Conference turris::womannotes-v3

    Hey, it seems someone started a topic about favorite recordings. One I
    just got which might be of interest is -

    Cindy Kallet - Dreaming Down a Quiet Line (Stone's Throw Music STM-1)

    You may have to track some folk outlets for this CD (yes, she's out on
    CD) - I got my copy at The Minor Chord in Acton MA.

    It's a wonderful album - I think it's her best to date. Her guitar
    playing is as incredible as ever, as is her voice, and her lyrics. I
    believe the "fair use" provisions of the copyright laws permit one
    verse:

	This morning before any words were spoken
	I looked inside to check for broken
	I looked for you and I looked for me
	When nothing tore and nothing crumbled
	And dreams and you were all a jumble
	I called you up just to see

    (And if my ears don't deceive me, the dulcimer she's playing on
    "Chris' Song" is the 8-stringer I built back around 1980.)

    As with her previous recordings on Folk Legacy, it's a serious record -
    a listener's record, not background music. Lots there - 15 songs (well,
    14 songs and an instrumental). Backup help from Michael Cicone, Ellen
    Epstein, her sister Lisa, and Gordon Bok. Terrific harmonies.

	  This looks like it might be the right topic for this. . . .

	  Ladyslipper is a North Carolina, non-profit, tax-exempt
     organization which has been involved in many facets of women's music
     since 1976.  Their basic purpose has consistently been to heighten
     public awareness of the achievements of women artists and musicians
     and to expand the scope and availability of music and literary
     recordings by women.  Their mail-order catalog is 80 pages, with these
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	  Since making the catalog is not inexpensive, they ask everyone
     getting a catalog to make at least one order.

			       Brian Hetrick

	Fascinating.   
	
	I was just going to enter a note about Ladyslipper.  2-3 years ago a 
friend played a Kay Gardner tape for me.  Last week, I finally found a CD by her
and got it.  I really like it.   (New age, Intrumental) She records on the 
Ladyslipper label.

Tracey

	I'm looking for recommendations of music that you find
	particularly soothing and calming to listen to, with 
	or without lyrics.
						nancy b.

    nancy,
    
         I find Brian Eno's "Discrete Music" extremely soothing.  I used it
    in a massage class I once took, and everyone wanted a copy.  Finding it
    may be a bit difficult though.
    
    Tony

	Funny, I just bought my first 3 classical CD's for exactly the
reason nancyb is asking.

	I started by getting Vivaldi's Four Seasons, and all six of Bach's
Brandenburg Concerti.  I also taped some Holzt (a little less mellow) and
some Haydn from a friend's collection.

	Harry Chapin has always been my "bad mood" music.  It tends to smooth
me out a lot.

						--D

    Gregorian chant (plainsong, whatever) is very soothing to me -- very
    even cadences, all in unison.
    
    Music by Delius got me through college.  I don't know much about him
    except I think he composed in the 1800s.  I find him soothing because
    his music is extremely dull and I don't have to think about it.  Mostly 
    pastoral symphonies, etc.
    
    Satie is calming.
    
    Any classical adagios (there's a CD out called "Famous Adagios" that is
    a nice compilation) are great for relaxing.  
    
    Music from the Windham Hills label is good, although you may not like
    all of the artists.  I like David Qualey (guitar) and Liz Storey
    (piano, _Solid Colors_) a lot.
    
    Pam

    I go for the chamber music, myself.  Mentioned in another note
    someplace, Schubert's Trout Quintet.  James Galway has some lovely
    stuff easily findable also.
    
    Alison

    Handle's Water Music used to put me to sleep when I was in college.
    
    Bonnie

    I, like .1, find Brian Eno's music soothing. I loved "music
    for airports" but can't find it on CD. 
    
    Windham Hill's "piano sampler" is great.
    
    "A cape cod morning"  --- sounds of birds, wind rustling thru soft
    pines, and streams, can be nice too.
    
    Kath

    Ever get any of the Victoria Secrets tapes?
    
    the last two that I have gotten were excellent for the 495 - 3
    commute....

    
    nits
    .6: i suspect you mean holst (no z) ('the planets', et al.) 
    .7: delius died around 1920
    
    both were early 20th-century english composers, along with 
    vaughan williams- much of their music is very peaceful, comtemplative,
    pastoral.
    
    another vote also for brian eno and erik satie
    

One of my favorite cassettes to listen to when I'm feeling mellow is
"It'll End In Tears" by This Mortal Coil.  They also have a release
called "Filigree and Shadow" which is soothing as well.  There are 
lyrics, which are sometimes crooned so softly you can't understand
them.  Really great stuff!

Carla

    "Strange Angles" by Laurie Anderson
    
    "Watermark" by Enya
    
    The George Sczell recordings of the Beethoven symphonies
    
    "La Traviata" with Placido Domingo, Illeana Cortubas and Sherril
    Milnes

Re: .13	jwhite & "Holst"

	Yow, and I'm not classicly illiterate either (trumpet for 8 years,
French horn for 4) - must have left my brain somewhere else when I was
typing this morning.  Thanks for the correction.  I hate looking like a
classless clod. ;-)

						--D

    I'd like to suggest Kathy Lowe, a folk singer who lives in New London,
    NH.  She writes her own stuff and has about 3 cassettes out so far.
    
    Most of her songs are about relationships, either between people or
    within one person.  With somewhat unusual melodies.  Accompanies
    herself on guitar or dulcimer, sometime just a capella.  Later tapes
    have more involved arrangements with other musicians.  You will have to
    look hard to find these, but music stores that carry tapes of local
    musicians in New England probably have them.  Or I can provide an
    address.
    
    One of my wife's favorites by Kathy is titled "Generic Man".  One Kathy
    wrote with her husband, to be sung at her brother-in-law's wedding, is
    titled "Interdependence Day".  We hired her to sing it at our wedding
    too.
    
    For those looking for more "new-age" instrumental kind of stuff, I'd
    like to reccomend the work of Karl Moeller, a DEC employee in Tucson. 
    He has a tape out (independant distribution) of what he calls
    "neo-classical" music.  Not all of it is relaxing, but it is quite
    beautiful.  Kind of like George Winston, but not restricted to piano.
    The title is "Ascending Ayer's Rock".

    Nancy,
    
    
    My favorite include:
    
    George Winston: Autumn
    George Winston: December
    George Winston: Winter into Spring
    
    David Lanz: Cristofori's Dream     ! All time favorite
    David Lanz: Heartsounds
    David Lanz: Nightfall
    
    For times when I want to have music lyrics along with notes, I turn to
    the Indigo Girls, and lately Wilson Phillips...
    
    
    Gale

    
    I'll vote for Brian Eno, too.  The one I like is Brian Eno and ?? Budd,
    and it's called "The Pearl".  Also, Navajo flute music by R. Carlos
    Nakai.  Both can be gotten on CD.
    
    CQ

    Beethoven's Piano Concerti -- simply lovely.
    
    Kronos Quartet has a new CD, most of the cuts are astonishing but some
    are a bit jangly.  I'd tape the good bits. (Or program my CD played to
    only play the gentler tracks, if it were programmable.)
    
    Vivaldi's Four Seasons
    
    Julian Bream Classical Guitar most any LP, he's got about 5
    
    Most Chamber Quartets

Slumberland - Steve Bergman. It's a soothing combination of piano,
guitar, rain, peepers, birds, etc.

-Patti

    Anything by Mozart
    Four Seasons by Vivaldi
    Light, new age jazz by Dan Seigel 
    Autumn by George Winston
    
    -Dotti.
    
    

    A new recording by Suzanne Ciani -- PIANISSIMO. Ciani's electronic
    music is all well and good, and I like it a lot, but her acoustic
    piano playing is...well...sigh...
    
    --- jerry

    The following albums have been rated V.C. (very calming)...
    
    David Lanz and Paul Speer - Natural States
    Checkfield                - Water, Wind and Stone
    Jean Michel Jarre         - Equinox
    Jean Michel Jarre         - Oxygene
    Keith Jarrett             - Arbour Zena
    Teja Bell and Steve Kindler - Dolphin Smiles
    Michael Hedges            - Breakfast in the Fields
    anything I've ever heard by Andreas Vollenweider
    Most of the songs on Vangelis' compilation "Themes"
    Christopher Parkening     - A Bach Celebration
    
    
    -Jody
    

    soothing and calming?
    
    certain cure albums....joy division....enya....bauhaus....
    
    [imHo]
    

    Melissa Etheridge - definitely *not* soothing :-) 
    If you think Bob Seger is a wimp, if Springsteen's old
    material sounds better than the new, give a listen.
    This woman cooks! She puts more into one song than
    most do on an entire album. Not for the faint of heart.

    Dana
    
    (my new p_n is from "No Souvenirs")

>    Melissa Etheridge - definitely *not* soothing :-) 

Oh she is great!!!  It's just too bad her songs are so centered around
posession of her lovers.  (Of her first album, just about everysong is
about how "her" lover left her, and how angry and hurt she is by it.)

D!

    I saw Melissa Etheridge live in San Francisco last February.  She 
    did nearly every song from her two albums, and put on a fantastic 
    show (she plays guitar with incredible intensity, as well as her 
    singing with such passion.)
    
    Something else I've noticed about her music...she very seldom
    identifies her lover by gender.  The audience in San Francisco
    was over 70% women, and very much woman-identified women.  It 
    was the warmest (emotionally), most interesting crowd I've ever
    been in, probably about 2000 people.
    
    DougO

    re .29 You make me sorry I missed her recent appearance here.
    
    >she very seldom identifies her lover by gender.

    I went and listened again, you're right. "No Souvenirs" is written
    from the viewpoint of someone who calls themself 'Romeo'. The
    rest simply don't say. 
    
    Dana

    I've a spare 1991 Ladyslipper catalog (see .2) that I'd be happy to
    mail to the first one to send me their interoffice address.
    
    Cheers,
    Chuck