Re: larry's questions (hetch hetchy/bel canto)

[larry@csccat.cs.com (Larry Spence)]

In article <Jul.25.20.23.23.1991.24849@remus.rutgers.edu> woj@remus.rutgers.EDU (woj) writes:
>
>well, larry, there were at least two responses on r.m.m to your question
>about bel canto's _birds of passage_.

Thanks for the info.  Further evidence that texsun is not giving us a 
reliable feed (are you reading this, texsun sysop?! %).  I should probably
make a habit of asking for answers to things like this via email.

>it is a *different* album from _white out conditions_. where _woc_ is
>acoustic, _bop_ is more electronic in nature.

_BoP_ must be very electronic indeed, then, as everyone on _WOC_ is listed
as playing synths and programming.  More acoustic sounding, maybe, but
few real live acoustic instruments, I suspect (some mandolin?)  Anyway, I 
think I'll have to check out _BoP_; if it's half as good as _WOC_ I'll 
probably like it.

>as for hetch hetchy, again, there are enough differences to void a com-
>parison. _make djibouti_ is more rocking and uses a synth to fill out
>the sound. _swollen_ is dark and menacing, slow and laced with bass, 
>with a violin filling out the sound. i prefer _swollen_ (but stewart
>feels differently - he claims that _swollen_ sounds too much like sioux-
>sie and the banshees).

That's weird -- when my wife heard a snippet of Bel Canto _WOC_, she thought 
_that_ sounded like Siouxsie... oh well...

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Larry Spence
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