From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #194 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, September 17 2011 Volume 16 : Number 194 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: new Tori [Doug ] Noe Venable, 9/16/11 [Paul Blair ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:07:20 -0400 From: Doug Subject: Re: new Tori To each his own I guess. I haven't liked anything Tori has done since Scarlet's Walk, except for American Doll Posse. NoH seems about as boring as The Beekeeper. Oh well. Motherhood dampens the rocker in some people. ;-) - --Doug ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2011 01:45:11 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Noe Venable, 9/16/11 Noe Venable performed this evening at the Brooklyn Society for Ethical Culture's coffeehouse. A good number of ectophiles attended: Karen, Dan, Leif, Don, and myself. Lots of new songs. Here is the set list; the ones in quotes are not the actual titles, just my guesses. Sparrow "I live in a spirit house of blood and clay designed..." - a song inspired by a recent serious illness, about the fragility and strength of the body "Beast in the Streetlamp" - Song about a huge buck (deer) she once encountered in the middle of the street near where she lived in the Oakland hills Juniper "The Dream Mare" - She's performed this once or twice already "Our Hidden Love (poem, spoken) - I posted this poem to ecto a year or so ago. It always blows me away. "Water" - a song about the power of water "Honey of Experience" - based on a poem by Rumi, about how we are like bees Midsummer Night's Dream - -- Encore: Boots Noe performed solo with acoustic guitar. "Sparrow" was utterly amazing; I didn't miss the backing musicians at all. I was impressed in general at how little diminished her music is without the larger band. She mentioned that she likes performing solo because it gives her an opportunity to relate the stories behind songs, which she doesn't necessarily want to do when she has a group of musicians with her. She is at work on recording her new album and has recently been working with Todd Sickafoose on the bass and all sorts of other instruments. In her day job Noe is a teacher (there were lots of youngsters in the audience) and has become music director of her school, so she doesn't have as much time to devote to her own music as she'd like. As a result, she currently has no plans for future performances. She did mention she is directing a community chorus in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, and invited participation. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #194 ***************************