From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V4 #31 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Friday, July 14 2000 Volume 04 : Number 031 Today's Subjects: ----------------- time out article [meredith ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2000 23:25:33 -0400 From: meredith Subject: time out article Hi! A UK fan, Adam Kimmel forwarded me this transcript of the write-up for Veda's July 4 show that appeared in the London version of _Time Out!_ Magazine. It's by Ross Fortune, and it's really cool. ========== "A siren wails, and her words fall like rain. This is not your average so-called Lilith Fair vagina music - a little bit of Tori, a soupcon of grrrly angst and a whole lot of nothing else at all. Oh no. No. No. From Vancouver, Veda Hille is oft compared to Ms Amos - Jane Siberry and PJ Harvey, too, while the fractured majesty of Laura Nyro also springs to mind - but mostly she is her own woman. Boldly and defiantly so. Acknowledged influences include the Rachel's and Neutral Milk Hotel. Clearly, she needs no wadding. Among numerous - hard to find - recordings are four often astonishing albums: "Path Of A Body" (1994), "Spine" ('96), "Here Is A Picture" ('98) and "You Do Not Live In This World Alone" ('99). With a voice that quivers, emotes, hovers and soars, Hille sings songs that challenge and chill, muster and thrill. Accompanying herself on piano (classically trained) and guitar (self-taught) and sometimes with a band (soft and splendid, dense and complex), she is like Nyro and like nobody. Like Nick Cave, only woman. Provocative, unvarnished, 31-year-old Hille is possessed of an artful braggadocio, a wild and ravaged sense of passion and distress, dissonant beauty and dissolved fury. She is no one's cult, her fame is slowly rising, and she will return. When she does her name will be wider known and you will wish you had been here tonight." Wow... +==========================================================================+ | 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 V4 #31 *******************************