From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1226 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, October 4 2014 Volume 16 : Number 1226 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Chelsea Jade, melodic beats-based music [Karen Hester ] Re: Lydia Ainsworth's Right from Real [jessica spurling Subject: Chelsea Jade, melodic beats-based music Dreamier than Banks, less sparse than Lorde, though also from New Zealand. Used to record as Watercolours, and now either Chelsea Jade or Chelsea Jade Metcalf. EP out later this month (some EP currently available in Japan!) but pretty vids for: new song and my favorite 'Night Swimmer' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi7yuM4JL9Q#t=204 earlier, more abstract 'Under' released under band moniker Watercolours - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5C82fmJEjY 'Pazzida' also by Watercolours - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbSaTDCyJlU#t=124 2011 film of live performance for radio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGRYmEpYL34#t=139 Sounds only: 'Watercolours' remix - http://www.indieshuffle.com/watercolours-kyoto-train-jyeah-remix/ Download available for new song 'Visions' (apparently Harry Potter reference) - http://www.redbullstudios.com/auckland/recordings/exclusive-premiere-chelsea-jade-visions Karen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 08:57:16 -0400 From: Karen Hester Subject: Emily Edrosa/Street Chant Jangly, unhinged indie-rock song 'Animal' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2EK0qKhF-I#t=177 2 emotional, striking tracks from last Christmas https://soundcloud.com/emilyedrosa/sets/body-christ-tape Her band Street Chant are tighter, punker, but maybe less exciting. Vid for 'Tear my whole face off' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVP9o-OpEmE#t=52 Vid for wonderfully titled 'Less chat more sewing' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnb8XrJi-Iw All this good stuff happening in New Zealand while I'm not there :( Karen ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 16:27:06 -0700 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: Lydia Ainsworth's Right from Real We listened to it last night for the first time. Brendan loves it too. We just bought it and are listening to it again. thanks! - -jessica On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 12:26 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 #1226 ****************************