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Koen Beeuwsaert | 22 May 2012 09:03
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RE: kd/Jane Shows

Hey, I read about the kd/jane shows with envy... I would love to attend one of
those shows, but as I'm on the other side of the deep blue sea, I won't be
doing so.Instead I'm enjoying myself with the albums.And with newly discovered
music. And old favourites ofcourse.Very much into Perfume Genius these days.
And Lizz Wright. Dar Williams too. And Antony always. Rufus Wainwright and
June Tabor. Well, too much to go on really. And yes, the list has been quiet
for way too long now. What's happening? Koen > Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 17:52:49
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> From: orange-clouds <at> sbcglobal.net
> Subject: Re: kd/Jane Shows
> To: siblings <at> smoe.org; drieken <at> gmail.com
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> David,
> B
> Good to hear from you,B  I would also like to hear about the shows.B  I wish
I
> had the wherewithall to go and do that right now.B  I just don't.B  I just
> missed lawrence KS, or as i call it Larry.B  so close, and yet so far from
> where i can go.B
> B
> anybody gone to shows?
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> *B4B(B()
> B .b"B4 .b"*B4B() B8.b"*B()
> (B8.b"B4 B8.b"B4.Tracy
>
> --- On Wed, 5/16/12, David Rieken <drieken <at> gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: David Rieken <drieken <at> gmail.com>
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B Merrill | 22 May 2012 17:16

what I've been grooving to, lately, these days, these years

Dear All,

In Reply to Koen,
and in regard to what I've been grooving to, lately...  ?

As the father of two lads, who are now 19 & 23,  many years ago I had 
to deal with them enjoying Blink 182, and bands equally primitive. Argh!!
But over the past two years or so we've reached a point where they 
are bringing tunes back home that I am mightily impressed by.... such 
as "Ships" by Danieleson Famile (I hope I've spelled that right) and 
"Rise Above" by the Dirty Projectors. (NB We're talking about "Rise 
Above" in particular, since after that highpoint, the DP's have 
migrated downhill, in tandem with increased popularity, I take it.)

On the other hand, I've still not been able to bring them to the full 
excellence of Jane's Walking, Kate's Dreaming or Joni's Hissing.
They kinda get it, but not the full force of it.

-- the white tent, the raft y'all!

Bruce

PS Did anyone else watch the Bachrach-David honor concert at the 
Whitehouse, on PBS, last night?
Pretty standard (and I'm a major BB-HD fan), but Stevie Wonder's 
harmonica solo on "Alfie" was Epic!
His two numbers were the highpoint, indeed.
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B Merrill | 23 May 2012 13:56

Re: what I've been grooving to, lately, these days, these years

Much thanks for this, Ben!

When my lads first started listening to the music of their times this 
suddenly introduced me to what current "rock" music was... which I'd 
been happily oblivious to. This would be around Blink182, and what 
was most notable to me was the dominance of the aggressive rhythm 
guitar and the diminishment of the lead voice under this (boring!) 
guitar. As opposed to the more open (less muddy) texture of 
arrangement, esp guitar arrangement, and the prominence of the lead 
voice and the use of back-up voices &/or harmonies in the songs that 
I'd grown up with: the Beach Boys, the Beatles and the British 
Invasion. (Eventually I learned, reading MacDonald's superb 
_Revolution in the Head_, that this shift had come about with punk 
and post-punk. Lamentable, from my standpoint.)

I think the first current song that all three of us enjoyed was 
Fastball's charming "The Way." (Which reminds me of "Besame Mucho"!)

The band of my youth that they listen to the most (on their ipods) is 
the Beach Boys. I don't know if this is typical of their generation. 
There's a definite sonic continuity between the BB's and the Animal 
Bands (as I call them) that they enjoy: Fleet Foxes, Panda Bear, Grizzly Bear.

One big thang that I've had no luck in introducing them to is 
classical music. When I was in high school, I was already enjoying, 
tremendously, the four early Stravinsky ballets, and much else... and 
I've played these for them, lent them the CD's, but it hasn't taken 
at all. This despite the case that their mother is a choral 
conductor, so there was/is much classical music in both of our houses.
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B Merrill | 23 May 2012 17:02

Joplin?!

Dear Tracy,

Joplin O Joplin is back in the news...
Is that where you are now? Still?

Any news you wish to share with us?

oxo!,

Bruce

PS As I'm sure I already shared with you,
I was born in MO, southwest of St. Louis
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B Merrill | 23 May 2012 17:10

Re: what I've been grooving to, lately, these days, these years

David & All,

Yes, we (my two lads & I) watched that doc on Danielson. With his goofy wig!

One of these same sons went to a massive Sufjan Stevens concert last 
year, in NYC.... came back exhilarated and stunned. His best concert 
experience ever. It's excellent that SS is /was putting on a Big 
Colorful show...  with lots of dancing, something that so few groups 
are capable of.

They are also keen on Joanna Newsom, whom I've enjoyed as well.

BTW, one crucial feature that Danielson, Sufjan and the Dirty 
Projectors share: female backup voices.

(Oh, and I can add that my sons told me that I looked like Sufjan, in 
those old photos, way back then... when I was young & handsome.)

Laura N is the ORIGINAL female singer-songwriter, pre-Joni. I'm old 
enough to have been amazed by her second album when it happened, when 
she broke out into her brilliance. Wow.

Enlarging my scope to the music that I've come upon over the past 5 
years, the most under appreciated, most surprisingly unknown band-- 
at least I've never(!!) come upon anyone who knows them, or more than 
one tune-- is XTC. Their songs are not up to the jaw dropping level 
of Jane's Walking (what is?), but in terms of output, quality, and 
quality-control (lack of duds) the 8 or so CD's from Mummer (?-- I 
haven't figured out where & how they climb from OK, to good, to real 
good) through the two Apple Venus volumes are extraordinary. Such an
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B Merrill | 25 May 2012 01:00

Re: what I've been grooving to, lately, these days, these years

Hi Johannes,

Well, as I said, outside of forums such as this one, where the hip 
converge, I've only come upon ONE person who knew their one single 
that hit the US charts. That's it. Of course, I know scads of albums 
that I feel are under appreciated. What puts XTC at the top of is the 
impressive combination of quality and quantity (in the vicinity of 8 
CD's or so!), and the case they (i.e. Partridge) are working in an 
accessible eclectic poppy style. What may hold them back is the 
strain in Partridge's voice. But it still baffles me that they aren't 
a major presence on the horizon, given that sustained output.

I was wondering if someone would pick up on the anomaly of the fourth 
Ballet, so thank you! It's the Song of the Nightingale, which is in 
the highly coloristic & rhythmic style of those first three ballets-- 
as opposed to the others you considered: Pulcinella, Les Noces, 
Apollo, the Fairy's Kiss. It was my favorite of the lot, back in high 
school, in that amazing version! conducted by Reiner. I wasn't aware 
of its relation to Le Rossignol, so it seems to my ignorant ears to 
be one more ballet.

BTW, I am also in upper NY State, but far east of you, in Cambridge, 
up against the VT border.

Back on topic: Does Jane still make her regular visits to Northampton, MA?

Bruce

>Two thoughts . . . first, I think XTC are more widely known than 
>people might think.  Second . . four stravinsky ballets?  I wonder
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Adam Hartfield | 25 May 2012 02:28
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RE: what I've been grooving to, lately, these days, these years

> Back on topic: Does Jane still make her regular visits to Northampton,
MA?
> 
> Bruce

I don't think she's been here since the Shushan tour, else I'd have seen
her again as I live in Springfield.

Let's see, I'm currently listening to:

Perpetuum Jazzile (often!)
Nerissa and Katryna Nields
Winterpills
School of Seven Bells
Lera Lynn
Etc

--Adam
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Tracy Allan Cope | 25 May 2012 17:58
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Re: Joplin?! News from tracy

My dearest siblings,

The news from joplin is we are alive and well. I am a different  person. I am
alive and glad to be. It took 10 months to come back alive.  I feel like i had
a near death experience without the actually having died and being brought
back part. I think this experience has made me more of who i was meant to be.

I truly can't thank you all enough for all your love and support. It is you
and people like you who gave with abandon your energy to bring us "back from
the dead". I am ever so grateful.

Here is the tracklist for my "tornado mix" cd. Songs that helped me through
this year. If you can listen to them the journey is pretty amazing.

much love to you and thank you!! Tracy

Tor mix track list

1. Blow / ke$ha
2. Broken / lisa gerrard & peter bourke
3. By this river / brian eno
4. Through hollow lands / brian eno
5. Faking the books / lali puna (this is how i felt for so long)
6. Somewhere only we know / glee cast (yes glee)
7. Calling all angels / jane siberry & kd lang (i wanted the anderson family
but could 't find where to buy)
8. O vos omnes / cantus (the translation is... Whoa)
9. Son sposa disperezzata / dr diana allan (my sister)
10. Spanish doll / poe
11. I grieve / peter gabriel (city of angels version)
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B Merrill | 25 May 2012 19:01

Re: Joplin?! News from tracy

I'm delighted to see the delightful DOMESTIC tune
"our house.... was our Castle and our Keep..."
is there with you, Tracy.

Keep Safe!

xx,

Bruce
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B Merrill | 26 May 2012 12:57

Re: Joplin?! News from tracy

Querida Tracy,

Spanish is my third language, so I may have the
articles wrong, tho the nouns are correct:
La casa dos arboles y las hojas.

The last word is pronounced "Oh-hass," not as spelled. Accent on first syl.

(I just came back from Spain & Portugal, last week.)

Don Bruce

At 04:31 PM 5/25/2012, orange-clouds <at> sbcglobal.net wrote:
>this was our song in our old house.  it was my
>ringtone when someone called my cell from home,
>and then when i finally accepted my new house
>and stopped being angry at it for not being my
>old house, i decided to make it this house's
>song too.  it's really a very nice older home
>built in 1929, and very similar to my childhood
>home, that i lived in all my life, and lost.  we
>have made peace.  it is "casa de la trees and
>leaves".  (i don't know how to say trees and
>leaves in spanish)  everything i seemed to buy
>for the house had trees and/or leaves.  so there you go!
>
>*B4B(B()
>  .B4 .*B"*B4B() B8.*B()
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