From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #353 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, March 4 2012 Volume 16 : Number 353 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Today's your birthday, friend... [Mike Matthews ] Thumpin' good time [Paul Blair ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 03:00:01 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Matthews Subject: Today's your birthday, friend... i*i*i*i*i*i i*i*i*i*i*i *************** *****HAPPY********* **************BIRTHDAY********* *************************************************** *************************************************************************** ********************* Marius Voina (no Email address) ********************* *************************************************************************** -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Marius Voina Mon March 03 1980 Pisces Peter Clark Thu March 04 1948 Pedestrian Tim Steele Fri March 08 1963 Pisces Matt Bittner Thu March 12 1964 Pisces kIrI Hargie Fri March 13 1970 Pisces Bob Dreano Thu March 13 1958 Pisces Randall K. Smith Sat March 15 1969 Pisces Jessica Skolnik March 16 Pisces Patrick M. Kingsley Sat March 17 1962 Yin/Yang Alan Sodoma Thu March 18 1965 LuckyLurker Daniel Wed March 18 1959 Wednesday's Child Kim Justice March 18 Pisces Barry Wong Thu March 19 1970 Merlin Graham Dombkins Fri March 19 1965 Pisces Ian Young Wed March 19 1969 Squiggol Jeff Wasilko Wed March 19 1969 Pisces Geoff Carre Sat March 20 1954 Pisces John Stewart Sat March 21 1970 Aries Bob Brown Thu March 22 1951 Ham Valerie Nozick Thu March 25 1971 Aries Tom Proven Sat March 27 1971 Eat at Joe's Jennifer Albert Wed March 30 1966 Aries (w/Cancer rising!:) Warpaint Mon April 01 1991 Brilliant! Michael Pearce Wed April 03 1946 Pegasus - -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2012 20:04:53 -0500 From: Paul Blair Subject: Thumpin' good time Greta Gertler and Adam Gold, aka The Universal Thump, have completed recording on their eponymous album and today held a listening party at BarbC(s in Beooklyn to hear the recorded tracks (18 of them!). Greta and Adam managed to enlist a throng of musicians for this project: a chorus including Alice Bierhorst, Noe Venable, and Clare Muldaur-Manchon (of Clare and the Reasons); Tanya Donnelly doing backing vocals elsewhere; a children's chorus; a string quartet; a bass clarinet (sax?) doing a duet with a bird; dueling tubas; a bassoon; a whirlytube; a theremin; and an invented instrument called a "chucky." Maybe Karen can remember more. Two of the tracks that appeared in an earlier installment aren't on the finished product: "Reckless" and "Martin's Big Night Out." About half the material played hadn't been released on Bandcamp yet. I for one am very happy with my Kickstarter investment. Plus, I got a lovely stuffed whale, nice snacks, and a slice of delicious flourless chocolate cake. And I also got to meet Clare and Olivier from Clare and the Reasons. ... speaking of whom, they've performed twice this week and are at Rockwood again tomorrow. They are performing material from a new album that will be released in May or June. Monday night's show didn't grab me too much, but Clare was recovering from having lost her voice and at times one could tell the songs needed a few more performances to come together. We'll see how it turns out. ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #353 ***************************