From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #2413 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, November 26 2018 Volume 16 : Number 2413 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- late to the recommendation party [JoAnn Whetsell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2018 11:54:18 +0000 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: late to the recommendation party I've been happy to see the flurry of new activity here on ecto and people's posts about the list's importance to them. I've been on here since college, so that's about 20 years now. I definitely have a lot more music in my life that I wouldn't have otherwise, and I enjoy hearing about what's happening in the world of music. So I appreciate people's recommendations, even if it turns out to be stuff I don't ultimately connect to myself. There are a few things I've been meaning to post about, but the biggest and loveliest discovery has been Menke, which came from the Spotify Nordic Folk playlist (LOT of good stuff on there, much of it from non-Nordic countries). Menke is from Sweden. Her debut EP Till havet sets 8 poems by Swedish poet Karin Boye to music, and it's so incredibly beautiful and captivating it's taken me a while to post about it. Quiet, airy, often haunting. I love it and listen to it often. https://nordicbynatureberlin.com/introducing-menke/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HMAZ_QwZo0&vl=en [https://i.ytimg.com/vi/0HMAZ_QwZo0/hqdefault.jpg] Menke - Moln (Official Video) - YouTube 'Moln' is the first single by Swedish artist Menke. Stream or download Moln here: http://radi.al/Moln Lyrics: See the mighty clouds whose far high peaks proud ... www.youtube.com [https://nordicbynatureberlin.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/MENKE-290x290.jp g] Introducing: Menke Music is my therapy. Soundscape is a word often used with regards to musicians who manage to create, sonically, a separate immaterial world. nordicbynatureberlin.com I was very happily surprised to learn that My Brightest Diamond released a new album yesterday, A Million and One. Only one listen so far, but it seems strong and engaging. I've been enjoying St. Vincent's MassEducation (acoustic reworking of Masseduction). Thumbs up also for Marissa Nadler's For My Crimes. It's definitely less same-y than her previous albums, in a way that I can't quite finger. Worth a listen. Have not listened enough to Rosanne Cash's latest, She Remembers Everything. It seems solid, but doesn't grab me the way The River & the Thread did. Hopefully I'll connect to it more with more listens. The new Cat Power also deserves more listens, but I've liked what I've heard. JoAnn ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #2413 ****************************