From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V17 #202 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Saturday, July 25 2009 Volume 17 : Number 202 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Duets With Deni [John Liebler ] Very Cellular Evening: Music of The Incredible String Band [matt sewell <] Re: "Follow The Money" ["Nectar At Any Cost!" ] Re: Duets With Deni [Jeremy Osner ] Re: hitchcock sighting [2fs ] Re: "Follow The Money" [Christopher Gross ] Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #201 ["Bri N" ] Re: hot synths! [James Dignan ] Re: hot synths! [2fs ] Aerial Alphabet + (NR) [Steve Schiavo ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:26:46 -0400 From: John Liebler Subject: Duets With Deni Hi All, I'm de-lurking for a moment to point out this Youtube channel of videos of Deni Bonet playing with various guests including Robyn. I hadn't seen this mentioned here and it was pretty cool to stumble upon. Enjoy, John www.MeshAndBones.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:30:17 +0100 From: matt sewell Subject: Very Cellular Evening: Music of The Incredible String Band Went along to this, thanks (as all the best gigs I attend tend to be) thanks to Jim Davies, who sadly couldn't make it... It was amazing. Absolutely stunning evening - the musicians played together, sometimes all of them on the stage at once. Robyn and Richard Thompson's First Girl I loved was beautiful. Actually I think that Robyn seemed to be just slightly more into the whole thing than anyone else - looked genuinely stoked to be sharing a stage with Mike Heron and Clive Palmer and sang along to all the songs he was onstage for. I took some pics, which you can see even if you're not on facebook here - http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=272355&id=900955006&l=bd6c02ec33 Walking down to St Paul's tube station after the gig I found myself in an horrendous nightmare of concrete walls and flyovers and spotted a plaque "it was on this site that John Wesley felt his heart strangely warmed in 1738". I must say, it strangely warmed mine... Cheers Matt _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Messenger: Celebrate 10 amazing years with free winks and emoticons. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/157562755/direct/01/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:46:49 -0700 From: "Nectar At Any Cost!" Subject: Re: "Follow The Money" are umbrellas purchased by the tax-payers? do umbrellas benefit from a massive marketing scare-campaign (AKA the "news")? are umbrellas poisonous? anyway, even if you think it's all on the up-and-up, chris; surely you wouldn't argue that big pharm should *profit* from the so-called "pandemic"? it's just like "american century": take the profits out of war-making (that is to say, if the taxpayers are going to pay for the wars, they military contractors should be required to provide their hardware at-cost), and you've just put an end to war-making. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:40:32 -0400 From: Jeremy Osner Subject: Re: Duets With Deni Yep -- there's some great stuff on that channel. I asked Deni recently whether she is still producing those and she said yes, but has not got a chance to upload any new ones lately. Especially check out her stuff with Kimberley Rew, it is fantastic. On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 10:26 AM, John Liebler wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm de-lurking for a moment to point out this Youtube channel of videos of > Deni Bonet playing with various guests including Robyn. I hadn't seen this > mentioned here and it was pretty cool to stumble upon. > > Enjoy, > > John > > www.MeshAndBones.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:25:07 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: hitchcock sighting On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 7:51 AM, Dr John Halewood wrote: > Haven't seen anyone mention this yet (but then haven't been keeping up as > I've only just got out of hospital), but this is pretty good: > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gVzYlGFQTE > Robyn and Richard Thompson covering the Incredible String Band at the > Barbican in London last weekend. Likened by one person to 'Jesus and Buddha > sing God'. Whatever. Nice. No one's commented on the surrealist stage set...the four-foot-tall empty glass? Oh - just a trick of perspective: never mind. - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:36:11 -0400 (EDT) From: Christopher Gross Subject: Re: "Follow The Money" Umm, lest there be any doubt, my previous post was not intended to defend vaccine-makers' profits, something of very little interest to me. (Though unlike Eddie, I am not entirely opposed to profits in principle.) Rather, my two seconds worth of snark was carefully crafted to do two things: a.) defend the science of vaccination, and b.) deny that "pharmaceutical companies profit from vaccine sales, therefore fears about pandemic flu must have been ginned up by Big Pharma" is a valid deduction. - --Chris ______________________________________________________________________ Christopher Gross On the Internet, nobody knows I'm a dog. chrisg@gwu.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:00:47 -0700 From: "Bri N" Subject: Re: fegmaniax-digest V17 #201 Tris McCall. I knew that name sounded familiar. He played keyboard for Bid (of The Monochrome Set) when he played at the Knitting Factory in NYC, back in 2005. I recorded that show. Tris was playing a Nord, I think. He mentions some good ones. Marvin Gaye, Yes! Amazing stuff on In Our Lifetime. Anyone ever hear this funky album? - -Nuppy Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:41:18 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Fwd: hot synths! I didn't have much to say on the synth-player question, but I knew my friend Tris McCall (www.trismccall.net) would (because he has much to say on anything) - so here's his advice (he's a synth player himself). ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 12:13:02 +1200 From: James Dignan Subject: Re: hot synths! >> people think i'm joking. this is probably because while we now pretend to >> take them seriously as a classic pop band, nobody really rates duran duran. >> but nick rhodes was a master of texture. he showed what a powerful >> instrument the prophet 5 was, and how it could be used to change the whole >> attitude of a song. his band would be doing some sub-roxy music funk >> workout, and he'd add a little line and twist a few knobs, and suddenly it >> sounded like a mirage. the part on "save a prayer" isn't much: just a riff >> and a synthetic warble. but it makes the song a magic spell. even when >> duran duran went to hell, he was still doing innovative stuff with his >> synthesizers. once he switched over to fairlight, he was the most >> compelling fairlight player around. Definitely. Duran Duran are much hated (though I'd advise anyone who writes them off to compare the songs of a boyband circa 1985 with a boyband circa 2005 and see which one's the real tutaenui*) - but "Save a prayer" is a gem. The synth part is simple, but it does indeed weave a spell, especially towards the end of the song, whetre it deliberately styarts getting out of step with itself. The fade-out of that song adds several points to its overall score. >I think you've got to give Eno some love, at the very least for using the >synth as a sound treatment device. Also, the first Roxy record had some >outrageous sounds. I've heard it said- accurately- that Eno's musical instrument wasn't the keyboards, it was the studio. There's something far too holistic about Eno's music to tie it down to just synth. On another list, two names mentioned but not mentioned here (amazingly) are the two Stevies -Wonder and Winwood. Give 'em some loving. And no-one has mentioned either Jean-Michel Jarre or Kraftwerk, which I find a little odd. Also worthy of mention as far as I'm concerned - though it's far from his main instrument - is Pete Townshend. James *or, if you're in Aberdeen, pitt o'drie. Translates roughly as "big load of shit" - -- James Dignan, Dunedin, New Zealand -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.- =-.-=-.-=-.- You talk to me as if from a distance .-=-.-=-.-=-. -=-. And I reply with impressions chosen from another time .-=- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=- (Brian Eno - "By this River") -.-=-.-=-.-=-.-= ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:58:54 -0500 From: 2fs Subject: Re: hot synths! On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 7:13 PM, James Dignan wrote: > people think i'm joking. this is probably because while we now pretend to >>> take them seriously as a classic pop band, nobody really rates duran >>> duran. >>> but nick rhodes was a master of texture. he showed what a powerful >>> instrument the prophet 5 was, and how it could be used to change the >>> whole >>> attitude of a song. his band would be doing some sub-roxy music funk >>> workout, and he'd add a little line and twist a few knobs, and suddenly >>> it >>> sounded like a mirage. the part on "save a prayer" isn't much: just a >>> riff >>> and a synthetic warble. but it makes the song a magic spell. even when >>> duran duran went to hell, he was still doing innovative stuff with his >>> synthesizers. once he switched over to fairlight, he was the most >>> compelling fairlight player around. >>> >> > Definitely. Duran Duran are much hated (though I'd advise anyone who writes > them off to compare the songs of a boyband circa 1985 with a boyband circa > 2005 and see which one's the real tutaenui*) - but "Save a prayer" is a gem. > The synth part is simple, but it does indeed weave a spell, especially > towards the end of the song, whetre it deliberately styarts getting out of > step with itself. The fade-out of that song adds several points to its > overall score. Plus the vocal harmonies are pretty cool - that passing discord really is quite nice. > > > On another list, two names mentioned but not mentioned here (amazingly) are > the two Stevies -Wonder and Winwood. Give 'em some loving. And no-one has > mentioned either Jean-Michel Jarre or Kraftwerk, which I find a little odd. > > Also worthy of mention as far as I'm concerned - though it's far from his > main instrument - is Pete Townshend. Not sure if I forwarded those - but Wonder, Kraftwerk, and Townshend were all mentioned shortly afterwards among this same group of responses. Not sure if anyone else has mentioned Jarre or Winwood... - -- ...Jeff Norman The Architectural Dance Society http://spanghew.wordpress.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 16:54:36 -0500 From: Steve Schiavo Subject: Aerial Alphabet + (NR) Aerial Alphabet Miyazaki gushing - - Steve __________ I can't resist an anime that includes a small, cute, violence prone girl with a scythe. - John ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V17 #202 ********************************