From: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org (ecto-digest) To: ecto-digest@smoe.org Subject: ecto-digest V16 #3749 Reply-To: ecto@smoe.org Sender: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ecto-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk ecto-digest Wednesday, December 11 2024 Volume 16 : Number 3749 To unsubscribe: e-mail ecto-digest-request@smoe.org and put the word unsubscribe in the message body. Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: new music recommendations [D B ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:57:41 -0500 From: D B Subject: Re: new music recommendations Back in September I posted the following, though I don't know if anyone saw it. - ---- Back in late July I was scanning Spotify for something new, since I'd been playing the same music repeatedly for months. I noticed a name that was interesting, both for its simplicity and its choice of name. Loma. I would describe their sound as laid back, mellow, and casual. Some of their stuff is great for helping me relax and wind down, but one, Arrhythmia, has an addictive beat that I just love. Spotify suggested what turned out to be their latest release, "*How will I live without a body?*" I listened to several of their songs, but none really struck me until "I Swallowed a Stone". The style and delivery were calm and deliberate, and this song had a story to tell. At one point the singer's words evoked a sense of emotional warmth and closeness, and I was hooked. I started to listen to Loma more seriously from then on, and it wasn't long before I fell in love with several other songs. The entire release really resonated with me, in a way I haven't felt since Wye Oak's "*The Louder I Call, The Faster It Runs*". Maybe I'm a sucker for albums with sentence-long names, I dunno. Currently my favorites are listed below, in order from best to least: How It Starts A Steady Mind I Swallowed a Stone Arrhythmia Affinity Broken Doorbell Turnaround Unbraiding Pink Sky Dark Trio I've had this album on repeat for weeks now...the top four above have become earworms in my head. The only song that doesn't do anything for me is Dark Trio, but I think it's more of an interlude or something. They're now one of my favorite groups. Loma was formed when the lead member of the band Shearwater discovered a husband/wife team performing under the name Cross Record. He dug their music so they formed a new group together. I haven't listened to Shearwater; Cross Record is a lot like Loma but is less accessible, at least to me. There are some noteworthy songs there, but nothing that really stands out. - --Doug On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 3:27b/PM Jeff Hanson wrote: > Ren, Sofia Isella, Raven Numan, Bambie Thug, Sam Williams, Lucky Love, > Susie Suh, Bright Light Bright Light > > On Oct 12, 2024, at 12:56b/PM, Bernie Mojzes wrote: > > o;?Hullo all, > > I have a friend who was a top 40 DJ for a couple decades before leaving > corporate radio and switching career paths. > > He's recently been doing a weekly 1hr radio show that's broadcast by a > friend of his, who has a super-local radio station that broadcasts for 2 > hours a week, just for fun, playing mostly stuff from the 70s/80s/90s that > were no longer getting radio circulation. > > A few months back I introduced him to Joni Mitchell's Shadows & Light - > blew his mind, and he had it on autorepeat for a month - and now he's been > digging into the ALBUMS of folks whose hits he used to play. > > A couple weeks ago he decided to dedicate a show into recent music, pulling > from songs from the charts between 2019-2024. He hated it all so much that > he deleted the files after the show aired. He mentioned that when he was in > radio, there was a rule that you couldn't play an artist more than once > during a 1 hour span; now top-40 DJs have a revised rule - you also can't > play songs produced by the same producer in that span - because everything > they produce sounds like the producer more than the artist. > > But of course, top-40 is only a sliver of what is. > > So, I'm wondering what new music and new artists you'd recommend to him. > > Thanks > Bernie ------------------------------ End of ecto-digest V16 #3749 ****************************