From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #394 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, April 11 2012 Volume 16 : Number 394 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Classical Listening [Adam Kimmel ] modern classical [Jason Gordon ] Damn Ugly [Doug ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 01:42:42 -0800 From: Adam Kimmel Subject: Classical Listening Dear All, Thanks to everyone who responded to my query regarding this, with so much helpful advice and some great pointers. Just before I went off on this classical tangent, I feel I should say, I had listened to okay-ish new albums by Mull Historical Society, Kathleen Edwards, Anais Mitchell (how do you follow "Hadestown"? You don't, really) and Beth Jeans Houghton. The latter I've been waiting for since hearing "Dodecahedron" last year on 6Music, and found it quirky, fun, but a bit more lightweight than I'd hoped. The one excellent album so far has been Shearwater's latest, "Animal Joy" which is brilliant and highly recommended. After that, I lost the contemporary plot a bit, but am still looking forward to Carina Round's "Tigermending", out in May, and still pray for albums of original material from my trinity of Thea, Jonatha and Patty Griffin, all last seen doing covers projects of some sort or another, with varying success. In the meantime, it looks like I have a lot to catch up with.... Thanks again, Adam K ____________________________________________________________ FREE 3D EARTH SCREENSAVER - Watch the Earth right on your desktop! Check it out at http://www.inbox.com/earth ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:10:07 -0400 From: Jason Gordon Subject: modern classical i've not had much interest in traditional classical, but i have been liking more and more of modern classical (sometimes bordering on ambient, sometimes leaning towards chamber folk). some recent favorites: Stars of the Lid - And Their Refinement of the Decline Slafur Arnalds - Living Room Songs Jshann Jshannsson - Virpulegu Forsetar Skzli Sverrisson - Serma Goldmund - The Malady of Elegance Gonzales - Solo Piano Dreamies - Auralgraphic Entertainment A Winged Victory for the Sullen - A Winged Victory for the Sullen Colleen - Les ondes silencieuses - -Jason np Jenny Hval - Viscera ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 20:40:46 -0400 From: Doug Subject: Damn Ugly Has anyone else discovered Damn Ugly Photography? This is a bit Ecto-related because it is also the home of the Song of the Day List, which often contains artists with a more or less higher than average ecto content. More, it's a great site too, with lots of visual and brain candy. http://damnuglyphotography.wordpress.com/ - --Doug ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #394 ***************************