From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #112 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, May 25 2011 Volume 16 : Number 112 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Eliza! at rockwood [Julie B ] oh I meant to say [Julie B ] Eliza Rickman was charming tonight at Rockwood [Karen Hester ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 22:01:56 -0400 From: Julie B Subject: Eliza! at rockwood Just back from seeing Eliza at Rockwood in NYC. She was even better than I expected! Played "big girl piano," toy piano and accordian. The set was just too short, I wanted more! She'll be coming to record for my radio show on Friday, and she says she's finished the full-length album and she's just seeking funding. She has like $1800 to go, I wish I had it! http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/94206527/eliza-rickman-makes-her-first-full-length-record The first act, Nancy Magarill was quite good too. - -- Dark Night of the Soul http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/JQ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 22:02:39 -0400 From: Julie B Subject: oh I meant to say I posted a couple pix on my twitter, julesette66. I don't have a great camera phone (blackberry) but a couple turned out nicely. - -- Dark Night of the Soul http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/JQ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 00:54:00 -0400 From: Karen Hester Subject: Eliza Rickman was charming tonight at Rockwood Thanks for the ecto heads up :) Eliza has a lovely soprano with pretty vibrato and it suits her sweet goth-and-Victoriana aesthetic. She writes within the limits of her skills with the instruments - her piano songs in particular have conventional melodies, the most basic time signatures and structures. Most of the songs don't have a dynamic structure with any peaks or diversions; they're slow/medium paced verse-chorus-v-c-v-c... in a measured way that can lull you but doesn't demand attention. The toy piano further limits her so those songs (e.g. Cinnamon Bone, Black Rose) are very plink plonk, but that instrument is different enough that in small doses these songs feel more distinct. Best perhaps were the unaccompanied numbers where Eliza sampled her hand claps, breathes and weird vocalizations for a backing track. She also played a cute tune about Napoleon with a bird whistle and sing-a-ma-jig toy (http://www.thesingamajigs.com/landing.aspx). This song skipped and danced more than the other keyboard numbers. Eliza said that'll be the Kickstarter extra track because it doesn't fit with the sadder songs on the album. The final song she played had a lovely soaring melody line over a wheezing accordion dirge. Eliza said that she'd had one accordion lesson and had learnt Mary Had a Little Lamb. In a way not knowing how to play an instrument resulted in better music than half-knowing. K ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 21:56:54 -0700 From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Eliza! at rockwood On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 7:01 PM, Julie B wrote: > Just back from seeing Eliza at Rockwood in NYC. She was even better than I > expected! Played "big girl piano," toy piano and accordian. The set was just > too short, I wanted more! She'll be coming to record for my radio show on > Friday, and she says she's finished the full-length album and she's just > seeking funding. She has like $1800 to go, I wish I had it! > http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/94206527/eliza-rickman-makes-her-first-full-length-record Thanks for sending that link. As of now she has $1751 to go, but quite a while left before the deadline (July 1). I just pledged $15 and hope some of her other new fans on ecto can help her out! - --Sue ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #112 ***************************