From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #2444 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Friday, January 4 2019 Volume 16 : Number 2444 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Best of 2018 [Tim Jones-Yelvington ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 15:00:26 -0600 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: Best of 2018 thanks for the introduction to Minute Taker, this is great. ~Tim On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 9:40 AM Jeff Hanson wrote: > 2018 was an interesting year in musicb my listening habits have changed > quite > a bit to where I almost always listen to things on random and rarely > listen to > full albums. > > Despite that these are the albums that really made an impression this year > (in > no particular order) > > Brandi Carlisle b By the Way, I Forgive You > The LYNNeS (Lynn Miles and Lynne Hanson) b Heartbreak Song for the Radio > Kim Wilde b Here Come the Aliens > Holly Cole b Holly > Jann Arden b These are the Days > Frida Sundemo b Flashbacks and Futures > Happy Rhodes b Ectotrophia > Wendy Rule b Persephone (a little more experimental than her previous > albums) > Lisa Ekdahl b More of the Good > Sarah Brightman - Hymn > Minute Taker b Secret Songs b Volume 3 > Rhian Sheehan b A Quiet Divide > Judie Tzuke, Beverly Craven and Julia Fordham b Woman to Woman > Lisa Gerrard had three notable releases b one with The Mystery of the > Bulgarian Voices b BooCheemish, One with David Kuckhermann b Hiraeth, and > Dead Can Danceb s Dionysus b all worth listening to > > Minute Taker was probably one of the artists I listened to most this year. > His remix of Yazoob s Winter Kills is sublime, and I picked his cover album > released to fans as one of my favoritesb I got all his albums this year and > his original material has yet to make as much an impression as his coversb > I > like it all, but none of his original albums standout as clearly from the > rest. > > I also listened a lot to a local Santa Fe band called Half-a-Shipwreck. > Their > 2017 album > To Come Across It Left Me Haunted is available for b Name Your Priceb at > bandcamp. Highly recommend it, and if you see them live I highly encourage > it. Their covers include everything from Kate Bush to Janis Joplin to > Aimee > Mann to Melanie to Bruno Mars. Highly entertaining. They are working on a > covers album that Ib m looking forward to. > > Jeff Hanson ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #2444 ****************************