From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V3 #118 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Friday, December 10 1999 Volume 03 : Number 118 Today's Subjects: ----------------- YDNLITWA reviews ["Nick Eeepooh!" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 09 Dec 1999 09:53:17 PST From: "Nick Eeepooh!" Subject: YDNLITWA reviews well i'm home sick from school today so i figure i should do what i've been meaning to do for months. what's that you ask? why, i'm going to transcribe for you some cd reviews of veda's new[ish] album. numero un. You do not live in this world alone review from the Drippy Gazette: Life is strange and beautiful, and nobody experiences it in the same way. I think the same can be said of this album. beginning with a thumping heart-like beat, YDNLITWA whispers to the listener with a conspirital intimacy that draws one into a quiet, creaky soundscape that breathes with poetic surrealism. Some very spooky moods are dealt with here and through it all Hille's delicate and beautiful voice confides in the listener. When she hits those high notes, i swear, she sounds like Joni Mitchell at her timeless best. But Veda seems just a little more disturbed than Joni, a little weirder. She continues to explore her recent interest in tape loops and samples, collaborating here with New York's Christof Migone and Toronto's David Travers-Smith. These samples are periodically laced in and out of the warped and acoustic folk music that comprises the CD. It reminds me of Laurie Anderson without the high-tech multi-media. The album murmurs along in its moody way until track six, Killzone!, when it suddenly rocks like Captain Beefheart at the Radar Station. Then it's back to feathery banjos and drums that tick like a distant clock behind Hille's unique voice. The whole thing ends with a lingering silence and a sample of the woman's voice from the BC automated phone service asking "are you still there?" A daring and gorgeous work from a seasoned and serious artist. This is the kind of album you can spend a lot of time with, until it becomes your good old friend. ~Jeff Reliant numero deux. Another review of YDNLITWA from exclaim magazine: Vancouver-based songbird Veda Hille's last album was a pop record about art. 1997's Here is a Picture, inspired by the work of Canadian painter Emily Carr, was a lovely piece of work more song based and accessible than one might expect from something commisioned initially to accompany a dance piece. Now returning, at least theoretically, to more "pop" material, Hille has made a lovely new album best described as art-rock. "I guess you rebel against what you're expected to do," she says by way of unnecessary explanation. The transformation between projects has added a new artistic weapon to her artillery-after writing the tribute using a cut and paste with Carr's words, YDNLITWA is a much freer in it's storytelling than Hille's earliar, more autobiographical work. "Up until the Emily Carr record, all of my music was autobiographical," she says,"but that's not true anymore. I enjoy that aspect of music - making all of it seem true even when it couldn't possibly be." Whether or not it's fiction, the truth is very evident in this new work. More fleshed out musically than previous efforts by her band - "Now I get to be in a band AND be in charge," she quips - which includes Vancouver's legend-in-the-making Ford Pier and a slew of more instruments than the sparse-sounding record would have you believe. The title, YDNLITWA, contains a double meaning, according to Hille, of responsibility as well as reassurance, but this lovely new album makes the world seem a little less lonely. ~James Keast whew, there you go! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V3 #118 ********************************