From: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org (trajectory-digest) To: trajectory-digest@smoe.org Subject: trajectory-digest V5 #18 Reply-To: trajectory@smoe.org Sender: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-trajectory-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk trajectory-digest Friday, April 20 2001 Volume 05 : Number 018 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: trajectory-digest V5 #17 [James Gurley ] RE: Veda mention from hmv.com ["Foghorn J Fornorn" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 06:38:51 -0700 (PDT) From: James Gurley Subject: Re: trajectory-digest V5 #17 In answer to Meredith's question... > > >Veda Hille -- Field Study > > > > > >Featuring songs composed mainly for the piano and the organ, > > >Hille's seventh proper studio record is something of a concept > > >album. > > That's kind of funny -- wasn't the whole thing recorded live last December? > Yes it was recorded live on a Sunday in mid-December last year and it was solo piano. Veda played straight through for almost forty minutes and asked the audience not to applaud until the very end. It was hard to sit on our hands at such wondrous songs. Veda also played the song cycles again at the cd release in early April. I think the reference to the organ comes from the "in-studio" tweaking Veda and her engineers did on a couple pieces before the cd release. > Has anyone who ordered it directly through vedahille.com received theirs > yet? I'm going nuts here... > Neile Graham and I picked up our copy at the cd release concert on Apirl 5th. It is a wonderful disk, as one would expect from Veda, though not likely to win her new fans in the pop world. Veda continues to maintain a wonderful balance between the experimental and the beautiful. I wouldn't call it a dramatic step forward for her. In fact it reminds me a lot of "Here Is A Picture." - --Jim > ======================================= > Meredith Tarr > New Haven, CT USA > mailto:meth@smoe.org > http://www.smoe.org/meth > "things are more beautiful when they're obscure" -- veda hille > ======================================= > Live At The House O'Muzak House Concert Series > http://www.smoe.org/meth/muzak.html > > ------------------------------ > > End of trajectory-digest V5 #17 > ******************************* ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 11:42:18 -0400 From: "Foghorn J Fornorn" Subject: RE: Veda mention from hmv.com While the piano and vocals were apparently recorded live in one take, Field Study doesn't sound like a live album. Credits list a couple of months of studio tinkering in Jan & Feb. There is one track, Tuktoyaktuk Hymn, that uses organ rather than piano. And it is a hymn in the church-y sense of the word, except that few hymns I remember from my churchgoing youth mention engine failure. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2001 19:42:35 -0400 From: Anna Sheftel Subject: RE: Veda mention from hmv.com Actually went down to HMV and bought and was so giddy and happy to finally have it in my hands and listening to it right now and it rules. Yay! :) - --Anna At 11:42 AM 19/04/2001 -0400, Foghorn J Fornorn wrote: >While the piano and vocals were apparently recorded live in one take, Field >Study doesn't sound like a live album. Credits list a couple of months of >studio tinkering in Jan & Feb. There is one track, Tuktoyaktuk Hymn, that >uses organ rather than piano. And it is a hymn in the church-y sense of the >word, except that few hymns I remember from my churchgoing youth mention >engine failure. ------------------------------ End of trajectory-digest V5 #18 *******************************