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ecto-digest         Thursday, August 24 2006         Volume 12 : Number 224



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                               Today's Subjects:
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  **RACHAEL SAGE IN NASHVILLE 8/24: RAINN BENEFIT**        [SpiritWe@aol.com]
  Thea on radio and on disc                                [adamk@zoom.co.uk]
  Re: Thea on radio and on disc            [Ellen Rawson <silme13@yahoo.com>]
  Re: Thea on radio and on disc                            [adamk@zoom.co.uk]
  Vienna Teng tomorrow night     ["Varker, Patrick" <pvarker@gibraltar1.com>]
  terami hirsch                                   [wojbearpig <woj@smoe.org>]
  Re: Thea live on Radio 2                        [wojbearpig <woj@smoe.org>]
  Paula Frazer, "Leave the Sad Things Behind."  [Craig Gidney <clgidney@yaho]
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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:04:13 EDT
From: SpiritWe@aol.com
Subject: **RACHAEL SAGE IN NASHVILLE 8/24: RAINN BENEFIT**

**RACHAEL SAGE TO PERFORM AT NASHVILLE RAINN BENEFIT!**

Don't miss Rachael in Music City this Thursday, at a very special event 
benefitting RAINN (Rape Abuse And Incest National Network).   Also performing on 
the bill are: Tyler James, Sandra McCracken, Garrison Starr & The Gabe Dixon 
Band! Rachael closes out the night with a full-band set. 

Tix are only $10 for five amazing acts!   We really hope to see you there;   
it's a great cause, and Rachael & the boys (Russ Johnson, trumpet & Dean 
Sharp, drums) can't wait to play for y'all :)   Please spread the word...

xoxoxo Team MPress

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Rachael Sage & The Sequins
Thurs. Aug. 24, 8pm @ 3rd & Lindsley
(Rachael performs around 10:15pm)
818 3rd Ave. S, Nashville, TN
Tix: www.3rdandlindsley.com
General Info: (615) 259-9891 

FOR MORE INFO ON RAINN, PLEASE VISIT: http://www.rainn.org/

"thought-provoking, intense tunes...spirited performances and engaging 
lyrics." - Nashville City Paper
"sophisticated folk-pop...delicately handled contemplations on various forms 
of faith and betrayal, awash in mildly glimmering imagery." - Nashville Scene
===
RACHAEL SAGE ON TOUR NOW - VISIT WEBSITE FOR UPDATES!
New Full-Length Album "The Blistering Sun" in stores & at radio now...
www.rachaelsage.com * www.myspace.com/rachaelsage
Bookings: www.sectalentgroup.net * elizabeth@sectalentgroup.net

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:12:57 +0100
From: adamk@zoom.co.uk
Subject: Thea on radio and on disc

Good Lord -- Thea pregnant?  How will THIS affect her music?  Hopefully, she 
won't go all gooey and start composing lullabies (mind you, if she does, 
they'll probably be the most depressing lullabies ever).

been listening to Harpo's Ghost, her new one, and my feelings are decidedly 
mixed:  There are some fantastic songs on it -- Everybody's Numb thunders along 
nastily, Call Me Darling is surprisingly good for such a sentiment, and really 
catchy, while We Built a Monster is one of her best.  Unfortunately, sometime 
around the middle, there's a run of songs -- The List, Whistle and Steam, Going 
Down and Contessa -- that I forget I've heard almost as soon as I've listened 
to them.  It finishes with the wonderful "Slow Journey II", and the hidden 
track "Play Until the Bottle's Gone" has been a live fave for a while, my only 
caveat being that I think it belongs in the main flow of the album.  The 
single, "Cheap Tricks" has a certain rocky charm and a great bass break, but I 
still don't think it's representative of her best...the b-sides are actually 
much better.  I was hoping that this album would be THE ONE, if you know what I 
mean, but it's....it's not quite, I fear.

Still, there's time to grow, and I've found albums often come alive when you 
have a live performance memory to tie them to.  I've got my tickets to see her 
in September.

Meanwhile, after a two-week "holiday" amid the Austrian lakes, I've returned to 
find Jonatha Brooke's live CD and DVD, as well as Vienna's latest.  I've only 
had time to listen to the first handful of tracks on the latter, and I'm 
immediately hooked.   One of these days, I'll get round to listening to the 
rest!

adam k.

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 03:12:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Ellen Rawson <silme13@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Thea on radio and on disc

- --- adamk@zoom.co.uk wrote:

> Good Lord -- Thea pregnant?  How will THIS affect
> her music?  Hopefully, she 
> won't go all gooey and start composing lullabies
> (mind you, if she does, 
> they'll probably be the most depressing lullabies
> ever).

And she was diagnosed with depression.
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1218257.ece

I don't have Harpo's Ghost yet, so I can't comment on
it.

Ellen

"Literature stops in 1100.  After that, it's just books." 
- -- JRR Tolkien

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 11:29:01 +0100
From: adamk@zoom.co.uk
Subject: Re: Thea on radio and on disc

Ellen,

Thanks for the link -- that is one GREAT article, and I'm sorry I missed it.  
I'll now go back and listen to the album with different ears, if you know what 
I mean.

By all means -- everyone -- buy the album.  Even at her most mixed, Thea still 
knocks spots off of the competition.

adam k.

Quoting Ellen Rawson <silme13@yahoo.com>:

> 
> 
> --- adamk@zoom.co.uk wrote:
> 
> > Good Lord -- Thea pregnant?  How will THIS affect
> > her music?  Hopefully, she 
> > won't go all gooey and start composing lullabies
> > (mind you, if she does, 
> > they'll probably be the most depressing lullabies
> > ever).
> 
> And she was diagnosed with depression.
> http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article1218257.ece
> 
> I don't have Harpo's Ghost yet, so I can't comment on
> it.
> 
> Ellen
> 
> "Literature stops in 1100.  After that, it's just books." 
> -- JRR Tolkien
> 




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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:44:05 -0400
From: "Varker, Patrick" <pvarker@gibraltar1.com>
Subject: Vienna Teng tomorrow night

For any of you that are in the Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, NC area:



Vienna Teng Aug.24 @ Raleigh Music Hall.



I will definitely be there! Can't wait to see Vienna again.

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:30:24 -0400
From: wojbearpig <woj@smoe.org>
Subject: terami hirsch

re: terami hirsch.

*obsesses*

that is all.

woj

n.p. all girl band (again)

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 08:37:19 -0400
From: wojbearpig <woj@smoe.org>
Subject: Re: Thea live on Radio 2

one time at band camp, Ellen Rawson (silme13@yahoo.com) said:

>As I'm typing this, I'm listening live to BBC Radio 2,
>where Thea, Nigel and crew are Mark Radcliffe's
>guests. She's playing 'Contessa' right now from the
>new CD. Prior to that song, they were discussing her
>pregnancy.

woo!

>Do tune in on-line if you're not in the Radio 2
>listening area.

or point your browser to 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio2_aod.shtml?radio2/r2_radcliffe_tue

to catch the archived stream (realaudio or windows media) for the next
week. (if anyone is interested, i'll do one of my patented captures and
mp3 transcodes for historical posterity.)

woj

n.p. same old, same old

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Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 06:21:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Craig Gidney <clgidney@yahoo.com>
Subject: Paula Frazer, "Leave the Sad Things Behind."

Paula Frazer is one part Neko Case alt-country, one part k.d. lang modern torch, and one part Elizabeth Fraser soaring vocalesse. Her songcraft borrow liberally from classic 60s/early 70s pop country, and some of the pieces and their arrangements will remind listeners of the "countrypolitian" orchestrations of Hem. Patsy Cline, the Carpenters and obscure 60s pop songs are the terrain she explores. Her voice is simply thrilling when it slides from a heartbreakingly fragile alto to a wordless flighty soprano that would make Roy Orbison green with envy.
   
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