News:

Feb. 2010:

I just finished up recording vocals for a full length Xasthur record. The LP will be released on Hydra Head records. More information coming soon on this exciting collaboration. I am currently working on a new full length record, with some touring coming up as well. A collaboration with James Blackshaw is also in the works.

Touring news:

I will be going on tour with the lovely Alela Diane for late October and November through the United States and parts of Canada, singing/playing songs off of my last four records and also some new ones. The tour dates have just been announced. The end of 2009 will take me to Spain to participate in the Primavera Club's 2009 showcases for three shows.

Recording news:

In recording news, The Judee Sill covers compilation (see details below) is to be released on September 15th, 2009, featuring a cover song I did with Black Hole Infinity of the Kiss. Another unreleased song is now available through a charity compilation, Leaves of Life, benefiting the WHO and Darfur relief programs, distributed by Darla and curated by Buck Curran of the Maine band Arborea. Called "Dead Wives Club", the song is a collaboration with Black Hole Infinity and the compilation features a stellar lineup. To purchase the record, go here: http://bornerecordings.bigcartel.com/product/various-artists-leaves-of-life.

I will also be collaborating with Xasthur and am to contribute on a number of compilations coming up.

Paste Magazine:

Thirty years after singer-songwriter Judee Sill’s death, 15 of her musical heirs will pay their respects in Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of
Judee Sill, coming Sept. 22 on American Dust.
Although her folksy, haunting ballads were more cult classics than mainstream hits, she was the first artist signed to Asylum Records under David Geffen, releasing two albums before her tragic death via drug overdose in 1979. It is these two albums that Crayon Angel builds on, with contributions from Marissa Nadler,
Final Fantasy, Nicolai Dunger and
Grizzly Bear's Daniel Rossen.

Unlike most tribute albums, however, Crayon Angel has a twist: The compilation includes two previously unreleased tracks penned by Sill herself, never before recorded. Lo-fi singer-songwrirter Bill Callahan takes “Like a Rainbow,” while folktronica queen Beth Orton performs “Reach for the Sky.”

Tracklist:

1. Ron Sexsmith: "Crayon Angel"
2. Beth Orton: "Reach for the Sky"
3. Daniel Rossen: "Waterfall"
4. Frida Hyvönen: "Jesus Was a Cross Maker"
5. Shalants: "Lopin Along Thru the Cosmos"
6. Final Fantasy: "The Donor"
7.Nicolai Dunger: "Soldier of
the Heart"

8. Trembling Blue Stars: "Lady-O"
9. Colossal Yes: "The Phoenix"
10. Marissa Nadler & Black Hole Infinity: "The Kiss"
11. Princeton: "Down Where the Valleys Are Low"
12. The Bye Bye Blackbirds: "There's a Rugged Road"
13. Meg Baird: "When the Bridegroom Comes"
14.Bill Callahan:

"For a Rainbow"
15. P.G. Six: "Til Dreams Come True"

Prefixmag.com

Judee Sill was the first artist signed to David Geffen's Asylum Records in the way back long ago, and released two LPs, Judee Sill in 1971 and Heart Food in 1973, before, like a true artist, she disappeared and died of a drug overdose in 1979.

Excuse the cliche, but despite that unpleasantness Sill's music is still alive, and to testify to that fact American Dust is putting out Crayon Angel: A Tribute to the Music of Judee Sill this fall. Appearing on the tribute compilation include Bill Callahan, Marissa Nadler and Black Hole Infinity, Final Fantasy, Beth Orton, Frida Hyvonen, Ron Sexsmith, Colossal Yes (members of Six Organs of Admittance and Comets on Fire), Daniel Rossen of Grizzly Bear and Department of Eagles, Meg Baird, and Nicolai Dunger. The compilation even includes two songs written by Sill, for which only sheet music and lyrics, but no known recordings exist. That's deep, right?