From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #81 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Friday, August 14 1998 Volume 02 : Number 081 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Veda in CURVE [Rachel Kramer Bussel ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 14:20:58 -0400 (EDT) From: Rachel Kramer Bussel Subject: Veda in CURVE I just got CURVE magazine in the mail (with Ally Sheedy and Radha Mitchell on the cover) and there's an article on "The Girls of Summer" with Veda, Catie Curtis, Sonia Rutstein, Nedra Johnson, MC Lyte and other artists. Here's the Veda article, and it's by Akila Monifa... (and there's a photo of Veda holding her hand up and looking into the camera) Canada's Eclectic Chanteuse Anatomy looms large for Vancouver's Veda Hille (say "vay-duh hill-ay"). Her second CD, entitled Spine, is now available in the United States. Keeping with the anatomical theme, her first CD, produced in 1994, is called Path of a Body. Although she thinks categorizing her music is "useless," as it is with "anything as ephemeral as an art form," her own attempted summary of her musical style is "fierce and literate music, jazz, angular, pop, beautiful." "It's not music that everyone will like," she admits. Hille's audience includes people who are, as she explains, "more interested in thinking than, say, boogying down. It's not lightweight music." This year marks he r"virginal appearance" as a performer and attendee at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival. Performing solo at Michigan will be quite a change--when she can, Hille tours with a four-piece, all-male band. THe band is raucous, with a punk rock vibe. (Her guitarist used to play with DOA). In contrast, Hille's own background includes art school and studies in classical piano. She began performing on stage at age six. In addition to vocals and piano, she plays tenor guitar (four string), and a little banjo and accordion. Hille's current project marks a departure from her previous work--she's using computer manipulated sounds and collaborating with a sonic artist, combining electronica with her own personally-based songwriting. "I want to continue to respond to what is contemporary, in my own voice," Hille says. "I like to push the boundaries of what I know, musically." Although she prefers the music to be more about "human-ness" than "woman-ness" she acknowledges that part of her work that is written from a woman's point of view. "There is a real influence of blood, dirt, and kids that is more direct in a woman," she says. "But the best stuff surpasses gender, orientation and politics, and becomes high art." :) Rachel "I said you can lie to me I own what's inside of me and nothing surprises me anymore" -- shawn colvin, "polaroids" "wish you'd believe me he's not all he seems to be his eyes burn hot enough but hold less warmth than you think" -- sarge, "charms and feigns" - --------------------------------------------------------------------------- my Mary Lou Lord page is at http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/ To join the Mary Lou Lord mailing list, email Majordomo@smoe.org with ONLY "subscribe jinglejangle" OR "subscribe jinglejangle-digest" in the BODY. For info on my zine I'M NOT WAITING go to http://pages.nyu.edu/~rkb200/zine.html ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #81 *******************************