tara jane o'neil: where shine new lights

TJO has always been a shapeshifter. In her tireless search for a music that mirrors & reflects her alchemical, deeply syncretic approach to sound, color, language, surface & texture, she has found herself in a somewhat singular category. Using some very basic recording equipment & her vivid musical imagination, she has achieved a rare essentialism wherein all unnecessary elements have been stripped away leaving only the most indispensable sounds. Concise, but expansive, stripped of unnecessary gestures; guitars resonate, amps hum, & an exquisite, languid melancholia appears out of the haze.