Lily Taylor

The human voice is a most curious thing. It can inflict physical pain or fear. Seduce and haunt you. Go from a whisper to a holler within seconds. Sound perfectly self-assured only to crack and become impossible to control. Occasionally, it can even make you fall in love with a complete stranger. A stranger like Lily Taylor, for example. Her songs are like dreams. Like soft, yet insistent rituals. Like a form of voluntary hypnosis. Like Pop but without the sugar. Like Electronica played in an infinite canyon. Like Jazz, but from the perspective of a shaman. Sometimes, echoes of Trip Hop and Tom Waits resonate within the empty hallways of tracks like "Reap" or "Taste", which feel more like sonic landscapes than traditional songs. But these references remain vague and never cristalyse into clear-cut genre-affiliations. It should seem apt that Taylor at times sounds as though she were singing in her sleep. After all, her lyrics are foremost emotional reflections of unresolved psychological states - Freud would have loved her debut album "Overtones". And yet, Taylor's music is anything but eccentric, with plenty of harmonic hooks and melodic loops guiding her audience through a fascinating and beguiling terra incognita. Perhaps it was her decision to move to Santa Fe in 2000, "to learn from healers, scholars, and artists about the responsibility artists have to show alternate perspectives", that decisively shaped her unique approach. Perhaps, however, she simply followed her own voice - after all, as she puts it, controlling your voice can be part of an effort of controlling your entire body - and thus, consequently, one's life. When applied correctly, it can even make complete strangers feel like long-lost friends...
see link for complete interview - Tokafi

She will be performing at the Rickshaw stop on 2/23/11 as part of Noise Pop! Go See her…. - Upper Playground

see link for photos - The Bay Bridged

Highlights of the night for me were discovering Karina Denike & Lily Taylor and Blue Rabbit. Blue Rabbit performed “Hey,” complete with three-part harmony and an arrangement that proves that the cello and harp are bonafide rock’n’roll instruments. Karina Denike & Lily Taylor were as sultry as can be on their rendition of “Silver.” The recorded tracks are just as amazing. - Examiner

...head to SOMArts for Saturday's opening reception, which includes a very special performance by local artists Sasha Baskina in collaboration with Theo Knox and Lily Taylor. Their piece, Birds of a Feather, ponders love and migration through music and movement accompanied by spoken word by Sri Lankan poet Pireeni Sundaralingam and accompaniment by Irish violinist Colm Ó Riain. Intelligent, edgy, and poignant—you won't be disappointed. - 7x7SF