From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V12 #262 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Tuesday, October 3 2006 Volume 12 : Number 262 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- NEW HAPPY RHODES INTERVIEW!! ["Xenu's Sister" ] Re: NEW HAPPY RHODES INTERVIEW!! [Paul Blair ] Charlotte Martin, Emilie Autumn, P C Hodgell [Todd Pierce ] Re: Re: Charlotte Martin question ["Jon Wesley Huff" Subject: NEW HAPPY RHODES INTERVIEW!! Michael Foster at Cutting Edge Voices just posted a NEW interview with Happy on his web site! This is her first interview in, what, 7-8 years? I learned stuff I didn't even know! And she mentions me...*swoon* *faints* http://www.cuttingedgevoices.com/ Vickie - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... Suspended In Gaffa: http://suspended-in-gaffa.com MySpace (streaming music): http://www.myspace.com/gaffashow Happy Rhodes MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes Happy Rhodes song samples: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples - -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:44:25 -0400 From: Paul Blair Subject: Re: NEW HAPPY RHODES INTERVIEW!! Wow, Vickie--thanks for that link. That's some interview. She is so amazingly matter-of-fact, not defensive about or hung up on anything. I found this bit particularly interesting: >I've been feeling a bit like doing some music that's not >song-oriented with lyrics and such. Vocals yes, but not necessarily >intelligible lyrics. I feel like getting weird....er. Happy Rhodes meets Cocteau Twins? Cool! pb >Michael Foster at Cutting Edge Voices just posted a NEW >interview with Happy on his web site! This is her first >interview in, what, 7-8 years? I learned stuff I didn't >even know! > >And she mentions me...*swoon* *faints* > >http://www.cuttingedgevoices.com/ > > >Vickie > >-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > >Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... > >Suspended In Gaffa: http://suspended-in-gaffa.com >MySpace (streaming music): http://www.myspace.com/gaffashow > >Happy Rhodes MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes >Happy Rhodes song samples: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples >-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 08:53:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Todd Pierce Subject: Charlotte Martin, Emilie Autumn, P C Hodgell The recent threads on Charlotte Martin prompted me to write in about her and a couple other recent purchases. I've never understood some of the almost visceral responses that Charlotte seems to provoke on this list. For my part, it doesn't bother me if she sounds like Tori - Tori often sounds like Kate to me. At any rate, I really like Charlotte's Stromata. For me it fulfills the promise she showed on Test Drive Songs - promise that was hidden on On Your Shore, which seemed too commercial for me. Stromata has a good mix of strong rocking piano driven songs plus some more experimental pieces and ballads. It is very close to knocking off Rachael Sage's Blistering Sun as my album of the year so far. If you were put off by On Your Shore, give this a try. Emilie Autumn's debut Enchant was one of my favorite albums of 2003 - ethereal music that blended Elizabethan inpsired songs (about Rapunzel, Juliet, Rose Red, etc) with modern pop stylings and Emilie's fiddle and vocals. Since then she spent a lot of time touring with Courtney Love and her new album, Opheliac, is a rather bizarre cross of techno and goth channeled through a Victorian "Asylum for Wayward Young Girls". Techno and goth and musical genres way way off my radar - somewhere out there with reggae and country - so I don't know if Emilie does this well or not. But on at least three songs - Opheliac, Swallow, and Shalott - it works wonderfully - especially Shalott. This is probably my favorite song so far this year, which retells the Lady of Shalott legend but turns the passive lady of Tennyson into a more complex person who sees the bitten irony in her cursed existence. The other songs are fine and some of them have gotten stuck in my head like these three, but a few are pretty forgettable. There's a bonus CD too with a couple wicked satirical songs on beauty and marriage, and some bits and bobs (poetry readings, videos of how to lace a corset, etc) that would probably only appeal to the true Emilie fan. On the whole though, I am glad to have this album and thereby support Emilie, she's a hardworking gal trying to make it without any major label assistance, and is truly original. After all it took Kate Bush five tries to get to The Hounds of Love. Finally an author - I first heard about PC Hodgell on this list, and if you like her dark rich fantasy novels, her latest is out now - To Ride a Rathorn. I am busy rereading the previous novels so I can remember where things are left off - as she writes books only a little more frequently than Kate releases albums. Todd Pierce Asheville NC Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 13:30:43 -0400 From: meredith Subject: Re: NEW HAPPY RHODES INTERVIEW!! Hi, Xenu's Sister wrote: > Michael Foster at Cutting Edge Voices just posted a NEW > interview with Happy on his web site! This is her first > interview in, what, 7-8 years? I learned stuff I didn't > even know! Thanks for forwarding this!! Great interview. The image of Happy performing at the Caffe Lena open mic has my mind permanently set on "boggle". And wishing I had a time machine. (For those who don't know, Caffe Lena is the oldest continually operating folk music club in the U.S. It's located in Saratoga Springs, NY, which isn't far at all from where Happy grew up. It's *teeny*. Great place.) - -- =============================================== Meredith Tarr New Haven, CT USA mailto:meth@smoe.org http://www.smoe.org/meth =============================================== hear at the HOMe House Concert Series http://hom.smoe.org =============================================== ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:47:32 -0500 From: "Jon Wesley Huff" Subject: Re: Re: Charlotte Martin question See, I find this attitude sort of lazy when talking about music. I think its easy to make those sort of connections between artists. I mean, you could called Tori Amos Kate Bush-lite or a Kate Bush copycat when you get down to it. I think those influences are there, its hard to deny - but it's the twists and personal touches that make all the difference. Otherwise you lift like, four archetypes of female singer songwriters on this pedestal and all the rest are just generic reverberations. I think more careful and thoughtful listening is required with any new artist, and we should resist the tempation to shove them into easy, generic little boxes. On 10/1/06, Timothy Jones-Yelvington wrote: > I'm listening to Stromata as I type this. I still think there's a certain > genericism and derivativeness to her work, but this is a much more enjoyable > and memorable project. To me, it sounds less like Tori lite and more like > successful Tori copycat. Which is a big step up. Very very listenable. > > > On 9/30/06 11:09 PM, "Jon Wesley Huff" wrote: > > > The show I saw was amazing. I should mention, I chatted with her a > > second during the signing and said that I loved her cover of 100 > > Years. Her eyes lit up and said she was a huge Happy Rhodes fan and > > that she wanted her to come on tour with her, but she sort of > > dissapeared. That would have been awesome! > > > > On 9/30/06, neal copperman wrote: > >> Looks like a cool, funky show! Thanks for the info Jon, and the > >> pictures Vickie. > >> > >> neal > >> > >> At 12:57 AM -0700 9/30/06, Xenu's Sister wrote: > >>> --- neal copperman wrote: > >>> > >>>> Can anyone who has seen Charlotte on her recent tour tell me > >>>> if she performs solo or with a band? > >>> > >>> Jon's right, it's just Char and a drummer. Here are some > >>> pictures from her amazing Chicago show. > >>> > >>> http://www.rhodeshows.com/otherlive/CharlotteMartin/CM_09-17-06/ > >>> > >>> I heart CharMar. > >>> > >>> Vickie > >>> > >>> -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ > >>> > >>> Music, all I hear is music, guaranteed to please... > >>> > >>> Suspended In Gaffa: http://suspended-in-gaffa.com > >>> MySpace (streaming music): http://www.myspace.com/gaffashow > >>> > >>> Happy Rhodes MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/happyrhodes > >>> Happy Rhodes song samples: http://wretchawry.com/happy/samples > >>> -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V12 #262 ***************************