NEW YORK PRESS REVIEW
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"Jane Hohenberger is a Goddess" clipping to the right from the Googlebox zine.
WHAT THE CRITICS SAY
"A poet with a way of making words do amazing feats, Jane has taken to singing. Jane sings like the ghosts of dead jazz greats have taken over her body except that she sings about bugs and dogs and outerspace. This collection of 13 songs is everything from melodic to funny to creepy. Mostly just vocals, sometimes bass and drums sneak in. Really, you'll like it. Enjoy her live...sometime if you can."
- Princess Magazine (reviewing "Lickity Split")
"Performance Poet. Her clever verse cuts through the superficialities of life. Stinging, lucid. Sings also, and her dark cabaret style haunts the listener."
- Avant Garde Classics Series
"NYC's Vitapup were emo hc with a gracefully athletic femayl drummer. . . The emotional peak of their set was an incredible poem midway through, which made acrobatic intuitive leaps from parakeet tongued old folks buying seedless grapes to our "seedless" culture, to an angry littany against words of hate. Jane would've kicked ass at any Poetry Slam with her terse, controlled delivery. . ."
- Rhode Island Paper
"Her Iyrics bring a world weary cynicism and a newborn's sense of wonder to songs about everything from outer space and electricity to sex and numbers. The resulting mix of anger, fear and innocence sounds like Diamanda Galas and Lydia Lunch reading fairy tales to wayward children."
- Jordan Flaherty, NY Press
REVIEW OF "TRANSMITTING"
"Transmitting is just the type of band that will make even the most accurate critic eat their words. This imaginative duo from NYC features vocalist Jane LeCroy against the backdrop of Tom Abbs' upright bass, didjeridoo, tuba and various percussion instruments (including firecrackers). Besides working with Reggie Workman in Jump the Basses, he performs with other jazz outfits in the city. In Transmitting, his keen sense of improvisation propels Jane LeCroy through a vast landscape of words songs and sound. Jane LeCroy delivers an arresting artform, rescuing the concept of performance poetry from the coffeehouse hacks of the world. A must see!!"
- Marc Minsker,
Free Times
REVIEW OF "SOMNAUT"
"Electronic trio multimedia band/art project Somnaut put on one of the most unusual and engaging shows in town. Apparently taking her cue from the science installments of schoolhouse rock, high octane front woman Jane LeCroy is a nightclub interplanet Janet who speak-sings her uncategorizable poetry, turning whale skeletons and deep space probes into stunningly effective metaphors. Meanwhile her knobtwiddling partner David Heagle tweaks fluttering sounds into a burbling collage. Video maestro Aaron Harder literalizes LeCroy's vision into trippy futuristic imagery and projects it over the performers."
- Ethan Smith,
New York Magazine