From: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org (velvet-station-digest) To: velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Subject: velvet-station-digest V4 #37 Reply-To: velvet-station@smoe.org Sender: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-velvet-station-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk velvet-station-digest Saturday, October 6 2001 Volume 04 : Number 037 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [VS] 2nd Unofficial Velvet Belly guestbook entry!!! [Yngve Hauge ] RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... [Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk] Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... [Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv ] RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... [Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk] [VS] While we wait ... [Yngve Hauge ] RE: [VS] While we wait ... [Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk] Re: [VS] While we wait ... [Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv ] [VS] Royksopp [H21Tine@aol.com] RE: [VS] While we wait ... [Yngve Hauge ] Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... ["Adam Walter" ] Re: [VS] Waterboys ["Adam Walter" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:30:23 +0200 (CEST) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: Re: [VS] 2nd Unofficial Velvet Belly guestbook entry!!! On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv wrote: > >"Somewhere out there"...Anne Marie Almedal4s song on the Illumination album > "This is Illumination" >is appearing all around the world right now on the > crime de la meme of chillout >compilations...available on "Serve Chilled 3" > (Hed Kandi), "Mystery Sounds" (BMG), and "The Chill >Out compilation 4" > (Warner). Massive track, played lots on Jazz FM, and one of the finest > voices to >grace chillout/house music.Hope there will be more excursions > like this! Never heard of this ... someone get me into the loop again, please ! :) Yngve **** Fight for the right to speak against what's wrong **** ** Everything you do - good or bad - will get back to you * *********** So beware !! ********************************** ************* Blessed be !!! ***************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 02:27:37 -0400 (EDT) From: Christian Aamodt Subject: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... Hi! I went to Anne Marie's show yesterday at the club "Ble" in Oslo. She was singing with a string quartet playing mostly tango tunes, but also a few songs with Anne Marie on vocals. Among these were "Unreal", "Nature Boy" (a jazz classic), an unknown song, and a new song (?) written by Anne Marie called "Not Now". I did not get to talk to Anne Marie yesterday. I was planning to ask her what happened to Velvet Belly... Does anyone else know any news? - -Christian - ------------------------------------------------------------------ christian.aamodt@innboks.com call: +4792406427 if trouble, try: christian.aamodt@ecsoft.no - ------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 11:05:27 +0100 From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > From: Christian Aamodt > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 02:27:37 -0400 (EDT) > To: Velvet Station > Subject: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > > I did not get to talk to Anne Marie yesterday. I was planning to > ask her what happened to Velvet Belly... Does anyone else know > any news? > > -Christian Tell me about this show, because, it's only natural that I haven't heard about it, despite my unofficial Velvet Belly site that hopes to keep the world wide public with the latest on Velvet Belly and its band members When it comes to wondering what's happening to Velvet Belly, I make an assumption that they're must be planning something still, and then it can take a long time especially if they have other jobs to do and then there's the smallness of the Norwegian Music indstry's bank account . And people around the world (from USA to Japan) are waiting for them to make their next move. If we don't hear anything, we remain optimistic like the Portishead fans do about Portishead. Is that perhaps as unhelpful as anything ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 11:05:29 +0100 From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv Subject: Re: [VS] 2nd Unofficial Velvet Belly guestbook entry!!! > From: Yngve Hauge > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:30:23 +0200 (CEST) > To: Velvet Station > Subject: Re: [VS] 2nd Unofficial Velvet Belly guestbook entry!!! > > > Never heard of this ... someone get me into the loop again, please ! :) > > Yngve It has been mentioned a number of times about her vocals for the album by the duo "Illumination", it was just one song, I think it got an international release and has been making its way around the clubs and onto compilations. I've heard the vocals somewhere, maybe one of the online Amazon shops and it sounded nice, I'll buy it eventually in some form. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:19:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: [VS] Any info on ... ? Hi, I just had to remove the address henkrane@online.no from the list as it has been bouncing for quite some time now. Anyone knows if he got a new address and if so what it is? Yngve **** Fight for the right to speak against what's wrong **** ** Everything you do - good or bad - will get back to you * *********** So beware !! ********************************** ************* Blessed be !!! ***************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:40:28 +0200 From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk Subject: RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... 2 things: * Anne-Marie features on a song called 'Somewhere Out There' on an album called 'This is Illumination' by Illumination (aka DJs Per Martinsen and Nick Sillitoe) - it's out on +47 / Love O.D. / BMG Norway, and I know that the album's been released in France and Germany too. Not sure where else it's out, but I know that Anne-Marie travelled with Illumination for appearances in Latvia and Russia over the summer period. The album's well worth checking out, especially Illumination's cover version of 'Cry Me a River'. Gorgeous! Think they had a website somewhere...I'll find out and get back to you * Portishead - are alive and well? Well, I know that one of the Portishead guys DJed at Head On in Oslo a couple of weekends ago (not sure if it was because the whole band were due to play a gig in Norway either the day before or the day after, but...) Question is though - would Portishead's music really work now? Surely as musicians they'd have had to moved on from the trip-hop sound of yesteryear - development - and maybe not everyone will like what they've got to offer now. I dunno - it differs from band to band - I mean, a change in musical style worked for Radiohead, but when the Waterboys experimented with different musicians/recording techniques on 'Rock In a Weary Land', it alienated a lot of the older fans who prefered the sound/band line-up from the days of 'Fishermans Blues'. Any of you in Norway heard Royksopp's music btw? I'm just curious, 'cos I keep seeing their name mentioned in magazines. - fLip - - -----Original Message----- From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv [mailto:wmmvrrvrrmm@mac.com] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 11:05 AM To: Velvet Station Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > From: Christian Aamodt > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 02:27:37 -0400 (EDT) > To: Velvet Station > Subject: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > > I did not get to talk to Anne Marie yesterday. I was planning to > ask her what happened to Velvet Belly... Does anyone else know > any news? > > -Christian Tell me about this show, because, it's only natural that I haven't heard about it, despite my unofficial Velvet Belly site that hopes to keep the world wide public with the latest on Velvet Belly and its band members When it comes to wondering what's happening to Velvet Belly, I make an assumption that they're must be planning something still, and then it can take a long time especially if they have other jobs to do and then there's the smallness of the Norwegian Music indstry's bank account . And people around the world (from USA to Japan) are waiting for them to make their next move. If we don't hear anything, we remain optimistic like the Portishead fans do about Portishead. Is that perhaps as unhelpful as anything ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 15:13:26 +0100 From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 14:40:28 +0200 > To: velvet-station@smoe.org > Subject: RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > > Question is though - would Portishead's music really work now? Surely as > musicians they'd have had to > moved on from the trip-hop sound of yesteryear - development - and maybe not > everyone will like what > they've got to offer now. I think the song I love them for the most is Roads, and maybe this isn't the most trippy hoppy piece of theirs, but everything else hangs on from there for me in their music. If they got rid of the record scratching, it wouldn't bother me in the slightest, I'm still trying to work out the meaning of Trip hop in all it is, maybe that wouldn't matter too much if I never did. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 08:02:53 -0700 From: "Adam Walter" Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... - ----- Original Message ----- From: >. > I dunno - it differs from band to band - I mean, a change in musical style > worked for Radiohead, > but when the Waterboys experimented with different musicians/recording > techniques on 'Rock In a Weary Land', > it alienated a lot of the older fans who prefered the sound/band line-up > from the days of 'Fishermans Blues'. Really? I thought many of us were just glad to see another Waterboys album after about a decade of nothing and see what Mike Scott was noodling around with in his daffy way. He's always been an experimenter, and anyone who wants to pin an artist down to a past style... Well, I guess they get what they deserve. ~Adam ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:30:03 +0200 From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk Subject: RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... The 'new' album 'Too Close To Heaven' has gone back to material from the Fishermans Blues sessions which has never been used before. It'll please the Waterboys / Mike Scott's older fans, but to be honest, I prefer what he did on 'Rock In a Weary Land' where he decided to do things differently just for the heck of it to see what would happen. btw - where in the world do you live, Adam? Are there any Americans or Canadians on Velvet Station? Mike Scott / Waterboys are touring over there at the moment with my good friend Tom McRae -fLip- - -----Original Message----- From: Adam Walter [mailto:awalter1@prodigy.net] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 4:03 PM To: velvet-station@smoe.org Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... - ----- Original Message ----- From: >. > I dunno - it differs from band to band - I mean, a change in musical style > worked for Radiohead, > but when the Waterboys experimented with different musicians/recording > techniques on 'Rock In a Weary Land', > it alienated a lot of the older fans who prefered the sound/band line-up > from the days of 'Fishermans Blues'. Really? I thought many of us were just glad to see another Waterboys album after about a decade of nothing and see what Mike Scott was noodling around with in his daffy way. He's always been an experimenter, and anyone who wants to pin an artist down to a past style... Well, I guess they get what they deserve. ~Adam ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:31:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: [VS] While we wait ... Nice to get some news from the VB side, but while we wait for something more there are a few bands/artists worth checking out: Lamb's new album is gonna be out next week, and the reports I've got are really positive. They are gonna tour Europe after that, and the ticket to the Oslo show is safe in my hands already. The sound is simpler than their last album and the 3 songs I've heard are just amazing. Heather Nova is gonna tour Europe later this year - she is going to be in Oslo the day before Lamb so I might go there as well. About a new album? I don't know actually. I've got a list so long now of artists I have to get albums by (and that is only artists releasing stuff this year), but very high on my list are Veda Hille - Field Study Over the Rhine - Films for Radio Laurie Anderson - Life on a String Emm Gryner - Girl Versions Rachael Sage - Painting of a Painting Kathleen Yearwood - Dog Logic Louisa John-Krol - Ariel Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red and Gray Lucinda Williams - Essence Dar Williams - Out There Live And then Happy Rhodes got a new release just for ectophiles called Left Hand Demos which I'll get later this year. It is indeed a great year for new releases, and I did just touch my list. Yngve **** Fight for the right to speak against what's wrong **** ** Everything you do - good or bad - will get back to you * *********** So beware !! ********************************** ************* Blessed be !!! ***************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:40:14 +0200 From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk Subject: RE: [VS] While we wait ... Definitely looking forward to Lamb too I saw them at the Quart Festival last year - they were the best band I saw (apart from Groove Armarda) Someone along my corridor here at work has got "Little Fluffy Clouds" by the Orb playing on their stereo. Not new, but I'd forgotten what a great track it is! - fLip - P.S. No-one's answered my question about Royksopp....or have none of you in Norway heard their music yet? - -----Original Message----- From: Yngve Hauge [mailto:onealien@mo.himolde.no] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:31 PM To: Velvet Station Subject: [VS] While we wait ... Nice to get some news from the VB side, but while we wait for something more there are a few bands/artists worth checking out: Lamb's new album is gonna be out next week, and the reports I've got are really positive. They are gonna tour Europe after that, and the ticket to the Oslo show is safe in my hands already. The sound is simpler than their last album and the 3 songs I've heard are just amazing. Heather Nova is gonna tour Europe later this year - she is going to be in Oslo the day before Lamb so I might go there as well. About a new album? I don't know actually. I've got a list so long now of artists I have to get albums by (and that is only artists releasing stuff this year), but very high on my list are Veda Hille - Field Study Over the Rhine - Films for Radio Laurie Anderson - Life on a String Emm Gryner - Girl Versions Rachael Sage - Painting of a Painting Kathleen Yearwood - Dog Logic Louisa John-Krol - Ariel Suzanne Vega - Songs in Red and Gray Lucinda Williams - Essence Dar Williams - Out There Live And then Happy Rhodes got a new release just for ectophiles called Left Hand Demos which I'll get later this year. It is indeed a great year for new releases, and I did just touch my list. Yngve **** Fight for the right to speak against what's wrong **** ** Everything you do - good or bad - will get back to you * *********** So beware !! ********************************** ************* Blessed be !!! ***************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 18:07:50 +0100 From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv Subject: Re: [VS] While we wait ... > From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:40:14 +0200 > To: velvet-station@smoe.org > Subject: RE: [VS] While we wait ... > > P.S. No-one's answered my question about Royksopp....or have none of you in > Norway heard their music yet? A friend of mine name Hallvard in Norway of course who's not connected with this list mentioned a few weeks back " A new Norwegian musical phenomenon is Rxyksopp which they say are pretty close to Oxygene. Haven't heard them but I will try them out soon." so maybe he'll say something more about them soon when he next comes into orbit Dom ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 18:35:02 +0100 From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:30:03 +0200 > To: velvet-station@smoe.org > Subject: RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > > Mike Scott / Waterboys are touring over there at the moment with my good > friend Tom McRae Adam was mentally jiving in e-mail over the fact the Waterboys were visiting where he lived a while back and I didn't have a clue who they were at all. Well all these things seem to drift along the same streams in the end. I finally bought Paul Simon's Graceland after all these years, although I had a copy on taped from next doors record from over a decade ago and I finally bought U2's Achtung Baby. That's like catching up with the past. I saw another Autour de Lucie record while in Nice but it seemed to be other groups singing their songs, and I couldn't fine any information about it so I just left it. Then it seems I'm waiting for Aphex Twin's next album, I heard one of his simple piano tunes on the CD with NME and I adored it, it brought me back to remembering what it was like to be a six or seven year old child at school. Naturally I've bought the latest Bjork CDs. Things in tune with this world however feel a little displace. So I think the next thing I'll haver to do is by the Stina Nordenstam CD album with the red coloured plastic casing. Many of the things on French TV and radio were shockingly cheesy. I don't want to ever hear or see Garou singing ever ever again , let along ever hear his name mentioned ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:15:42 +0200 From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk Subject: RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... Heh heh If you're into French music, yes, Autour de Lucie are a good start. I'd also recommend a singer called Tete - he's kinda like France's answer to Ben Harper ...and not least St. Germain (especially a track by them called 'Rose Rouge') As for Waterboys - sometimes their music is celtic-folk tingued, other times it rocks, but the 1 song that most people have heard before is 'Whole of the Moon'. Hm, maybe there are some soundbites on their website: www.mikescottwaterboys.com - fLip - - -----Original Message----- From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv [mailto:wmmvrrvrrmm@mac.com] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 6:35 PM To: velvet-station@smoe.org Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 17:30:03 +0200 > To: velvet-station@smoe.org > Subject: RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > > Mike Scott / Waterboys are touring over there at the moment with my good > friend Tom McRae Adam was mentally jiving in e-mail over the fact the Waterboys were visiting where he lived a while back and I didn't have a clue who they were at all. Well all these things seem to drift along the same streams in the end. I finally bought Paul Simon's Graceland after all these years, although I had a copy on taped from next doors record from over a decade ago and I finally bought U2's Achtung Baby. That's like catching up with the past. I saw another Autour de Lucie record while in Nice but it seemed to be other groups singing their songs, and I couldn't fine any information about it so I just left it. Then it seems I'm waiting for Aphex Twin's next album, I heard one of his simple piano tunes on the CD with NME and I adored it, it brought me back to remembering what it was like to be a six or seven year old child at school. Naturally I've bought the latest Bjork CDs. Things in tune with this world however feel a little displace. So I think the next thing I'll haver to do is by the Stina Nordenstam CD album with the red coloured plastic casing. Many of the things on French TV and radio were shockingly cheesy. I don't want to ever hear or see Garou singing ever ever again , let along ever hear his name mentioned ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:27:08 +0100 From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv Subject: Re: [VS] While we wait ...(2) Other than that, a chap named Bob Warren who I know through an old school friend performs music of his own http://www.planetbob.freeserve.co.uk/ I like this one song on his collection of pieces called Last Leaf, I like to listen to this one quite often, I wont say anything about the rest because although I might listen to these things occasionally because I know the person, the rest don't neccessarily fall into the catagory of things I'd recommend Dom ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 19:49:15 +0100 From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > From: Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk > Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:15:42 +0200 > To: velvet-station@smoe.org > Subject: RE: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... > > but the 1 song that most people have heard before is 'Whole of the Moon'. Aha,I do very much recollect that one ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 20:25:07 +0100 From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv Subject: Re: [VS] While we wait ... > From: Wmmvrrvrrmm mvrrrmvrrrmmmrrvvvv > Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 18:07:50 +0100 > To: > Subject: Re: [VS] While we wait ... > > A friend of mine name Hallvard in Norway of course who's not connected with > this list mentioned a few weeks back " A new Norwegian musical phenomenon is > Rxyksopp which they say are pretty close to Oxygene. Haven't heard them but > I will try them out soon." so maybe he'll say something more about them soon > when he next comes into orbit > > Dom I should note that Hallvard is one of these people who lives about five minutes into the future further than a lot of people. He's been known to sometimes catch little time travelling particles of information a week or so before they synchronisticly bounce off you, Flip, across to my sphere of reality Dom ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 21:40:25 +0200 From: Stefan Granbom Subject: RE: [VS] While we wait ... At 18:40 2001-10-05 +0200, Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk wrote: >P.S. No-one's answered my question about Royksopp....or have none of you in >Norway heard their music yet? They are playing it every day on radio here in Sweden. Instrumental electro/techno. Good background music. I also saw a video with them, much nostalgia from the 70s..:) They are quite good, but not good enough for me buying the CD.. /Stefan ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:35:11 EDT From: H21Tine@aol.com Subject: [VS] Royksopp Flippa - hey ;o) I got the new Royksopp album, and being a fan of electronic music, it touched me. Particulary the tracks "Poor Leno" (featuring the singer of Kings of Convenience) - which I think is their next single from the album and "Sparks". At first when I heard it, I was wondering who was singing. It sounded a bit like combination of Beth in Portishead and Nikka Costa, but then I found out it was Anneli Drecker!!! I recommend the whole album, though, not just the two tracks mentioned. Tine ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 20:24:07 +0200 (CEST) From: Yngve Hauge Subject: RE: [VS] While we wait ... On Fri, 5 Oct 2001 Philippa.Demonte@bmg.co.uk wrote: > P.S. No-one's answered my question about Royksopp....or have none of you in > Norway heard their music yet? I've heard about them, but haven't heard them as I'm not listening much to the radio (most of it crap anyways). I'll do so next time I'm entering a record store though ... Yngve **** Fight for the right to speak against what's wrong **** ** Everything you do - good or bad - will get back to you * *********** So beware !! ********************************** ************* Blessed be !!! ***************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:35:17 -0700 From: "Adam Walter" Subject: Re: [VS] Anne Marie yesterday... - ----- Original Message ----- From: > > btw - where in the world do you live, Adam? > Are there any Americans or Canadians on Velvet Station? > Mike Scott / Waterboys are touring over there at the moment with my good > friend Tom McRae I am American, and I live in Seattle, Washington. I saw Scott & the Waterboys (plus that little ponytailed WaterGal on the big bass guitar) here just a couple months ago. It was really fantastic. The only trouble was that the album hadn't come out here yet, and the music was so beautifully loud that I was only able to jibe with the lyrics that I'd read via a Waterboys website before going to the concert. One of the highlights for me that night was the dual between Mike's guitar and Steve Wickham's Fiddle at the beginning of "We Will Not Be Lovers"--they were smokin'! I'm really looking forward to getting a copy of "Too Close to Heaven." ~Adam ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2001 18:39:59 -0700 From: "Adam Walter" Subject: Re: [VS] Waterboys - ----- Original Message ----- From: > > As for Waterboys - sometimes their music is celtic-folk tingued, other times > it rocks, > but the 1 song that most people have heard before is 'Whole of the Moon'. And nothing quite rocks like hearing the extended in-concert version, but the concert album "Live Adventures of the Waterboys" captures the phenomenon pretty well, especially when the song is turned up REAL loud. :) ~Adam ------------------------------ End of velvet-station-digest V4 #37 ***********************************