Ectophiles' Guide - Jane Siberry(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Jane's Sheeba releases so far have comprised of a odd collection of random sounds (A Day in the Life), songs written when she was a teenager (Teenager), three live CDs (the New York Trilogy), and now Hush, a collection of folk standards.
Jane may have felt overly pressured and constricted when she was on a major label, but they gave her the time, money, and production assistance required to create a true masterpiece--When I Was a Boy.
JaneSiberry at the Bottom Line was the third of four shows there as she kicked off the American leg of her Solo Pilgrim Tour.
Her music, with its innovative lyrics and spoken dialogues, is without a doubt a musical category in itself.
On this CD, as well as the others, Siberry uses her own unique style of writing lyrics to convey raw emotion, as well as her own stories and experiences.
JaneSiberry’s music, with its many different colors, is one rainbow that is definitely hard to catch.
On When I Was a Boy, Siberry forges the most effective union of her extreme aesthetic leanings yet.
Count Your Blessings is a Christmas album featuring Siberry, Cole, Jenkins, Mary Margaret O'Hara and Victoria Williams recorded live in concert in 1993 for a CBC broadcast.
The musical material for these ten tracks was recorded in a single three-day session with a jazz quartet; Siberry then constructed songs from her favorite passages.
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Eclectic performance artist and vocalist JaneSiberry started as part of the acoustic duo Java Jive.
Her follow-up, 'Speckless Sky' (1985), helped secure Siberry's stance as not only a commercial sensation, but a force to be reckoned with as a media darling.
In the latter half of the 1990's Siberry has decided to return to her independent roots.
A singer and songwriter of uncommonly beautiful melodies that are at once becalming and disconcerting, Jane has been creating music since the early 1980s when she was busking on Toronto's coffeehouse circuit.
In the last few years Jane has left the security (and frustrations) of a major record label behind for the freedom (and frustrations) of pursuing her own path.
Hence, the typically atypical left turns in her recorded output, a prime example of which is her most recent release, "Hush." An intimate and moving collection of traditional ballads that are meditative without being soporific, "Hush" is delivered in an impressionistic style with minimalist austerity.
From her beginnings as an early-’80s folkie to her ambient, near-performance-art recordings, JaneSiberry has pushed the boundaries pop music ever forward with her continual risk taking.
This 15-track record, available solely through www.janesiberry.com, is a collection of some of her more offbeat recordings and collaborations, including a solo version of "Calling All Angels," and tracks recorded with folks like French avant-garde composer Hector Zazou, klezmer artist Frank London and British composer Morgan Fisher.
Onstage, the witty Siberry — touring solo with just a guitar and piano — is as challenging as she is charming.
So for those not actively keeping up with her career, a short re-introduction is necessary, lest one loses track of this incredibly fascinating singer/songwriter/conceptualist.
Yet despite the incredible quality attached to her almost inhuman level of productivity, Siberry is often treated by the media with the sort of respectful annoyance usually reserved for brilliant if slightly-deranged aunts.
About her "perverse" ways: Siberry acted upon her frustration over Reprise Records' inability to properly promote her work in a manner anathema to 99% of the musicians on Earth: she endeavored to get dropped by her label.
Rather, the site is carefully directed and crafted by Jane (with some help in the tricky spots--we are, after all, interested in Jane the elegant story-teller not Jane the crafty HTML-editor).
Siberry the Musician had to become Siberry the Business Manager and Siberry the Order Taker and Siberry the Post Office Runner and so on.
Combining all the elements gone before--spoken word, her luscious stories and rich arrangements--with traditional Christmas songs and some darker tales, Jane seeks to bring all of these elements and the separate acts of her career into one room for several focused energetic hours.
Immune to fads, trends and fashions, Siberry is an artist who is not afraid to pose difficult musical questions.
Jane released her first recording in 1981 using the contributions of diners in Guelph restaurants.
By 1984, she was signed to a major label and the result, No Borders Here, produced her first “hit”—”Mimi on the Beach.” A year later, The Speckless Sky went gold and Jane was firmly established as an important artist, a status she has maintained ever since.
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The idiosyncratic Canadian art-pop chanteuse JaneSiberry was born in Toronto, Ontario on October 12, 1955; after taking up the piano as a child, she began absorbing the classical and operatic inspirations which later distinguished her professional work.
JaneSiberry Is Giving Up Her Goods And Giving Away Her Music Dec 8, 2005
JaneSiberry to spend rest of year touring Nov 7, 2005
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You're an avowed admirer of iconoclastic Canadian singer-songwriterJaneSiberry, she of the spun-silver voice, startling lyrics swathed in gossamer melodies, and ardent cult following.
JaneSiberry Is Giving Up Her Goods And Giving Away Her Music
Singer JaneSiberry will log some major miles before year's end as she mounts a tour through the U.S. and her native Canada.
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Canadian singer/songwriterJaneSiberry has at last embraced the perfect idiom for her beguiling, poetic muse.
Composed as well as recorded in the studio, this album has Siberry backed by a jazz trio that features pianist Tim Ray (of Orange Then Blue and other Boston outfits), drummer Brian Blade (Joshua Redman), and bassist Christopher Thomas (Redman, Betty Carter).
Free of the fragmented, over-indulgent tone of her last few albums, Maria shimmers with grace and a playful innocence that mirrors the storybook images "See the Child" and the wistful nuances of the title track.
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In the above, Siberry isn't so different from Kate Bush or Roxy Music: She serenely melds a free-ranging exploratory nature with as lush and gorgeous a sound as anyone in pop music has ever had.
Getting to hear her "Map of the World" four-part suite in one sitting is also a more-than-pleasant benefit of this collection; the original versions of this suite were split over several albums.
But "Symmetry" is the quintessential Siberry song bright and bubbly with a deep sense of irony, coupled to clever word play.
Four years later, she released "When I was a Boy", which included "Calling All Angels," a song which was feature in Wim Wenders' "Until the End of the World".
JaneSiberry has also collaborated with Peter Gabriel, and contributed several other songs for movies such as "The Crow", and "Faraway So Close".
Now, she runs Sheeba, her own record label, which shows us an artist having come full circle, that circle being made of gold.
The winners of the English and French prizes will share a combined purse of $60,000.
Eight of the 11 shortlisted books up for the Commonwealth Writers' Prizes in the Canada/Caribbean region are by Canadian authors.
In the best first book category, three Canadian-authored titles are among the contenders: Howard Akler's The City Man (Coach House Books), George Elliott Clark's George and Rue (HarperCollins Canada), and Jacqueline Honnet's Limbo (Turnstone Press).