From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1223 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, October 1 2014 Volume 16 : Number 1223 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Lydia Ainsworth's Right from Real [Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: Lydia Ainsworth's Right from Real I was thinking of Hannah Fury, too... a little like what her more experimental, Through the Gash material might've been like with more... melody and composition. On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 2:26 PM, neile wrote: > We've been loving the samples we've heard. I'll be picking it up after > work today. > > I think I said last week it feels to me like Happy meets Emily Bezar. I > hear some Hannah Fury in there frequently, too, and Kate of course. > > --Neile > > > On Tue, 30 Sep 2014, Tim Jones-Yelvington wrote: > > Have y'all heard this yet? It's awesome. >> >> From Pitchfork's review: >> >> *Right from Real* is orchestral pop in the vein of Kate Bush >> and Bat for Lashes >> , albeit from an >> artist >> who would cite a love for Meredith Monk and Giuseppe Verdi's *Requiem*in >> the same breath. Ainsworth isn't as experimental with regards to her >> songwriting approach, though, nor is she so spiritually cathartic. Much >> like the Knife 's *Silent >> Shout* , *Right >> from Real*exists in a dusky, cobalt-hued twilight, after the real world >> has >> drawn its curtains closed and before the mystical realm starts to come >> alive. The music illustrates those enchanted hours in detail with >> soft-sweeping strings, modest electronic tinkering, pointed spates of >> percussion, and Ainsworth's confident, versatile self-harmonizing. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1223 ****************************