From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #437 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, March 27 2008 Volume 13 : Number 437 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Soundtrack of your life ["Marcel Rijs" ] Autographed Jill Tracy CDs ["Sue Trowbridge" ] Re: Noe Venable's show this Friday, March 28 ["robert bristow-johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:18:29 +0100 From: "Marcel Rijs" Subject: Re: Soundtrack of your life Hi, This is an interesting one, because of the randomness of it all. I've got an iPod that's got about one tenth of my entire cd collection on it, and my collection is ectoish for about one quarter and eighties pop for two quarters. (And don't get me started on the last quarter, it consists of many things...) Still, as you can see, the list below wouldn't be entirely out of place on this list. And so, here's my results: Opening Credits: Be my hero - October Project Waking Up: Sister of Mercy - Thompson Twins (All I can say is that the single version has got a Sunday morning feel to it...) First Day of School: A Thousand days - November Project Falling in Love: The lovecats - Cure Fight Song: East of the sun - A-ha Breaking Up: Moving - Married Monk Prom: Open your heart - Human League (We don't have proms in Europe but from what I understand it's not really about opening your heart...) Life is Good: Good enough - Sarah McLachlan (quite!) Mental Breakdown: Stay with me (from 'Union street') - Erasure Driving: Fmpip - Depeche Mode Flashback: Let me roll - Seal Getting Back Together: Can't let go - Happy Rhodes (quite!) Wedding: After all (from 'Battleship Potemkin') - Pet Shop Boys (not very appropriate, this...) Paying the Dues: I am an astronaut - Snow Patrol The Night Before the War: Bang bang - Mice Moment of Triumph: Strangelove (Blind mix) - Depeche Mode Death Scene: I don't mind - Dimestars (Well, that's a bit astonishing...) Funeral Song: Between us and them - Ulrich Schnauss (Never thought of an Ulrich Schnauss track for my funeral, but there you go...) End Credits: It's only love that gets you through - Sade (Just perfect for end credits!) Kind regards, Marcel Rijs Marcel.rijs@kb.nl Webmaster www.kvce.nl ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 13:34:50 -0700 From: "Sue Trowbridge" Subject: Autographed Jill Tracy CDs I have 99 specially autographed & numbered copies of Jill Tracy's THE BITTERSWEET CONSTRAIN available at http://www.125records.com/shop.html . Each signed CD will come with two beautiful Jill Tracy postcards, AND you'll have a chance to win a Jill Tracy doll (!), T-shirt or other goodies. When you buy one of the 99 copies, your name will automatically be placed in the drawing... when we've sold all 99, we'll pick the winners at random. We're also excited to have received our first review, and it's glowing! "Hot damn, kids, few things are finer than drowning in anticipation for a new album -- six long years in this case if you count a soundtrack release, and I do -- having that album arrive and, most importantly, having that album more than satisfy said anticipation. The sultry-voiced Jill Tracy is back with her new long player, The Bittersweet Constrain, and it's as wonderfully dark and mischievous and mesmerizing as I had hoped, the perfect spell to make one forget, even if just for a moment, about superdelegates and crumbling ice shelves..." http://lennui-melodieux.blogspot.com/2008/03/bitter-sweet-as-sugar.html If you want a regular unsigned copy, they're available at CDBaby: http://cdbaby.com/cd/jilltracy4 The CD will be for sale in stores everywhere, on Amazon, iTunes, etc. on May 20. - --Sue Trowbridge ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:05:27 -0400 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: Re: Noe Venable's show this Friday, March 28 > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Greta > To: rbj@audioimagination.com > Subject: Noe Venable's show this Friday, March 28 > Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:56:31 -0400 > > > This Friday, March 28 I'm playing piano & singing backing vocals (a la > side-girl) with NOE VENABLE (http://www.noevenable.com). It's her CD release > show for 'The Summer Storm Journals' at the Zipper Factory Theater. See > below. I am spreading the word more than usual, as I think this show is > going to be incredible, and it's a rare opportunity to hear Noe with a full > band (including marimba!) in New York City. I would recommend booking > tickets in advance. > Thank you, > Greta xo > PS. If you'd like to hear an example of Noe's music, check out "Into the > Wild" (track 5) here: http://cdbaby.com/cd/noevenable4 to begin with... > > > Noe Venable's > Record Release Concert! > in celebration of her new CD > > ~:: The Summer Storm Journals ::~ > > > Friday, March 28, 2008 8pm > The Zipper Factory Theater > 336 W. 37th St. NY, NY > @ 8th & 9th Aves. > Tickets: $15 > > > Advance tickets, call (212) 352-3101 > Subway Directions: A,C,E to 34th or 42nd Street stations > 1, 2, 3, N,R,Q,W, S to 42nd Street > http://www.zippertheater.com > > > Opening the show will be marimba virtuoso / composer Payton MacDonald, also > known as Supermarimba. American Record Guide wrote, ?The rippling, > shimmering textures he creates are hard to describe. I can't begin to imagine > how he accomplishes them. Marimba wizardry? The cozy harmonies, the velvety > propulsions, the gliding layers groove like some gauzy gamelan. As I listen, > I'm drawn through a trance into the dizzying spell of MacDonald's Marimba-Oz." > > Following Payton's own set, he will join Noe's, which will feature . . . > > Dean Sharp (drums) > Todd Sickafoose (Bass) > Russ Johnson (Trumpet) > Jacob Lawson (Violin) > Greta Gertler (piano, vocals) > Payton MacDonald (Marimba) > > The venue is also really special-- it's a former off broadway theater, and > it's fab. It's also quite a bit larger than our usual haunts, so we're > hoping that you will come and bring everyone you know. Bring friends! Bring > enemies! Come help us celebrate. i'm doing everything i can to make it down from Boston (they're predicting SNOW! sunnuvabeach). is anyone else from the Boston area going to this (we can share a car and split driving on the way home)? please contact me (email or cell: 802/399-8612) if you want to go to this gig. - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:43:10 -0400 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: RE: Sarah Slean Karen (and all Sarah Slean fans), I hope you won't give up on the album. I agree with a lot of your comments - lots of ballads, 'Sound of Water/Change Your Mind,' 'So many miles', 'Shadowland' being the best songs on the album, the excellence of "Parasol" (bonus download only for pre-order customers, of which I was one). But I don't find the album boring. At first, the songs were pretty same-y, but a couple of listens, and they started to reveal themselves. (Okay, "Willow" could probably have been left off." I really think it's a lovely album, and I hope others will give it a chance. Full review: Im really enjoying The Baroness. I had lost interest in Sarah Slean after Universe and returned to her music with her wonderful (mostly) live album Orphan Music. I thought The Baroness would follow in that direction  catcy, upbeat, theatrical. Parasol, the bonus download for people who pre-ordered is in that vein. Its a great song, but I can understand why its not on the album; it really wouldnt fit. The single Get Home is more representative of the album. Many of the songs are mid-tempo ballads, and on first listen, the album sounds pretty samey. Theres more variety than is at first apparent, but its subtle. On subsequent listens the songs begin to differentiate themselves, and I can hear different textures that I missed the first time. Theres the beautifully haunting Shadowland,  the up-tempo pop-rock of So Many Miles, the dark cabaret-tinged and string-accented rock of Sound of Water/Change Your Mind, the light and springy Notes from the Underground, the simple but elegant Looking for Someone, a beautiful ending to an excellent album. JoAnn > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:53:45 -0400 > From: karen.hester@gmail.com > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: Sarah Slean, The paper raincoat > > It's problematic seeing an artist for the first time when they've got > a back catalog you love, but you're not into their current album. > Universe, Blue Parade, Night Bugs, Day One, Orphan Music - like, love, > adore them. The Baroness - am rather bored by it so far (fingers > crossed, am continuing to listen). The songs and lyrics are too > plain; lots of slow boring ballads; the genres it touches on are > gospel, cabaret etc - I want more pop, rock, hell I'll take opera. > > The new song I liked the most at the concert was 'Parasol' which isn't > on the album - this mad lively song was only available to pre-sale > buyers who were willing to pay as much for postage as the album. > 'Parasol' tumbles along at great speed, spilling melody over the side, > silly rhymes piling on top of one another. "And I coughed this up in > a sooty perfume, Out of my mouth like a feather plume, And now here's > one more crazy tune", stench, bench, wrench; lane, Spain, explain. > Eliza Doolittle would choke. A song I would happily legally download > IF it were available. Such are the reasons I hate record companies. > > Somehow she picked all my least favorites from The Baroness to play - > the most boring of boring. No poppy catchy 'Change your mind' or 'So > many miles', ghostly 'Shadowland', dramatic 'Hopeful hearts'. She > played 'California', 'Pilgrim', 'Duncan', 'Blue parade', 'Universe' (a > request), and those were all lovely. Great band (upright bass, drums, > guitar). Sarah stood and danced for 'Lucky me,' and the cameras came > out. Her theatrical mannerisms can distract from the music - even > though the persona goes with the music, it is awkwardly realized and > can be uncomfortable to watch for some. > > Still, enough lovely moments, and I don't like the previous albums any the less. _________________________________________________________________ Watch Cause Effect, a show about real people making a real difference. Learn more. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/MTV/?source=text_watchcause ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #437 ***************************