From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V3 #1 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Sunday, January 3 1999 Volume 03 : Number 001 Today's Subjects: ----------------- veda's guitar ["jeF kearns" ] Review of _Spine_ [meredith ] Re: Review of _Spine_ [desmond in a tutu ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 10:40:44 PST From: "jeF kearns" Subject: veda's guitar Hi! This is jeF. I am wondering if anyone knows what tuning Veda uses for her guitar and/or chords/tab for any of her songs? Thanks! jeF. email: jeFkearns@hotmail.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 18:15:58 -0500 From: meredith Subject: Review of _Spine_ Hi! A friend forwarded this to me, thought y'all would be interested. The zine is an indie thing most easily found in NYC. >from =The Big Takeover= #43, edited by Jack Rabid > >Veda Hille: =Spine= (The Bottom Line) > >Canada has long been a silent source for singer-songwriters who mine >their personal caverns in order to touch on the collective experience. >While Hille's lyrics may be more arch or abstract than Leonard Cohen's or >Joni Mitchell's, they deep connection is there--Hille just explores it in >a more modernist fashion. Integrating another artist's poetry (as on >"INSTRUCTIONS") or keeping things slightly off-beat with an aggressive, >low-end piano attack and noirish acoustic guitar strum, are just two >examples of Hille's original approach to writing and interpreting her >music and poetic lyrics. To quote "strange, sad": "Things are more >beautiful when they're obscure." This is the mantra followed by Hille as >she delves without shame or fear into the internal world of the female >form and the body politic of human relations. With her plans to tackle future >material in an even more experimental fashion, one can only anticipate >future greatness. --Greg Weeks (Aside to jeF: I'm trying to get an answer to your tuning question ... I'll let you know. :) Happy '99, all! +==========================================================================+ | 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 *** | +==========================================================================+ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 02 Jan 1999 18:25:53 -0500 From: desmond in a tutu Subject: Re: Review of _Spine_ also sprach meredith: >A friend forwarded this to me, thought y'all would be interested. The zine >is an indie thing most easily found in NYC. > >from =The Big Takeover= #43, edited by Jack Rabid the big takeover is an excellent music magazine (it's too hefty and established, i think, to be called a fanzine) published quarterly by jack rabid. i've been meaning to subscribe for years, but i just never get around to it. bad woj. anyways, if any of you are interested, check out the big takeover's web site at . a four issue (i.e., one year) subscription costs $18 (usa), $20 (canada), $22 (everywhere else). send a check payable to jack rabid to the big takeover 249 eldrige st. #14 new york, ny 10002 if you have any questions (like, i assume, about how to deal with international currency), direct them to . woj ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V3 #1 ******************************