From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #672 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, January 30 2013 Volume 16 : Number 672 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Torres [jessica spurling ] Newstead music festival [Chris Boek ] Re: January listening [Paul Jensen ] Re: Torres [Karen Hester ] Re: January listening [Sue Trowbridge ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:02:25 -0800 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: Torres Thank you, I am loving this!!! Oddly, the first song I found "Honey", is my least favorite. I'm not sure if it'll grow on me or not... but the rest of it I am immediately liking quite a lot!! - -jessica On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 9:21 PM, Neile Graham wrote: > Truly great stuff--someone Pitchfork? describes her as a cross between PJ > Harvey and EMA. The album is available digitally but not physically yet. > > She's got a voice and she know how to use it. > > http://torrestorrestorres.com/ > > http://torrestorrestorres.bandcamp.com/ > > https://soundcloud.com/torres-23/honey > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdEHbL0yYiw > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxmm7LNqfg > > Check her out. I mean it. > > --Neile ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:21:37 +1100 From: Chris Boek Subject: Newstead music festival My family and I just came back from the Newstead music festival, where we heard some wonderful music from artists such as Rory McLeod, Nick Charles, James Fagan and Nancy Kerr, Jack Gramski (complete with weird mask), Siorse (s[p]ic), and many others. Highly recommended to the Victorians among us, or even those across the Murray. It's on every year at the Australia Day weekend. We camped up there for a couple of nights, and a lovely atmosphere it was. The kids are all inspired now about playing their guitars again, and even making up songs. Hopefully spme of the enthusiasm will stick! And a slightly belated happy 2013 to all ectophiles, great and small! Chris. Sent from my iPad ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 17:49:20 -0600 From: Paul Jensen Subject: Re: January listening We should really encourage monthly check-ins on Ecto. :) Biggest discovery of January for me: Ben Woods "This Digital Horizon" http://benwoods.bandcamp.com/album/this-digital-horizon An uncommonly good ambient album. I'm always on the lookout for calming instrumental albums... and trust me, it's rare to find a good one. But this guy has real talent. Gentle, hypnotic, soothing - even healing. Whenever I need to feel some peace, this album has done the trick. Another promising artist I'm getting familiar with is Gliss. I've been coming back to quite a few of their tracks. Probably classified as shoegaze, with some nice female vocals. Link to video "Weight of Love": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyxFTbaTJIQ Last, the new Sarah Brightman album "Dreamchaser" recently leaked. I don't think this is her best collection of songs ever (some tracks feel pretty lazy), but there are a few great moments, and it's certainly an easy album for me to recommend. Her cover of Cocteau Twins' "Eperdu" is heavenly, and the cover of Sigur Ros' "Glosoli" gives me just as many chills as the original. (I love that she didn't quiet down the chaotic climax of that track - rather, she seems to celebrate it.. it might even be noisier than the original!) Looking at the tracklisting, I asked "Do we really need another version of 'Ave Maria'?" After hearing what she's done, the answer is: yes. Yes we do. :) Paul On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Neile Graham wrote: > Ecto check in! What's everyone else is listening to these days? > > While I'm still enjoying my favourites of 2012 (and shocked none of the > rest of you had Smoke Fairies' Blood Speaks, Susanne Sundfor's The Silicone > Veil, Jesca Hoop's The House That Jack Built, The XX's Coexist, Stealing > Sheep's Into The Diamond Sun, _or_ Lemolo, The Kaleidoscope on your top of > the year lists--yes, this means that the ectoguide's best of 2012 list is > up, thanks to JoAnn: http://www.ectoguide.org/best/year2012) I am > listening to new things. > > Torres, of course > > Anna told me about Claire Diterzi's new one, Le Salon des refusees, and > while it looks difficult to get the physical CD right now, the download > appears to be widely available. It's fascinating, with a lot of viola da > gamba and early music soundings. > > Also got Alt-J's An Awesome Wave as a Christmas present (thank,s Tamar!) > and am loving its oddities. It would definitely have made my best of 2012 > list had I given it a chance before the end of the year. > > New in the house is the download of Reba Hasko's Kickstarter-funded third > album, Delicate Cyclone. I haven't listened to it enough to form an opinion > yet, but it's intriguing so far. > > Jesca Hoop's PledgeMusic project, The Complete Kismet Acoustic just > arrived in my door, too. > > That's it for me right now. > > --Neile ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 12:00:00 -0500 From: Karen Hester Subject: Re: Torres Now that's a stage name that's bad for the age of google! Torres123 instead, perhaps?! Thanks for the links. K > From: Neile Graham > Subject: Torres > > Truly great stuff--someone Pitchfork? describes her as a cross between PJ Harvey and EMA. The album is available digitally but not physically yet. > > She's got a voice and she know how to use it. > > http://torrestorrestorres.com/ > > http://torrestorrestorres.bandcamp.com/ > > https://soundcloud.com/torres-23/honey > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdEHbL0yYiw > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btxmm7LNqfg > > Check her out. I mean it. > > - --Neile > > ------------------------------ > > End of ecto-digest V16 #671 > *************************** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:46:39 -0800 From: Sue Trowbridge Subject: Re: January listening On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Paul Jensen wrote: > We should really encourage monthly check-ins on Ecto. :) I really like this song by Stuart Davis, a singer-songwriter-comic performer I had never heard of, but Neal is presenting a show by him in Albuquerque in a couple of months (I work on Neal's web site, so I get to check out music by all of the artists he has coming up!): http://youtu.be/WCvqPPFJsHg And if you are a fan of music from Mali, and have been following the grim situation there, be sure to check out Mali-Ko, by the all-star project Voices United for Mali. It's very powerful, especially when you read along with the subtitled lyrics: http://youtu.be/eUO66d8WvCY - --Sue ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #672 ***************************