From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #97 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, April 18 2007 Volume 13 : Number 097 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: New Finds (Was: Thanks & The Bird and the Bee) [Tim Jones-Yelvington ] Re: Tori Amos - American Doll Posse. ["Marc McLaren" Subject: Re: New Finds (Was: Thanks & The Bird and the Bee) For some reason, hearing other people's reccs always causes me to want to make my own. This past Tuesday was an excellent Tuesday. The new CocoRosie is pretty much mind-blowing... my second favorite album of the year thus far after Rickie Lee's Sermon. It has all of the style and eccentricity of their previous work, but in the service of real songs, with memorable melodies. It has a lot of momentum and really elevates them to another level. Also blown away by the new Laura Veirs. Her recordings always shock me with their quality. I feel like she really stands head and shoulders above a lot of similar, guitar-based artists. Her albums are always impeccably crafted, in terms of production and pacing. She works within a style that could be really generic, unmemorable or just plain boring, but she always stands out, while maintaining remarkable grace and subtlety. And she's got a great grit in her voice that keeps her from floating away like some of her peers. This album's got a lot of songs with Northwest coast-influenced ocean imagery, and has a wicked sea monster in its lovely cover art. ~tim JoAnn Whetsell wrote: It's funny, I've been meaning to post about The Bird and The Bee and some other stuff I discovered on NPR. My reaction is similar to Leonora's. Never really got into Inara George's debut, but I LOVE this album. NPR story on The Bird and the Bee at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7863003 Live concert, with Lily Allen, at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9348709 Peggy Honeywell is another artist I discovered at NPR. She makes soft, quirky, folk music. Sort of. I've been enjoying her new album, Faint Humms. I thought I discovered her on NPR, but can't find any info about her there. Her website is http://www.peggyhoneywell.com/ JoAnn >From: "Leonora Christina Skov" >To: ecto@smoe.org >Subject: Thanks & The Bird and the Bee >Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 10:39:30 +0200 > >Thanks JoAnn. Ill investigate further.. > >Based on the clips on emusic Reba is certainly right up my street. Thanks >for the recommendation, Tim. Comparing her to Tori is perhaps a little >too obvious, I know, but her voice and fierce piano playing does sound >quite much like her. Ill certainly need to give Beth Sorrentino another >listen. I downloaded Nine Songs and dismissed it immediately. Her girlish >voice annoyed me, as far as I remember, and the songs reminded me too >much of Beth Nielsen Chapman. > >Presently, Im reviewing the new Inara George/Greg Kursin-project, The >Bird and the Bee, for Gaffa  a Danish music magazine. I wasnt crazy >about Inaras debut, but this album is so eclectic and inspired and her >voice is just drop dead gorgeous, reminiscent of Astrud Gilberto in my >opinion. The album has the same retro-feel as Camera Obscura, but its >catchier and more playful and there are so many killertracks youre being >spoilt for choice. Again & Again, Im a Broken Heart I Hate Camera >and Fucking Boyfriend are obvious highlights. Presently they all seem >stuck in my head. > >Cheers Leonora > >"Some would call it Art. I would call it camouflage" Joan Crawford om >Bette Davis' makeup > >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 > > > > > >www.leonorachristinaskov.blogspot.com > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington > To: Timothy Jones-Yelvington , > Subject: Beth Sorrentino & Reba Hasko > Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 21:38:44 -0500 > >Based upon recommendations here, I used my monthly emusic allotment > to > >download Beth Sorrentino's "Nine Songs, One Story" and Reba Hasko's > "Live > >From Studio (Whatever Number)." > > > >What amazing albums!! > > > >Both of these recordings really show what can be accomplished using > just a > >voice and a piano. > > > >-Sorrentino's songs sound deceptively straight-forward and are quite > >stirring. Some of her chords (mostly minor, I think) and > progressions I just > >want latch onto and live inside for the rest of my life. I wish I > was better > >with music theory-speak so I could identify exactly what it is I > find so > >involving. > > > >-Whatever that quality is that I find lacking in Vienna, Terami and > CharMar, > >Reba Hasko possesses in spades. When I figure out a name for it, or > how to > >identify it, I'll let y'all know. > > > >Thanks for the reccs! > > > >~tim > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Download din yndlingsmusik pe MSN Music det er nemt og billigt! _________________________________________________________________ Cant afford to quit your job?  Earn your AS, BS, or MS degree online in 1 year. http://www.classesusa.com/clickcount.cfm?id=866145&goto=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.classesusa.com%2Ffeaturedschools%2Fonlinedegreesmp%2Fform-dyn1.html%3Fsplovr%3D866143 ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 03:25:34 +0100 From: "Marc McLaren" Subject: Re: Tori Amos - American Doll Posse. I'm worried about the comparisons to Strange Little Girls too. When I first read about the fact she has 5 personas on this album, that was my immediate thought. I'm enjoying the length of the album, I think if you're going to release an album, then it should be lengthy. I read some reviews about how Happy Rhodes should have cut Rhodes I and II and made one album of the best of those and I want to throw albums at said reviewers. But worry not, some of the songs are interludes, like in Boys for Pele? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:47:21 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: Tori Amos - American Doll Posse. I'm more of a 40-minute 12-15 track person myself, but Tori seems to be in your camp much of the time. Pele, Scarlet and Beekeeper have all run long. Long albums can be great so long as they're coherent artistic statements as albums... I just don't like it when out-of-place tracks get included simply because artists couldn't bear to part with them. Save them for b-sides!! Then there are the embarrassing tracks, like that unfortunate song on Beekeeper about driving a Saab through Ireland. Definitely a lower point in Tori's oeuvre. On 4/17/07 9:25 PM, "Marc McLaren" wrote: > I'm worried about the comparisons to Strange Little Girls too. When I first > read about the fact she has 5 personas on this album, that was my immediate > thought. > > I'm enjoying the length of the album, I think if you're going to release an > album, then it should be lengthy. I read some reviews about how Happy Rhodes > should have cut Rhodes I and II and made one album of the best of those and > I want to throw albums at said reviewers. > > But worry not, some of the songs are interludes, like in Boys for Pele? ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #97 **************************