"Hecate's Angels have an arty, futuristic cabaret sound, based around the creative vision of musician Pietra Wexstun (responsible for vocals, keyboards, autoharp and dulcimer, with songwriting and production throughout) and augmented by instrumentation including wind, strings, guitar, and diverse percussion. You'll see strange mythic pictures in your mind, go back in time, speak in tongues and then wonder who slipped that great mickey in your hi-ball glass. —THE CHORD
"With its ghostly country moods, twisted shanties and dreamy pop thrillls, it's an imaginative blend of familiar and freaky ingredients"
— DIGITAL MAGAZINE, Marcus Leadley
"A stylish box of delights - whisky smooth and air conditioning cool"
- HEARSAY MAGAZINE, U.K.
"Intelligently bizarre."
-CAPITAL Q, Sydney, Australia
"As heard from anyone from Black Sabbath to the Melvins, generic white-boy anger has pretty much fueled the darker side of rock. Hecate's Angels provides a more feminine slant on the damned with Hidden Persuader (Birdcage), where gospel music is spun around the pretty fingers of Pietra Wexstun. While officially a band entailing some of L.A.'s most interesting musicians, Hecate's Angels is mainly a vehicle for Wexstun to flesh out her notoriously spooky keyboard fixation, which encompasses everything from organ to madly-outdated synthesizers. Along the way, her descending staircase repeatedly relies on good intentions and womanly wiles. "Where there's a document shred/Make sure it's one that I've read/Or I'll be back with the tape and the glue," she warns in "Eve's Angle," pretty much creating the Barbara Stanwyck solo album we've all been anxiously awaiting.
Even the jauntier tunes pay tribute to downing souls, as when the chirpy existentialist narrator of "Fence" takes a stand against taking sides. The lost urban experience is further captured with the instrumental "Purdah Party," when the sound of taking a wrong turn in limbo is followed by the eastern-tinged madness of "Hall of Mirrors." The quiet horror show of "Rosemary's Baby" is chilling enough in the traditional realm of dark rumblings, while "Seduction of the Minotaur" has band member Stan Ridgway (who also serves with Wexstun in the multimedia Drywall project) brandishing a line harmonica against Wexstun's massively creepy organ lines. None of this, naturally, could go up against Slayer in the service of invoking Satan, but Hidden Persuader still makes a pretty compelling case for making a blind date with the Dark Lord."
NY PRESS - J.R. Taylor
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"Occasionally an album will come along which oozes out of the stereo, wafts around the room and takes you somewhere familiar, but somewhere you've never been before. Hidden Persuader, the debut album from US band Hecate's Angels is one such gem. It's a slab of psychosonic sorcery just perfect for a quiet night alone with your dreams or those awkward waking hours waiting for sunrise after a night on the tiles when for some reason you just can't sleep.
Named after Hecate (Heh-ca-tee), the Greek Goddess of sorcery and witchcraft, the band's sound is a kinky marriage of underworld ambience and pop, a union which manages to surprise without ever resorting to shock for shock's sake. Lead Angel, Pietra Wexstun teases an astonishing array of sounds from her organ, autoharp, melodica and theremin (that whooping, wailing instrument which leant an illicit drug buzz to Good Vibrations and saturated a trilogy of torch songs on Portishead's debut) and her lyrics boldly examine issues such as narcissistic desire, discovery and the nature of pleasure.
Hidden Persuader owes much of its exotic power to its middle eastern scales which swirl around the room conjuring up images of a Sultan's lush palace filled with belly dancers, demented dervishes and a thick curtain of hookah smoke. Hidden Persuader is a lushly stimulating trip into an Orphean underworld - and you don't even have to leave home to go."
QUEENSLAND PRIDE, Australia- Ian Clatcher
Pietra! I am going to the mothership on Jan 10th-19th. Are you and Stan gigging anywhere during that time? I would just flip to see/hear you. Please let me know my darling beauty!!!
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We have had a delicate year, you and I and many that I love and care about. My mom survived cancer, I survived similar freakish things, and you have been through so much Pietra. I just want you to know that you are loved if only from a somewhat vicarious standpoint?? Cyber love I suppose, that just sounds so cold and distant!
Much love, Lyric and Greta La musica dalla vostra mente è ipnotica ed è entrancing!Amore a voi, il mio amico!
THE BLIND TIME They start the engines at the end of the day With that rumble squeezing the silence the rain doesn't sound the same anymore just take off lights They leave at the darkest time at the blind time as blind as they are
L’ORA CIECA Accendono i motori sul finire del giorno Con quel rombo che schiaccia il silenzio La pioggia non ha più il suo suono Solo le luci del decollo Partono nell’ora più buia Nell’ora cieca Come ciechi sono loro
Gracias por haber añadido a tus amigos. Me parece muy interesante tu música, que he descubierto en "My Space". Yo soy italiano y vivo en Italia, pero mi esposa es peruana. Yo estaba en el Perú este año entre los meses de junio y julio. Un muy encantador país. Saludos. Romeo
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