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- From: mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.allmusic
- Subject: Re: The easy ones first
- Message-ID: <9301260500.AA27098@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 04:02:38 GMT
- Sender: Discussions on all forms of Music <ALLMUSIC@AUVM.BITNET>
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- >OUAC: Urban Ambience will be playing live on the Brandeis U. radio station,
- >WBRS, 100.3 MHz or so, Friday night from 9:30 until we break all our strings.
- >
- Y'know Bloomie, you're a tease! I never get to hear this stuff! Do you guys
- have any CD's out or somethin'? Ever get out to Chicagoland?
-
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- >From: mjferzig@MIDWAY.UCHICAGO.EDU
- >Subject: Re: A cappella, A cappella, A cappella, A cappella, A cappella
- >
- >> >The Bobs - Great! At times quirky, but never dull. Probably the most
- original
- >> > of the groups here and one of the most fun.
- >>
- >> Aren't they great! They perform live a lot - I'll post a calendar soon.
- >
- >Yeah, they're coming to Boston in the spring, courtesy of World Music Inc.,
- >the same organization that booked the Tuvan throat singers (who weren't just
- >a cappella, but were consistently amazing).
- >
-
- You really should go see them. I've never seen them live, but I'm told
- they're ten times bettern in concert. That's pretty damn good considering
- that IMHO they are fabulous even on my cheap stereo!. If you want to sample
- them before seeing them, let me know - I'll send a tape. I'll expect a
- review if you go...I'm jealous - they generally don't make it to the
- Midwest....
-
-
-
- >
- >Little known fact: half a dozen of the Bubs sang on my recording debut, a tune
- >called "Haircuts," appearing on the first _Lyrics by Ernest Noyes Brookings_
- >album (on the Shimmy-Disk label). They were great: picked up the tune I wanted
- >them to sing immediately, and then started to play with it: one guy sat down
- >at the piano and did a Gilbert and Sullivan pastiche of it! Apologies if I've
- >already tooted this particular horn...
-
- Ah - an album!!!! I must hear this! What year did you do this? Was Deke
- Sharon one of the Bubs then?
-
- >
- >> >Hodja - Binghamton Crosbys : The first tune and I was already snapping
- along.
- >> > Wonderful combination of voices...
- >
- >This tune is also from that Todd Rundgren album called _A Cappella_. You can't
- >miss it in the record store: on the cover, Todd is sitting in front of a studio
- >microphone, wearing an Indonesian ritual mask. One tune rips off the "Ketjak"
- >monkey chant, a Balinese pageant based on the _Ramayana_ (as is nearly every
- >traditional performance piece in the entire culture).
-
- I just placed my order for it from CD Connection - should be here soon!
- I've gotten real good revies of it - I hope it's as good as they say...
-
- Marsha
-
- Marsha J. Ferziger
- University of Chicago School of Law
-