From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #24 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, February 8 2011 Volume 16 : Number 024 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Daga Dana [neal copperman ] New Christine Fellows [Sarah Morayati ] Re: Daga Dana [Andrew ] Re: Daga Dana [neal copperman ] Albuquerque invades NYC [neal copperman ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 14:44:56 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Daga Dana I've really been enjoying a newish CD from Polish group Daga Dana called Malenka. Fans of Petrocovich will dig it immediately. They are stand-up bass, piano and electronics & toys. Or so it seems from a video on their site. The CD and the site are all in Polish. But I'm pretty sure people here would enjoy them. http://dagadana.pl/ There is a cool video of them in action on the front page. It's live, but if you follow links you can find recorded versions that are a little cleaner and bear up to repeated listening. neal np: Daga Dana - Malenka (of course) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 17:14:19 -0500 From: Sarah Morayati Subject: New Christine Fellows Total shock to me, but she's got a new album out: Femmes De Chez Nous. It's a lot like Veda Hille (they've worked together for years), specifically her commissioned works. Their career trajectories are actually dovetailing pretty exactly at this point. Anyway, if you liked _This Riot Life_ you'd definitely like this; it's the same feel, piano-based art songs in English and French. I'm not sure it holds up as a through-composed *work* like _Nevertheless_ did (you always run that risk when you're including commissioned and non-commissioned works on the same album. Stina NOrdenstam pulled it off, for instance, on _The WOrld Is Saved_, but you can still tell which ones were added on.) But it's still well worth listening. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 23:26:22 +0100 From: Andrew Subject: Re: Daga Dana I found out about them probably a year ago... "Tango" was quite frequently played by alternative radios in Poland, then I checked the video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-fvCKfbIn8 ) out and have fallen in love ;) The album is quite different though, and I'm not sure if I like all the songs. "Kolir szczastia" may be my favourite. Some of the lyrics are in Polish, some are in Ukrainian (Daga and Mikolaj are Polish and Dana is from Lviv, Ukraine). All of their currently released music can be listened to and purchased from bandcamp: http://dagadana.bandcamp.com/ The two radio singles (an edit of "Tango" and "Kolir szczastia") can be downloaded for free here: http://www.offside.com.pl/site/U0ZzIlahL5aY/DAGADANA___single_radiowe.html and http://www.offside.com.pl/site/zEt3FmFfJQdB/DAGADANA___drugi_singiel.html What might be interesting: Gaba Kulka lends her vocals on "Szumila liszczyna" and plays clavinet on "Akademia" and "Sny". Andrew 2011/2/7 neal copperman : > I've really been enjoying a newish CD from Polish group Daga Dana called > Malenka. > > Fans of Petrocovich will dig it immediately. They are stand-up bass, piano > and electronics & toys. Or so it seems from a video on their site. The CD > and the site are all in Polish. But I'm pretty sure people here would enjoy > them. > > http://dagadana.pl/ > > There is a cool video of them in action on the front page. It's live, but > if you follow links you can find recorded versions that are a little cleaner > and bear up to repeated listening. > > neal > > np: Daga Dana - Malenka (of course) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:15:47 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Re: Daga Dana Thanks Andrew! I really liked that video. I totally love the song "Akademia" too. That one has a fun video as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AfpIpuVeT0 Fun with saran wrap! neal On Feb 7, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Andrew wrote: > I found out about them probably a year ago... "Tango" was quite > frequently played by alternative radios in Poland, then I checked the > video ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-fvCKfbIn8 ) out and have > fallen in love ;) The album is quite different though, and I'm not > sure if I like all the songs. "Kolir szczastia" may be my favourite. > Some of the lyrics are in Polish, some are in Ukrainian (Daga and > Mikolaj are Polish and Dana is from Lviv, Ukraine). > > All of their currently released music can be listened to and purchased > from bandcamp: http://dagadana.bandcamp.com/ > The two radio singles (an edit of "Tango" and "Kolir szczastia") can > be downloaded for free here: > http://www.offside.com.pl/site/U0ZzIlahL5aY/DAGADANA___single_radiowe.html > and http://www.offside.com.pl/site/zEt3FmFfJQdB/DAGADANA___drugi_singiel.html > > What might be interesting: Gaba Kulka lends her vocals on "Szumila > liszczyna" and plays clavinet on "Akademia" and "Sny". > > Andrew > > > 2011/2/7 neal copperman : >> I've really been enjoying a newish CD from Polish group Daga Dana >> called >> Malenka. >> >> Fans of Petrocovich will dig it immediately. They are stand-up >> bass, piano >> and electronics & toys. Or so it seems from a video on their >> site. The CD >> and the site are all in Polish. But I'm pretty sure people here >> would enjoy >> them. >> >> http://dagadana.pl/ >> >> There is a cool video of them in action on the front page. It's >> live, but >> if you follow links you can find recorded versions that are a >> little cleaner >> and bear up to repeated listening. >> >> neal >> >> np: Daga Dana - Malenka (of course) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 17:34:38 -0700 From: neal copperman Subject: Albuquerque invades NYC I want to tip NYC folks off to some cool projects that some of my friends are bringing to NY in the next few weeks. Not strictly ecto, but I think people would enjoy them. Albuquerque doesn't hit the NYC stages too often, and this is some of the best of what we have to offer (though not on the musical front). Lisa Gill is an amazing local poet. Ok, I'm biased as she is my girlfriend, but she did receive and NEA Fellowship in Literature, has published 5 books and has 3 more coming out in the next year, so there is a little bit of independent support for that claim. Plus, she toured on the side stage on the first Lollapalooza and I've seen her do a poetry reading while accompanying herself with a band saw. No band saws in her NYC debut at the Bowery Poetry Club next week. She's doing shows on February 12. 6:00 - Some Kind of Love features a very intriguing mix of poets from around the world all doing short sets. 8:00 - The Relenting is her book length play poem that came out last year. It's a poetic dialog between a woman and a snake, that was inspired by her real life encounter with a rattle snake in her living room. As part of the (very limited) Local Snake Tour, Lisa is going to various places and reading the piece with a local poet in the role of the snake. In NYC, that will be Bowery Poetry Club proprietor Bob Holman. "The Relenting began on September 29, 2009, when poet Lisa Gill found a rattlesnake coiled on the brick floor of her living room in her cabin outside Moriarty, New Mexico. Inevitably, the two hours she spent with the snake transformed into an archetypal journey in her memory, a journey which she documented. In The Relenting, a lyric epic, she enters into direct dialogue with the snakeand this time the snake speaks back. Theirs is a feisty and sensuous confrontation in which a woman finds herself speaking to predator, cohort, mentor and lover. Each party in the potentially venomous duo find an unprecedented reception with the other and lives are changed." http://www.bowerypoetry.com/#February_12 http://therelenting.wordpress.com And the following weekend, there is a 4 day run by a comedic duo that I'm not dating. The Pajama Men keep spurning me, but maybe one day I will get lucky. The Pajama Men are a comedy duo who consistently put on the funniest show I have every seen. They are bringing their 2010 show "The Last Stand to Reason" to St Ann's Warehouse on Feb 16 to 19. They have performed to rave reviews across Canada, London, Australia and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I saw this show three times last year and was in tears every time. It's hard to describe what these guys do. They create a very non-linear story full of over a dozen characters that they both drop in and out of. The show is mostly scripted, but there is a fair amount of improvisation too. The sketches are hilarious and the wordplay is dizzying. I can't recommend them highly enough. http://pajamamennyc.com/ If anyone goes to either show, let me know what you thought. neal np: Hi-Top Sneakers - Dan Newton Getting ready to go see Annie Proulx read too! ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #24 **************************