From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V13 #571 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, August 12 2008 Volume 13 : Number 571 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- New Emily Bezar album [Craig Gidney ] Re: New Emily Bezar album [Timothy Jones-Yelvington ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:47:19 -0700 (PDT) From: Craig Gidney Subject: New Emily Bezar album The new Emily Bezar album sounds like Kate Bush fronting the Sun Ra Arkestra. http://craiglaurancegidney.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 22:28:05 -0500 From: Timothy Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: New Emily Bezar album It's an absolutely fantastic album. Takes longer to get inside your system than her last, but absolutely rewards close and repeated listenings. My favorites are "Lament" (great ballady song built on a really haunting chord progression that shifts into another really great piano theme toward its close), "Heavy Air" (awesome horn harmonies, also has a cool melodic shift toward the end), "Strange Man" (this sythensizes her jazz and her electronic leanings within the same song more than I've ever heard before, and uses an electronic sound that sounds a lot like the one on "Just Like Orestes," my favorite song from Grandmother's Tea Leaves) and "Climb," an almost jaunty and theatrical jazz-ish song where she uses entirely different vocal phrasing than I've ever heard from her before... It also has a cool thing toward the end, where multitracked voices start going "ooo-ooo" in a way that reminds of Bacharachian pop or the theme song from the original Star Trek. Make sure to check the liner notes for multiple Ectophile names. ~tim On 8/11/08 11:47 AM, "Craig Gidney" wrote: > The new Emily Bezar album sounds like Kate Bush fronting the Sun Ra Arkestra. > http://craiglaurancegidney.wordpress.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V13 #571 ***************************