From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #575 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Saturday, October 13 2012 Volume 16 : Number 575 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- veda in my dreams [JoAnn Whetsell ] new albums [JoAnn Whetsell ] Re: New here [Neile Graham ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:28:06 -0400 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: veda in my dreams Last night I dreamed I was playing some music and another person asked who the singer was. I said, "Veda Hille" and explained that she's a singer-songwriter and pianist from Vancouver. And the other person asked, "Who is it?" And I said, "Veda." And they said, "Who?" And it went on like this. I don't know what song was playing in the dream or who I was talking to. JoAnn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 09:48:49 -0400 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: new albums Martha Wainwright's newest is streaming on NPR: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/07/162301799/first-listen-martha-wainwright-come-h ome-to-mama?ps=mh_fl NPR also has a piece on Kaki King's new album: http://www.npr.org/2012/10/12/162582480/kaki-king-a-guitar-wizard-conjures-ne w-colors. It's back to instrumentals, but with other instruments added to her guitar. I've only had a chance to listen to it once, but it sounded excellent. NPR also has a video of a recent Tori Amos concert at Le poisson rouge: http://www.npr.org/event/music/161764543/npr-music-presents-tori-amos-in-conc ert. I actually like this concert better than her new album Gold Dust. Admittedly, I've not spent enough time with that album yet to really form a proper opinion, and perhaps it will grow on me. But I found myself not that interested, and I think it's because most of the songs she chose to redo with orchestra were already heavily - and memorably - orchestrated in their original studio album forms. So the new versions don't feel like they're really adding much. Many reviews are calling "Marianne" the standout, and I'd probably agree with that. I've been listening to David Byrne & St. Vincent's collaboration, Love This Giant, more lately and am really loving it now. I can hear some bits of her (compared to her first two albums) and some bits of him (compared to his Here Lives Love collaboration with Fatboy Slim and a bunch of mostly female artists) and actually a lot of Bjork. Especially in some of the horn arrangements. Though a lot of this is funkier. JoAnn ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2012 16:41:24 -0700 From: Neile Graham Subject: Re: New here Welcome, Raphael! Sorry about the encoding. I'm not sure there is anything the powers that be can do about that. In any case, there is wonderful music to be heard about here, and obvious there's a lot more here than we can keep up with on The Ectophiles' Guide. - --Neile FYI, Bat For Lashes fans, stereogum now has six songs up from her forthcoming The Haunted Man. A couple of them are amazing. http://stereogum.com/1173082/bat-for-lashes-a-wall-oh-yeah-winter-fields/mp3s They also have a new Sufjan track up: http://stereogum.com/1175262/sufjan-stevens-ding-a-ling-a-ring-a-ling/mp3s/ On Oct 12, 2012, at 4:09 AM, Raphael Schweikert wrote: > Hi Ectophiles, > > Ibve just subscribed to this mailing list after years and years of > pondering this decisionb& No really, joining a mailing list always > seemed to be like a big commitment that I was not sure I was ready to > make. > > Still, finally, Ibve found the courage to commit. This comes after > Ibve used the ectoguide hundreds of times to find new artists to love > (to read more about me finding artists, see > [http://www.last.fm/user/sabberworm/journal/2010/05/02/3lws6z_my_secret_of_artist_discocvery%E2%80%A6]). > > Ever since I can remember consciously listening to music, Ibve been > listening to the music of Kate Bush. Some friend of my motherbs sent > her a Kate mixtape when I was about five years old and I was hooked > immediately. The tape was quickly worn out and the strange distortion > on bMovingb that this caused still gives me chills even today and > sends me right back to this part of my childhood. > > Ibll be twenty-seven years old in a few days and Ibve yet to change my > opinion of any piece of music I ever liked: sometimes I do get tired > of some songs but I have never had to reverse my decision. I own a lot > of CDs and my digital music library clocks in at about 35 000 songs. > My real obsession with music started in 2001 when I first began > earning my own money. The first thing I did was try to complete my > Kate Bush collection. The tape I listened to as a child had gone > missing years ago and Ibd gifted away the one copy Ibd made, so I only > had a CD of bThe Whole Storyb that I bought myself with pocket money > some five years before. The first few CDs I bought did not contain any > tracks I already knew and I was both disappointed by that but also > surprised about how much more versatile than I thought this womanbs > work (pun intended) actually was; how much more there was to her than > my original mixtape (which, as I would learn later on, comprised > mostly of songs from Hound of Love and The Kick Inside). I was > especially fond of The Red Shoes. > > Fast forward some years and I, now knowing all of Katebs music, found > some references to Happy Rhodes on a site called bGaffawebb (which Ibm > sure all of you know). Incidentally, Ibve always liked the anachronism > of the Kate Bush and Happy Rhodes fansites, harkening back to my > initial experience with the world wide web in the mid-b90s. I was > lucky enough to be one of the last people to be able to order all of > Happybs albums from her web sitebs store in one swoop. When the > package arrived, I was incredibly thrilled and Happy Rhodes became one > of my most-played artists (as you can see on my last.fm profile > [http://www.last.fm/user/sabberworm]). > > So, what music do I like besides Kate and Happy? Well, mostly womenbs > voices, especially if they have got some ethereal quality to them > (just see my last.fm profile for further info). There are some male > voices I love, like the ones of Peter Gabriel, The Alan Parsons > Project, Supertramp, The Pines, Midlake, Patrick Wolf but theybre the > big exceptions. Ibve found that the voice makes the biggest difference > in whether or not to like a certain piece of music. I am not afraid to > like pop (or electronic) music, quite the opposite, actually: it does > take a long time for me to like music that is difficult to access. I > have yet to really bgetb the songs by some of the ectophile godesses > like Emily Bezar or Veda Hille. I have added Emilybs music to my > iTunes library in 2008/9 and I still have only about 10% (six songs) > rated even though Ibve listened to all of them at least several times. > > So much about me. Ibm looking forward to seeing what goes on on the > ecto mailing list. > > Raphael ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #575 ***************************