From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #2258 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, May 3 2018 Volume 16 : Number 2258 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: 2018 so far [Tim Jones-Yelvington ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 2 May 2018 08:57:07 -0500 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: 2018 so far I didn't know that the Sarah Blasko existed ... thank youuu On Tue, May 1, 2018 at 8:51 PM, JoAnn Whetsell wrote: > Is Holly Cole's latest out in the states yet, or did you import it, Jeff? > I'm > a big fan and have been looking for it. > > Agree that Laura Veirs' The Lookout is quite lovely. Glad to see that it's > getting a lot of love here. > > I've been really enjoying Mary Chapin Carpenter's latest career > retrospective > Sometimes Just the Sky. Quiet new renditions of 10 songs from previous > albums > (one each) plus a new track. Intimate and beautiful. > > Juliana Hatfield's homage to Olivia Newton-John is quite fun. > > Not generally a fan of Meshell Ndegeocello, but her new album Ventriloquism > (covering 80s and 90s R&B) is really good. > > The EP Universal Love in which artists cover love songs switching pronouns > to > make the tracks same-sex love songs is good music and, for me, surprisingly > emotional. My favorite is St. Vincent's contribution. > > Glen Hansard's latest, Between Two Shores, took a while to "get," but I'm > glad > I stuck with it. > > Alela Diane's Cusp and Kate Nash's Yesterday Was Forever are both very > promising but haven't had enough listens. > > I really like the new Tune-Yards album, though haven't listened to it in a > while. I get what Tim's saying about the somewhat ham-fisted efforts to > talk > about race issues. But I feel like it doesn't pervade the whole album as > much > as reviews might lead people to believe. > > LOVE Brandi Carlisle's latest By the Way, I Forgive You. > > My favorite so far though is Sarah Blasko's excellent Depth of Field, which > I've been listening to for several months but haven't posted about because > "it's really good; I love it!" doesn't seem like a useful review. Offhand > I'd > say it's on the darker, electronic side of her work. > > I was very happy to see her last week at Rockwood Music Hall in NYC. She > played at least half of the new album, as well as songs from previous > albums, > all solo, in configurations from voice only to voice and piano, voice and > beats, voice and piano and beats, and voice and guitar. On one song she > played piano with her right hand and with her left hand played some sort of > electronic box on top of the piano that gave off a theremin-like sound. > Not a > lot of stage banter, but she seemed very amused by the enthusiasm and > attentiveness of the crowd, by most anything and everything really. It was > quite cute. I was disappointed that the live album had sold out the > previous > night, but happy for her. > > Looking forward to spending time with the new Tracey Thorn and Janelle > Monae, > as well as upcoming May releases. > > JoAnn ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #2258 ****************************