Press Reviews

Selected press quotes below.  For full reviews and feature articles, please visit artist's Digital Presskit.

"Using her lush, classically trained soprano, live electronic processing and the occasional found object, she isn't so much a performance artist as aural architect, sound conjurer." - Andrew Gilbert, Contra Costa Times, March 28, 2003

"one of San Francisco's creative treasures" - Brad Rosenstein, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, May 23-29, 2001

"Z is an unusual and naturally gifted performer with a ravishing speaking and singing voice and a stage presence that is both engaging and commanding." - Ken Durling, San Francisco Classical Voice (SFCV.org), May 6, 2000

"In an age when commercial pressures work to narrow the use of electronics into the safe arenas of accessible pop, Pamela Z has forged a singular path, carrying on the legacy of the avant-garde informed by John Cage and Karl Stockhausen, and the vocal traditions of Diamanda Galas and Laurie Anderson." - J.H. Tompkins, The San Fransicsco Bay Guardian, September 1998

"Pamela Z is, as the saying goes, an intriguing bunch of people, a vocalist who mixes street instincts with vestiges of operatic singing and other between-style sounds, and she also is a gifted improviser and manipulator of delay loops to build up layers of sound." - Josef Woodard, Los Angeles Times, January 16, 1998