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The Leak, Summer 95
Alice Di Micele: A Killer Set Of Cords (Vocal) And A Passion For Her Mother (Nature)

By Cleveland Jones

New Jersey born, Oregon resettled 30-year-old Alice Di Micele releases her fifth project titled Naked. The CD is a combination of studio live and concert live songs, or in other words, the entire CD was recorded live. First and foremost on Naked are Di Micele's powerful voice and her adept and sometimes aggressive acoustic guitar strumming. On other tracks, Di Micele has tastefully added jazz guitarist Mimi Fox and Violinist Brian Price.

Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey in 1965, to a pianist mother and a schoolteacher father, Di Micele grew up playing the recorder, flute and finally the guitar. At age 21 she abandonded the state university of New York and moved to southern Oregon ("I fell in love with the forest") to pursue a professional career in music. That was nine years and five releases ago.

To write that Di Micele cares about nature is a mammouth understatement. She believes that the ecosystem and wilderness keep people physically and spiritually alive. In her words, "Nature is God/Goddess. Nature is everything. If we destroy it, we destroy ourselves." Nature, in her rationalization, extends to the belief that racism, sexism, homophobia, anti-semitism, etc., can be overcome through a healthy respect for nature and the power of love. Naive? Perhaps, but sincere. So, we have dual passions--nature and music--the two mixing together. Herein lies the rise and flow of Alice Di Micele.

Nature aside, Di Micele remains regionally popular and continually tours, primarily in the Pacific Northwest. Plant a tree and tell her we sent you.