From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #108 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, April 29 2007 Volume 13 : Number 108 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 ] Lisa Knapp [Ellen Rawson ] Re: Music new to me (warning: IMHO! Expect the usual!) [Ethan Straffin <] Reba Hasko - Seeds from the Twisted Pear [Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************* Brad Hutchinson (no Email address) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 02:50:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Lisa Knapp - --- Neile Graham wrote: > Besides the upcoming Feist which I already > mentioned, through an article > in Mojo magazine I discovered Lisa Knapp. I'd read the press over here -- quite positive reviews ('nu-folk') in the Guardian and Froots are two I recall. I actually won a signed copy of her CD in a competition at Fish Records, and I do like it very much. We caught her live last night in Guildford on the Three Countries of Folk tour (she was England) with Gwenan Gibbard (Welsh traditional harpist and singer) and Jenna Reid (Shetland fiddler who sings occasionally and should sing more). She does > mostly stripped-down > versions of traditional English folk. There's > something fragile and > powerfully evocative about her versions which I'm > not sure I can pin down. > Maybe like if Kathryn Williams did trad folk? That's a good analogy. I've been comparing her to Shirley Collins, one of her own folk influences, but her voice has far more vibrato. About the live show, we think that she arrived late. We saw a man bringing in her instruments only half an hour before the gig started (she was on last, but still). She seemed a little rushed/nervous at the start, but she recovered. (Before her set, she was setting up microphones and instruments. Apparently, everyone had been looking for her backstage, unaware she was being her own roadie.) Her traditional material was excellent, and she performs in such a way to make me think of the early '70s folk circuit. (And yes, I was a teen then, but my older sister took me along. :) She's a multi-instrumentalist (fiddle and guitar mostly, though she picked up the banjo recently), who performs with her musical (and I think romantic, but I'm not sure) partner, Gerry Diver. One of the more experimental numbers on the album, 'There u r', an original song she co-wrote with Diver, didn't work well live. Her autoharp went missing in the mix. I was in the front row and mostly got the 'zip' sound of her pick against the strings. It wasn't miked. I wonder if they thought her voice mike would be enough (she wore the autoharp around her neck). His fiddle overwhelmed it and her voice. She motioned for more vocals in her monitor, but more vocals were needed full stop. It's a tricky one on the album, but it didn't work at all live, alas. Other numbers that are more traditional sounding yet receive a bit of an 'experimental' treatment on the album, such as 'Lavender', were done 'straight' on stage. Anyway, that's the Lisa Knapp report. :) Ellen "Literature stops in 1100. After that, it's just books." - -- JRR Tolkien ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 20:41:07 -0700 From: Ethan Straffin Subject: Re: Music new to me (warning: IMHO! Expect the usual!) Neile Graham wrote: > Not sure I dare look forward to the Tori, as Beekeeper did less than > nothing for me > Well, not to raise expectations or anything, but...okay. Having finally broke down today and downloaded it from those crazy Russians, because Tuesday was just too far off: wow. It's definitely not The Beekeeper II. I did like that album -- and I still think "Ribbons Undone" may be the most perfect song Tori's released since SATY -- but yeah, it was time for a course correction, and it's pretty clear to me from ADP that she knew it. Beekeeper struck me as a meditation. ADP strikes me as what happens when, rearmed by that meditation, once decides to resume rocking the f--- out. This is her noisiest album yet (at least in the first half), and it's right up there in terms of humor and charm, and her incomparable spirit just shines through every measure. I'm hoping for four bay-area shows on the upcoming tour, plus one in Denver so that I can schedule a visit and drag my folks. Hey, she's done it before. Ethan - -- "you can bring your dog / i got three" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:50:17 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Reba Hasko - Seeds from the Twisted Pear After loving her live album on emusic, I ordered Reba Hasko's studio shindig "Seeds from a Twisted Pear" from CDBaby, and it's absolutely utterly mind-blowingly fantastic. Not to dump on Shara Worden, who I heart greatly, but I feel like the composition on this album sort of delivers on a lot of the still-not-quite-met promise of "My Brightest Diamond," or is sort of the kind of album I was hoping "Bring me the Workhorse" would be. If the ink hadn't already thoroughly dried on my best of 2006, this would probably be near the top. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #108 ***************************