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.
How can you resist buying an album when this is the first review it gets.
Read extracts from what critic Ben Gott had to say in his review for kevchino.com
…painful for me to review…
…almost unlistenable.
…lovely it is not.
…it sounds as if Partridge is playing the guitar with metal fingernails.
…I’m simply asking for something without the drone,without the sharp edges…
…MONSTRANCE is no feast.Its more like a cold pancake.
…so what is the market for an album like MONSTRANCE?…serial killers?
…it is simply too experimental…
…don’t know if I’ll ever listen to MONSTRANCE again.
Wow! Thanks Mr.Gott for that TAP-esque review. Doesn’t that make you want to check it out even more?
Go and listen to the free download of the track “I Lovely Cosmonaut” and you could get yourself as upset as Ben.
Award winning animator Stephen Wichuk, has made this enigmatic short film to accompany Veda Hilles instrumental piece ‘White Flowers’, a track from her current album ‘Return Of The Kildeer’.
He uses traditional stopframe animation techniques and has built a beautiful miniature set to create a worrying yet wonderful dreamlike atmosphere.
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Peter Blegvad and Peter Blegvad the two halves of a self divided, chat to each other about the making of Orpheus The Lowdown, a bit part play for the fable minded.
Peter and Andy Partridge recorded the album over a number of years, the tragic love story of Orpheus and Eurydice is retold with words and music through an alchemy of sounds.
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XTC’s Andy Partridges latest project sees him team up with the original XTC keyboard player Barry Andrews and drummer Martyn Barker.
The three of them have produced an entire album from a series of live totally improvised sessions.
This two disc set also titled ‘Monstrance’ is out now.
Listen to the opening track ‘I Lovely Cosmonaut’ a disparate floating exploration of a piece which finds our three musical explorers high above the earth.
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Andy Partridge, Barry Andrews and Martyn Barker talk about the Monstrance project.
MONSTRANCE EXPERIENCE - Martyn Barker.
It’s always my favourite part of making music as a Drummer!
When you are in a room just playing with lovely dangerous people!
Making a creative conversation work or fall apart Thru Music and not knowing what will happen
Something will always trigger me off when Barry does his thing.
The rhythm’s just pour out and it’s so difficult to stop!
And now Andy’s Guitar making suggestion’s to where we could go. (more…)
Canadian singer songwriter Veda Hille takes you on an audio tour of her mesmerising album ‘Return Of The Kildeer’. An intensely moving album, somewhere between her compatriot Jane Siberry and Laurie Anderson.
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The last of the 3 exclusive podcasts in which Andy Partridge talks about the Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album. Andy talks about his favourite tracks on the album, his lyrics and the creative songwriting process. There is also a sneak preview into what the future holds.
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Watch the haunting video for Veda’s song ‘Bedlam’ from the album ‘Return Of The Kildeer’ Buy
The second of 3 exclusive podcasts in which Andy Partridge talks about the Fuzzy Warbles Collectors Album. Andy chats about the various pieces of equipment he uses and also a little about the up coming Monstrance project.
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MONSTRANCE is Andy Partridges latest project with keyboard player Barry Andrews and drummer Martyn Barker. Watch the video to the forthcoming download single ‘Winterwerk’ recorded live and improvised at Swindon’s Headroom Studios. Filmed by Mitch Keen.
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