From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #328 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, December 5 2007 Volume 13 : Number 328 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: Sarah Perrotta / Carl Adami ["Bill Mazur" ] Re: Sarah Perrotta / Carl Adami [CollectedSounds Subject: RE: Sarah Perrotta / Carl Adami Thanks Sharon! Sarah's work is awesome. She has a beautiful emotive voice and is an excellent songwriter and musician. I loved the Outloud Dreamer CD from Sarah and Carl. You have described her new material perfectly in your review. The only thing I might add is that Sarah's voice has that Billie Holiday quality to it similar to Madeleine Peyroux and Sarah Scott from Two Loons For Tea. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-ecto@smoe.org [mailto:owner-ecto@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Sharon Nichols Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:16 AM To: ecto@smoe.org Subject: Sarah Perrotta / Carl Adami Don't know if anyone here has followed Carl Adami since his work with Happy, but he's collaborated a bit on the new Sarah Perrotta (also formerly of Outloud Dreamer). It's rather ecto-ish, if anyone is interested. Here's a review: Sarah Perrotta: The Well Sarah Perrotta Music, 2008 I first heard the quixotic vocals of Sarah Perrotta through her work with the extinct outfit Outloud Dreamer, when she was known as Sarah Medenbach. The name has changed but the voice remains distinctively hers-- smooth as vanilla pudding and lulling as warm liquid velvet, were there such a thing. In her current solo incarnation, she's pulled together local luminaries Tony Levin, Erica Quitzow, Garth Hudson, David Temple and other competent players to help expand her repertoire of emotive, ethereal dream pop. A first spin of The Well may call to mind shades of Natalie Merchant and 10,000 Maniacs, though Perrotta remains completely original and exceedingly sophisticated in her writing (several tracks were co-written with former Dreamer Carl Adami). With Perrotta on piano, The Well is brimming with upbeat, atmospheric textures and hopeful, fanciful lyrics, from the drifting rhythms of "Rooftops" ("I hear the raindrops coming down/and I roll under, I roll through, I roll right on into you") to the pensive, bouncy cadence of "Fishes" (All the flowers of May were asleep in the grey/all the fish in the sea were in love with me). This is the stuff of dreams, but like the real thing it's never frivolous or boring. Dreams always leave us aroused by their strangeness, depth and beauty, and that's what Perrotta will be known for. www.myspace.com/sarahperrottaband. - --Sharon Nichols ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:14:33 -0600 From: CollectedSounds Subject: Re: Sarah Perrotta / Carl Adami I reviewed Sarah Perotta recently too. I also loved the record. http://www.collectedsounds.com/cdreviews/well.html I know not a fabulously written review, I wasn't feeling wordy or creative, but I had to get it out there! :) Amy Collected Sounds www.collectedsounds.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #328 ***************************