zunior
Monday, January 25, 2010
more hille back catalogue is up at zunior, including the long out-of-print path of a body!
imperatives
Friday, January 15, 2010
ok team: go to the ravishing beasts taxidermy exhibit at the museum of vancouver. go to the push festival and i forgot to mention a few months ago, if you’re in berlin go to the museum der dinge, the museum of things. full of things.
records up at zunior
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
as promised, you can now buy digital versions of auditorium and you do not live in this world alone at zunior. more back catalogue will be up there soon!
happy old new year
Monday, January 11, 2010
hello there peoples. sorry to have abandoned my post for a few weeks. i’ve been testing the air, i suppose. figuring out how i feel in this new decade. so far so good. we had a great time on gabriola last weekend, and you can look at pictures taken by victor over here. next up comes duplex on saltspring, this coming sunday. more ferry rides!
what else is up? i’m going to be a mentor! i could be your mentor. the vancouver east cultural centre has a program called Ignite, and you can go here to find out more about the program and the application process. i am staying home working on vancouver projects most of this year and i will be doing some private teaching. get in touch at veda@vedahille.com if you’d like piano or songwriting lessons.
and hey, my pals myths, who are apparently now one of the hottest new bands in canada, are going to join me for a few songs at the pitt gallery benefit on jan 30. while i was looking for songs to do with them i found this old demo of ace of the nazarene. just me and justin rocking out at the hive.
song of the moldau
Thursday, December 24, 2009
well here we go my friends; your last christmas gift from me this year is the Song of the Moldau, written by Bertolt Brecht and Hanns Eisler and based on a old czech folk song. we recorded this all in one big room together, me and my pals. this is my favourite reminder of the inevitability of shift and change and hope. merry christmas to you all.
beautiful mother
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
ok, this is one of the songs that i wrote in berlin for the upcoming leaky heaven/neworld theatre show Peter Panties. the script and lyrics were written by Niall McNeil and Marcus Youssef. i’m singing the part of Wendy Darling and Josepha Conrad is singing Mrs. Darling. Reimar Servas is playing drums. we recorded it at studio upstream in weissenssee. i think i’ll be putting out a little ep of our berlin recording once we’ve mixed it, and eventually we’re planning a full length album of the songs with cast. that’ll be in 2011 sometime.
lost wall of penguins
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
a little instrumental ditty for you, with a horn arrangement by the inscrutable ford pier. someone should make an animated short out of this one. i offer it up.
japanese soaplands
Monday, December 21, 2009
and here we have another outtake from This Riot Life: a version of Soapland Serenade sung in Japanese. that’s us: maiko, patsy, skye and me, singing phonetic japanese. except maiko of course, who actually speaks the language. skye had a leg up because of his extensive karate lessons. maiko’s mom was in at the session, taking care of hokuto and being the eagle ear for our pronounciation. i’m still longing for the country of japan to totally embrace us so that we can go there and play and eat and visit miyazake. just letting you know, japan.
the old neighbourhood
Sunday, December 20, 2009
ok, this is a song from the long ago first cassette. i know that some of you already have this, but a fellow was asking about it at the shows last weekend and i promised i’d put it up. and yes, i still live in the same hood. this song also acknowledges my lifelong debt to sesame street.
quietly in the garage
Saturday, December 19, 2009
this is a recording from about a year ago, made on my ipod which you can hear gurgling and ticking away. this is an early version of the neil young song Transformer Man, which i cover on the upcoming record Young Saint Marie. due out next year. teaser!
