From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #56 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, February 28 2009 Volume 14 : Number 056 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Did anyone else catch Neko Case's new CD preview? [Paul Blair Subject: Re: Did anyone else catch Neko Case's new CD preview? On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:57 PM, birdie wrote: > > Did anyone make it out to see Vienna and Alex last night? I came down with bronchitis, so I didn't go. Still hoping I can get the sound board recording of the show, since I paid for a ticket. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:50:45 -0800 (PST) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= Subject: kristeen young hi. ok this is officially shaping up to be a great year for music..kristeen young's new album is available for pre-order from her site..kristeenyoung.com. delivery by 1st april is hopefully no joke. Anna ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:08:42 -0500 From: morayati@email.unc.edu Subject: Re: kristeen young I can't wait. I wrote about her Myspace tracks earlier and from what I can tell, half of them are even harder-hitting than those on _The Orphans_ (I didn't even think that was possible) and the rest are something else entirely, something GREAT. - -Sarah Quoting anna maria stjdrnell : > hi. > ok this is officially shaping up to be a great year for > music..kristeen young's new album is available for pre-order from her > site..kristeenyoung.com. delivery by 1st april is hopefully no joke. > Anna ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:28:47 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Vienna Teng/Alex Wong at Caffe Vivaldi (was Re: Did anyone else catch Neko Case's new CD preview?) Hi, >>Did anyone make it out to see Vienna and Alex last night? woj and I were there, as was John Henshon, a name that some of our fellow longtime ectophiles will recognize. It was great to see him, it had been ages. Vienna and Alex each said that this was by far the best of the three Caffe Vivaldi benefits, so I guess we picked the right one to get to. :) There were no sound issues (though I would've boosted Vienna's vocals and brightened them up a wee bit), and everybody played great. She, Alex, and Ward Phillips (formerly of the band Jump Little Children) played _Inland Territory_ in its entirety, in track order. Vienna alternated between her Nord keyboard and the cafe's gorgeous baby grand, Alex hit all sorts of things and looped some stuff and provided the occasional background vocal, and Ward played cello and electric guitar. Vienna told cute little stories about many of the songs and the recording process as she went along. All in all, it was pretty transcendent. For the encore Amber Rubarth appeared from the corner she'd been hiding in, and we got a bonus Paper Raincoat performance of "In The Creases", then she sang backup on "2BR/2BA". Finally, the trio closed out the evening with a lovely rendition of "Nothing Without You", a request from a friend in the audience, which Ward had never heard before and did a remarkable job with on cello. It was a really long evening (the music ended just after 11, and we'd been seated for dinner at 7), but it was all worth it. Afterwards I burbled at Alex for a while like a silly fangrrl about how this album exceeded my already lofty expectations, but really, he is an absolutely genius producer. I was immensely heartened to hear Vienna say that she made this album with ecto in mind, it definitely shows. Everyone else with a 2009 release date is going to have to work *really* hard to displace this one from the top of my "best-of" list (Tori, I'm looking at you ;). Alas my own tour schedule dictates that I'm going to miss the album release tour, but y'all should NOT miss it if they're coming to your town over the next couple months. - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #56 **************************