From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1818 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, September 25 2016 Volume 16 : Number 1818 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: NY Times mini reviews of new and upcoming releases [Tim Jones-Yelving] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 13:34:38 -0400 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: NY Times mini reviews of new and upcoming releases maturity is so often code for ehhh, this regina review worries me. ~Tim On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 11:12 AM, JoAnn Whetsell wrote: > FYI on some new and upcoming releases of possible ecto interest > > > EL PERRO DEL MAR The piping-voiced Swedish songwriter Sarah Assbring has > expanded her electronic indie-pop with a global swirl of possibilities on > her > fifth album, "KoKoro." She ponders the meaning of life and the routes to > happiness amid Bollywood percussion, zithers from > Asia and modal riffs from > North > Africa, airborne and determinedly positive. Ging Ging/The Control Group. > Sept. > 16. (Pareles) > > > [I've only had a chance to listen to this once, but I liked it considerably > more than her last album so I'm looking forward to future listens.] > > > JENNY HVAL Ms. Hval, a singer and composer from Norway, is an artist of > inscrutable intention, predisposed toward any premise that leads you, > disoriented, a fair distance from where you started. "Blood Bitch" is her > explicitly sanguine new album, concerned with blood as a substance both > vital > and mundanely intimate. (One track bears the wry title "Period Piece.") > Sacred > Bones. Sept. 30. (Chinen) > > > [This is up on NPR First Listen right now: > http://www.npr.org/2016/09/22/494571616/first-listen-jenny- > hval-blood-bitch.] > > [https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2016/09/19/jennyhvalpress_ > wide-796d14ebd7fb > 6c93c570eb7c1bc2923bef31aff9.jpg?s=1400] org/2016/09/22/494571 > 616/first-listen-jenny-hval-blood-bitch> > > First Listen: Jenny Hval, 'Blood > Bitch' listen-jenny-hval-blood- > bitch> > www.npr.org > On her sixth album, the Norwegian singer Jenny Hval aims for impact, > surrounding her vulnerable voice with spiky, disarming instrumentation that > bolsters the intensity and intimacy of her songs. > > > > > REGINA SPEKTOR When Regina Spektor last released an album, in 2012, there > was > an American presidential election underway, though its tone was a little > different than this one. (The election, not the album.) "Remember Us to > Life" > finds her singing all-new material informed by her experience as a mother, > among other hallmarks of dawning maturity. Sire/Warner Bros. Sept 30. > (Chinen) > > > SUZANNE VEGA "Lover, Beloved: Songs from an Evening with Carson McCullers" > is > the result of one wryly perceptive American writer inhabiting the > mindspace of > another. Setting out to celebrate McCullers not only as a paragon of > Southern > fiction but also as a colorful New York character, Ms. Vega worked with > Duncan > Sheik to write the songs for a two-act musical: hot-jazz putdown tracks > like > "Harper Lee" as well as heartbroken ballads like "Annemarie." Amanuensis. > Oct. > 14. (Chinen) > > > TANYA TAGAQ Ms. Tagaq is a fearless vocalist and composer rooted in the > extreme-sounding rigors of Inuit throat singing - and her new album, > "Retribution," will move her further in the direction of provocation. Its > subject matter is rape, in the environmental, sociocultural and harrowingly > personal senses of the word. (Along with originals like "Summoning," it > includes a cover of Nirvana's "Rape Me.") Six Shooter. Oct. 21. (Chinen) > > > LEONARD COHEN Now in his 80s, Leonard Cohen is still writing songs that > explore humanity in all its flaws, romances, tragedies and epiphanies. His > 14th studio album, promisingly titled "You Want It Darker," was produced by > his son (and fellow songwriter), Adam. Columbia. (Pareles) > > > SLEIGH BELLS It's not an insult to say that the punishment meted out by > Sleigh > Bells on the band's previous releases sometimes obscured its more nuanced > gifts. The punishment was first rate! Sleigh Bells - the duo of Derek > Miller > and Alexis Krauss - have specialized in pummeling, big-brush, > electronic-intense rock. On "Jessica Rabbit," their first album in three > years, they're staking out slightly broader territory. There's more > soulfulness in Ms. Krauss's singing, more intimacy in Mr. Miller's > production > (not much, but some) - in general, more space to breathe from a band that > has > long preferred suffocation. Torn Clean. Nov 11. (Caramanica) > > > > > Full preview at > http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/arts/music/fall-preview- > pop-jazz-albums.htm > l?ref=todayspaper > > [https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/09/18/arts/18POP- > LISTINGS/18POP-LISTING > S-facebookJumbo.jpg] arts/music/fall-previe > w-pop-jazz-albums.html?ref=todayspaper> > > Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 105 Albums, Shows and > Festivals fall-preview-pop-jazz- > albums.html?ref=todayspaper> > www.nytimes.com > Autumn releases and concerts include punk and cabaret, club and metal, > hip-hop > and rock, and the indescribable. Oh, yeah, and Springsteen, too. > > > > Enjoy! > > > JoAnn ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1818 ****************************