From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V2 #4 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Friday, January 4 2002 Volume 02 : Number 004 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] RE: sara lee ["Brett Milano" ] Re: [loud-fans] RE: sara lee ["Andrew Hamlin" ] Re: [loud-fans] RE: sara lee [mweber@library.berkeley.edu (Matthew Weber)] Re: [loud-fans] New Yorker's Favorites [Dana L Paoli ] [loud-fans] Magnet articles [Vivebonpop@aol.com] [loud-fans] you'll hate me for this ["Brett Milano" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 20:24:04 -0500 From: "Brett Milano" Subject: [loud-fans] RE: sara lee - --- zones that are too new to have names. Jon Pareles 1. Gigi: "Gigi" (Palm Pictures). Ejigayehu Shibabaw, or Gigi, is a songwriter from Ethiopia; her producer, Bill Laswell, is an old hand at international fusions. In songs about love and the country she left behind, Gigi's modal melodies and urgently questioning voice rise out of grooves that swirl jazz and funk into the complexities of Ethiopian pop, broadening the music without Americanizing it. 2. Califone: "Roomsound" (Perishable). Guitars slide and creak, drums rustle and thump, and voices calmly intone fragmentary images in Califone's mysterious songs. Rummaging through a dusty repository of roots Americana, the band assembles music that seems to sleepwalk its way to passages of casual beauty. 3. Phoenecia: "Brownout" (Schematic). There's usually a beat in Phoenecia's electronic music, but dancing isn't a priority. The momentum is more inward, conjuring underwater ripples or outer-space vastness with sounds that squelch and ping and echo. They add up to tracks that are often eerie and occasionally droll. 4. Henry Threadgill's Zooid: "Up Popped the Two Lips" (Pi). Leading what is probably the world's only ensemble of oud, tuba, cello, guitar, drums and his own alto saxophone and flute, Henry Threadgill writes meticulously constructed compositions that sound as if they're evolving their open- ended melodies on the spot. The music is transparent, If you like Sara Lee's playing, don't miss her stuff with RObert Fripp's League of Gentlemen-- The official studio LP was crapped up somewhat by Fripp's insertion of taped dialogue every which-way, but there is an after-the fact live disc that's killer. Latly she seems to be playing exclusively in women-led bands, mainly Ani DiFranco but I believe she'll be in the studio next week to make the new Melissa Ferrick record. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:21:09 -0800 From: "Andrew Hamlin" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RE: sara lee >If you like Sara Lee's playing, don't miss her stuff with RObert Fripp's >League of Gentlemen-- The official studio LP was crapped up somewhat by >Fripp's insertion of taped dialogue every which-way, but there is an >after-the fact live disc that's killer. Latly she seems to be playing >exclusively in women-led bands, mainly Ani DiFranco but I believe she'll be >in the studio next week to make the new Melissa Ferrick record. Pop quiz (okay, this one's easy): the League of Gentlemen also included a fellow who would go on to co-found Shriekback--a band which also included Dave Allen, whose Gang of Four replacement Ms. Lee became. Name the League of Gentlemen fellow in question, and for extra credit, name the band he was in before the League of Gentlemen. Now if Gang of Four had stuck with Busta "Cherry" Jones... Andy "Modern equalitarian societies whether democratic or authoritarian in their political forms, always base themselves on the claim that they are making life happier. Happiness thus becomes the chief political issue -- in a sense, the only political issue -- and for that reason it can never be treated as an issue at all." - --Robert Warshow ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 18:25:37 -0800 (PST) From: mweber@library.berkeley.edu (Matthew Weber) Subject: Re: [loud-fans] RE: sara lee At 6:21 PM 1/3/2, Andrew Hamlin wrote: > >Pop quiz (okay, this one's easy): the League of Gentlemen also included a >fellow who would go on to co-found Shriekback--a band which also included >Dave Allen, whose Gang of Four replacement Ms. Lee became. Name the League >of Gentlemen fellow in question, and for extra credit, name the band he was >in before the League of Gentlemen. Duh! Barry Andrews, formerly of XTC. Matt The whole history of progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its waters. Frederick Douglass ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 22:02:24 -0500 From: Dana L Paoli Subject: Re: [loud-fans] New Yorker's Favorites >Maybe the real purpose of this post is just to invite Dana to rant >against >The New Yorker again. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Nah, their list doesn't strike me as any worse than anyone else's. Regarding the Langley Schools Music Project, though: it's a great idea, and it's fun to hear one track at a time (ideal for mix tapes) but the recording quality is so horrible that it's really hard to take in large doses, and it's not nearly as clever as the quotes on the packaging would lead you to believe. I'm sure that there are DJ's at WFMU who'll be thrilled to see this selection, but I'd suggest that those with limited budgets think long and hard (as I probably should have) about how many times they're really going to want to hear a chorus of Canadian children singing "Good Vibrations" into a pair of SM57's. It is great for mix tapes, though. - --dana ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:13:19 EST From: Vivebonpop@aol.com Subject: [loud-fans] Magnet articles The latest Magnet has some in-depth feature articles on Spiritualized, Sparklehorse, and Beulah this issue. I love this mag. When you join, they send you a free CD from a list of really good stuff to choose from. Currently they have the following: Joe Strummer And The Mescaleros, David Byrne, Beulah, Trembling Blue Stars, Appleseed Cast, Ryan Adams (whose latest album cover with the inverted flag couldn't have come at a worse time for him I imagine) Beachwood Sparks, Four Tet, Oneida, and Love As Laughter, and when your subscription runs out they send you a letter telling you your next issue will be your last, along with a hand-stamped envelope offering you a renewal for 15 bucks for a year. Pretty fab gear. How they make a profit, I do not know, but they apparently do. My only complaint about Magnet is that apparently it isn't vogue to have people smiling in their magazine, as everyone looks like their dog committed suicide, ("Tell Joe Stummer we'll have to do a re-shoot. He looks a bit too happy.") and if there is smiling, it is typically the fake kind full o' irony, like a smartassed teenager, but that's just the mores of our times, I suppose. Mark from aol welcome page: NSYNC falls off charts! NOT TRUE! but will they? (one can only hope) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2002 23:50:11 -0500 From: "Brett Milano" Subject: [loud-fans] you'll hate me for this Folks, I don't usually have reason to go on this list and brag about anything, but I have to get this off my chest: I saw Mission of fucking Burma rehearse tonight. Amazing how a band can still change your life after all this time... ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V2 #4 *****************************