From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V2 #102 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Tuesday, October 13 1998 Volume 02 : Number 102 Today's Subjects: ----------------- SPIN [Hillary Jackson ] RE: SPIN [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 18:57:34 -0400 From: Hillary Jackson Subject: SPIN Excerpt from an article in SPIN Magazine 9/98: It's hard to miss the continuum here: Records such as Neil Young's Harvest,Fairport Convention's Liege and Lief, and the Grateful Dead's Workingman's Dead were rock-to-unrock conversions made in part as a response to a co-opted underground, while pop eccentrics such as Randy Newman and Van Dyke Parks used folk as one ingredient among many.This strategy has been embraced by artists from Beth Orton and Parlor James to Palace's Will Oldham, who find that breakbeats and drum machines mix quite nicely with folk tradition. It's a tack that leaves some artists feeling like citizens without countries. "You can end up flailing about," says Orton, whose acoustic songcraft has mated with the Chemical Brothers' and William Orbit's electronica. "I can confuse myself quite easily with which musical direction to take. But I find it eventually," she says. Most folk hybridists are confident that audiences will come along forthe ride. "Maybe the hard-rock audience won't listen to anything else," muses Veda Hille, a young Canadian singer/songwriter whose Spine CD traffics in the sort of art-folk-pop-rock whatsit that epitomizes the new guard. "But most everyone else is ready for anything, y'know? I mean, it's the end of the century." ====================================== Hillary Jackson 468 Sixth Avenue #4 New York, NY 10011 212.675.9629 212.645.0298 (fax) hillaryj@mindspring.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 21:40:01 -0400 From: meredith Subject: RE: SPIN Hi! Hillary posted: >Excerpt from an article in SPIN Magazine 9/98: Yow! I had that issue in my hands yesterday, but I didn't buy it. Guess I missed the important bit as I was flipping through. :) What article was that excerpt taken from? One wonders if this means a "real" mention of Veda is in the cards for a future issue of SPIN ... +==========================================================================+ | Meredith Tarr meth@smoe.org | | New Haven, CT USA http://www.smoe.org/~meth | +==========================================================================+ | "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille | | *** TRAJECTORY, the Veda Hille mailing list: *** | | *** http://www.smoe.org/meth/trajectory.html *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V2 #102 ********************************