Ang: how did you find Jane?

Hi to all!

Interesting topic to raise. I agree with Tracy; I also found Jane through Kate Bush, i.e. through a review of "The Walking" where Kate Bush was used as a reference. I went off to the record store to listen to it, and I was amazed by "the white tent the raft" from the beginning. When later it turned up in the sales bin for virtually nothing, I was all hooked. I started looking for the back catalogue and happened to find the first album on cd at a record store in Lund, in the south of Sweden. Since then, it's been quite a job to track down videos, singles etc. And I finally got to see her (and speak to her) in concert in London (having always regretted that we had to leave London on our interrail the day before she was to perform there for the Bound by the beauty tour!). I really hope she'd do an extended European tour one day, and thereby doing some awareness raising about her work and ca
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Et voil`, some European experiences brought to you by
Henrik from Stockholm, Sweden. Hej hej!

>>> B Merrill <[email protected]> 2005-11-15 14:06:54 >>>
Tracy of the orange-clouds just said:
> it was thru kate bush that i was able to find jane. 

And how did that path work, Tres Sea?

And, to all, how did you find Jane?

My path: About 6 years ago I was at a party where our hostess had an
out-of-the-ordinary CD collection. Not the standard issue. So I asked her
to recommend something that was especially "different" and "ambitious."
Perhaps also "eclectic." These are the terms that I tend to use when I'm
seeking out new music. Sometimes I add the qualifier "-- but not ugly!"
Since a good chunk of music which is different & ambitious is also
aggressive, ugly, choppy, assaultive, & hermetic. And I no like that merde. 

	So, she directed me to Jane's "Maria." Which I was intrigued by. But I
didn't buy it promptly. Then, maybe 2 years later I looked Jane up in the
"All Music Guide to Rock" (a major resource, which I recommend, along with
their massive guides to Jazz, Blues and Soul), and picked out "The Walking"
among the other albums reviewed, as "her most accomplished work to date,
but bound to lose the casual listener quickly..." etc. So I pulled out my
wallet... and was amazed and delighted. Then I went on to get 5 other
albums, including Maria. But the Walking remains my fave, by far. 
	So I wrote a gushy-fan email to Jane, she honored me with a reply-- and
I've been a happy man ever since... 

I just brush off the slings & arrows of adversity!

--ciao y'all,

Bruce