From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #891 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Thursday, September 26 2013 Volume 16 : Number 891 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Julia Holter, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9/24/13 [Tim Jones-Yelvingt] Re: Julia Holter, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9/24/13 [Paul Blair Subject: Re: Julia Holter, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9/24/13 I saw her last weekend here in Chicago, so good. I think what I love best abt her work is that altho is has that hushed and mellow quality, it is as you describe always juxtaposed with a lot of more aggressive and climactic moments, it's I honestly had no idea how she was going to play songs from LOUD CITY SONG out of context/order because to me that album is such a coherent song cycle, but it worked. Everyone in my life that I share her with, including the friend I brought on Saturday, keeps accusing it of being stoner music, and I'm like STOP, how could you play with that much precision stoned. ~tim On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Paul Blair wrote: > Just came back from seeing Julia Holter perform in Brooklyn. Wow! Thanks to all for talking her up. > > Lineup: Julia on keyboard and vocal, Danny Meyer on sax, Cory Fogel on drums and backing vocal, Chris Vosek on cello, and Andrew Tholl on violin. > > It reminded me of Shara Worden's musical universe, minus the flamboyant stage performance. The music is meticulously crafted. (At one point, when the strings needed to stop to tune, she remarked, "Sometimes the air does things to the instruments. Then we have a micro-tonal performance.") Julia's voice is strong and her style is distinctive. > > Toward the end of the performance they reached a cacophonous crescendo, with the strings sawing away as hard as they could, and as much feedback, distortion, and piercing sounds as any headbanger could want. But generally the tone was a lot more mellow. > > After the show everyone ahead of me in line was buying vinyl--at least three albums that I saw. I think Julia probably appeals to audiophiles. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 22:35:10 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: Julia Holter, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9/24/13 This made me laugh--last night was the first night in a long time that I noticed wafts of that familiar skunky smell in an indoor venue... > On Sep 25, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Tim Jones-Yelvington wrote: > > I saw her last weekend here in Chicago, so good. > > I think what I love best abt her work is that altho is has that hushed > and mellow quality, it is as you describe always juxtaposed with a lot > of more aggressive and climactic moments, it's > > I honestly had no idea how she was going to play songs from LOUD CITY > SONG out of context/order because to me that album is such a coherent > song cycle, but it worked. > > Everyone in my life that I share her with, including the friend I > brought on Saturday, keeps accusing it of being stoner music, and I'm > like STOP, how could you play with that much precision stoned. > > ~tim > >> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Paul Blair wrote: >> Just came back from seeing Julia Holter perform in Brooklyn. Wow! Thanks to all for talking her up. >> >> Lineup: Julia on keyboard and vocal, Danny Meyer on sax, Cory Fogel on drums and backing vocal, Chris Vosek on cello, and Andrew Tholl on violin. >> >> It reminded me of Shara Worden's musical universe, minus the flamboyant stage performance. The music is meticulously crafted. (At one point, when the strings needed to stop to tune, she remarked, "Sometimes the air does things to the instruments. Then we have a micro-tonal performance.") Julia's voice is strong and her style is distinctive. >> >> Toward the end of the performance they reached a cacophonous crescendo, with the strings sawing away as hard as they could, and as much feedback, distortion, and piercing sounds as any headbanger could want. But generally the tone was a lot more mellow. >> >> After the show everyone ahead of me in line was buying vinyl--at least three albums that I saw. I think Julia probably appeals to audiophiles. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 23:54:53 -0400 From: Robert Lovejoy Subject: Re: Julia Holter, Music Hall of Williamsburg, 9/24/13 Tim, as a musician and as a long time user of Ogdens' Nut Flake, I am surprised by this statement. The herb is infamous in musicians' circles (Kansas has been for quite a bit of time), and is widely considered as a substance that provides a modest but pleasant alteration of consciousness that gives the user a different perspective on whatever he or she may be doing. It's not so much that it aids creativity, but helps the musician to see alternative phrases and note selections quickly. It has no effect whatsoever on manual dexterity or precision. Please respect the herb. It was likely a part of the inspiration for the musical figures played with such precision. Yours in space (but I'd rather be in Colorado or Washington State...), Uncle Ecto Tim Jones-Yelvington wrote: > >Everyone in my life that I share her with, including the friend I >brought on Saturday, keeps accusing it of being stoner music, and I'm >like STOP, how could you play with that much precision stoned. > >~tim - -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Not that it matters... ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #891 ***************************