From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V15 #10 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, January 13 2010 Volume 15 : Number 010 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Toumani Diabate vs Joanna Newsom [SEC=PERSONAL] [Tim Jones-Yelvingto] Re: Toumani Diabate vs Joanna Newsom [SEC=PERSONAL] [Sander ] Re: Toumani Diabate vs Joanna Newsom [SEC=PERSONAL] [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:56:38 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: Toumani Diabate vs Joanna Newsom [SEC=PERSONAL] I think Joanna's voice is an acquired taste... abrasive at first, but eventually infectious. I have not seen her live, but have heard she's great. I think Milk-Eyed Mender is perhaps a far more accessible first album, but Ys is her masterpiece. ~tim - ----- Original Message ---- From: Amanda Williams To: ecto@smoe.org Sent: Mon, January 11, 2010 10:29:13 PM Subject: Toumani Diabate vs Joanna Newsom [SEC=PERSONAL] Hi everyone As well as being a lover of Ecto, I'm also a big world music fan. So, you can imagine my horror when I find that the concert of the 'Father of Kora' is clashing with the one of the modern mistresses of the harp on next Wednesday night in Melbourne! I have put two and two together and worked out there will be a good chance Toumani will turn up at Malian singer/guitarist Vieux Farka Toure's concert two days later so I was leaning towards going to Joanna Newsom on the Wednesday night and then seeing both Africans together, but it obviously won't be the same as Toumani's band won't be there, and they're meant to be awesome. So I guess what all boils down to is- what is Joanna Newsom like live and which album should I buy of hers that's a good introduction? I've heard that she sounds like a little girl live and that she takes umbrage to comments made about that and doesn't believe it's true. Certainly that has come across in the live recordings I've heard of her, and I have to say, I do find that style a bit irritating after a while. So if she does it for the whole concert, I reckon I might not last the distance. Also, the remixes that have been released of her singles have been wonderful and they're the main way that I have got to know her stuff. Does she do her pared down versions live, or does she do the remixes? Many thanks and Happy New Year to you all - may 2010 bring as much ecto-goodness as 2009 did. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we got wind that KaTe or Happy had new albums on the way? Pigs might fly and all that, but we can always hope :-) Amanda PS I've just found out that Florence & the Machine is heading our way in March, about the same time that all the folk and world artists come out for the Port Fairy and Womad circuits. I'm going to be a very busy grrrl! Off to Handsome Family tomorrow night and Al Green on Thursday already. Please consider the environment before printing this document NOTICE This e-mail and any attachments are intended for the addressee(s) only and may be confidential. They may contain legally privileged or copyright material. You should not read, copy, use or disclose them without authorisation. If you are not the intended recipient please contact the sender as soon as possible by return e-mail and then please delete both messages. This notice should not be removed. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:57:06 +0100 From: Sander Subject: Re: Toumani Diabate vs Joanna Newsom [SEC=PERSONAL] Amanda Williams wrote: > So I guess what all boils down to is- what is Joanna Newsom like live and > which album should I buy of hers that's a good introduction? The CD I'd start with is The Milk-Eyed Mender; it contains much shorter, more accessible songs that Ys; these texts will get into your head. (Agreed with Tim that Ys is the masterpiece, though.) Live (if the one time I saw her is anything to go by) she is absolutely amazing; she is shining on stage, having insane infectious energy, and blowing away what she sounds like on CD; live, I could listen to her for days, which I still can't quite stand with the CDs. If you want to know more than that, I wrote a long gushing post to ecto about that one concert I went to, which Amy republished here: http://www.blog.collectedsounds.com/?p=880 Cheers, Sander ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:32:23 -0500 From: Karen Hester Subject: Joanna Newsom live > From: Amanda Williams > So I guess what all boils down to is- what is Joanna Newsom like live and > which album should I buy of hers that's a good introduction? I've heard Yes, she has a squeaky little girl's voice (I don't find it worse live than recorded), and you said you found it irritating after a few songs so maybe skip her show! To me, her voice is less nails-on-blackboard now than with her earlier releases, but if you were annoyed by Ys then.... I saw her with a large band and they played fairly standard versions of her songs, concentrating on Ys, but perhaps she has some new songs now. I haven't heard any remixes. Joanna wears 3 inch heels on stage. I can't remember anything else of note :) I love the sound of her harp playing but she's no master unlike the other artist you want to see. K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:06:29 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Re: Toumani Diabate vs Joanna Newsom [SEC=PERSONAL] Just to represent the alternate opinion ... :} Joanna Newsom's voice makes me want to claw my earballs out. woj learned very early on never to listen to her outside of headphones when I'm in town. If her childlike voice doesn't completely appeal to you, consider whether you can stand to hear it for an hour -- because that's her singing voice, regardless of what she might say or do to it in the studio. Check out some YouTube clips before you make your final decision -- I know there's some live clips out there. (It's funny, because early Kate Bush and Victoria Williams and the like don't bug me at all ... but something about her tone is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me.) Meredith :) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:20:05 -0800 (PST) From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?anna_maria_stj=E4rnell?= Subject: theresa andersson Hi all.. Theresa Andersson is Swedish, she's lived in New Orleans for many years though. Anna ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:36:50 -0500 From: breinheimer@webtv.net (bill) Subject: Re: ecto-mix tape for an 11 year old (for valerie fans) lots of nice choices. but what I am really curious about is what kind of mix tape she will be getting from her father. that one may be a few years away . and don't tell me nothing nothing a whole lot of nothing. :) np (yeah I still do that): john cale/terry riley- church of anthrax (which my girlfriend nicely got me to replace my old vinyl copy- one of several lp's to have mysteriously gone missing over the years. anyone else have that problem? ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:30:06 -0800 (PST) From: neile Subject: Re: Toumani Diabate vs Joanna Newsom I know nothing about Toumani Diabate, but seeing Joanna Newsom live with a symphonic band a couple of years ago when she was touring _Ys_ was one of the best concerts I have ever experienced. I hadn't liked her much until _Ys_, which really grew on me and suddenly her vocal style made sense to me, so when I saw her I was already prepared not to be annoyed by it. I've been to plenty of concerts I've been absorbed by, plenty I've enjoyed, plenty I've liked, and all too many that I have endured, but this was one of the few I would call transcendent. The worst thing is that it's hard to describe exactly why. It just was delicate, tough, magical and transporting. - --Neile ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V15 #10 **************************