From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #276 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, October 12 2007 Volume 13 : Number 276 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Katharine Blake [anna maria "stjärnell" ] Lelia on West Coast/webcast and firsts [Dave ] Jessca Hoop review in the AV Club, Ani DiFranco in the Guardian [Adam Kim] Re: Jessca Hoop review in the AV Club, Ani DiFranco in the Guardian [Elle] Re: Jessca Hoop review in the AV Club, Ani DiFranco in the Guardian [Doug] Re: ecto-digest V13 #275 ["Marcel Kshensky" ] Re: My first record(s) ["Ella McCrystle" ] Siouxsie, Eletric Butterfly, Susanna, Amber Asylum [Craig Gidney ] Cathy Davey - Tales of Silversleeve [morayati@email.unc.edu] susan mckeown show! 10/12 [gaseous clay ] RE: beer (was: My first record(s)) [Greg Blair ] RE: Firsts [Greg Blair ] Tori's on Craig Ferguson tonight ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: Jessca Hoop review in the AV Club, Ani DiFranco in the Guardian [Timo] Re: beer [Joseph Zitt ] Re: Firsts [Joseph Zitt ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:44:38 -0700 (PDT) From: anna maria "stjärnell" Subject: Katharine Blake Hi all.. Katharine Blake of MSG and medivial babes has a solo record called midnight flower..cdbaby has it. She records old texts in a gothic setting, haunting vocals and lutes get used. Very higlhy recommended. She has a myspace site. Anna ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545433 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 03:01:26 -0400 From: Dave Subject: Lelia on West Coast/webcast and firsts Lelia Broussard is playing out in L.A., one show to be webcast, you don't want to miss this! copied from Lelia's myspace bulletin (banners replaced with URLs): 1) Saturday Night is Kulak's Woodshed at 8:00 to 10:00 PM PST 5230-1/2 Laurel Canyon Blvd., North Hollywood, California 91607 There is also a Live Webcast, just click the Kulak's banner to get to that on Saturday night (yeah, I'll post it again!! :) You can watch that show from anywhere, just figure out your time zone. . .like East Coast people should check in at 11:00PM to catch the show, you can email me questions, etc. BUT if you live in LA, come out to the show!!!! http://www.kulakswoodshed.com/webcast.html 2) Tuesday the 16th is at Hotel Cafe at 7:00 PM for my first industry showcase in LA, so I need you guys to come out and scream and shout :) This banner is clickable to the website and there are directions on there. . please dont ask me where it is, cause honestly, I have no idea ;) Just click the banner and the link for directions and you can enter your address and it will tell you how to get there. http://www.hotelcafe.com/first.html Okay, now my firsts (I'm sure I've been through this here before, but oh well) First LP: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road First CD: Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow First DVD: Labyrinth First Concert: Peter Frampton/Lynyrd Skynyrd/J. Geils Band/Dickie Betts and Great Southern (June '77, 4 months before the Skynyrd crash) First artist met/autograph: Lisa Loeb ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:48:41 -0800 From: Adam Kimmel Subject: Jessca Hoop review in the AV Club, Ani DiFranco in the Guardian A so-so review in the AV Club: http://www.avclub.com/content/music/jesca_hoop But an interesting interview in the Guardian: http://music.guardian.co.uk/folk/story/0,,2187609,00.html Unfortunately, shorn of the print version's accompanying photo of Ani, now with long-ish purple hair, which is really quite stunning. Adam K. ____________________________________________________________ KEEP SPYWARE OFF YOUR COMPUTER - Protect your computer with Spyware Terminator! Visit http://www.spywareterminator.com/install and find out more! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 02:30:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Re: Jessca Hoop review in the AV Club, Ani DiFranco in the Guardian - --- Adam Kimmel wrote: > But an interesting interview in the Guardian: > > http://music.guardian.co.uk/folk/story/0,,2187609,00.html The 1997 Philly show with Bob Dylan the writer talks about was the same one where my then teenage niece went to see Ani and came home still an Ani fan, but she also was hooked on Dylan. :) Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 08:45:20 -0500 From: Doug Subject: Re: Jessca Hoop review in the AV Club, Ani DiFranco in the Guardian > Unfortunately, shorn of the print version's accompanying photo of Ani, > now with long-ish purple hair, which is really quite stunning. Like this? I agree, lovely. And here I thought she wasn't a pretty girl...(grin) http://www.ontaponline.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10654/normal_Ani_DiFranco_1.jpg - --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:46:07 -0400 From: "Marcel Kshensky" Subject: Re: ecto-digest V13 #275 My firsts: I'm momentarily exiting constant lurk to add my .02 to this thread that made me think. . . first single: "If You Wanna Be Happy" by Jimmy Soul What song has a more timeless message? "never make a pretty woman your wife." first album: "Meet the Beatles" first concert: This is tough. Whoever was playing the Fillmore East in January '68. I want to say the Chambers Brothers and the Amboy Dukes. - -Marcel ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:58:10 -0400 From: "Ella McCrystle" Subject: Re: My first record(s) I LOVED THAT SONG! I'm sitting here singing along. I don't know how I've lived w/o for all these years. THANK YOU! Be well, Ella >>> Snoopy vs the Red Baron somewhat comedy piece by a band that may >>> have >>> been called the Sopwith Camel. Or Camels? >> >> It was The Royal Guardsmen. >> >> http://www.myspace.com/theroyalguardsmen ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:32:14 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: Siouxsie, Eletric Butterfly, Susanna, Amber Asylum Siouxsie, Mantaray Probably the lightest music shes ever recorded, and the most personal, with songs about aging and her divorce. The music is electro/techno with slashes of guitars. Her deep voice hasnt lost its luster, if its lost some of its range. A relatively happy Siouxsie is a bit of shock. The imagery is psychedelic rather than brooding and macabre. Electric Butterfly is Sally Dohertys new project. Its a sublime album. Doherty has the sort of high, fluttering, ornamental vocal style favored by Elizabeth Fraser. Her songs mix a wide range of styles, from jazz to electronica to cabaret, and her lyrics are never less than poetic and imagistic. Electric Butterfly finds her melding cabaret with electronic influences. Imagine Fraser fronting late period Lamb and you sort of have the idea. It belongs on the same shelf as the Beth Gibbons solo album, or Heidi Berrys work. myspace.com/electricbutterflymusic Susanna, Sonata Mix Dwarf Cosmos. Susanna is from the band Susanna and the Magical Orchestra, and her solo work is still in the same intimate, minimalist vein. But the songs are written by her, and she plays guitar. Her singing is beautiful and tentative, and whispery. The settings are jazz influenced, but not really jazz, per se. More like a post-rock version of jazz. In many ways, it reminds of the territory explored by the band Basque: dark-hued, spacious late-night listening. Her writing is as wonderful as her rich voice. http://www.runegrammofon.com/artists/susanna/rcd-2066---susanna-sonata-mix- Amber Asylum, Still Point. Call it ambient, neoclassical, postrock, chamberpop or darkwave, Kris Forces band makes some seriously beautiful music. Violinist Force has an operatic, ghostly soprano that glides over cellos and fragile soundscapes like a spirit in flight. The mood is dark and melancholic. The ethereal mood is broken by an reading of a Richard Thompson song before going back into ether. Some of the piece are more structured, with drums, but mostly Still Point recalls golden age era 4AD music. http://www.myspace.com/amberasylum (Linkified and prettified) http://www.last.fm/user/ethereal_lad/journal/2007/10/11/546874/ Blog: http://ethereal-lad.livejournal.com Music Blog: http://www.last.fm/user/ethereal_lad/ _____________________________________________________________________________ _______ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:42:43 -0400 From: "Karen Hester" Subject: PJ for the first time When NME first wrote about a grumpy young pony-tailed woman from Yeovil who insisted PJ Harvey was a band, not just herself (file under P), I knew I'd love her music. I tuned into John Peel's hour on BBC World (of course he'd play her, I HAD TO HEAR her right now!) and when "Oh my lover" came through, muffled in a.m., I knew it was her. PJ's been in my top three ever since, and last night was my first Peej concert. Beacon Theater is a three-tiered hilarious yet grand art nouveau mess - - murky paintings (a foundering war-ship?), ornate carvings, giant golden weaponry, towering Greek(ish) female guardians by the stage (with broad manly chests and breasts to each side where their armpits should be). PJ's piano and keyboard were decorated with toy cows, picture frames, a cacti, buddha and twinkling fairy lights. The audience were mad with applause throughout. PJ said she was having a wonderful time and pointed to her smile, that charming lopsided smile. She wore a white puffy-sleeved dress like on White Chalk's cover. "I don't know if you can see it, but it's covered in song lyrics in my writing" she explained. A large "Like" was visible across the theater. Her voice was so English it almost seemed an exaggeration. She played 'To bring me your love', 'Send his love to me', 'Down by the water', 'Angeline', 'Snake', 'Rid of me', 'Water', 'Electric light', 'My beautiful Leah', 'Nina in ecstasy', 'Shame', 'The Desperate kingdom of love', 'Big exit', 'Into the ether', 'Silence', The devil', 'White chalk', 'The piano', 'Grow grow grow', 'The mountain', perhaps 'Dear darkness' and 'To talk to you'. The new songs were so gorgeous - I like the album, but they were BRILLIANT live - more ghostly, dreamy, dark, and ravishing, and each of them distinct. Somehow she included some of my least favorites from her rich back catalog - 'My beautiful Leah' annoys me like loud music played by downstairs neighbors (muffled, tuneless), 'Electric light' seems just part of a (boring) song, 'Nina' is a silly simple b-side from someone who has brilliant b-sides. But some of my less favs were great live - 'Snake' such fun abrasive noise, 'Down by the water' a sad folk-song on autoharp, and 'Desperate kingdom' with a gentle beauty. And oh how wonderful everything else was - her voice was strong and gorgeous in its low growls through to the high voice of the new songs (she was less whispery than on the album). God I want to see her again! I want years of concerts! Perhaps seeing Tori tonight (for the first time since Little Earthquakes) will cheer me up. K. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:17:30 -0400 From: morayati@email.unc.edu Subject: Cathy Davey - Tales of Silversleeve I really like Irish music. They have some really great bands/artists working today. Hence this email. Cathy Davey's second album, "Tales of Silversleeve," comes out tomorrow (Friday) and I've already pre-oredered it. She's one of my favorite Irish singer-songwriters and most of what I've read about this album says it's even better than her debut. You can preview the album singles on her Myspace: http://myspace.com/cathydavey ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:22:10 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: susan mckeown show! 10/12 yow! - ----- Forwarded message from Susan McKeown ----- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:35:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Susan McKeown Subject: [susanmckeown-announce] Susan McK guests on CCH show 10/12 NYC Dear Friends, I will be doing a couple of new songs with my old pals Chris Cunningham, Michelle Kinney and Lindsey Horner tomorrow night Friday, October 12 at Banjo Jim's at 9th St and Ave C (212-777-0869). Chris and Michelle are in town to do a few gigs at Banjo Jim's with Jason Crigler and Timothy Hill (known as Cunningham, Crigler and Hill (+ Kinney)), and they have invited me to be a guest on tomorrow night's show. The CCH & K set begins at 9pm and will be followed by a special duo performance by Lindsey Horner and pianist Joel Forrester at midnight. Cheers, Susan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:20:34 +0000 From: Greg Blair Subject: RE: beer (was: My first record(s)) > > Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:18:33 -0700> From: Joseph Zitt > Subject: Re: My first record(s)>> > Beer: Boy Howdy> Joseph, I see you used to read CREEM magazine. So did I! I have never actually seen a can of Boy Howdy. I wonder how it tasted. - - Greg B. _________________________________________________________________ Help yourself to FREE treats served up daily at the Messenger Cafi. Stop by today. http://www.cafemessenger.com/info/info_sweetstuff2.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_OctWLt agline ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 00:37:03 +0000 From: Greg Blair Subject: RE: Firsts > > Greg Blair wrote:> My first real ROCK CONCERT was Rush on their Permanent Waves tour. I was embarrassed about this for years, but now I'm kinda proud of it. Rush is getting the respect they deserve these days for being the excellent musicians they are.> > ~ I saw Rush a few times way-back-when and never made > apologies for liking them. I don't mean to dis Rush; it's just that, during most of the '80s and '90s, I was a full-on Punk Rocker (with mohawk, leather jacket, biker boots, the whole shmear) and saying "My first concert was Rush!" didn't sound too cool back then. No, I wasn't putting down Rush, but rather my own penchant for succumbing to peer pressure at the time. As we get older, we learn not to worry what others think. I read an interview with 51-year-old Johnny Rotten in which he said, "my favorite band is Journey" and I knew exactly what he meant. >... admittedly with a singer who was an acquired taste. Ain't that the truth? But because of Geddy's voice, you can't mistake Rush for anyone else! > > "I don't know anything about music. In my line, you don't have to." > ~Elvis Presley> I love this sig> (or whatever they're called)! It's so punk rock!!> > ~ Ha! I knew The King was ahead of his time, but the first punk rocker? Hadn't considered that... though he definitely forfeited his punk cred with the white Las Vegas jump suits...> > You got dat right! Yah, I meant the 'early Elvis'. - - Greg B. _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail and Microsoft Office Outlook  together at last. Get it now. http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HA102225181033.aspx?pid=CL100626971 033 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 17:48:35 -0700 (PDT) From: "Xenu's Sister" Subject: Tori's on Craig Ferguson tonight Mitch just called to tell me. Vickie (who doesn't care anymore, but someone might) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:16:57 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: Jessca Hoop review in the AV Club, Ani DiFranco in the Guardian Was the child born??? Name?? Sex??? On 10/11/07 8:45 AM, "Doug" wrote: >> Unfortunately, shorn of the print version's accompanying photo of Ani, >> now with long-ish purple hair, which is really quite stunning. > > Like this? I agree, lovely. And here I thought she wasn't a pretty > girl...(grin) > > http://www.ontaponline.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10654/normal_Ani_DiFranco_1 > .jpg > > --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:32:20 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: beer Greg Blair wrote: >>> Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:18:33 -0700> From: Joseph Zitt > > Subject: Re: My first record(s)>> > Beer: Boy > Howdy> > Joseph, I see you used to read CREEM magazine. So did I! I have never actually > seen a can of Boy Howdy. I wonder how it tasted. *grin* I'd wondered if anyone would remember that reference. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 22:34:38 -0700 From: Joseph Zitt Subject: Re: Firsts Greg Blair wrote: >> ... admittedly with a singer who was an acquired taste. > > Ain't that the truth? But because of Geddy's voice, you can't mistake Rush for > anyone else! Though recently there have been a few bands that seem to be consciously emulating not only Rush's virtuosity but Geddy's helium duck vocals. Coheed and Cambria comes most immediately to mind (though I may be confusing them with The Mars Volta). ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #276 ***************************