Jet wrote: > Hello, > > This is the first time I'm writing, so I guess I won't be considered a lurker > from > now on. Welcome aboard then! I've come to realize that lurkers are an essential and unmissable part of any mailing list, so no hard feelings if you decide to stay in the background a bit! >I've also heard Hefner, and I specially like Hymn for > Cigarettes and > Hymn for Alcohol . Belle and Sebastian, have also caught my interest and I'm > curious how they'll change now that their bassist is quitting. To tell you the truth, apart from the odd spoken-word contribution, I don't think you'll see the sound change all too much. Plus, it'll be interesting to see where Stuart takes it from here with his project Looper. And yes - Hefner are quite good. > My tastes are > quite > eclectic- I just listen to anything that gives me a new experience. I'm a > visual > artist doing work of a conceptual nature and do environmental design for > money, but > I was also vocals for a band, here in the Philippines, deep in Southeast Asia, > called Poppyfield, admittedly heavily influenced by Jane's Addiction - now > defunct. > Now I'm organizing a thing we call Sound Laboratory, a weekly closed session > between > musicians from different bands ranging from poprock, ethnic fusion, hardcore, > drum > and bass, with film scorers and some help from visual artists. Basically our > objective is to create spontaeous and ephemeral soundscapes and performances . Wow, that all sounds rather eclectic! It's great to see stuff like this. Is there a scene in the Philippines? Just being nosy... Alex ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +-------------------- new york, london, paris, tokyo ----------------+ +------------------ everybody talk about... popjourno! -------------+ +------------------- http://www.pulped.co.uk/popjourno --------------+ +--------- to send a message to the list, please address it to ------+ +----------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------+ +--------- declarations of love, presents, and otherwise saucy ------+ +-------- e-correspondence should be sent directly to the list ------+ +------------------- mummy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------+ +------------- popjourno currently has over 140 subscribers ---------+ +------------------------ (most of them lurkers). -------------------+ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
