After playing the bass with Rodan, pioneers of post-rock and post-hardcore, Tara has formed bands like The Sonora Pine and Retsin (with the writer Cynthia Nelson), and has collaborated with Sebadoh, Papa M, Come, Low and Ida. Her two solo albums "In the Sun Lines" (2001) and "Peregrine" (2000) have a mixture of rural sounds, pop, tropicana and melodies that remind of Joni Mitchell, Brian Eno, and Dusty Springfield, always under the cloak of Tara's magnetism, also present in one of the songs of the "Acuarel...   [ read more ]

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"This is Tara Jane O'Neil's second solo release in an enthralling career that, since the early 1990s, has seen her appear on seven albums with three bands, each more or less ignored. That she is so little known isn't surprising: her work is uncompromising and devoid of choruses. But it is also elegant, complex and glows from within like a Caravaggio canvas. Four of the 10 tracks here are ruminative, hypnotic instrumentals, while the subdued, enigmatic vocals float in airy layers of guitar, strings and pian...   [ read more ]

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Tara has honed her skills as a songwriter, singer, home recordist, guitarist, and all around multi-instrumentalist over the course of an amazing career. She has run the gamut of musical diversity, jumping from the crushing rock of Rodan to her folky duo Retsin, and from the elastic experimentalism of The Sonora Pine to the arty metal mania of King Cobra. O'Neil considers herself as much a noise artist as a songwriter, and while this new release -- her third solo full-length -- is haunting and lovely, it's ...   [ read more ]

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