From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #405 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, February 22 2008 Volume 13 : Number 405 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- the new veda is here! the new veda is here! [Jeffrey Burka ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:55:04 -0500 From: Jeffrey Burka Subject: the new veda is here! the new veda is here! Okay, so, no, I haven't actually listened to it yet...it's ripping right now. But the new Veda is here! (yes, I'm easily amused) jeff about-to-be-np _This Riot Life_, Veda Hille ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:57:42 +0100 From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: the new veda is here! the new veda is here! On Wednesday 20 February 2008 23:55:04 Jeffrey Burka wrote: > Okay, so, no, I haven't actually listened to it yet...it's ripping > right now. But the new Veda is here! > > (yes, I'm easily amused) > > jeff > about-to-be-np _This Riot Life_, Veda Hille Why not define a new one right away? atbnp ... could be amusing :P It means if it is followed through we could get a "full" history of what people posting is listening to. Like jp = just played ... okey, could check last.fm as well, but not everyone posting here is on there and kinda hard to see future played songs on there if you don't know something we don't know. Ok, enough rambling ... - -- Yngve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 09:58:18 +0100 From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: the new veda is here! the new veda is here! On Wednesday 20 February 2008 23:55:04 Jeffrey Burka wrote: > Okay, so, no, I haven't actually listened to it yet...it's ripping > right now. But the new Veda is here! > > (yes, I'm easily amused) > > jeff > about-to-be-np _This Riot Life_, Veda Hille and I'm not playing anything right now, so ... - -- Yngve ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 03:11:11 -0800 From: Adam Kimmel Subject: veda hille's latest Just re-surfacing, briefly, to announce the imminent arrival of "this riot life", Veda Hille's latest album.B I was lucky enough to get a slightly advance copy of it, and got my first listen at 2am one morning, swathed in a fevered insomnia and reading the third volume in Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" sequence.B All very atmospheric and fitting, as it turned out. In recent years, I've felt, Veda has been fusing Americana with a sort of rocked-out Kurt Weill sensibility.B In this one, she puts aside the Americana and picks up....the hymnal.B What we have is a collection of songs mostly constructed around the lyrics of hymns (one track, "o come on" has lyrics pieced together, mostly, from the first lines hymns collected in one hymnal).B I used the words baffling, intriguing and enchanting to describe my initial reaction to this (Veda found that amusing).B As an atheist, it's hard for me to be engaged by some of the words, but there is such a wonderful, haunting, devotional tone to the whole piece that it's hard not to get carried away.B The arrangements certainly help:B string and brass and heart-breaking harmonies all combine to make this an incredibly tender and uplifting experience.B One song, "Cowper's Folly" (based on a poem by william cowper) is fast becoming my tune of the moment, played over and over and over just for the sheer, breathtakingB beauty of it.B The album also includes "luckyluck", which has already become a personal anthem of mine, and "soapland serenade", which Hille composed with Maiko Bae Yamamoto for the show, "Sexual Practices of the Japanese" by Theatre Replacement. Veda, once again, has delivered the unexpected (even the riot life sampler didn't prepare me for the scale of this) and it is a winner.B Highly recommended. Adam K. ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #405 ***************************