From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V15 #181 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, July 25 2010 Volume 15 : Number 181 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Hungarian ectophilic music? [Paul Blair ] Re: Jesca Hoop's Hunting My Dress on NPR [Paul Blair ] 1)Re: hungarian ectophilic music [breinheimer@webtv.net (bill)] Re: Jesca Hoop's Hunting My Dress on NPR [robert bristow-johnson Subject: Re: Hungarian ectophilic music? Thanks to all! On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 8:56 AM, RootsWorld wrote: > At 01:55 AM 7/23/2010, you wrote: > >I'll be traveling to Hungary for several weeks later this year. Any > >music I should be sure to pick up? > > Marta Sebestyen is always agood artist to watch for, especially if > you get lucky and can see her perform. > If you are looking for instrumental music with a lot of energy, watch > for the local cimbalom bands and if yo are lucky, a performance by > one of the best known players, Kalman Balogh and one of his ensembles. > > One of my favorite Hungarians is saxophonist and composer Mihaly > Dresch. He uses traditional melodies and dance rhythms to create a > really edgy and unique jazz. Another jazz-roots artist to find is > Parno Graszt, a phenomenal pianist. > > Finally, a great contemporary Gypsy band you should hear is The > Earth Wheel Sky Band. Great energy and exceptional musicianship > > There are a number of reviews and articles if you search for > "Hungary" on RootsWorld, many with some good audio samples. > http://www.rootsworld.com/rw/ > > > cliff > > > > > -------------------------- > If war is the answer, it must be a very stupid question. > > > Cliff Furnald, editor > RootsWorld, the online magazine of the world's music > Box 1285, New Haven CT 06505 USA > http://www.rootsworld.com > > cdRoots: importing unusual music from around the globe > http://www.cdroots.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:11:17 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: Jesca Hoop's Hunting My Dress on NPR Just had a chance to listen to this. I really liked it! Thanks for the recommendation. It'll only be up on the NPR site for a few more days. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:08 AM, JoAnn Whetsell wrote: > Hunting My Dress is FINALLY getting released in the US on July 27. NPR has > the whole album available for streaming until then: > http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128512629&sc=fb&cc=fmp > . > > It sounds fantastic. > > Last year was *such* a better year for music, so it makes sense in an odd > way > that this 2009 release may be the best album of 2010. > > JoAnn > > _________________________________________________________________ > Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your > inbox. > > http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL > :en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:20:22 -0400 From: breinheimer@webtv.net (bill) Subject: 1)Re: hungarian ectophilic music 2) renaissance 1) Iva Bittova is Czech not Hungarian and is definitely on the experimental side of ecto. But by all accounts she is amazing live and is currently touring Czechoslavakia and will be off and on at least through November. So that might be worth adding to the old itinerary. 2) Had the great pleasure of seeing a reformed Renaissance (Annie Haslem, Michael Dunford and several nonoriginal members) perform live recently at a venue only a half hour from where I live! They have been touring with Steve Hackett but added a couple of dates playing on their own right here in New England. I was surfing the web one night and stumbled across this the night before tickets went on sale to the general public. It wasn't even listed on their renaissancetouring site yet! I scrambled to find who was going with me and managed to snag 2nd row center seats at the relatively "cozy" Infinity Hall in Norfolk, Ct. The band was great and even Annie's incredible voice sounded as good as ever. If I closed my eyes I could have been transported back to my (and their) youth. They played all of their classic 70"s (a great decade for music) material and closed with a tremendous, long version of Ashes are Burning, just like the old days. They were thrilled with the audience which was probably the most enthusiastic I have ever seen. My only complaint was that they didn't play A Trip to the Fair despite many requests from the crowd. They played a new song "The Mystic and the Muse" which was well received. They indicated that the were writing material for a new cd. I bought the 3 song ep but found the 2 other new songs disappointing. My reaction was the same to Annie's Live Under Brazilian Skies cd which also was for sale after the show. At least I left with the memories of an amazing concert and a pretty nice t-shirt (yeah I was pretty enthusiastic at that point). I've always said that Renaissance was my all time favorite progressive rock band but I'm starting to rethink the need to include the words progressive and rock in that sentence. In an unprecedentedly (for me) busy summer i've already seen Robyn Hitchcock, the Feelies (who reformed two years ago and never got around to telling me! thank you wpkn for concert calendars) and the Hot Club of Cowtown; but this was easily my favorite. And that is high praise indeed. np:Renaissance- The Mystic and the Muse ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:50:50 -0400 From: robert bristow-johnson Subject: Re: Jesca Hoop's Hunting My Dress on NPR me too. i didn't get around to it at first, but Paul's report prompted me to listen. i'm only on track 2 and i *really* like this. it's definitely worthy of ectophiles' attention. if you haven't heard this, you should. On Jul 24, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Paul Blair wrote: > Just had a chance to listen to this. I really liked it! Thanks for the > recommendation. > > It'll only be up on the NPR site for a few more days. > > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:08 AM, JoAnn Whetsell >wrote: > >> Hunting My Dress is FINALLY getting released in the US on July 27. >> NPR has >> the whole album available for streaming until then: >> http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128512629&sc=fb&cc=fmp >> . >> >> It sounds fantastic. >> >> Last year was *such* a better year for music, so it makes sense in >> an odd >> way >> that this 2009 release may be the best album of 2010. >> >> JoAnn >> >> _________________________________________________________________ >> Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your >> inbox. >> >> http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL >> :en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 > - -- r b-j rbj@audioimagination.com "Imagination is more important than knowledge." ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V15 #181 ***************************