The music is phenomenally good, especially the 10:49 long Voodoo Child.
author: UNSIGNED: The Largest Magazine Dedicated to Indie Music
Victoria and Zeta Five: Have you ever heard an electric violin sound like an electric guitar? Better yet, a child whining? These are some of the amazing things Victoria makes her “fiddle ” sound like on the band ’s CD "To Be Announced". Victoria and the band do a great job of delivering some down home blues influenced/jazz inspired material. The band is composed of some brilliant musicians, but dare I say the things Victoria does with her violin are simply magnificent ... the music is phenomenally good, especially the 10:49 long Voodoo Child. I would love to hear an all-instrumental CD from V and ZF.
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If your into some hot rockin' electric violin blues and jazz and fusion, let's g
author: Brad Fischer / Nashville Music Guide (Music City CD Corner)
If you're into some hot rockin' electric violin blues and jazz and fusion, let's go! Victoria Hammill is a fiddler extraordinaire when it comes to her genre of music. Released on the independent Digimind Records label, the album features eleven eclectic cuts that keep your body groovin' to the sound. The girl's vocals aren't to bad either and are backed by some pretty cool musicians.
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Now Victoria won't give away her secrets, but I'll tell you something that's no
author: The Befuddled Universe (Tim Null)
"Victoria has secrets! And she's not talking!
Victoria Hammill won't tell anyone how she gets her violin to sing, dance, whine, talk, and massage your soul.
Dang, if Victoria doesn't get connected to lightening every single time she touches bow to string.
You have to experience Victoria's violin. To miss out on this experience would be like missing Jimmy on guitar or Miles on trumpet. I know enough about language to know that you can only say "unique" once. So let there be no confusion when I say, Victoria is a unique violinist.
Victoria Hammill fronts a bluesy group called Victoria & Zeta Five. Victoria & Zeta Five play songs from a broad spectrum of genres, but they all tend to come out with a bluesy/jazzy interpretation.
Most the songs on "To Be Announced" are foot stompers. They're all tasty tunes that are finger-licking good! If these tunes were Southern fried chicken, you'd need extra napkins.
It's a difficult choice, but perhaps my favorite in the bunch is a cover of the Stevie Ray Vaughn song "Say What!".
As with all good bands, Zeta Five is a team effort. Zeta Five doesn't quite have enough regular and guest players to man a football team, but they certainly could put together a B-ball squad.
In a week or so, Victoria and the gang will be doing an audio Coffee with Tim. It will to be fun, so stay tuned!
Don't tell anyone, but when Zeta Five has their Coffee with Tim, I'll announce that I'm giving "To Be Announced" a rating of 5 plus a ScramJet Violin. Hush, now. Don't tell Victoria! She can't be the only one with secrets.
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author: Michael McCall, Nashville Scene, Critics' Picks, October 21, 200
Victoria Hammill plays an electric fiddle as if jamming with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Robert Randolf and as if trying to match the tone and freedom of both. Running her dramatically altered violin through a Mesa Boogie amp, she makes a mind-bendingly original bowed sound; if you weren't watching, you'd want to see how a guitarist was creating such wildly expressive solos. A geophysicist who has worked with wave-form propagation and microseismics, Hammill is not afraid of experimenting with the mechanics of her instrument and the sounds it can make
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