Canadian singer songwriter Veda Hille’s enchanting new album ‘This Riot Life’ is widely hailed as her best yet.
In this podcast, Veda takes us on a tour through the albums songs and explains her ideas and thoughts behind the recordings.
Some of the songs from the album are based around hymns, and Veda explains, how going through her Grandmothers hymn book was a truly great source of inspiration.

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Posted by steve at April 29th, 2008 6:58 am | 5 Comments »
The new 4 track Download only EP ‘Fine Wires Humming A New Song’ is available exclusively to buy from the Ape store now (includes free artwork).
Monstrance, Martyn Barker drums, Barry Andrews keyboards and Andy Partridge guitar, recorded the tracks live in the studio, especially for Stuart Maconies FREAKZONE show on BBC 6 Music.
The four shimmering improvisations comprising this download only EP are “I am a Cow Devil”, “Children Love Our Dear Helmsman”, “Smelt me into Steel One Hundredfold” and “My first Words Were MAKE REVOLUTION”.
Also FREE to download with the EP is an 11 minute film for the track ‘I Lovely Cosmonaut’ taken from the 2CD album Monstrance. Buy
Posted by steve at October 4th, 2007 8:54 am | 5 Comments »