From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1288 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, December 5 2014 Volume 16 : Number 1288 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Linnea Olsson: "Breaking & Shaking" [Sander ] Re: Lydia Ainsworth's Right from Real [jessica spurling Subject: Re: Linnea Olsson: "Breaking & Shaking" Paul Jensen wrote: > Am I late to the Linnea Olsson party? Or is she still relatively unknown? I > could only find 1 mention of her on Ecto. Ooh, that'd be by me! I saw her opening for... Ane Brun (I think? Or maybe Maria Mena) a couple of years ago. Amazingly haunting sounds from The Ocean, sheer giddy brilliance in Dinosaur (my audioplayer tracks 49 plays for that, and that's not counting all the plays from my laptop and in the car). I hadn't even realized Breaking & Shaking was out already; if it's anything like Ah!, it'll be amazing. Must go track down a copy! *crosses appendages for a European tour* Cheers, Sander ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 14:15:37 -0800 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: Lydia Ainsworth's Right from Real Elbe says that Lydia Ainsworth's album is her favorite album of the past 10 years! I love it, too. Lydia posted on facebook today that she's been nominated for CBC's Homegrown Hero Award for best independent artist. If you like her, too, you can vote here: http://music.cbc.ca/#!/blogs/2014/11/CBC-Music-Awards-long-list-Homegrown-Hero-Award-for-best-independent-artist - -jessica ps: Elbe is my girlfriend, previously known as Brendan Powell Smith. She'll continue to use the name Brendan Powell Smith in her professional life, but she began a gender transition earlier this year and now uses the name Elbe and female pronouns. Elbe is pronounced ELL-bee. On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 4:27 PM, jessica spurling wrote: > 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 #1288 ****************************