From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V14 #129 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, May 12 2009 Volume 14 : Number 129 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 ] Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide ["The Ectophiles' Guide" ] Susan McKeown Upcoming Performances [Michael Curry ] Re: Tori's Abnormally attracted to sin [Michael Curry ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 03:00:03 -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********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ****************** Kris the boy (Toriamosrising@aol.com) ****************** *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Kris the boy Fri May 11 1979 Taurus Patrick Varker Wed May 12 1954 Torius Philip David Morgan Sat May 12 1962 Chinese Tiger in Bull Clothing Steve Fagg Tue May 13 1958 Nightwol Karel Zuiderveld Fri May 13 1960 Stier Michael Colford Wed May 16 1962 Taurus Christopher Boek Tue May 19 1970 Taurus Julia Macklin Mon May 20 1968 ethereus Yngve Hauge Fri May 21 1971 Gemini Lisa Laane Tue May 22 1973 Gemini Jewel Kilcher Thu May 23 1974 The Gem Chandra Sriram Thu May 27 1971 Gemini Taina Sahlander Mon May 28 1973 Gemini Urs Stafford Thu May 31 1973 Give Way Onna Addis Tue June 01 1954 Gemini Perttu Yli-Krekola Thu June 02 1966 Kaksoset Alexander Johannesen June 03 Gemini Alex Gibbs Thu June 08 1967 Betelgeuse Gleb Zverev Tue June 09 1964 Gemini Sonja Juchniewich Mon June 10 1963 Pegasus - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 04:17:47 -0700 From: "The Ectophiles' Guide" Subject: Recent changes to the Ectophiles' Guide Latest changes to the Ectophiles' Guide 10 May 2009 This update includes the 1,000 artist to be added to The Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music New Guide entries added for: * Sylvi Alli * Deep Forest * Melody Gardot * Genesis * Jose Gonzalez * Debi Graham * * Eilen Jewell * Emily Kurn * Don Peris * Kinnie Starr * Carla Werner Changes made to the entries for: * Catie Curtis (new album) * Enya (three additional recordings) * (new album and additional comments) * Missy Higgins (new album) * Frida Hyvonen (new album) * Vonda Shepard (two new albums) * Lucinda Williams (new album and various additional comments) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this email because you have asked to be notified of updates to the Ectophiles' Guide to Good Music at http://www.ectoguide.org/. If you are no longer interested in receiving these notifications, please unsubscribe yourself using the form at http://www.ectoguide.org/guide.cgi?newsubscribe&action=unsubscribe ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:25:26 -0700 From: birdie Subject: Kate tonight NYC - Theresa Andersson tomorrow LA my darling cake baking - biking viking, Kate Havnevik plays The Livingroom tonight at 9:30pm with her band. She will debut a new song! Lucky you, if you get to hear it :-) I just placed her at KCRW, so radio play has just started for her new single "Show Me Love" Her new album, is almost done, and will be released this fall. She hopes to be out on the west coast for shows and more this summer and, to do an east coast tour in the fall. This will be an exciting year for her and her fans.... Theresa Andersson did an in studio performance at KCRW this morning you can find it in the archives, from Morning Becomes Eclectic - MBE www.kcrw.com and she plays Largo at the Coronet tomorrow night (May 12) in Los Angeles. Have a great week! Cheers Birdie PS told ya I'd keep it real. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 19:05:16 -0400 From: Karen Hester Subject: Tori's Abnormally attracted to sin > From: gordodo@optonline.net > the new tracks she played live are striking me as way better than welcome > to england > Yes, an odd choice of initial songs to sneak out ('Welcome to England', '500 miles', 'Fire to your plain', later 'Maybe California'). Maybe Tori thinks 'A sorta fairytale' was a hit because it was poppy, rather than because it was *good* and poppy. Now that almost everything has leaked and I've lived with some songs for a couple weeks, I'll ramble a bit. The album 'Abnormally attracted to sin' is bloated like 'American Doll Posse'. Tori has said in recent interviews that she now puts tracks on albums that would previously have been b-sides. There are a couple Tori-worthy highs, a number of catchy songs, some pleasant enough songs, some dregs, and overall few I'll be listening to in several months (unlike her brilliant first four albums and 'Scarlet's Walk', which I'll never fully put aside). More electronic than the rocking Doll Posse. Reminds me of 'Venus', esp 'Suede'. Will be interesting on headphones; some songs might shine more that way. Some complex arrangements, though more in the way of 'mood pieces with lots of interesting noises' rather than complex melodies or structures. Lite pop: - - Welcome to England - I don't think it's bad; chorus works like 'Past the mission's' with the beat slowing down, sad, soaring a bit - - 'Fire to your plain' and '500 miles' - simple pop, catchy, a bit sickly, Beekeeper-ish - - Not dying today - verses with beat like 'Dolphin song'; unusually dumb lyrics, not in a weird Tori-ish Pele way, but Stoopid. Seems to be many people's least favorite song - - Fast horse - Scarlet-ish (yey!) with American accent and subject matter ("your momma ain't New York she's pure Tennessee", Indian smoke stuff); so trashy to mention maseratis! (first a sab, now 'sat-nav to hell'...) Atmospheric electronics (and guitars, often bad) - - Give - dark, vampiric - - Flavor - gentler, prettier - - Curtain Call - album highlight, gorgeous sad ballad about ageing musician - - Abnormally attracted to sin - slower, acoustic guitars, echoes, goes on a bit - - Starling - lovely with baroque hints, faint military marching drums, and then a jarring muted stompy glitter-rock bridge that perhaps belongs somewhere else, but maybe it'll fit in after more listens - - Lady in blue - slow ballad, boring to me so far but many people like it Murky rock with bad 70s rock guitars by husband: - - Strong black vine - chorus brings back the anemic Beekeeper funk; bit of James Bond-ish keyboards; reminds me of 'She's your cocaine' and 'Teenage hustling', a bit tiring and samey - - Police me - ick! it isn't boring, but i don't think the sounds add up to anything attractive. Will keep listening and see Genre pieces: - - Maybe California - Beatlesque and syrupy strings, pretty, too predictable and sweet for me in most moods - - That guy - show tune, voice sounds lovely, also a bit 70s-strings-Gold-Dust-ish - - Mary Jane - catchy silly froth about marijuana, like 'graveyard', 'mr zebra' but lesser; total b-side material Piano song: - - Ophelia - It's kinda lovely in a 'Scarlet's hidden treasures' way, but it's like cliche Tori, people who have seen a couple videos and read a weird interview would think "hasn't she already written this?" Good enough to be on an album, according to me: Curtain Call, Fast horse, Give, Flavor, Welcome to England (the album needs some pop songs) Good enough, but wish they were edited or arranged a bit differently: Starling, Ophelia, Abnormally attracted to sin The rest, in descending order, many of which I have enjoyed listening to over 30 times, but they aren't good compared to Tori at her peak: Lady in blue, That guy, Fire to your plain, Maybe California, 500 miles, Mary Jane, Not dying today, Police me, Strong black vine. Ooh, it's dinner time. K ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 21:02:35 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Susan McKeown Upcoming Performances Some tour dates for Susan over the coming year, including a run of Peter & Wendy at the Edinburgh Festival! - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [susanmckeown-announce] Susan McKeown Upcoming Performances Folks, Lorin and I will be performing songs form 'Saints & Tzadiks' at The Lyceum in Alexandria this Saturday night at 8pm, accompanied by Erik Della Penna. Further information can be found at www.sunspotpro.com See below for other dates on the horizon. Thanks, Susan June 6 Barbes, Brooklyn, NYC - Susan with Erik Della Penna August 11 Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland with Aidan Brennan September 2 - 5 Edinburgh Festival, Scotland 'Peter & Wendy' September 11-12 Irish dates TBC with Mary McPartlan, Seamie O'Dowd & Aidan Brennan September-October US east and west coast 'Saints & Tzadiks' dates December 17 Yale University with Samir Chatterjee 2010 January 11- 24 Irish Tour Susan with Paddy O'Brien, Cillian Vallely & Aidan Brennan February German Tour 'Saints & Tzadiks' ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 22:06:45 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Re: Tori's Abnormally attracted to sin Wow...thanks for the detailed look! I think for me it confirmed that I won't be buying the album. Karen Hester wrote: >> From: gordodo@optonline.net >> the new tracks she played live are striking me as way better than welcome >> to england >> > > Yes, an odd choice of initial songs to sneak out ('Welcome to England', '500 > miles', 'Fire to your plain', later 'Maybe California'). Maybe Tori thinks > 'A sorta fairytale' was a hit because it was poppy, rather than because it > was *good* and poppy. > > Now that almost everything has leaked and I've lived with some songs for a > couple weeks, I'll ramble a bit. The album 'Abnormally attracted to sin' is > bloated like 'American Doll Posse'. Tori has said in recent interviews that > she now puts tracks on albums that would previously have been b-sides. > There are a couple Tori-worthy highs, a number of catchy songs, some > pleasant enough songs, some dregs, and overall few I'll be listening to in > several months (unlike her brilliant first four albums and 'Scarlet's Walk', > which I'll never fully put aside). > > More electronic than the rocking Doll Posse. Reminds me of 'Venus', esp > 'Suede'. Will be interesting on headphones; some songs might shine more > that way. Some complex arrangements, though more in the way of 'mood pieces > with lots of interesting noises' rather than complex melodies or > structures. > > Lite pop: > - Welcome to England - I don't think it's bad; chorus works like 'Past the > mission's' with the beat slowing down, sad, soaring a bit > - 'Fire to your plain' and '500 miles' - simple pop, catchy, a bit sickly, > Beekeeper-ish > - Not dying today - verses with beat like 'Dolphin song'; unusually dumb > lyrics, not in a weird Tori-ish Pele way, but Stoopid. Seems to be many > people's least favorite song > - Fast horse - Scarlet-ish (yey!) with American accent and subject matter > ("your momma ain't New York she's pure Tennessee", Indian smoke stuff); so > trashy to mention maseratis! (first a sab, now 'sat-nav to hell'...) > > Atmospheric electronics (and guitars, often bad) > - Give - dark, vampiric > - Flavor - gentler, prettier > - Curtain Call - album highlight, gorgeous sad ballad about ageing musician > - Abnormally attracted to sin - slower, acoustic guitars, echoes, goes on a > bit > - Starling - lovely with baroque hints, faint military marching drums, and > then a jarring muted stompy glitter-rock bridge that perhaps belongs > somewhere else, but maybe it'll fit in after more listens > - Lady in blue - slow ballad, boring to me so far but many people like it > > Murky rock with bad 70s rock guitars by husband: > - Strong black vine - chorus brings back the anemic Beekeeper funk; bit of > James Bond-ish keyboards; reminds me of 'She's your cocaine' and 'Teenage > hustling', a bit tiring and samey > - Police me - ick! it isn't boring, but i don't think the sounds add up to > anything attractive. Will keep listening and see > > Genre pieces: > - Maybe California - Beatlesque and syrupy strings, pretty, too predictable > and sweet for me in most moods > - That guy - show tune, voice sounds lovely, also a bit > 70s-strings-Gold-Dust-ish > - Mary Jane - catchy silly froth about marijuana, like 'graveyard', 'mr > zebra' but lesser; total b-side material > > Piano song: > - Ophelia - It's kinda lovely in a 'Scarlet's hidden treasures' way, but > it's like cliche Tori, people who have seen a couple videos and read a weird > interview would think "hasn't she already written this?" > > Good enough to be on an album, according to me: Curtain Call, Fast horse, > Give, Flavor, Welcome to England (the album needs some pop songs) > Good enough, but wish they were edited or arranged a bit differently: > Starling, Ophelia, Abnormally attracted to sin > The rest, in descending order, many of which I have enjoyed listening to > over 30 times, but they aren't good compared to Tori at her peak: Lady in > blue, That guy, Fire to your plain, Maybe California, 500 miles, Mary Jane, > Not dying today, Police me, Strong black vine. > > Ooh, it's dinner time. > K ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V14 #129 ***************************