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jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry

a hopeful melancholy

About Me

Like the intuition implied by synchronized movement, Jess Hill's music reminds you of something you thought you'd forgotten. Anchored in the tendencies of folk, blues and jazz, Jess tells stories: cyclones and downpours, hovering birds, white skies. Seven years ago, she picked up a careworn guitar. A little while later she grabbed hold of a banjo. Since then, she has collaborated with acclaimed spoken word trio Tons of Fun University at the Vancouver Folk Music Festival and played to spellbound audiences in cafes, bars and living rooms from Vancouver to Cape Town. 2006 marked the release of her first full length album Road. In the dim light of midnight living rooms and in the hearts of singing shadows, Jess Hill is building something beautiful.

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Member Since: 3/26/2005
Band Website: jesshill.ca
Band Members: Jess Hill - guitar and vocals, the odd banjo

The High Hopes

~ as found on the album ~

Mike Liston - upright bass
Aaron Joyce - weissenborn and dobro
Jesse Waldman - electric guitar
Tyson Naylor - organ
Kenton Loewen - drums
Joanna Chapman Smith - backing vocals

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Influences: ...the wind, the water, cyclones and downpours, love (true, lost or lust), long goodbyes, the ability to hover, birds in song or otherwise, a mother's eyes, a lack of sleep, wishes, falling, grey skies and white skies, his ability to remain, moonless nights, neighbourhood cats, synchronized movement and the intuition it implies, hope, the variety of distances between us, dust when paired with afternoon sunlight, perambulating, gesticulating, his brown eyes and lashes, new acquaintance, shared silences, meandering in the hour before twilight, the entwined nature of the blissfull and bleak......and the noises made by Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Robert Johnson, Hank Williams, Skip James, Bessie Smith, Karen Dalton, Patsy Cline, Joni Mitchell, Ani Difranco, Wilco, Iron and Wine, Gillian Welch, PJ Harvey, Veda Hille, Martin Tielli, Elliot Smith, Nina Simone, Otis Redding, Lucinda Williams, Neil Young, The Band, Fleetwood Mac, Nick Drake, Feist, Joanna Newsom, Devendra Banhart, Vetiver, Jolie Holland, Buffaloswans, Mike Liston, C.R. Avery, Mark Berube, Ora Cogan, Tarran the Tailor, James Lamb.... ... .. .
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My Blog

protrusions are intruding!

hello dreamers;it is with a low leaning heart that i inform you all of my need to cancel my performance at 1067 this evening. a wee lil' disc in my back has decided to remind me that accidents happen ...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Fri, 23 May 2008 06:04:00 PST

a web of sights

the official jess hill web page is finally live and containing something resembling content! visit our lil' house on the hill side hereyours trulyin grey skies and lulabyesjess hill...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:07:00 PST

to twinkle by the traffics side

The landscape along the roadside between Toronto and London, all frost bitten and shinning in the afternoon sun, had me squinting my eyes for all the luminosity the white offered and lulled me to slee...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 07:20:00 PST

i met an angel

While there were no sailors in sight at the boat in Kensington last night (the band we were set to open up for had called the venue to cancel on Saturday and were to be sending another in their place ...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 10:58:00 PST

waking on spadina

We arrived late last night my Lamb and I, or rather early this morning.Toronto isn’t as cold as was threatened. In fact it’s somewhat refreshing.The pavement looks wet - does it rain here ...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:38:00 PST

FRIDAY FEB. 22nd

Hello good people! As you may or may not already know, depending on how loud your lil' corner of the city is when the murder passes over us at dusk, Ms. Barbara Alder and myself will be making a nigh...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:18:00 PST

blues jumped the rabbit

autumns late night haze leads me to karen dalton.filmed in her home for french television in 1970.such a grand lull.seek out and enjoy.goes beautifully with earl grey tea and rain plenty days.xohttp:/...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 01:36:00 PST

a full moon soundtrack

.....feeling inspired and compelled by one song on repeat in the lull of lunar light and wind in the street...explorations of the hearts stiringsi'm listening to "poor and free" by papercutshttp://www...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Thu, 25 Oct 2007 12:06:00 PST

a brief hiatus

.....sooo because the morning after last nights gig was so wrought with wheezing and thin throated fogs of rasp accompanying my every breath i have decided to forego my appearance at the rattleshake f...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 09:32:00 PST

Not performing @.....

Rhizome this Saturday as planned due to a bout of laryngitis.As scheduled Kate Reid, Leela Gilday and Kate Polsky will all still be performing. I'm terribly sorry if this dissappoints anyone - I've tr...
Posted by jess hill & the dreams of all & sundry on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:22:00 PST