From: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org (JMDL Digest) To: joni-digest@smoe.org Subject: JMDL Digest V2011 #46 Reply-To: joni@smoe.org Sender: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-joni-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk Unsubscribe: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe Website: http://jmdl.com JMDL Digest Sunday, February 13 2011 Volume 2011 : Number 046 ========== TOPICS and authors in this Digest: -------- Re: James Blake [T Peckham ] Re: James Blake NJC [Bob Muller ] Facebook Group ["Mark" ] Carole King's "Tapestry", njc [Jim ] Joni in Pictures [Lindsay Moon ] Re: Carole King's "Tapestry", njc [Gerald Notaro ] Re: Joni in Pictures [shadows and light ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 02:04:17 -0600 From: T Peckham Subject: Re: James Blake This from allmusic.com's Styles: Dubstep "A London-centric offshoot of U.K. garage that absorbed and transfigured elements of drum'n'bass, techno, and dub, dubstep germinated in the Forward>> club night. Initially held in a Soho venue, Forward>> later extended its reach through a show hosted by Kode9 on the pirate radio station Rinse FM. Like all forms of underground dance music, dubstep was a single-oriented form -- dispersed on labels like Tempa, Tectonic, Hessle Audio, Immerse, and Kode9's Hyperdub -- and its tense, almost oppressively dark sound was built on tightly coiled productions with overwhelming bass lines and reverberant drum patterns, clipped samples, and occasional vocals (which ranged from toasting, to MC'ing, to "proper" R&B-oriented singing). Artists like Burial, Pinch, Benga, and Martyn (a Dutch producer who transitioned from drum'n'bass) thrived with the full-length format, often by emphasizing the haunting ambience that was almost always present within dubstep's harder hitting tracks, in turn making albums geared toward late night home listening. Releases like Burial's Untrue (2007) and the mix albums series Dubstep All-Stars did not quite bring dubstep to the mainstream, but they gained significant critical notoriety and made the style far more accessible to those not located in and around its epicenter." Oh, well, of course--I knew that! Lieve, given the fact that you're in London, I'm hoping YOU can explain it to ME--ha ha! I do like his live-on-the-BBC with-just-a-piano version of "A Case of You." The rest of this crappola, not so much. He's known first and foremost, from what I can tell, as a producer. Pardon me, my Old Fogey is showing . . . :-P http://youtu.be/7ny8AmxqTV8 He's only 21. Maybe if he starts writing more of his own songs and playing actual instruments instead of electronically manipulating the work of others, I'll have another listen. For now tho, I'm moving on. Terra On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Lieve Reckers wrote: > > > And a question: would anybody care to explain what dubstep is, please? > Thanks, > Lieve > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Gerald Notaro > To: Paul Castle > Cc: joni@smoe.org; Bob.Muller@fluor.com > Sent: Thu, 10 February, 2011 19:00:48 > Subject: Re: James Blake > > He sounds very much like Antony Haggerty of Antony and the Johnsons. > Very individualistic style. > > Jerry > > > On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Paul Castle >wrote: > > > In the last week seems like everywhere I > > surf on the net someone is raving about > > James Blake - "the 21-year-old British > > dubstep-minimalist artist who has just > > released his self-titled debut album". > > > > Must admit that I dipped in and dipped out > > again, just not in the mood - until, that is, > > today, when I discovered this site - > > > > http://bit.ly/hY95S6 > > > > > Having received almost universally positive > > > reviews on release of his self-titled debut > > > album last Friday, James Blake hit the BBC > > > Radio 1 studio yesterday and took on an > > > unlikely cover for Zane Lowe. > > > > > The minimalist dub-soul experimentalist let > > > his folk influences out with a stark rendition > > > of Joni Mitchell's 'A Case Of You', which Lowe > > > described as "amazing" after the performance. > > > > > Blake recently explained his love for Joni to > > > The Scotsman. "Joni Mitchell's album 'Blue' totally > > > destroyed me and then built me back up again. > > > Second year at uni, I listened to it every day for > > > six months. Every diary entry would have read, > > > 'Got up, made toast, put on Blue.' But it was > > > music that always stayed in my room - I never > > > listened to it outside. Actually, come to think of > > > it, I never went outside much that year." > > > > You can download his version of 'Case of You' at > > http://soundcloud.com/blurasis/james-blake-a-case-of-you-bbc > > and hear his own songs from his debut album at > > http://jamesblakemusic.com/ > > > > best to all > > PaulC > > > > NP Sandy Denny - By The Time It Gets Dark > > http://blip.fm/~11nzxp > - -- "An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing." - ---Louise Bourgeois ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 07:14:28 -0800 (PST) From: Bob Muller Subject: Re: James Blake NJC I'm with you Terra - I listened to his new album that's getting all the raves yesterday and turned my nose up at it, at least the half of it I could stand before I had to move on. Just not my style. Bob NP: Wanda Jackson, "Busted" ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:17:59 -0800 From: "Mark" Subject: Facebook Group Apparently there are a couple of people who left the JMDL Facebook group and now want to be a part of it again. However, whenever I try to add them to the group, I get the message that '_____ has left this Group'. I don't know how to bring them back on board. If anyone out there has any answer to my latest Facebook group conundrum, would you please email me and tell me what I need to do to get these people back in the JMDL Group? Thanks and sorry for the lack of the njc tag but I wanted everyone to see this. Mark in Seattle ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:28:03 -0500 From: Jim Subject: Carole King's "Tapestry", njc I found a clean LP copy of Carole King's "Tapestry" today. Does anyone know about her? I always wonder why a nice Jewish girl from New York City had so many gospel touches on her record. She's got songs about a promise land (Way Over Yonder), girl-group-like background singers, little keyboard figures from Church etc, etc. Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 18:31:29 -0800 From: Lindsay Moon Subject: Joni in Pictures I saw briefly about a photo of Joni by Annie and it was mentioned she was up against a tree in her back yard. I thought that photo was by Herb Ritts (black & white). If you go to Vanity Fair, there's a video including a brief shot of Joni when Annie did a spread on whatever happened to the folksingers with Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter Paul & Mary, James Taylor, Arlo Guthrie, etc. Joni is photographed on a bed smoking. Lindsay ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 22:50:16 -0500 From: Gerald Notaro Subject: Re: Carole King's "Tapestry", njc Hi Jim. The link between Jewish music and African American music has a long tradition going way back to even before Irving Berlin, Al Jolson, George Gershwin, and many others. There is a link in the suffering and oppression as well as the dissonance in traditional Jewish music and Yiddish music and Blues and Jazz. Because both groups were oppressed the ended up with uneasy cultural alliances, living near each other, usually in the poorer neighborhoods. In my own hometown of Buffalo, NY Harold Arlen was born Hyman Arluck, the son of a cantor, in a poor neighborhood just blocks from where most of the Black population lived. He spent his youth sneaking into the nearby Black bars and juke joints where music was loud, fun, and well enjoyed, unlike conservative and orthodox Jewish homes. He went on, like many Tin Pan Alley composers to write heavily influenced by the free style and spirit of the music they heard. That tradition carried well into the Brill building years, from which Carole rose. They included the composers of much of the Black Singing groups of the 50's and 60's, composers like Ellie Green and Stoller and Leiber, whose friendship actually began because of their love of jazz and rhythm and blues. Jerry Leiber's mother ran a grocery store in a neighborhood of Baltimore, and was always more comfortable with Black culture. So Carole's influences are not as strange or remote as they may seem. Jerry On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Jim wrote: > I found a clean LP copy of Carole King's "Tapestry" today. Does anyone > know about her? I always wonder why a nice Jewish girl from New York City > had so many gospel touches on her record. She's got songs about a promise > land (Way Over Yonder), girl-group-like background singers, little keyboard > figures from Church etc, etc. > > Jim L'Hommedieu ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:05:00 -0800 From: shadows and light Subject: Re: Joni in Pictures i think that was at the chateau marmont. i'm pretty sure herb ritts did the backyard shoot. lesli On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Lindsay Moon wrote: > I saw briefly about a photo of Joni by Annie and it was mentioned she was > up against a tree in her back yard. I thought that photo was by Herb Ritts > (black & white). If you go to Vanity Fair, there's a video including a > brief shot of Joni when Annie did a spread on whatever happened to the > folksingers with Joan Baez, Judy Collins, Peter Paul & Mary, James Taylor, > Arlo Guthrie, etc. Joni is photographed on a bed smoking. > > Lindsay ------------------------------ End of JMDL Digest V2011 #46 **************************** ------- To post messages to the list, send to joni@smoe.org. Unsubscribe by clicking here: mailto:joni-digest-request@smoe.org?body=unsubscribe -------