From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #53 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, March 5 2007 Volume 13 : Number 053 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Re: Pandora [Robert Lovejoy ] Adrienne Pierce - NBH Podcast [birdie ] Re: Pandora [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] RIP Internet Radio? [meredith ] Upcoming ectophilic music, NYC area ["Paul Blair" ] Re: [valrichardson@igc.org] Katell ["Leonora Christina Skov" ] Re: Upcoming ectophilic music, NYC area [Dan St ark <2005.carnivore99@ver] Re: Noe and University Museum Auditorium show ["Paul Blair" ] Re: Katell ["Paul Blair" ] "Keys Please" with Kristin Hoffmann and NLX ["Paul Blair" ] The Roches [jjhanson@att.net] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 03:00:03 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Peter Clark (no Email address) ********************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 Kim Justice March 18 Pisces 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 09:59:20 -0500 From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Re: Pandora It is always magnificent to see anything Rhodes. But what can we, as fans, do to correct "Similar Artist=Bananarama"? Blessings, Uncle Ecto ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 10:42:52 -0800 From: birdie Subject: Adrienne Pierce - NBH Podcast Now this is a cool thing for indie's.... The Next big Thing podcast (30,000 peeps a month listen) has this contest where if you win, you get things like a week featured on the front page of the iTunes store.....and all kinds of other promotional help. Adrienne Pierce is in the #2 spot - vote for her while you check it out! See the column on the right, click at the button next to her name, scroll and hit vote. http://www.nextbighit.com/index.php?option=com_poll&task=results&id=19 She has a new CD out "Faultline" you can hear songs here: www.adriennepierce.com www.myspace.com/adriennepierce ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 13:02:39 -0600 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: Pandora Hi, I recently signed up for Touch to get to listen to an old favorite: 'Down At Circe's Place'. They kept going to 25 Year Touch Compilation. I wrote to the Contact Us email and said: "Hi, Touch by Touch is a group and 25 Years of Touch is a label." A few days later I got a response from someone saying they would get their engineers to tweek the system to know the difference. I would guess a gently outraged email mentioning specific differences could have an effect. Or, possibly, a concerted effort of ectos 'downthumbing' the Bannanarama choice could affect the system from without. bye, Kerry KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 14:41:08 -0500 From: meredith Subject: RIP Internet Radio? Hi, The RIAA strikes again: http://www.kurthanson.com/archive/news/030207/index.shtml "The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates, rejecting all of the arguments made by Webcasters and instead adopting the "per play" rate proposal put forth by SoundExchange(a digital music fee collection body created by the RIAA). ... "... A "performance" is defined as the streaming of one song to one listener; thus a station that has an average audience of 500 listeners racks up 500 "performances" for each song it plays. ... "...(the) math suggests that the royalty rate decision  for the performance alone, not even including composers' royalties!  is in the in the ballpark of 100% or more of total revenues." It should go without saying that I think this is utterly, completely, mind-bogglingly stupid. Putting Internet broadcasters out of business is no way to embrace the future. But then, the RIAA is clearly not interested in doing anything but killing the very industry it claims to represent. I wonder if this means that Internet radio is just going to move outside of the US. If I were Pandora, for example, I would certainly be looking into doing just that! (Read down to the FAQ section at the bottom of the link above ... this very thing is addressed.) - -- =============================================== 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: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 15:25:20 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Upcoming ectophilic music, NYC area ...plus a few dates for Susan McKeown in Massachussetts at the bottom. There's a LOT coming up: Natasha Alexandra Rockwood Music Hall, March 5 Lucy Wainwright Roche Pete's Candy Store, March 8 The Roches Irvington Town Hall Theater, Irvington, March 9 The Roches Westport Arts Center at Saugatuck School Theater, Westport, March 10 Pamela Means Caffe Vivaldi, March 14 Solas Tarrytown Music Hall, March 14 The Pogues Roseland Ballroom, March 14-15 Alice Bierhorst, Greta Gertler and Noe Venable Living Room, March 15 Solas Joe's Pub, March 15 Lucy Wainwright Roche Pete's Candy Store, March 15 Susan McKeown Winter Garden at the World Financial Center, March 16 (lunchtime) Laurie Anderson Joe's Pub, March 16 The Roches Boulton Center for the Arts, Bayshore, March 16 Olabelle Beacon Theatre, March 16-17 Noe Venable Rockwood Music Hall, March 17 Julia Sweeney and Jill Sobule Joe's Pub, March 17 The Clancy Tradition Towne Crier, March 17 The Pogues Roseland Ballroom, March 17 (sold out) Laurie Anderson Joe's Pub, March 18 Indigo Girls Town Hall, March 20-21 Rodrigo y Gabriela Webster Hall, March 21 Pamela Means Caffe Vivaldi, March 21 Lucy Wainwright Roche Pete's Candy Store, March 22 Susan Werner Joe's Pub, March 23 Elysian Fields Joe's Pub, March 23 Lucinda Williams Radio City Music Hall, March 23 The Roches Society for Ethical Culture, March 23 Kristin Hoffmann Cafe Vivaldi, March 24 Eliza Gilkyson & Mary Gauthier Irvington Town Hall Theater, Irvington, March 24 Susan McKeown Barrow Street Theatre, 27 Barrow Street, March 26 (part of Frank London's "A Night at the Old Marketplace" w/They Might Be Giants, Lorin Sklamberg, etc.) Sloan Wainwright Watercolor Cafi, Larchmont, March 27 Lucy Wainwright Roche Pete's Candy Store, March 29 Pamela Means Caffe Vivaldi, March 29 Sloan Wainwright Knitting Factory Old Office, March 30 Dar Williams/John Gorka Shea Ctr for the Performing Arts @ William Paterson U. Wayne NJ, March 30 Sloan Wainwright St. John's Coffeehouse, New Haven, CT, March 31 Lunasa Joe's Pub, April 5 Pamela Means Caffe Vivaldi, April 5 Natasha Alexandra Caffe Vivaldi, April 6 Kristin Hoffmann Caffe Vivaldi, April 7 Vienna Teng with Ryan Scott Joe's Pub, April 7 Tuck and Patti B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, April 9 Pamela Means Caffe Vivaldi, April 12 David Torn CD Release Joe's Pub, April 17 Patty Griffin Beacon Theatre, April 19 Pamela Means Caffe Vivaldi, April 19 Loreena McKennitt Radio City Music Hall, April 20 Erin McKeown Southpaw, April 20 Over the Rhine Joe's Pub, April 21 Innocence Mission Southpaw, April 21 Tom Russell/Eliza Gilkyson Towne Crier, April 22 Tom Russell/Eliza Gilkyson Joe's Pub, April 23 Kristin Hersh "Full Band with Strings" Bowery Ballroom, April 25 Lucy Kaplansky Makor, April 25-26 Pamela Means Caffe Vivaldi, April 26 Natasha Alexandra Caffe Vivaldi, April 27 Patty Larkin Boulton Center for the Arts, Bayshore, April 27 Lucy Kaplansky Irvington Town Hall Theater, Irvington, April 27 Patty Larkin Towne Crier, April 28 "Four Bitchin' Babes" B.B. King Blues Club & Grill, April 29 Susan Werner Morrison Mansion, Orange Cty Community College, Middletown NY, April 29 Laurie Anderson Alice Tully Hall, April 30 Sloan Wainwright Band Towne Crier, May 12 The Nields Joe's Pub, May 19 matinee ********** Massachussetts: Susan McKeown with the Klezmatics Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 11 Susan McKeown Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA, March 17 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:42:17 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: valrichardson@igc.org Subject: Re: Thanks for this list of music!! What's a poor girl to do. I don't have nearly the time or money to see 1/10th of what I want to see. I'm glad that since my young daughter is a little older, I can at least get out to a few more shows than in years past. Speaking of which, I took my daughter to see Katell Keineg this past Friday at The Living Room. We were waiting in line behind a woman who had seen Katell the previous Friday. This was the first time she'd ever heard Katell's music and wanted a recommendation for similar music. For some reason the closest comparison I came up with was Veda Hille. My line neighbor was most impressed with Katell's intelligent lyrics. Ideas? I'm going to e-mail her and point her in the general direction of the Ecto Guide to Good music. Has anyone heard a preview of the new Roches CD? The official release date isn't until March 13. I'd really like to go and see them in their Westport date this coming week. Best, Valerie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 00:27:09 +0100 From: "Leonora Christina Skov" Subject: Katell What am I doing in Denmark?! I want to go to The Living Room and all the other venues instead of just poor old Vega in Copenhagen!! Anyway, speaking of Katell Keineg: Im thinking Natalie Merchant (Katell contributed to Tigerlily after all..), Alison Moyet (voice) & Cocteau Twins (mood). Veda Hille is fairly close, too. Cheers, Leonora "They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum" Tallulah Bankhead Forfatter, mag.art. Leonora Christina Skov H.C. Xrsteds Vej 35, 3.tv., 1879 Frb. C. Tlf 38 19 03 81 / 26 85 67 27 [IMAGE] www.leonorachristinaskov.blogspot.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- From: valrichardson@igc.org Reply-To: valrichardson@igc.org To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Re: Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 17:42:17 -0500 (GMT-05:00) >Thanks for this list of music!! What's a poor girl to do. I don't have nearly the time or money to see 1/10th of what I want to see. I'm glad that since my young daughter is a little older, I can at least get out to a few more shows than in years past. > >Speaking of which, I took my daughter to see Katell Keineg this past Friday at The Living Room. We were waiting in line behind a woman who had seen Katell the previous Friday. This was the first time she'd ever heard Katell's music and wanted a recommendation for similar music. For some reason the closest comparison I came up with was Veda Hille. My line neighbor was most impressed with Katell's intelligent lyrics. Ideas? I'm going to e-mail her and point her in the general direction of the Ecto Guide to Good music. > >Has anyone heard a preview of the new Roches CD? The official release date isn't until March 13. I'd really like to go and see them in their Westport date this coming week. > >Best, Valerie - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fe 250 MB gratis lagerplads pe MSN Hotmail ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:23:29 -0500 From: Dan St ark <2005.carnivore99@verizon.net> Subject: Re: Upcoming ectophilic music, NYC area Thanks for helping fill up our calendar Paul. We're also going to go check out Jenny O at The Living Room tonight at 8. I don't know much about her except that she's been on my MySpace list for a long time and I really like everything I've heard from her so far. Another recommendation - Laura Tsaggaris next Sunday 3/11 at Googie's Lounge above the Living Room, 9:30pm. Dan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:00:54 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: Noe and University Museum Auditorium show OK, so I guess I deserve that admonishment from Vickie too; I'd give my excuse but it would be too involved. :-) Suffice it to say that some of it involves spending the time I would have spent writing about going to hear music, instead going to hear music. A couple of notes on Meredith's post: > Alice Bierhorst went first... she's very into what she's doing and that makes her > performances endearing. Her set was a good way to get things started. Greta > accompanied her on piano throughout, and Noe and Greta both provided harmonies -- > their voices all blended beautifully together. I'd agree with that. The harmonies were pleasant but overall her music was more on the folk side of things than I generally like. From her website, she has like 9 albums, so she's pretty prolific. I can't say much about Greta's set because, though I remember liking it, I was so bowled over by Noe Venable that I forgot everything else. I'd never heard Noe before, either live or recorded; meth's description of "transcendent" fit well. She didn't have any CDs with her, so I went out and bought 3 of them online. Here I've been disappointed: The albums seem largely to share whatever it is I don't care for in Tori Amos' music--probably an attitude more than anything else. Also, I don't like the quality of her voice on the recordings anywhere near as much as what I heard live. Interesting meth's comment about noticing during the show just how strong her voice is; maybe she's moving in a new vocal direction? At any rate, I'm still not intending to miss seeing her live, and it looks like we're going to have two chances this month: at the Living Room on the 15th and at Rockwood Music Hall on the 17th. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2007 20:21:46 -0600 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: re: noe " She didn't have any CDs with her, so I went out and bought 3 of them online. Here I've been disappointed: The albums seem largely to share whatever it is I don't care for in Tori Amos' music--probably an attitude more than anything else. Also, I don't like the quality of her voice on the recordings anywhere near as much as what I heard live. Interesting meth's comment about noticing during the show just how strong her voice is; maybe she's moving in a new vocal direction?" It's odd, because I had the exact opposite reaction when I saw her open for Ani -- I sort of thought there wasn't enough variation in her material and two-three tracks were about all I needed to hear. Then I bought "The World is Bound by Secret Knots," and was completely bowled over by its fantastic-ness and intensity and the Kate-quality production. I have one other of her albums, "Boots," which has the same flatness that I experienced in the live set I saw. Maybe it does have something to do with her artistic progression. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 21:44:17 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: Katell On 3/4/07, valrichardson@igc.org wrote: > Speaking of which, I took my daughter to see Katell Keineg this past Friday at The > Living Room. I was at that show; another one I had intended to write up but haven't had time to. (I was sitting with a woman friend, table-less, on the left-hand wall facing the stage, about half way back, in case you were sitting anywhere near us--I don't know if I'd recognize you, Valerie!) Last time I saw Katell Keineg was in September of 1998, and I remember concluding that I wasn't a big fan. Since then I've heard Natalie Merchant's "Gulf of Araby" duet with Susan McKeown and thought I needed to go back for another listen. This time I had a mixed reaction; some things I thought were sublime, some didn't grab me, and for a few I had to hold back a bwa-ha-ha-ha reaction. Really: "I want you/but I don't want your monkey..." I know it's supposed to be metaphoric and all, but it's hard to maintain belief in the anguish of the narrator when the image is so ridiculous. There was also one that went "Assholes of the world, won't you learn to love a woman..." which presumably was calling on the assholes to reform themselves but which kept leading me to the question, "Why do you want to be loved by an asshole anyway?" On the other hand, there was an amazing song she sang in Spanish by a Chilean, Victor Jara: "Te recuerdo, Amanda." (I don't know how it was for people who don't understand Spanish, but I found it very moving. It also echoes a famous French poem, "Barbara" by Jacques Prevert.) There's a video on YouTube of Jara singing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRmre8ggkcY (lyrics in Spanish and English here: http://thue.stanford.edu/jacquie/songs/amanda.html ) Katell finished her set with "Franklin," and then played "The Gulf of Araby" as an encore. She had someone accompanying her on piano and keyboards a good part of the time, but I don't know who it was. The house was packed. Opening for Katell was Ann Scott from Dublin, who looks like a cuter, slightly perky Jorja Fox (the one from CSI) and whose music was pretty tedious. She played acoustic during her set and was accompanied halfway through by a cellist whose name I now forget. During Katell's set Ann did a little backing electric guitar (and the cellist joined for one or two songs as well). ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:27:46 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: "Keys Please" with Kristin Hoffmann and NLX Caffe Vivaldi is a little bohemian place in the Village whose owner, Ishrat Ansari, is very devoted to the music he puts on and to his musicians. The place seems held together by a shoestring, and on a slow night it can be pretty empty. Sometimes, however, the place can get so packed you can hardly move. I discovered Caffe Vivaldi a few years ago after having seen Kristin Hoffmann at Arlene Grocery on Dan Stark's recommendation; she was doing a residency there. Since then she is one of Ishrat's favorite musicians, and she draws pretty well too. Caffe Vivaldi has also hosted Natasha Alexandra ("NLX") numerous times. Last Sunday night Kristin and Natasha shared a bill under the name "Keys Please"--both play piano and other keyboards--and they packed the place. They had a setup with a Macintosh and all kinds of loops and effects; often one would do backing vocals or effects (or vocals-with-effects) on the other one's song. Both of them are pretty young. Kristin is the less cynical of the two; NLX likes to put on a hard-boiled front. I find much more to like in Kristin's music than I did before; her vocals are really good and the effects really spice things up. There's a video "ad" on YouTube for the Keys Please tour that gets across pretty well what it was like in less than 2 minutes. (The high-pitched, clear voice is Kristin; the more edgy one is Natasha.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHISHIMUhe8 Probably Kristin Hoffmann's two strongest songs are "Mary" and "Falling," which you can hear here: http://www.kristinhoffmann.com/music.html http://www.myspace.com/kristinhoffmannmusic Natasha Alexandra's "Code Red" is what plays when you reach her homepage: http://www.nlxmusic.com/ http://www.myspace.com/natashaalexandra Seems I left some of their dates off my other list: Natasha Alexandra Rockwood Music Hall, March 5 Kristin Hoffmann Living Room, March 9 Kristin Hoffmann The Golden Apple Coffeehouse, Mt. Kisco, March 17 Kristin Hoffmann Living Room, April 27 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 22:38:50 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: What's Michelle Kinney doing these days? Jelloslave? http://www.jelloslave.com/bios.html http://www.myspace.com/jelloslave Also found this from a few years back. Interestingly, doesn't mention her past work with Susan McKeown or the Chanting House at all: http://www.citypages.com/databank/24/1196/article11643.asp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2007 23:28:17 -0500 From: "Paul Blair" Subject: Re: noe Her tour with Ani was in what, 2004? "Secret Knots" is 2003, and "Boots" is 2002, so if there's a progression it must be complicated. I know that "Luck, luck," which I heard live, is also on "Boots"--but the version on the album would never have made me sit up and take notice the way the live performance did. Live her voice sounded very forceful, clear, and pure. The songs on "Boots" have that flat, breathy back-of-the-throat voice that doesn't do much for me. Guess that's probably why I can't get into Kristin Hersh either. On 3/4/07, Timothy Jones-Yelvington wrote: > > It's odd, because I had the exact opposite reaction when I saw her open for > Ani -- I sort of thought there wasn't enough variation in her material and > two-three tracks were about all I needed to hear. Then I bought "The World > is Bound by Secret Knots," and was completely bowled over by its > fantastic-ness and intensity and the Kate-quality production. I have one > other of her albums, "Boots," which has the same flatness that I experienced > in the live set I saw. Maybe it does have something to do with her artistic > progression. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 04:37:42 +0000 From: jjhanson@att.net Subject: The Roches I saw the Roches perform at Folk Alliance--I've never been much of a fan before but I'd definitely go see them live--their harmonies are stunning and they were absolutely hilarious to see live. Great performers. Not sure I'd listen to the albums much if I bought them, but I think they'd definitely be worth going to see. Jeff - -------------- Original message from valrichardson@igc.org: -------------- > Thanks for this list of music!! What's a poor girl to do. I don't have nearly > the time or money to see 1/10th of what I want to see. I'm glad that since my > young daughter is a little older, I can at least get out to a few more shows > than in years past. > > Speaking of which, I took my daughter to see Katell Keineg this past Friday at > The Living Room. We were waiting in line behind a woman who had seen Katell the > previous Friday. This was the first time she'd ever heard Katell's music and > wanted a recommendation for similar music. For some reason the closest > comparison I came up with was Veda Hille. My line neighbor was most impressed > with Katell's intelligent lyrics. Ideas? I'm going to e-mail her and point her > in the general direction of the Ecto Guide to Good music. > > Has anyone heard a preview of the new Roches CD? The official release date isn't > until March 13. I'd really like to go and see them in their Westport date this > coming week. > > Best, Valerie ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #53 **************************