From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #447 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, April 6 2008 Volume 13 : Number 447 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 ] Karine Polwart (was Re: a few new discs i am liking a lot [Ellen Rawson <] Re: "Find Me" Reviewed ["Country Mouse" ] Re: "Find Me" Reviewed [kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white)] keren ann [jessica spurling ] Re: "Find Me" Reviewed [jessica spurling ] Re: Donna Lewis - In The Pink [jessica spurling ] Re: "Find Me" Reviewed [neal copperman ] [Fwd: Katell Keineg in NYC] [gaseous clay ] nomination; i would've preferred if someone else did it, but if no one else... ["robert bristow-johnson" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 03:00:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ******************** Michael E. Bravo (mbravo@acm.org) ******************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael E. Bravo Mon April 05 1971 Dandelion Wine Brion McIntosh Sun April 06 1958 Aries Marcel Kshensky Thu April 06 1950 Aries Bill Mazur Mon April 06 1953 Aries Sun/Cancer Rising David Dixon Tue April 07 1970 Aries Heidi Heller Mon April 08 1974 Aries Jill Hughes Sat April 09 1955 Aries Klaus Kluge Sun April 10 1960 Unicorn Steve VanDevender Sun April 10 1966 Racer Art Liestman Fri April 10 1953 Repeat Stephen Golden Sat April 10 1971 Jokey Michael Bowman Wed April 11 1962 Aries Wolfgang Ullwer Fri April 11 1969 Widder Janet Kirsch Thu April 11 1974 Aries Kristen Scallion Fri April 12 1974 Aries Jerry Tue April 13 1971 Aries Stuart Myerburg Mon April 14 1969 Aries T-Bone Wed April 15 1992 happy cat Jeff Hanson Sat April 16 1966 Aries Michael Klouda Mon April 17 1967 Aries Noe Venable Tue April 20 1976 Aries Harry Foster Sat April 21 1956 NiceGuy Kjetil Torgrim Homme Thu April 23 1970 Taurus Jeff Burka Thu April 24 1969 GoFlyAKite Christine Waite Tue April 25 1972 Taurus Matt Adams Thu April 26 1962 Taurus 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 - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 01:13:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Ellen Rawson Subject: Karine Polwart (was Re: a few new discs i am liking a lot - --- gordodo@optonline.net wrote: > Karine Polwart - > Fairest Floo'er - Karine takes a step back from > her own material putting > together an album of classics...if you dig susan > mckeown, check out karine... > The Death of Queen Jane is amazing...she also has a > new album of her own > material out that i need to get as well... Yes, and the new one of original material is good as well. I'd been disappointed by her second solo CD (just not as good as the first one, which was amazing and won a number of well-earned BBC Folk awards), but I think she's returning to form. We're seeing her perform in London next Tuesday. And for anyone who wants more of her traditional material, she used to be the lead singer with Malinkey. Ellen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:07:09 -0400 From: "Country Mouse" Subject: Re: "Find Me" Reviewed Hmmm, I have never thought of Happy's lower register in that way before, but I really prefer her songs in which she sings low--just GETS to me! Powerful, sometimes almost chilling (according to the lyrics) She doesn't sound like *anyone* else. ::thinking back to "'Til the Dawn Breaks", "Building the Colossus", "If I Ever See The Girl Again", "Temporary and Eternal" (Keep version), and not so long ago to "The Chariot":: I'm glad she did quite a bit in her lower register on "Find Me". I *love* "One and Many" and "Charlie", although they are actually kinda creepy songs. :-P Well, it's Happy, what can I say? :-D fleur On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Rob Caldwell wrote: > Pretty funny description, but that's actually a pretty > accurate way of describing it for me personally... > Rob (who prefers the higher tones in Happy's voice...) > > --- Timothy Jones-Yelvington > wrote: > > > Great review, but... > > > > Jolting man voice?? > > > > He he > > > > tim > > > > > > On 4/2/08 5:14 AM, "Richard Messum" > > wrote: > > > > > > > > http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2008/4/Music/Happy-Rhodes > > > > > > Richard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 14:23:54 -0500 From: kerrywhite@webtv.net (kerry white) Subject: Re: "Find Me" Reviewed Hi, I don't hear anything male in her lower register, I hear Annie Lennox. I played "Hold Me" for a friend as an intro to HR and he thought it was a duet by KaTe and Annie and he became an ectophile when I told him it was one person. So, there are at least 2 of us that hear AL. I also love how her voice moves in "Words Weren't Made For Cowards" from that wonderful low effortlessly up to her high tones. I remember from The Tin Angel gigs I was at, how, when she went high there seemed to be an extra gleam in her eye. It looked like she was seeing an old friend in the back of the room each time and at the time I was also thinking that her high notes were tickling her brain. 8-) bye, me KrW I'm Peter Pan! I'm perpetually young!! OW!! What's wrong with my back? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:42:54 -0700 From: jessica spurling Subject: keren ann A little while back, I made a pandora station called 'ecto recommends' with seeds of a few folks recommended recently by you lovely folks. Just a few minutes ago it played me "Road Bin" by Keren Ann, from Not Going Anywhere. I really liked it and immediately went to the ectophiles guide to learn more. Nothing there yet though there's a marker for her. Perhaps there's been discussion of her on ecto in the past. Pandora has: http://www.pandora.com/music/artist/keren+ann I will have to find more. Yum. If you've got more to say about her, let me know! Anyone heard the 2007 self titled release? - --jessica ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:36:35 -0700 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: "Find Me" Reviewed mmmm. When I was 16, in 1986, I dicovered Kate. I had always loved singing but had never taken it very seriously. Once I got into Kate's music I started really loving singing and singing along to her music was so challenging and exciting and I especially loved pushing my already-relatively-high voice to kate-like extremes. It was not until I discovered Happy a few years later, that I discovered the joy of singing low, and started enjoying the wonderful feel of the low end. Getting to exercise both ends of the spectrum is definitely one part of my love for Happy's music. I adore every sound she's able to make. As fleur says here, it really GETS to me. Both her highs and her lows. And everything in between. Knowing this is one woman's voice means I don't think she sounds like anyone else. I definitely hear "other people" when she sings certain things in certain ways.. She can 'imitate' or 'emulate' just about anyone with that voice of hers. But put that all together and this is a voice unlike anyone else's. *speaking* of singing. I went to see the Asylum Street Spankers last night. I know they're not loved on ecto, but bear with me. They have a new fellow, Charlie, who can do tuvan throat singing REALLY well. Oh My Goodness. It was amazing. I've never heard anything like it. The low notes sounded like a didgeridoo, and the high notes sounded like.. not quite as high as a flute, but kinda like a flute. Wow. Oh cool - you can hear him here: http://www.myspace.com/mrcharlieking Check out My Baby In The CIA. They played it last night. He does the thoat singing for the chorus. It's so cool. That's just him doing the aliens singing part. Wow! more in a minute, on another topic. Country Mouse wrote: > Hmmm, I have never thought of Happy's lower register in that way before, but > I really prefer her songs in which she sings low--just GETS to me! Powerful, > sometimes almost chilling (according to the lyrics) She doesn't sound like > *anyone* else. ::thinking back to "'Til the Dawn Breaks", "Building the > Colossus", "If I Ever See The Girl Again", "Temporary and Eternal" (Keep > version), and not so long ago to "The Chariot":: I'm glad she did quite a > bit in her lower register on "Find Me". I *love* "One and Many" and > "Charlie", although they are actually kinda creepy songs. :-P Well, it's > Happy, what can I say? :-D > > fleur > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Rob Caldwell > wrote: > > >> Pretty funny description, but that's actually a pretty >> accurate way of describing it for me personally... >> Rob (who prefers the higher tones in Happy's voice...) >> >> --- Timothy Jones-Yelvington >> wrote: >> >> >>> Great review, but... >>> >>> Jolting man voice?? >>> >>> He he >>> >>> tim >>> >>> >>> On 4/2/08 5:14 AM, "Richard Messum" >>> wrote: >>> >>> >> http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2008/4/Music/Happy-Rhodes >> >>>> Richard ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 13:58:42 -0700 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: Donna Lewis - In The Pink I'm not usually a fan of myspace, but i will say i'm happy for it today 'cause i was able to listen to Charlie King's throat singing *and* check out some Donna Lewis right now! Listening now and YUM. this is great stuff on her new album. Oh oh oh I can't wait 'til I have disposable income again. Meanwhile I will listen to myspace :P - --jessica np: http://www.myspace.com/donnalewisofficial heh Paul Jensen wrote: > Here's a little review I put up on my livejournal. The new album is great - > worth a look from all ecto-folk! > After ten years, Donna Lewis creeps back to the music scene with a new > release! Who knew?! I had given up all hope of her making music again.. > Apparently she took time off to raise a family and such, and now she's > back! > > In case you don't remember, Donna Lewis penned that overplayed song from > 1996: "I Love You Always Forever". With whispery vocals and childlike > rhyming - the song was a little taste of summer - light and airy and fun. > The album that song came from, "Now In A Minute", is one of my favorite > albums of the 90's. And while that one song was a huge hit, nothing else on > the album found similar success. Her follow-up album, 1998's "Blue Planet", > was a decent effort and certainly has its moments, but it lacks much of the > charm of "Now In A Minute". After that album's release (and mainstream > failure, I suppose), she pretty much disappeared. > > But suddenly, here she is with a fresh new album, "In the Pink"! I've been > listening to it pretty much non-stop. It's fantastic. The songs are hard to > describe. I'm not even sure what to compare it to. A lot of the music is a > nice contrast to her voice - still wispy and delicate, but backed with some > nice electronics and beats. The songs are more full and substantial. They > don't feel like they'll just float away. The standout track right now is > "Don't Ever" - it all comes together beautifully there.. the lyrics, her > voice, the music. Really lovely. Check it out! > > Paul ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:43:36 -0600 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: "Find Me" Reviewed At 1:36 PM -0700 4/5/08, jessica spurling wrote: >*speaking* of singing. I went to see the Asylum Street Spankers last night. Who doesn't like the Spankers? They are one of the most outrageously fun bands around. And you can make a case that Christina Marrs singing falls into the ecto range. Regardless, it's definitely worth checking the band out, preferably live. You can get a sense of what they are about on their web site: www.asylumstreetspankers.com. They have 6 videos on their site, some from their recent off-Broadway production and others live. How can you not love the non-politics of "Whatever", the Capital Steps on acid "Stick Magnetic Ribbons on your SUV", "Winning the War on Drugs" and the always riotous intersection of country murder ballads and gangsta rap "Hick Hop". (All videos you can - and should - - watch.) We've got the Spankers back in New Mexico in May and I can't wait! neal np: Together Again - Jeff Daniels and Jonathan Hogan ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 22:38:19 -0400 From: gaseous clay Subject: [Fwd: Katell Keineg in NYC] some k-tel news for those in the new york city area.... - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Katell Keineg in NYC Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 01:06:27 +0000 From: info@katellkeineg.com Hi all, Katell Keineg will be playing three shows at the Living Room in NYC in May! Thursday, May 1 - 9pm Friday May 2 - 10pm Saturday May 3 - 9pm Tickets are available at Ticketweb For more info, visit The Living Room Hope to see you there! www.myspace.com/katellkeineg www.katellkeineg.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 22:50:44 -0400 From: "robert bristow-johnson" Subject: nomination; i would've preferred if someone else did it, but if no one else... here i am listening to Lion Dreams (there is this wonderful Grand Pause around 2:49 into the song) and still tingling from the Pummeling she gave us a week ago. come on, those of us who were there a week ago Friday, isn't Noe a goddess? i think she comes from Ectolympus but i don't see her name in: http://ectoguide.org/genre/goddess doesn't it belong there? - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:13:27 -0400 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: RE: keren ann I'm actually working on her ectoguide page and almost done with it. There's been some discussion of her on ecto, mostly of last year's self-titled album (very highly reviewed). JoAnn > Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 13:42:54 -0700 > From: jessica@viscous.org > To: ecto@smoe.org > Subject: keren ann > > A little while back, I made a pandora station called 'ecto recommends' > with seeds of a few folks recommended recently by you lovely folks. > > Just a few minutes ago it played me "Road Bin" by Keren Ann, from Not > Going Anywhere. > I really liked it and immediately went to the ectophiles guide to learn > more. Nothing there > yet though there's a marker for her. Perhaps there's been discussion of > her on ecto in the past. > > Pandora has: > > http://www.pandora.com/music/artist/keren+ann > > I will have to find more. Yum. > > If you've got more to say about her, let me know! Anyone heard the 2007 > self titled release? > > --jessica _________________________________________________________________ Going green? 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