From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #1903 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, January 11 2017 Volume 16 : Number 1903 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- HGP's silver anniversary [Mitch Pravatiner ] Re: Favourite albums of 2016 [JoAnn Whetsell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 16:14:53 -0600 From: Mitch Pravatiner Subject: HGP's silver anniversary Not long ago, it hit me that the holiday season just ended was the 25th anniversary of the first Happy Gift Project, the first of many compilation tapes that members of the Ecto mailing list put together in honor of both the holidays, and Happy's birthday. Copies of the completed tapes were sent to her and to the contributors, and made available to others on the list. They had a lot of great music. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2017 04:56:50 +0000 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: Re: Favourite albums of 2016 Thanks to Marion for continuing this conversation. I feel like there were a lot of albums I didn't spend nearly enough time with. Others, like AHNONI's Hopelessness I've been meaning to check out and haven't yet (but still plan to). The albums I can definitely put on a list (in no particular order, besides the top three) are: 1. Regina Spektor - Remember Us to Life (such a wonderful return to form!) 2. Various Artists - The Hamilton Mixtape 3. Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop - Love Letter for Fire Beth Orton - Kidsticks Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass Suzanne Vega - Lover, Beloved Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions - Until the Hunter Joseph - I'm Alone, No You're Not Daughter - Not to Disappear PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project Garmarna - 6 El Perro Del Mar - KoKoro This brings us to 6 lists total. I'd really like to get at least 10 to put together a final tally for the Ectoguide. JoAnn ________________________________ From: owner-ecto@smoe.org on behalf of Marion Kippers Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2017 8:40:00 AM To: ecto Subject: Re: Favourite albums of 2016 Hi, Like last year I only bought four new cd's in 2016... Here's my little list: 1. Richard Shindell - Careless 2. Agnes Obel - Citizen of Glass 3. Lou Rhodes - theyesandeye 4. case/lang/veirs (Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs) And a special mention for a Dutch singer called Pitou, whose debut record I only just discovered, but it does seem interesting: http://pitoumusic.com/ Best wishes, Marion 2016-12-11 22:39 GMT+01:00 Neile Graham : > I am sad to discover that I can't get up to 10 favourites this year. This > year I have sold and traded away more discs than we took in. If you're on > Music Boomerang or swapacd I've still got a lot of stuff on there--things > we liked enough to hold onto till now but just never played and realized we > would never play them given the multitude of other discs we have and enjoy > more. > > Favourites of this year: > > 1. Veda Hille, Love Waves > 2. Agnes Obel, Citizen of Glass > 3. The Natural History Museum, Attenborough (digital only) > 4. Emma Ruth Rundle, Marked for Death > 5. Radiohead, Moon Shaped Pool > 6. The Natural History Museum, Manmade ep (digital only) > > Haven't listed to enough to rank but hey, there's four of them, so I guess > they do add this up to a top ten: > > * Kate Bush, Before the Dawn > * Kristin Hersh, Wyatt at the Coyote Palace > * Inga Liljestrom & Michael Lira, We Have Tigers > * Jim Moray, Upcetera > > Also enjoy: > > * Bat For Lashes, The Bride (very uneven for me) > * David Bowie, Black Star > * Leonard Cohen, You Want it Darker > * Sandy Denny, I've Always Kept A Unicorn (acoustic compilation) > * Maarja Nuut, Une Meeles (mixed. I love a lot of this--think Iva Bittova > and Tara Fuka--but there's also a lot of short-cycling repetition, which > gets on my nerves) > > --Neile > - -- Marion Kippers Marion.Kippers@gmail.com ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #1903 ****************************