From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #709 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, March 13 2013 Volume 16 : Number 709 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: February listening [Jason Gordon ] Re: February listening [Jason Gordon ] Re: Santigold [jessica spurling ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:27:58 -0400 From: Jason Gordon Subject: Re: February listening Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Ripley Pine. - Hot damn, this is good stuff. Big Mama Thornton - With the Muddy Waters Blues Band - 1966 - just a little late to the party getting into big Mama Thornton Hauschka & Hildur Gupnadsttir - Pan Tone - lovely modern classical - prepared piano + cello DVA - Fonsk - a little folktronica from the czech republic...they have done the video game score to a game called botanicula which is quite beautiful to play - a bit of a demo here: botanicula.net Holly Herndon - Movement - some interesting electronic/experimental compositions...the video for movement is amazing (www.youtube.com/watch?v=kanNN4RPrgY) - -jason On 3/10/13, Neile Graham wrote: > Sadly, I've been insanely busy. Listening is mostly on the car on the way to > work, but I'm still not tired of alt-J at all. In fact, An Awesome Wave > keeps getting better. Its playfulness and inventiveness are addictive. > > The Torres album is a great debut. About three-quarters of the album is > amazing--the rest is only very good. Sad, really (I joke). > > Also trying to get more time to listen to the new Sophie Hunger. More mellow > that her previous, but still intriguing. > > My playlist on random got me through days and nights of data entry, but of > course it was all the music, not just new obsessions. > > Cheers, all! > > --Neile ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:32:52 -0400 From: Jason Gordon Subject: Re: February listening [and i've been obsessing over the cocteau twins cover of the seminal billie holiday tune] http://www.youtube.com/v/1MNJqDY6PRE On 3/12/13, Jason Gordon wrote: > Lady Lamb the Beekeeper - Ripley Pine. - Hot damn, this is good stuff. > Big Mama Thornton - With the Muddy Waters Blues Band - 1966 - just a > little late to the party getting into big Mama Thornton > Hauschka & Hildur Gupnadsttir - Pan Tone - lovely modern classical - > prepared piano + cello > DVA - Fonsk - a little folktronica from the czech republic...they have > done the video game score to a game called botanicula which is quite > beautiful to play - a bit of a demo here: botanicula.net > Holly Herndon - Movement - some interesting electronic/experimental > compositions...the video for movement is amazing > (www.youtube.com/watch?v=kanNN4RPrgY) > > -jason > > > > On 3/10/13, Neile Graham wrote: >> Sadly, I've been insanely busy. Listening is mostly on the car on the way >> to >> work, but I'm still not tired of alt-J at all. In fact, An Awesome Wave >> keeps getting better. Its playfulness and inventiveness are addictive. >> >> The Torres album is a great debut. About three-quarters of the album is >> amazing--the rest is only very good. Sad, really (I joke). >> >> Also trying to get more time to listen to the new Sophie Hunger. More >> mellow >> that her previous, but still intriguing. >> >> My playlist on random got me through days and nights of data entry, but >> of >> course it was all the music, not just new obsessions. >> >> Cheers, all! >> >> --Neile ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:45:41 -0700 From: jessica spurling Subject: Re: Santigold I like Santigold pretty well, but rarely think to put them on, and don't generally think of them in the context of ecto. Thanks for the reminder, I'll give the newer stuff a listen. - -jessica On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Paul Blair wrote: > I'm surprised Santigold hasn't received more discussion on this list. I saw > her name come up in passing on Jason's "anticipated 2011 releases" mail but > other than that only on two off-list blog entries by Craig Gidney and > Raphael Schweikert. > > "L.E.S. Artistes" came on the sound system at a party I was attending the > other day and I thought it was some Cocteau Twins song I'd missed. I'm not > sure if the rest is of similar quality (Raphael seemed disappointed with > the recent album) but I've also enjoyed "Disparate Youth." ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #709 ***************************