Jess Hill

Dreamers,
The pace is maddening! Brilliant things unfolding with every turn!
First and foremost, a huge thank you to those of you that crawled out of the woodwork and into the bright lights of the city for the CD Release Party with Jeff Andrew on Thursday night! Thank you so much for the amazing level of attentiveness and cross stage dialogue. It was so lovely and heart warming to hear your voices piping up in response to stories between songs. Thank you for continuing to be a source of inspiration and connection in my life! I am ever grateful. For those of you who couldn’t make it out – follow the following links for an idea of what you missed and come to our lil’ tour kick off at The Prophouse Cafe on Saturday April 2nd.

Pictures from the release show by the fabulous Amanda Bullick!
A review by the very kind Kirk of Doom at 3am Revelations

Friday morning I ran away from the city to celebrate spring on Salt Spring Island. Spent two days and nights nestled in a cottage by the ocean on a rocky hillside covered in daffodils! It was a truly magnificent and dreamy experience. One I will never forget….in fact I can’t wait to go back.

Ah, but there is soo much more ground to cover before I will return to Salt Spring Island. This Thursday Jeff Andrew and I are in Victoria at The Event Center and on SUnday our tour begins with us playing at Voodoos in Penticton.
After that it’s onward and upward without looking back until we return to Vancouver on May 15th.

Hope to see you out there, somewhere!
For now I’ll leave you with another review of the new record. This one by local poet, performer and zombie lover, CJ Leon. Enjoy!

Orchard, Jess Hill (March 24, 2011)

Combining a flawless lyrical voice with innovative finger-picking guitar, Jess Hill sets a tender but solid foundation for the progressive but tastefully luxurious orchestrations by arranger-producer Aaron Joyce on her new album Orchard. Tapestries of sound and noise produced on instruments ranging from violins to bullet shells carry the listener on a magic carpet-ride of dreams though tracks like “A Common Bird” and hard-hitting choruses like “Leave me with the old-fashioned sinners, a bottle, and be quick to deliver this soul of mine.” from the title track rock the listener with live-off-the-floor energy. The album peaks with emotional intensity on the bass-dripping track “Gimme Your Ghost”, a plea of a war-tortured lover to her beloved to surrender his spirit to her rather than to their country: “The free and the mighty lined up at their gates, let them go in your place!” Dipping into the shadows of progressive folk and evolving greatly in complexity from her debut Road (2006), Orchard creates a strong statement of the potential for the organic use of studio engineering, the fusion of orchestration and noise, and the future of song-writing in Canada.

Dream vast and without doubt,
Jess