Dispatches from the Drift, by TJO

Dispatches from the Drift

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200 pro dub Super Ferric tapes in clear, imprinted shells with three color, Risograph-printed photo j-cards packaged in black & white Norelco cases. Cover art by Tara Jane O'Neil. Design & printing by Issue Press. 11 tracks, 63 minutes.

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3-color Risograph print of Tara Jane O'Neil's original cover art on heavyweight black paper. Edition limited to 50 copies, hand numbered & signed by TJO. Printed by Issue Press in Grand Rapids, MI. 8 inches by 10 inches.

(Image is a digital approximation of the print, not an actual photo.)

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1.	A Sunday 2020 04:20 video	buy track
2.	Heavy Tremolo 05:14	buy track
3.	Pump Sounding 07:12	buy track
4.	Phaser Secret 05:34	buy track
5.	Long Key 08:50	buy track
6.	Wind with Dog 03:13	buy track
7.	Ventura Tuesday 07:49	buy track
8.	Preparing for Brigit 09:09	buy track
9.	Hurdy Short 01:17	buy track
10.	It's Been a Long Time 08:35	buy track
11.	Sunday Preamble 01:43	buy track

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Typically I use voice memos or computer programs to catch ideas and work out the really sticky ones. These pieces were recorded on iPhone or the computer program I use to monitor when I had the presence to press record. They were promptly forgotten. These are not sketches of ideas that may be revisited, these sounds were not looking for a form or seeking to be known. These are complete, traveling pieces that resolve or simply end. At the end of the dismal and seismic year called 2020, I found these improvisations on my phone or my hard drive while looking for those typical fragments of inspiration I could use to make into something else through the ordinary alchemical process of making songs.
What a trick I played on myself! Thinking I hadn’t made much music during the lockdown. Tricked in to thinking that I had to be inspired or productive during the pandemic. Thinking that any previous metric or vocation would be valid during such a time. These recordings are things that got caught in the drift. These are some of what I did in the drift, without thinking.
Not playing shows or making a record for the first time since I was 19 has been truly confusing but again the trick is on me during the moments of fret about this. Music is eternal. Music doesn’t need a venue or a contract. What a gift to be able to play with music and what a gift to have it in the year 2020. And what a gift to find these keyboard recordings of sonic meander and repetition.
What a gift that music exists and on these recorded occasions I was simply playing with it, for play. Without lyricism or intention these are recordings of sonic meander and repetition rendered by keyboard. The exception is A Sunday 2020, and its preamble. It meets certain criteria for inclusion here as the keyboard and wordless vocals were improvised just like the others. However on this one I did use my old familiar hammer, the guitar for melodic shape.
These found ambient pieces were not edited to feel narrative, and weren’t made with sharing in mind. Use them however you like.
- TJO

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released July 23, 2021

This music was improvised on keyboards by Tara Jane O’Neil during the pandemic lockdown in Southern California April 2020 - February 2021.

These are solitary moments captured on varied devices and discovered again months later.

Please enjoy the rangey fidelity and sonic quality.

Mastered by Matt Bachmann

Cover painting by Tara Jane O'Neil

Much Love to All
And to Owen Ashworth
And to my companions during the drift, Jmy Kidd and Teeny Dolly Martin.
And to the spirit if Ron Burns and Gabriel Wrye.

© Tara Jane O’Neil 2021 (BMI)

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Tara Jane O'Neil Los Angeles, California

TJO is a multi-instrumentalist,composer,producer and visual artist. She creates melodic and experimental music under her own name and in collaboration with other musicians,dancers and filmmakers.As a solo artist she has released 8 full-length albums.Since 1992 TJO has performed at clubs & DIY spaces around the world as well as the Centre de Pompdou,the Whitney Museum and All Tomorrow’s Parties. ... more

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