From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #2713 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, February 19 2020 Volume 16 : Number 2713 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 ] Re: best of 2018 [Tim Jones-Yelvington ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:18:32 -0600 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: best of 2018 I liked this one a lot... the one that came before, in 2014, THIS IS MY HAND is still my favorite of hers, but this one was also good. I also wrote a reflection on my FB recently about the strange phenomenon of super-intellectual white women artists getting interested in dance music and its culture. ~Tim On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:31 AM Doug wrote: > I'm late to the party (as is my usual) but I just discovered My Brightest > Diamond's 2018 release A Million and One on Spotify. I'm not a huge fan of > hers, but this release might change that. Standouts for me are Another > Chance, White Noise, You Wanna See My Teeth, and Champagne, but the whole > release is great. And that cover art hits it out of the park for me. > She's so charismatic. > > I'll putting this one on loop for some time. > > --Doug > > On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 5:50 PM JoAnn Whetsell > wrote: > > > > > Honorable Mentions: > > My Brightest Diamond - A Million and One ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 11:19:46 -0600 From: Tim Jones-Yelvington Subject: Re: best of 2018 oh I meant to name names w/ the white women artists, lol. In addition to Shara, some of the others who have taken a strange outsider-observer-artist-anthropologist approach to dance music are Merrill Garbus of the tuneyards, Olga Bell, and Georgia. On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 11:18 AM Tim Jones-Yelvington wrote: > I liked this one a lot... the one that came before, in 2014, THIS IS MY > HAND is still my favorite of hers, but this one was also good. > > I also wrote a reflection on my FB recently about the strange phenomenon > of super-intellectual white women artists getting interested in dance music > and its culture. > > ~Tim > > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 9:31 AM Doug wrote: > >> I'm late to the party (as is my usual) but I just discovered My Brightest >> Diamond's 2018 release A Million and One on Spotify. I'm not a huge fan >> of >> hers, but this release might change that. Standouts for me are Another >> Chance, White Noise, You Wanna See My Teeth, and Champagne, but the whole >> release is great. And that cover art hits it out of the park for me. >> She's so charismatic. >> >> I'll putting this one on loop for some time. >> >> --Doug >> >> On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 5:50 PM JoAnn Whetsell >> wrote: >> >> > >> > Honorable Mentions: >> > My Brightest Diamond - A Million and One ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #2713 ****************************