From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V2 #78 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Saturday, April 24 1999 Volume 02 : Number 078 Today's Subjects: ----------------- malka/oracle [paul.rabjohn@tunnplat.ssab.se] Re: malka/oracle [Wireviews ] Re: idealcopy-digest V2 #77 ["charles" ] Re: malka/oracle [Aaron Mandel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 12:20:11 +0100 From: paul.rabjohn@tunnplat.ssab.se Subject: malka/oracle well i splashed out on some swim stuff mail order out of curiosity. having bought the colin/malka live cd and really enjoyed it i thought i'd better check out the hide and my pet fish cd's. also i succumbed and bought the oracle "tree" album. my pet fish is pretty impressive. i bought rosh ballatta and i thought it was ok but a bit unengaging/samey. my pet fish is a big improvement , musically similar to "bastard" in places but lots of vocals and more variety. best is the closer "its odd" , i do like a well struck guitar. hide surprised me , i thought as it was really an expanded single then it might be more "poppy" , but not at all.its very much instrumental drum n bass with few vocals. interesting but not exactly essential. oracle was recorded 88-93 but it must have been well ahead of its time back then , still sounds really fresh and innovative. quite laid back and with a bit of that minimal "world musicky" feel.good stuff. as a question , the only minimal lp i've got is raging souls. anyone got any comments on the rest of their output (i guess there were 2 or 3 more albums) and how it stands up in comparison? also , what happened to the rest of the band?p to swim and to swim and to swim and to swim and to swim and to swim ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 03:37:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Wireviews Subject: Re: malka/oracle - --- paul.rabjohn@tunnplat.ssab.se wrote: > what > happened to the rest of [Minimal Compact]?p > De-facto from the Malka Spigel biography at http://kleber.net/swim/artists/malka.html: " Malka first gained prominence as a founder member and bassist of Minimal Compact the Israeli/Dutch group based in Amsterdam and Brussels in the '80s. ... The group disbanded in 1989 with guitarists Rami Fortis and Berry Sakharov returning to Israel to pursue solo careers, Malka and singer Samy Birnbach stayed on in Brussels with drummer Max Franken returning to his native Amsterdam. " Samy also works as DJ Morpheus. _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:38:59 -0700 From: "charles" Subject: Re: idealcopy-digest V2 #77 Wow! Craig - Great - I can't stress that enough - looking site. I had no problems with any of the html, though some of the album images looked better than others. congrats! charles / wmo >Wireviews has just received a major update. New stuff >includes a major interface overhaul, a bunch of new >reviews (including the bulk of the Swim~ catalogue), >over 40 rewritten reviews, a new video page, and a ton >of dugga. >If odd things start happening then please let me know, >although the site has been tested on 2 PCs and a Mac >without making them or the users explode. > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:39:33 -0400 (EDT) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: malka/oracle On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 paul.rabjohn@tunnplat.ssab.se wrote: > my pet fish is pretty impressive. i bought rosh ballatta and i thought > it was ok but a bit unengaging/samey. my pet fish is a big improvement > , musically similar to "bastard" in places but lots of vocals and more > variety. best is the closer "its odd" , i do like a well struck > guitar. you know, i didn't like Rosh B'allata or Bastard much, but a combination of them does sound intriguing. it's just that the last three or four Wire-related purchases i've made were so disappointing... if it weren't for that i'd also already have the P'o record, which i've been sold on by the samples WMO put up. well done! a ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V2 #78 ******************************