From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #111 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, May 2 2006 Volume 12 : Number 111 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] HAPPY FEATURED ARTIST ON MP3UNSIGNED! ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Stellamara at the Independent in San Francisco [neal copperman Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************** Marty Lash (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Marvin Camras Sat January 01 1916 Tapehead Jeanne Schreiter Tue January 03 1967 Capricorn John Sandoval Wed January 04 1967 Capricorn Paul Cohen Tue January 05 1954 Capricorn Tony Garrity Mon January 08 1962 Pool of Life Greg Bossert Tue January 09 1962 OfTheTimes Troy J. Shadbolt Thu January 14 1971 Capricorn Chris Sampson Wed January 15 1964 Void where prohibited Dennis G Parslow Fri January 17 1964 ...of the Saint Ross Alford Thu January 17 1957 Positive Nancy Whitney Mon January 19 1959 slippery when wet Sarah Noelle Pratt Ferguson Tue January 20 1970 Seanympf-Aquarius David Beery Tue January 20 1976 drum Terry Partis Sun January 22 1933 Rocker Steve Hughes Thu January 24 1963 Aquarius Sarah McLachlan Sun January 28 1968 Aquarius Ilka Heber Mon February 01 1965 Mermaid Bob Lovejoy Sun February 02 1947 Aquarius Diane Burke Sat February 02 1963 slow children Timothy S. Devine Tue February 03 1970 Aquarius Stephen Thomas Fri February 04 1966 Aquarius Doug Burks Tue February 14 1956 Blank Jim Sturnfield Thu February 18 1954 Aquarius Juha Kannisto Wed February 18 1970 Aquarius Joel Siegfried February 19 Penguin Crossing Linda Saboe Tue February 20 1951 aimless Teresa Ross Wed February 23 1977 pisces Michael Curry Fri February 24 1967 Pisces Paula Shanks Mon February 25 1952 Pisces Brni Mojzes Fri February 26 1965 the vanishing boy Mark Bianchino Wed February 26 1964 Pisces Pamela Pociluk Fri February 28 1964 Pisces Marius Voina Mon March 03 1980 Pisces Peter Clark Thu March 04 1948 Pedestrian Tim Steele Fri March 08 1963 Pisces Matt Bittner Thu March 12 1964 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Bob Dreano Thu March 13 1958 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Jessica Skolnik March 16 Pisces Patrick M. Kingsley Sat March 17 1962 Yin/Yang Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Richard Konrad Sat March 18 1944 Pisces Daniel Wed March 18 1959 Wednesday's Child Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Graham Dombkins Fri March 19 1965 Pisces Ian Young Wed March 19 1969 Squiggol Jeff Wasilko Wed March 19 1969 Pisces Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces John Stewart Sat March 21 1970 Aries Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries Tom Proven Sat March 27 1971 Eat at Joe's Jennifer Albert Wed March 30 1966 Aries (w/Cancer rising!:) Warpaint Mon April 01 1991 Brilliant! Michael Pearce Wed April 03 1946 Pegasus Michael E. Bravo Mon April 05 1971 Dandelion Wine Brion McIntosh Sun April 06 1958 Aries Marcel Kshensky Thu April 06 1950 Aries Bill Mazur Mon April 06 1953 Aries Sun/Cancer Rising David Dixon Tue April 07 1970 Aries Heidi Heller Mon April 08 1974 Aries Jill Hughes Sat April 09 1955 Aries Klaus Kluge Sun April 10 1960 Unicorn Steve VanDevender Sun April 10 1966 Racer Art Liestman Fri April 10 1953 Repeat Stephen Golden Sat April 10 1971 Jokey Michael Bowman Wed April 11 1962 Aries Wolfgang Ullwer Fri April 11 1969 Widder Janet Kirsch Thu April 11 1974 Aries Jerry Tue April 13 1971 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Noe Venable Tue April 20 1976 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus Brad Hutchinson Tue April 28 1964 What sign? Geoff Parks Sun April 30 1961 Taurus Marty Lash Sat May 01 1948 Taurus Barney Parker Fri May 02 1986 happy cat Gray Abbott Tue May 03 1955 Suprised Tamar Boursalian Tue May 03 1966 Taurus Richard A. Holmes May 07 Taurus Steve Ito Fri May 08 1970 DA Bull... Brian Gregory Thu May 09 1963 Eclectic Catherine Sundnes Sat May 09 1970 Very Catzy Heidi Maier Wed May 10 1978 Taurus Kris the boy Fri May 11 1979 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 Joerg Plate Mon June 12 1967 Gemini Chris Montville Tue June 13 1978 Gemini Ectoplasm (original name) Mailing List Thu June 13 1991 Fuzzier blue Paul Huesman Wed June 14 1967 coffee drinker Mark R. Susskind Wed June 15 1966 Gemini Dave Upham Sun June 15 1958 Gemini Mike Matthews Mon June 16 1969 Pr. SAFH Albert Philipsen Mon June 17 1968 Gemini Neal R. Copperman Thu June 17 1965 Gemini Susan Kay Anderson Tue June 17 1969 Gemini Ecto-The Mailing List Tue June 18 1991 Fuzzy blue Tracy Barber Mon June 18 1956 Gemini Greg Dunn Thu June 18 1953 + Paul Blair Thu June 18 1964 Objectivist Mike Connell Sat June 18 1955 Apollo David Lubkin Fri June 20 1958 OurLady Marisa Wood Fri June 20 1969 Gemini Cheri Villines Sun June 20 1965 Gemini-Leo rising Ray Misra Sat June 20 1970 Gemini Nik Popa Sun June 22 1969 Cancer Teresa VanDyne Thu June 23 1960 Cancer Dave Torok Mon June 24 1968 Cancer Ethan Straffin Thu June 24 1971 Cancer Kevin Dekan Mon June 27 1960 Cancer Samantha Tanner Tue June 30 1970 Wild Goose BunkyTom Tue July 02 1968 Cancer Anders Hallberg Tue July 03 1962 Cancer Kevin Harkins Thu July 05 1973 Cancer Laurel Krahn Mon July 05 1971 Cancer John J Henshon Mon July 05 1954 The Year Of The Horse / Ruled By The Moon Jim Gurley Mon July 06 1959 Cancer Lisa Rouchka Fri July 08 1960 Moonchild with Java Rising Courtney Dallas Fri July 09 1971 Catte Michael Peskura Sat July 09 1949 HallOfFamer Finney T. Tsai Sat July 09 1966 Cancer Larry Greenfield Tue July 11 1950 Virgo Rising; Gemini Moon Marion Kippers Tue July 13 1965 Kreeft Ellen Rawson Thu July 13 1961 Double Cancer Mitch Pravatiner Mon July 14 1952 Cancer R. Rapp Wed July 14 1954 On a Gray Eye Sojourn John Zimmer Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Dan Stark Sun July 16 1961 Cancer Cathy Guetzlaff Mon July 18 1955 Cancer Vlad Sat July 18 1970 Warning: severe tire damage Jani Pinola Thu July 20 1972 Jonquil Alvin Brattli Sun July 27 1969 Lefthanded Christy Eger Smith Thu July 27 1944 Horse Crossing Shirley Ye July 27 Lioness woj Sun July 28 1968 children at play John Relph Sat July 28 1962 Leo Bob Kollmeyer Wed July 28 1971 Leo Steve Lusky Tue July 29 1952 Bike! Kate Bush Wed July 30 1958 God Chuck Smith Wed July 30 1958 Reboot Yves Denneulin Fri July 30 1971 Lion-Heart Joel Kenyon Wed July 31 1963 Leo Allan Anderson Sun August 04 1974 Signifier/Signified Eli Brandt August 05 Leo Amanda Williams Tue August 05 1969 phoenix Martin Bridges Sat August 08 1970 BigGuy Rosana L. de Oliveira Wed August 08 1973 Leo Happy Rhodes Mon August 09 1965 HolyGhost Loretta Pontillo Tue August 15 1978 Leo Queen of the Jungle Tori Amos Thu August 22 1963 Leo Sam Warren Tue August 22 1961 Leo Henk Van Wulpen Sat August 22 1970 Leo Kerry White Wed August 22 1951 Exact Leo/Virgo Don Gibson Wed August 26 1959 Virgo Marcel Rijs Mon August 31 1970 A rose growing old Meredith Tarr Wed September 01 1971 Virgo Scott Zimmerman Mon September 04 1972 Virgo Mike Mendelson Fri September 04 1964 Virgo 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 Sic Luceat Lux 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 Dan Riley Sun October 08 1961 Libra Neile Graham Wed October 08 1958 pen Quenby M. Chunco Tue October 08 1968 Crunchy Frog Mike Garland Wed October 08 1952 Creature_of_the_Night Irvin Lin Tue October 09 1973 Libra Michael C. Berch Wed October 10 1956 No parking Chris Gagnon Sat October 10 1970 Libra Wolfgang Drotschmann Thu October 13 1966 Waage Gracescape Fri October 13 1967 unbalanced Brian Bloom Tue October 14 1969 spam Erik N. Johnson Tue October 16 1962 Handle with Care Kim Klouda Tue October 17 1967 Libra Anthony Amato Sat October 20 1973 Libra Suzanne DeCory Tue October 22 1968 Balancing Libra Dave Steiner Sat October 24 1959 Scorpio Tara MacLean Thu October 25 1973 Scorpio Elin Sjoelie Fri October 25 1974 Scorpio Jessica Koeppel Wed October 29 1969 Scorpio Kat Crowder Sat November 01 1969 Bunnies Katie Dougiamas Sat November 02 1974 Scorpio Anthony Horan Fri November 04 1966 Positive Michael Sullivan Mon November 05 1962 Scorpio Anna Pryde Wed November 05 1975 Scorpio Sun; Sagittarius Moon; Pisces Rising Jens Brage Sun November 08 1964 Scorpio Rising Lynn Garrett Sat November 08 1958 Scorpio Sam Murgie Fri November 08 1957 Scorpio Rachel Kramer Bussel Mon November 10 1975 Scorpio Neb Rodgers Tue November 10 1959 Space Available - Inquire Within Ken Latta Sun November 11 1951 Scorpio Craig Gidney November 11 Scorpio Michael Doyle Wed November 12 1969 Scorpio Jenny Bruce Mon November 14 1966 fire-horse scorpio Dave Cook Mon November 15 1971 Scorpio Jeff Pearce November 16 Orpheus Naama Avramzon Mon November 18 1974 Scorpio Jeff Smith Mon November 19 1962 Crash Kevin Bartlett Fri November 21 1952 Scorpio with Saturn and Pluto issues Claudia Spix Wed November 23 1960 Schuetze Anja Baldo Tue November 23 1965 Garbanzo Tommy Persson Wed November 25 1964 Sagittarius Pat Tessitore November 26 Sagittarius Valerie Kraemer November 26 Sagittarius Justin Bur Fri November 27 1964 Sagittarius Sue Trowbridge Sun November 27 1966 Skytten Ward Kadel Tue November 29 1977 Sagittarius Jesse Hernandez Liwag Wed November 29 1972 Water Rat Mirko Bulaja Sat November 30 1974 Block Juha Sorva Thu December 02 1976 Sagittarius Chip Lueck Thu December 05 1968 Sagittarius Lenore December 05 sagi Michele Wellck December 08 Sagittarius Jeremy J. Corry Fri December 11 1970 Sagittarius Renee Canada Tue December 13 1977 Sagittarius Julie C. Kammerzell Sun December 15 1968 Sagittarius/Scorpio combo Gloria Jackson-Nefertiti Sat December 15 1956 queen_nefertiti@prodigy.net Laura Clifford Tue December 17 1957 Sagittarius Dirk Kastens Tue December 17 1963 Sagittarius Milla Wed December 17 1975 Sagittarius Chris Schernwetter Tue December 17 1974 Sagittarius Sherry Haddock Sat December 17 1960 Sagittarius Tracy Benbrook Tue December 18 1973 Sagittarius Mark Lowry Mon December 22 1969 Capricarius Kay Cleaves Wed December 22 1976 Prancing Pony Uli Grepel Wed December 25 1968 Steinbock Joseph Wasicek Sat December 25 1976 Brown Eagle Stuart Castergine Mon December 30 1963 You Are Here ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 06:24:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: HAPPY FEATURED ARTIST ON MP3UNSIGNED! Ecto post http://www.mp3unsigned.com/ Holy shit! A couple of weeks ago she was a Highlighted Artist, because, I thought at the time, I had paid for a year's membership. This is a whole different thing. They have so many members I'm sure there are long-time members who haven't gotten the "Featured" spot. Why? Wheras the "Highlighted" was for one day only, this will be for an entire week! With only 52 slots a year, there aren't all *that* many to go around. *Dancing dancing turning cartwheels (well, I would if I could)* Oh Marc, I do have a post started to answer your questions, I haven't forgotten you! Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Happy's MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples and rarities: http://wretchawry.com - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 07:05:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Stellamara at the Independent in San Francisco I caught Stellamara at the Independent in San Francisco on Saturday night. Stellamara is a world music band that covers Ukranian, Hungarian, Bulgarian and Middle Eastern musics. It's the brainchild of the singer/producer Sonia Drakulich, and they fit nicely in the Dead Can Dance niche. While not as powerful as Lisa Gerrard, Drakulich has some gorgeous pipes. She was backed by: Gari Hegedus - Oud, Saz, Setar, Mandocello, Violin Peter Jaques - Clarinet, Ney Rufus Cappadocia- Cello, Faisal Zedan- Darbuka, riqq special guest Tapan and darbuka: Rumen Shopov All of the musicians were excellent, particularly Rufus Cappadocia, who went crazy on his cello. Drakulich was dressed in a shimmering purple gown and summoned her inner Stevie Nicks, with undulations and tambourine playing. Check 'em out: http://www.stellamara.com --Craig Blog: http://ethereal-lad.livejournal.com Music Blog: http://www.last.fm/user/ethereal_lad/ - --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:36:48 EDT From: Marypt51@aol.com Subject: Re: favourite or perfect websites for unfamous musicians Hello, excuse me for interrupting the discussion with a couple of comments. In a message dated 4/26/2006 11:39:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, danyafan@earthlink.net writes: I dislike website that require (1) active-x or java (but javascript is OK), or (2) pop-ups, (3) or Flash, especially Flash that does not show percent loaded. Nerina Pallot's website is a perfect example, it uses active-x and pop-ups and flash and every other feature in my firewall turned on... and it needs 6-10+ minutes to load, with nothing indicating percent loaded... but once loaded it is beautiful, I give her that. Hey, thanks for mentioning this active X aspect. I am able to put up embedded video links to Youtube in my myspace page without having those active X warnings to pop up when people look at it, but when I try to embed an audio file I seem to get the active X warnings. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong, or do I need to just give people a link to click when dealing with audio files and skip trying to embed them? (Of course I always set the embedded audio files to autostart off.) In a message dated 4/27/2006 8:25:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, afries@internode.on.net writes: Then again I found the whole thing seems all too often to be just a maze of links with little visible content. An endless popularity contest... collect more friends!! I find it bizarre, and pointless. It would be pointless if that is what it was about, but for me, the people I have linked to are people whose schedules I want to check without having to hunt for them with a search or clutter up my overstuffed browser bookmarks with yet more bookmarks. Having people in my myspace group of friends links allows me to quickly find a group or business I want to check the tour schedule or other current info on regularly, plus I see their blog entries (because I subscribe to everyone's in my friends links) and their bulletins. I do not consider anyone in my friends links "friends" but rather business links. I don't care what term they want to use. The idea of "collecting friends" perhaps is true for some folks or I'm sure you wouldn't have gotten that impression, but it has nothing to do with why some of us are there. It is simply a useful tool for me and also a promotion aid for bands. Try to consider that not everyone is an idiot and there may be a reason that people are there besides these negative assumptions you have of people. Everyone is not a lemming or fool; clearly people who have a brain and are there are there for some reason other than what you are thinking. The reason some people tell others to join it is so that people they know can link in and read their news updates. That's why I occasionally tell friends to join. I find it a useful place to login and catch up with schedules, bulletins and so forth without having to get junk mail in my private email account. But that's just me. Sometimes I just tell friends to check in on a blog without needing to join. But myspace's blog software leaves something to be desired. By the way are there any other good places that offer some of the same services as myspace but are more mac friendly for users of Jaguar? I'm sure none that have the exposure Myspace offers though, but I would be interested in knowing of additional sites if they pop up. For people with music sites it's a help. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:39:24 EDT From: Marypt51@aol.com Subject: Re: favourite or perfect websites (and MySpace, and Paris) In a message dated 4/27/2006 4:56:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, raven@igc.org writes: I used to see their music player in all four of my browsers, but for several weeks I have not seen their music player... not that I could use it anyway, I'm on dial-up. Occasionally they just turn off their mp3 players for a few hours at a time to resolve technical issues and then turn them back on, I think. So you mave thought it was a permanent change but might have been you looking in when they had turned something off. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 15:15:30 EDT From: Marypt51@aol.com Subject: Reposting my messages with quotation marks Sorry that my messages didn't format in this browser in such a way that you could see my quoting since this software uses a blue line for quotes. I'll resend below with ">>>" marks. Resending two messages: Hello, excuse me for interrupting the discussion with a couple of comments. In a message dated 4/26/2006 11:39:16 PM Eastern Daylight Time, danyafan@earthlink.net writes: >>>>>>>I dislike website that require (1) active-x or java (but javascript is OK), or (2) pop-ups, (3) or Flash, especially Flash that does not show percent loaded. Nerina Pallot's website is a perfect example, it uses active-x and pop-ups and flash and every other feature in my firewall turned on... and it needs 6-10+ minutes to load, with nothing indicating percent loaded... but once loaded it is beautiful, I give her that.<<<<<<<<<<< Hey, thanks for mentioning this active X aspect. I am able to put up embedded video links to Youtube in my myspace page without having those active X warnings to pop up when people look at it, but when I try to embed an audio file I seem to get the active X warnings. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong, or do I need to just give people a link to click when dealing with audio files and skip trying to embed them? (Of course I always set the embedded audio files to autostart off.) In a message dated 4/27/2006 8:25:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, afries@internode.on.net writes: >>>>>>Then again I found the whole thing seems all too often to be just a maze of links with little visible content. An endless popularity contest... collect more friends!! I find it bizarre, and pointless.<<<<<<<<<< It would be pointless if that is what it was about, but for me, the people I have linked to are people whose schedules I want to check without having to hunt for them with a search or clutter up my overstuffed browser bookmarks with yet more bookmarks. Having people in my myspace group of friends links allows me to quickly find a group or business I want to check the tour schedule or other current info on regularly, plus I see their blog entries (because I subscribe to everyone's in my friends links) and their bulletins. I do not consider anyone in my friends links "friends" but rather business links. I don't care what term they want to use. The idea of "collecting friends" perhaps is true for some folks or I'm sure you wouldn't have gotten that impression, but it has nothing to do with why some of us are there. It is simply a useful tool for me and also a promotion aid for bands. Try to consider that not everyone is an idiot and there may be a reason that people are there besides these negative assumptions you have of people. Everyone is not a lemming or fool; clearly people who have a brain and are there are there for some reason other than what you are thinking. The reason some people tell others to join it is so that people they know can link in and read their news updates. That's why I occasionally tell friends to join. I find it a useful place to login and catch up with schedules, bulletins and so forth without having to get junk mail in my private email account. But that's just me. Sometimes I just tell friends to check in on a blog without needing to join. But myspace's blog software leaves something to be desired. By the way are there any other good places that offer some of the same services as myspace but are more mac friendly for users of Jaguar? I'm sure none that have the exposure Myspace offers though, but I would be interested in knowing of additional sites if they pop up. For people with music sites it's a help. In a message dated 4/27/2006 4:56:58 PM Eastern Daylight Time, raven@igc.org writes: >>>>I used to see their music player in all four of my browsers, but for several weeks I have not seen their music player... not that I could use it anyway, I'm on dial-up.<<<< ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 14:42:00 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Stellamara at the Independent in San Francisco They sound really cool. I'm pleased that I'll get to see them at WOMEX! (Though I have to wait until October for that.) neal np: French Essentials - electronic music producedin France nr: The Forest Lover - Susan Vreeland At 7:05 AM -0700 5/1/06, Craig Gidney wrote: >I caught Stellamara at the Independent in San Francisco on Saturday >night. Stellamara is a world music band that covers Ukranian, >Hungarian, Bulgarian and Middle Eastern musics. It's the brainchild >of the singer/producer Sonia Drakulich, and they fit nicely in the >Dead Can Dance niche. While not as powerful as Lisa Gerrard, >Drakulich has some gorgeous pipes. She was backed by: > > Gari Hegedus - Oud, Saz, Setar, Mandocello, Violin >Peter Jaques - Clarinet, Ney >Rufus Cappadocia- Cello, Faisal Zedan- Darbuka, riqq > special guest Tapan and darbuka: Rumen Shopov > > All of the musicians were excellent, particularly Rufus >Cappadocia, who went crazy on his cello. Drakulich was dressed in a >shimmering purple gown and summoned her inner Stevie Nicks, with >undulations and tambourine playing. > > Check 'em out: http://www.stellamara.com > > --Craig > > > Blog: http://ethereal-lad.livejournal.com > Music Blog: http://www.last.fm/user/ethereal_lad/ > > > > > > >--------------------------------- >Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 2 May 2006 10:15:41 +1000 From: Amanda Williams Subject: Imogen Heap article in the Age Hi everyone Just letting you know that there's an article on Imogen Heap in the Melbourne newspaper, the Age this morning. It mentions myspace and how good it is to get artists out there who don't have major record deals... http://www.theage.com.au/news/music/praise-heaped-on-download-diva/2006/05/01/1146335676096.html Cheers Amanda NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the addressee(s) only and may be confidential. They may contain legally privileged or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender as soon as possible by return e-mail and then please delete both messages. This notice should not be removed. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 22:47:50 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: Stellamara at the Independent in San Francisco Hi, Craig Gidney wrote: > All of the musicians were excellent, particularly Rufus Cappadocia, who went crazy on his cello. Interesting to see he's involved in this ... I've previously seen him as one-half of Bethany and Rufus (that's Bethany Yarrow, Peter Yarrow's daughter), going absolutely nuts on his specially-made 5-string cello playing traditional folk tunes. He really is unbelievable on that instrument. - -- =============================================== 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: Mon, 1 May 2006 23:44:18 -0400 From: wojizzle forizzle Subject: new on the live music archive! http://www.archive.org/audio/etree-details-db.php?id=36157 Vienna Teng April 8, 2004 The Acoustic Cafe Bridgeport, CT Taped by woj Source: SP-CMC-2 > SP-SPSB-2 > MZ-R50 (SP stereo, line in) Transfer: MDS-JE530 > Delta Dio 2496 (optical) > CD Wave > flac 1.1.1 (level 8) Vienna Teng: piano, vocals Alan Lin: violin Marika Hughes: cello Setlist: 01. My Medea 02. chat 03. The Tower 04. chat 05. Hope On Fire 06. chat 07. Gravity 08. band intro 09. Anna Rose 10. chat 11. Shasta (Carrie's Song) 12. chat 13. Homecoming 14. chat 15. Signal Fire 16. chat 17. Annie's Song [John Denver] 18. chat 19. Momentum 20. chat 21. Green Island Serenade 22. chat 23. Unwritten Letter #1 24. chat 25. Harbor 26. encore break 27. Lullabye For a Stormy Night ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 21:51:45 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Stellamara at the Independent in San Francisco Oh yeah. I didn't even pick up on that! I've seen B&R several times too and have always been very impressed with him. I love their CD too. neal np: East2West 3: Istanbul Straight Up At 10:47 PM -0400 5/1/06, meredith wrote: >Hi, > >Craig Gidney wrote: >> All of the musicians were excellent, particularly Rufus >>Cappadocia, who went crazy on his cello. > >Interesting to see he's involved in this ... I've previously seen >him as one-half of Bethany and Rufus (that's Bethany Yarrow, Peter >Yarrow's daughter), going absolutely nuts on his specially-made >5-string cello playing traditional folk tunes. He really is >unbelievable on that instrument. > >-- >=============================================== >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 >=============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #111 ***************************