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Veda HilleVeda Hille Independent musician and in-house composer for Vancouver’s Theatre Replacement vedahille.com  What’s on your iPod? Well, gosh, a lot of stuff. Just looking randomly at the N section here: Neutral Milk Hotel, Neil Young, Nico, No Kids, Nat King Cole... Cutting-edge or cacophony? I have both those things, yes. Guilty pleasure time: If we jacked into your shuffle, we’d be surprised to hear… I try hard not to feel guilty about music. There are so many other guilts. But surprising? How about Twiggy? That surprised me the other day. I still don’t know everything that’s on that damn machine. Your favourite song of all time is… my favourites change all the time. Lately I’m obsessed with the song “Myriad Harbour” by Dan Bejar/The New Pornographers. You wouldn’t be caught dead listening to… Howard Stern. Best music for working up a sweat (at the gym or otherwise)? I just figured out how to make a playlist on my iPod, and I’m totally excited about my “gym bunny” mix. It’s got Le Tigre, the Streets, the Kinks, Gwen Stefani, Elvis Costello, Belle and Sebastian, the Go-Go’s... I love it. Of course, if we’re talking about sexy sweat, I’ll always go for Nick Cave: darker, slower, and fairly kinky. Rrrrrrr. Music that brings back the most wonderful memories? My husband Justin and his friend Randy deejay at our parties, and those are some of the best times I’ve ever had, dancing with my friends to “Surrender” by Cheap Trick, “Hey Ya” by Outkast, “I Will Survive” (the Cake version), and all the Prince songs. Heaven. If you could hang out with any musician—living or dead— who would it be? Judee Sill. Who is your favourite Canadian band? Again, I shy away from favourites. I love Christine Fellows, Ida Nilsen, John Southworth, Kim Barlow, Final Fantasy, the Hidden Cameras, the Weakerthans, the Rheostatics... a long list. What was the last live music event you attended? I just finished a tour with my band, and on our day off in Berlin we got to go see my husband’s band, No Kids, playing with Why? and Mount Eerie at the Volksbühne [theatre]. Oh, and then on another day off we saw a beautiful show of Brecht songs in an old room that hadn’t been used since 1943. Gorgeous. If there were a soundtrack to your life it would be… hopefully very long and varied. —Erica Gehrke 
Editor's Picks - July 2008 |
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Yeah, we’re all experiencing a little eco-fatigue these days,
but don’t let that stop you from grabbing a copy of this
inspirational little book. Its message: “The environment
does not need fixing. It is our behaviour in relation to it
that needs to change.” Bookended with wise words about
conscious living from Nobel Peace Prize winners the Dalai
Lama and Wangari Maathai, this simple yet moving parable
(done up in Haida-slash-Japanese manga style) of a hummingbird
brings home the message that however small an
action may be, it can make a difference. —Erica Gehrke
Kicking back to the 11 tracks on this local indie act’s latest
offering reminds me of long, sunny afternoons at the Winnipeg
Folk Festival. The gentle pluckings of banjo, stand-up
bass, and the vocalists’ pitch-perfect, two-part harmony may
have you dreaming of simpler, sweeter times—but don’t
be fooled: though the sound is classic folk, the songs focus
squarely on the urban experience in all its heartbreaking
glory. Check out the mournful “Old City,” where a woman
dreams of escaping the din and drama of East Hastings. Buy
the CD direct from 
Bridgeman and Catto, both British musicians, circled the
globe for four years collecting wisdom and musical jewels to
create the DVD/album mosaic What About Me? Starting with
pre-composed backing tracks, the music grows as the voices
of stars like Michael Stipe, Ben Harper, and k.d. lang seamlessly
mix with the traditional music of the Bedouins and
Gabonese pygmies. The music is punctuated by interviews
with such luminaries as Eckhart Tolle and Bhagavan Das, but
What About Me? also draws from the wisdom of regular folks;
unscripted conversations reveal how we are all connected,
not only through our beliefs, but most of all, through our
darkness. —Bruce Skipper
