From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #213 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, October 13 2011 Volume 16 : Number 213 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: at times I think I'm almost there [neile ] Re: New Kate single ["R. N. Dominick" ] at times I think I'm almost there ["Stephen Bounds" ] Re: at times I think I'm almost there [Paul Blair ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 08:14:42 -0700 (PDT) From: neile Subject: Re: at times I think I'm almost there Phobos was the first Happy song I ever heard, and it hooked me on her work from the start. - --Neile ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 12:27:24 -0400 From: "R. N. Dominick" Subject: Re: New Kate single On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 11:38 PM, Neile Graham wrote: > I hope someone likes it. > I don't just dislike it--I can't bear to listen to it. Kate! I loved Aerial! This makes me very sad. The whole track is kind of dark, and just tumbles along, and there's no real singing except way back in a chorus or two and while I didn't *hate* it hate it, I can't much find anything to like about it either. It certainly doesn't hold a candle to anything on Aerial. This puts me in kind of an odd place. Director's Cut was a total miss for me, and at this point, all I can say about 50 Words is: gosh, I hope it's not all like this. (Wow. I had to wonder a bit, so I took a look, and this is the first mail I've sent out to ecto in over five years...) ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:15:20 -0400 From: "Stephen Bounds" Subject: at times I think I'm almost there Hi everyone - I'm new to the mailing list. Nice to be here :) A little about myself; Happy Rhodes' music was introduce do me in 1990 by a fan of hers in Media PA, who had her early releases on cassette. Ten years later I began working on some very intricate drawings when I found myself listening repeatedly to "Building The Colossus," which a co-worker had loaned to me at the time. Now, exactly ten years after that time, I'm checking out her work and her journals, in order to find some clues to resolving my own creative dilemmas. I'm glad she posted those entries on her site. Listening to her work and reading about her struggle has been helpful. A thought on Happy Rhodes' work: It took about 20 years for Happy's work to click with me, which it has recently done in a big way - it's like "a-ha! I get it!" I think my favorite song right now is "Phobos." It has a very captivating rhythm and a great sound. It's a tremendously good song. I hope someday I'll have the chance to see Happy perform live. Has she gone into retirement or is she working on new material? On a different note, I just listened to Kate bush's new single on her website, and I can understand some of the mild disappointment about her voice not being the prominent aspect of the song. I like the mood of it that the synthesizers create. Overall it sounds strangely beautiful. It takes a tremendous amount of energy to make an album's worth of music. I'm beginning to notice that I tend to appreciate certain songs more when I approach the age of the artist at the time they wrote it. This one might be one of them. Have a great week! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:44:49 -0600 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: New Kate single It's quite odd, but I think I like it. Reminds me of some of the more eccentric spoken word stuff by, like, Jane SIberry or Sophie B Hawkins. Or Vanessa Daou's whispery stuff. I just hope there is more, ya know, singing elsewhere on the album. ~ tim On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 10:38 PM, Neile Graham wrote: > I hope someone likes it. > > I don't just dislike it--I can't bear to listen to it. Kate! I loved > Aerial! This makes me very sad. > > I'm a little disappointed in the Bjork that I've been listening to on the > NPR album preview, though it does have wonderful moments (mostly the lyrics > put me off so I'm learning not to listen to them other than as sounds). > > Liking the new Feist a lot, and loving the new Beirut. > > --Neile ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:35:44 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: at times I think I'm almost there "Phobos" is one of my favorites too, my oldest Happy favorite--as soon as I saw your subject line I had to reply. I've always fixed on that metal-pipe-banging sound in the backgroundb& I gotta have more cowbell. On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Stephen Bounds wrote: > Hi everyone - I'm new to the mailing list. Nice to be here :) > > A little about myself; Happy Rhodes' music was introduce do me in 1990 by a > fan of hers in Media PA, who had her early releases on cassette. Ten years > later I began working on some very intricate drawings when I found myself > listening repeatedly to "Building The Colossus," which a co-worker had > loaned > to me at the time. Now, exactly ten years after that time, I'm checking out > her work and her journals, in order to find some clues to resolving my own > creative dilemmas. I'm glad she posted those entries on her site. Listening > to > her work and reading about her struggle has been helpful. > > A thought on Happy Rhodes' work: It took about 20 years for Happy's work to > click with me, which it has recently done in a big way - it's like "a-ha! I > get it!" I think my favorite song right now is "Phobos." It has a very > captivating rhythm and a great sound. It's a tremendously good song. > > I hope someday I'll have the chance to see Happy perform live. Has she gone > into retirement or is she working on new material? > > On a different note, I just listened to Kate bush's new single on her > website, > and I can understand some of the mild disappointment about her voice not > being > the prominent aspect of the song. I like the mood of it that the > synthesizers > create. Overall it sounds strangely beautiful. It takes a tremendous amount > of > energy to make an album's worth of music. I'm beginning to notice that I > tend > to appreciate certain songs more when I approach the age of the artist at > the > time they wrote it. This one might be one of them. > > Have a great week! ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #213 ***************************