From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #565 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Monday, October 1 2012 Volume 16 : Number 565 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Dana Falconberry [valrichardson@igc.org] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 19:40:39 -0400 (GMT-04:00) From: valrichardson@igc.org Subject: Dana Falconberry I've just had a musical "wow" half hour listening to Austin-based Dana Falconberry and her new album "LEELANAU," which is coming out on October 9. She's reminding me a lot of Joanna Newsom without the eccentric voice and Laura Veirs because a lot of her imagery comes out of the natural world. The production is very interesting with a lot of noise and percussion. Here's a bit of her bio from her website. Dana Falconberry suffuses the majesty of nature in the orchestral pop-folk she elegantly crafts in Leelanau, her inaugural release on Oakland, CAbs Antenna Farm Records. Citing influences ranging from the prints of artist Gwen Frostic, the books of Willa Cather, and the stark, childs-eye beauty of the Swedish film Let The Right One In, Falconberry finds lyrical inspiration in her idyllic childhood retreats to the Great Lakes Statebs Leelanau peninsula. The result is a set of eloquent verse reflecting upon the region to which she has returned almost every summer since she was born. bThere is this general feeling of nostalgia, but the album is also about the triumphs of being a kid - a celebration of running on the beach or in the woods,b Falconberry explains. - --Valerie ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #565 ***************************