From: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org (navy-soup-digest) To: navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Subject: navy-soup-digest V2 #127 Reply-To: navy-soup@smoe.org Sender: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-navy-soup-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk navy-soup-digest Wednesday, September 29 1999 Volume 02 : Number 127 In This Digest: ----------------- BST/NSC: The summer ends and we wonder where we are... [Bloo ] Re: Sarah on Refuge CD [what@ican.net (What? Management)] Re: [James McGarry ] Veda Hille in Toronto [Michael Curry ] Fwd: New Ani Record!!!! [Bloo ] Re: Veda Hille in Toronto [Steve I ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 23:57:55 -0700 From: Bloo Subject: BST/NSC: The summer ends and we wonder where we are... I was listening to Dar last Wednesday, which seemed appropriate considering the day. The sun was shining, it was in the low 80's... perfect. I transcribed some of the best lyrics, and that evening I went outside and watched the sun burn the sky smoky orange behind Eliot Bay. I hadn't posted this yet... Guess I have been "pushing myself ahead". Hmmmm. Welcome to autumn my lovelies. The last summer in the 1000's years is over. It was magical and incredible for me. For others and elsewhere around the world it was otherwise. This ironic and lucky (for me) dichotomy is not lost on me. Thank you to all who made it special. - ---------------------------------- The summer ends and we wonder where we are... Its just that time of year when we push ourselves ahead. The same things look different, its the end of the summer. The end of the summer... when you hang your flowers up to dry. There are just some moments when your family makes sense... they just make sense... I passed the farms that made it through the last days of the century...[1] The colors are much brighter now, its like they really want to tell the truth give our testimony to the end of the summer. You can spin the light to gold. - -Brian (The flowers are pressed, the cold seeps in from all sides) [1] Total aside: I saw a report about how devasting the Southeast floods have been for some farmers, and how some will not try and farm again after their total losses. Seems a poignant reminder of painful endings in light of what is otherwise just a line in a song which evokes a melancholy imagery. - -- Brian Wilson -----------------------"Those aren't Sex muffins! -Coach bloo@blooberry.com ------------------Those aren't Love muffins! http://www.blooberry.com/ -----------Those are just BLOOberry muffins!" Creator of Index DOT Html/Css: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 11:51:58 -0400 From: what@ican.net (What? Management) Subject: [none] Hi there Navy Soupers... If anyone is interested in getting a copy of this album (which isn't available in many places at all), please feel free to drop me a note and a cheque/money order for $18.00 (in the Canadian funds if you're in Canada, in US funds if you're not) payable to "Todor Kobakov" and I'll gleefully send you a copy. Heck - for you folks, let's just make it an even $16. As was talked about on "Navy Soup" last week, there are two tracks containing vocals by Sarah, and another two containing vocals by Sjanie McInnis, Sarah's harmony vocalist. Best, Heather What? Management 67 Mowat Avenue Suite 137 Toronto, Ontario Canada M6K 3E3 (Please don't send mail for Sarah Slean to this address. Please use her P.O. box instead - thanks.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 09:02:19 -0700 From: Bloo Subject: Re: Reading between the lines, I think she is referring to the cool disc by Spine. 8-} FYI, - -Brian What? Management wrote: > > If anyone is interested in getting a copy of this album (which isn't > available in many places at all), please feel free to drop me a note and a > cheque/money order for $18.00 (in the Canadian funds if you're in Canada, > in US funds if you're not) payable to "Todor Kobakov" and I'll gleefully > send you a copy. Heck - for you folks, let's just make it an even $16. > As was talked about on "Navy Soup" last week, there are two tracks > containing vocals by Sarah, and another two containing vocals by Sjanie > McInnis, Sarah's harmony vocalist. > > Best, > Heather > > What? Management > 67 Mowat Avenue > Suite 137 > Toronto, Ontario > Canada > M6K 3E3 > > (Please don't send mail for Sarah Slean to this address. Please use her > P.O. box instead - thanks.) - -- Brian Wilson -----------------------"Those aren't Sex muffins! -Coach bloo@blooberry.com ------------------Those aren't Love muffins! http://www.blooberry.com/ -----------Those are just BLOOberry muffins!" Creator of Index DOT Html/Css: http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 12:58:16 -0400 From: what@ican.net (What? Management) Subject: Re: Sarah on Refuge CD Hi there Navy Soupers... >>Since it's already pazt the Sept.21 release date, anyone have any idea if >>this is available yet? Better not be one of the U.S. only deals :-( > >It might be, forgot to ask Heather about it. Heather, if you're reading, >maybe you could enlighten us? Well, I'm quite certain you're all already enlightened, but I'll see what I can do: The CD is indeed for release in the U.S. only, but I have requested they send a box up to this office so we can distribute to "Sarah's folks". They have not yet arrived, but I will let you know when they have. I'm unsure as to the cost of them and any other useful details, but I'll keep y'all posted as I know more. Great joy and glee, Heather. What? Management ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 13:11:05 -0400 (EDT) From: James McGarry Subject: Re: On Tue, 28 Sep 1999, Bloo saavily observes: > Reading between the lines, I think she is referring to the cool > disc by Spine. 8-} She is indeed, Todor Kobakov is indeed Spine. Its cool stuff, I actually quite like it. Its uniquely original electronica... James. ========================================================================== James McGarry | jmcgarry@UoGuelph.CA - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- An artist should be fit for the best society and keep out of it. - - John Ruskin ========================================================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:14:00 -0400 From: Michael Curry Subject: Veda Hille in Toronto Given the large number of people on navy-soup who apparently live in the Toronto area, and the fact that other musical events of note seem to get mentioned on the list, I thought I'd take the opportunity to strongly recommend that those without other plans on October 2nd not miss the opportunity to catch the amazing Veda Hille (with the Skilled & Devoted Band) at Oasis. She's absolutely brilliant. Mike ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 16:27:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Bloo Subject: Fwd: New Ani Record!!!! This is what caught my eye and makes it of glancing Soup interest: "There's no question that even longtime Ani aficionados will find still more stunning surprises here, starting with the range of instruments: Toronto noisemaker Kurt Swinghammer provides more (and wilder) electric guitar than anyone has ever heard on a DiFranco disc;" - -Brian - ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1999 19:02:14 -0500 Subject: New Ani Record!!!! Album release date: November 16, 1999. Ani Difranco Explores A World Armed To The Teeth On Her Latest Album "Punk and folk are the terms that usually precede DiFranco's name, but this girl's got soul." - -The Boston Globe It's never been a secret that Ani DiFranco is a dizzyingly prolific songwriter. After all, we're talking about a musician with more than a hundred songs under her belt by the time she reached her twentieth birthday-and that was fourteen records ago. With brazen disregard for music industry convention, the Little Folksinger now releases her third album of 1999 alone. Hot on the high heels of Up Up Up Up Up Up and Fellow Workers (the latter a collaboration with Utah Phillips), To The Teeth sends 13 brand-new tunes into orbit, carried aloft by Ani's trademark combo of political and personal insight, vocal fireworks, high-velocity fingerwork, and funkalicious grooves. Ani plays lots o' instruments here, including guitars of every stripe, of course, but also bass, drums, piano, organ, even megaphone and banjo. And she's joined by trusty bandmates Julie Wolf on keyboards and backing vocals, Jason Mercer on bass, and Daren Hahn on drums. Ani herself is the first to admit that To The Teeth is different from any of her previous albums, "in the sense that it spans a year of various recording situations; it brings together a bunch of different studio settings for me." The tracks here range from solo inventions recorded at The Dust Bowl, Ani's new home studio apparatus, such as "I Know This Bar," to full band recordings like "Wish I May" and "Back Back Back," made in New Orleans with Julie, Daren, and Jason. While several of the songs were written and first performed during the summer '99 "F-Word Tour," plenty of them have not yet been heard by anyone, anywhere. "For me one of the most exciting things was having a couple of my musical heroes on the record," Ani says. Sure enough, legendary James Brown/George Clinton sideman (and "F-Word Tour" special guest) Maceo Parker is on hand on tenor sax and flute, plus another feller whose name might ring a bell: The Artist Formerly Known as Prince, who, in DiFranco's words, "sang the shit out of 'Providence.'" There's no question that even longtime Ani aficionados will find still more stunning surprises here, starting with the range of instruments: Toronto noisemaker Kurt Swinghammer provides more (and wilder) electric guitar than anyone has ever heard on a DiFranco disc; Brian Wolf of Drums & Tuba brings trumpets and, of course, tubas to the table; and up-and-coming New Orleans trumpeter Irvin Mayfield adds to the horn section. ("It's a very horn-y record," Ani laughs.) Rapper Corey Parker pops up on "Swing," joined by a little turntable scratchin' and a whole lotta brass. Then there's the jaw-dropping new directions suggested by the solo Dust Bowl tracks "Freakshow" and "The Arrivals Gate." As always, Ani's latest songs ring with the urgency of newspaper headlines and the intimacy of journal entries. The latest round of gun-related violence inspired the title track, while "Hello Birmingham" is a poignant take on the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian at the hands of an opponent to abortion rights in Ani's hometown of Buffalo, New York. From these wrenching accounts of American life at the end of the century to the simple joys of watching lovers reunite at "The Arrivals Gate," To the Teeth is proof positive that, as a songwriter, musician, and producer, Ani DiFranco continues to defy all guesses as to where she's going next. - - This has been a post from the fumbling-towards-ecstasy list. To unsubscribe from this list, send a message containing 'unsubscribe fumbling-towards-ecstasy' to Majordomo@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au. To send a message to the list, send it to fte@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au. ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 00:06:27 -0400 From: Steve I Subject: Re: Veda Hille in Toronto Mike wrote: > Given the large number of people on navy-soup who apparently live >in the Toronto area, and the fact that other musical events of note >seem to get mentioned on the list, I thought I'd take the opportunity >to strongly recommend that those without other plans on October 2nd >not miss the opportunity to catch the amazing Veda Hille (with the >Skilled & Devoted Band) at Oasis. She's absolutely brilliant. Amen to that! I'll be there for sure! Still not sure if I like the new disc as much as some of her older stuff but I still haven't had much of a chance to do some serious listening yet... Steve ------------------------------ End of navy-soup-digest V2 #127 *******************************