From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #63 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Sunday, April 3 2011 Volume 16 : Number 063 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- new emmylou harris, mae moore coming soon [JoAnn Whetsell ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 2 Apr 2011 03:39:49 -0400 From: JoAnn Whetsell Subject: new emmylou harris, mae moore coming soon Hey ectophiles. I was pretty excited to find out that Emmylou Harris will be releasing a new album at the end of the month (4/26, CD and CD/DVD editions). But I thought some of you might be even more stoked to learn that Mae Moore is release a new album, Folklore, on the 19th, which you can pre-order from her website: http://www.maemoore.com/. Now that I have relived the 80s with Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson, Hall & Oates, Olivia Newton-John, Kim Carnes, Dolly Parton, Blondie, and Kool & the Gang, I shall go to bed and hope to awaken in 2011. JoAnn ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2011 11:16:49 +1000 From: Andrew Fries Subject: Re: Adelita [SEC=PERSONAL] Amanda Williams wrote: > Hi > > I wouldn't normally have posted about Adelita to this group, as she's a > real 'rock chick' and fronts a Geelong band called Magic Dirt her in > Victoria but she has just released a solo album which is very stripped > back and soulful. Thanks to Amanda for posting this. I am so out of touch these days otherwise I'd probably never find out about this record. By all means, we should post about Adalita on Ecto! Her band Magic Dirt has been around since early 90's and is a bit of an institution on the local scene by now and their sound is that 90's style of grunge/rock... perhaps slightly more accessible on their later records. While on her solo record it is mostly her voice, electric guitar and some pedals, the roots are instantly obvious: take the guitar riff on the opening track 'Hot Air' - to me this is Magic Dirt, pure and simple! This album is indeed rough and stripped down, and I think taken in album-sized dose you'll find it either hypnotic or monotonous, depending on where you're at. This is late-night listening for me. Some comparisons? Well, it's basically a singer alone with electric guitar, so thing of old Cat Power or Lisa Germano, perhaps some early PJ Harvey... Reading some reviews, much has been made of the fact that her bandmate, friend and ex-lover Dean died while this record was made. But this is not really about him - He was an important part of her life and of the recording process, I'm sure - but it seems to me most of the songs were written and ready to go before his passing. There is a clip on youtube of her playing "Perfection" live on stage back in 2009... and Adalita herself says in one of the interviews something like "the grieving songs are still to come..." Anyhow, it is sort of an interesting album. Some people might like it, others might be bored. There are a few clips available on youtube: Hot Air: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZ9TNT0aUNI The Repairer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4P6Sd2dq0c .. and that live performance of perhaps my favourite track, Perfection... recorded at Hopetoun Hotel, now sadly defunct venue where I spent a significant part of the 90's :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_-FuceUi5A ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #63 **************************