From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #187 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, September 9 2011 Volume 16 : Number 187 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Frank Boeijen albums unavailable [Chris Boek ] A song for the occasion? [Mitch Pravatiner ] RE: so many great new releases coming up the rest of this year [JoAnn Whe] mmmmm [Paul Blair ] Project 499 [Robert Lovejoy ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 17:36:04 +1000 From: Chris Boek Subject: Frank Boeijen albums unavailable Do any of the Dutch ectophiles out there (hello!), know where one can get hold of older Frank Boeijen albums ? I've tried bol.com, and managed to fill a few holes in the back catalogue, but there are four albums that are "unavailable", and it appears they're out of print ... The ones I'm after are: Vaderland, Dans in Slow Motion, Kontakt, and 1001 Hotel. I also visited every CD shop I could find when I was in NL a couple of months ago, to no avail. I've been inspired since seeing Frank perform Live in Nijmegen in July, and realised I was missing a lot of older material ... Many thanks for any tips! Chris. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 12:53:51 -0500 (GMT-05:00) From: Mitch Pravatiner Subject: A song for the occasion? I belong to a discussion board for PhDs and near-PhDs in nonacademic careers. We have a thread going on "Theme songs for leaving academe." I contributed Happy's "Project 499," feeling that the mood of the song, as well as its title, fit the situation. (In the university where I received my graduate education, 499 was the course number for Thesis Research.) Mitch (back after an absence of several years) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 16:32:12 -0400 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: RE: so many great new releases coming up the rest of this year If you can't wait until Tuesday, St. Vincent's Strange Mercy is up for streaming at NPR http://www.npr.org/2011/09/04/139946514/first-listen-st-vincent-strange-mercy. It's... interesting, definitely not as catchy as her first two albums (and I know people thought Anchor was less catchy than Marry Me). Anyway, only one listen so far, so I'm hopeful it will grow on me. You can also listen to Wild Flag, the so-called super group of Carrie Brownstein and Janet Weiss (both Sleater-Kinney), Mary Timony (Helium), and Rebecca Cole (The Minder). I really like the first song, "Romance" (is it supposed to sound like The Bangles to me?), but got a bit bored after that. But again, only one listen so far. http://www.npr.org/2011/08/28/139917271/first-listen-wild-flag-wild-flag JoAnn > Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 14:09:59 +0000 > From: gordodo@optonline.net > Subject: so many great new releases coming up the rest of this year > To: ecto@smoe.org > > new Bjork, Florence and the Machine, My Brightest Diamond, Laura Marling, St. Vincent, Katzenjammer, Astrid Williamson, Ohbijou, Soley, Throwing Muses all upcoming in the next few months...could faint from music overload/moderately related...bjork's preorder for biophilia had an $800 deluxe edition that comes with a set of custom tuning forks that each vibrate/respond to a different track on the album (in the weird frequency octave she built the album around)...kind of interesting as an art object/conceptual piece, but does one really need $750 worth of tuning forks? [personally, the money spent on the tickets to see her this october in iceland is much more worth it :) ]-jasonnp - Seabear - We Build a Fire ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 18:19:32 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: mmmmm I looked up "Project 499" on my iTunes by sorting Happy's tracks alphabetically; after that I just let it play. When it got to "Ra Is a Busy God," it played first the instrumental version from Aural Gratification I and then the version with vocals from Many Worlds. Used to be I liked the instrumental version a little better, but now when I hear the instrumental version, there's a small niggling feeling that it's missing words. Then the version with the words comes and that itch gets scratched. I'll have to remember to listen to it like that more often. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 08 Sep 2011 18:48:39 -0400 From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Project 499 The 499 refers to the stock number of a then new Ampex audio mastering tape. Happy was always a techie! Bob Lovejoy - -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #187 ***************************