Tara Jane O'Neil has been plying her trade as an artistically inclined musician since she turned 20 in 1990 playing bass for Louisville, Kentucky Punks Rodan.
Thirty years and more on and with an incredibly varied and mutifaceted body of work to her name, she has a new record out, intriguingly entitled The Cool Cloud of. Okayness. It's one of the most blatantly abstracted and obscure album titles you're likely to come across ths year and the record itself lives up to the title and more.
I love chancing across records like this. Which plant themselves firmly in the quirky, bohemian traditon of the likes of Rickie Lee Jones and Laurie Anderson. Aristic, strange and completely unwilling to bend themselves and run with the herd.
It's an easy one to listen to though you may not be abe to grasp meaning so much as enjoy the abstraction, like a contemporary exhibition you wander around on a Sunday afternoon and take a fancy to without delving deeper.
The Cool Cloud of.Okayness floats on its own currents. It's the first record of this sort which has come my way since Cassandra Jenkins An Overview of Phenomenal Nature. A pleasuredome
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