing-and-talking songs. She speaks >unusually melodically, but sometimes I find the songs disappear a bit when >she speaks. In certain instances her use of voice reminds me strongly of >Shona Laing, which really surprises me because I don't listen to Shona, and >I see them as very different types of musicians. > >The album will be along eventually. I hope! >She has been involved in various electronica projects lately, but I have to >run out the door now - Over the Rhine are playing at a local 'hoedown'. Hmm. > >the samples on her site are a bit random - www.sophiemoleta.com >or buy the single from my dad! on ebay (he's a big fan of hers and is >selling them for her) >http://cgi.ebay.com/Sophie-Moleta-New-Zealand-limited-edition-NZ-CD-single_W0 >QQitemZ4847832890QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - -- - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Neile Graham .... neile@sff.net/@drizzle.com ... www.sff.net/people/neile Les Semaines: A Weekly Journal ........ www.sff.net/people/neile/semaines Editor, The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music ........... www.ectoguide.org Workshop Administrator, Clarion West ................ www.clarionwest.org ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 22:09:59 -0600 From: Eric Volker Subject: Re: the comfort of beth >Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:39:42 -0500 >From: "JoAnn Whetsell" >Subject: the comfort of beth > >Surprised I haven't heard more about Beth Orton's new album, The Comfort >of Strangers. It's a beautiful album, rootsy and mellow. The trip-hop >and electronica are gone, but what's left is a kind of soulful >rock-tinged folk. There are 2 versions, 1 with a 5 song bonus disc, >which is also good, the first 2 songs especially. There's a nice >review/interview at http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11396646/site/newsweek/ JoAnn > >------------------------------ > >Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:03:25 -0600 >From: Doug >Subject: Re: the comfort of beth > >I hate to say it but the only Beth I've found that I like is her >Central Reservation release. I'd rate that 10 out of 10, but the >rest? It doesn't do anything for me. Funny. > >- --Doug > >On 3/9/06, JoAnn Whetsell wrote: > > >>Surprised I haven't heard more about Beth Orton's new album, The Comfort >> >> I find that I must agree with Doug on this one. While I'm a fan of almost all of Beth's previous work, the samples I've heard off of the new album just don't do anything for me. It's not that they're bad, they just seem to lack a certain spark evident in her older albums. (And yes, I am a fan of electronica.) One album I'm looking forward to getting is Cat Power's new album, The Greatest. The clips I've heard of it on the iTunes music store sound very encouraging, and I'm surprised I haven't heard much discussion of it here. Has anyone here heard the album in it's entirety? - - Eric ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #65 **************************