Shelter of a Song, the new album by Portland, Maine folk singer/songwriter/guitarist Lisa/Liza, is now streaming at Various Small Flames ahead its November 20 release date. Listen here.
Shelter of a song vinyl LPs, CDs & downloads are available for purchase here.
Video artist Alicia McDaid created this timely music video for "Everybody Knows" by TJO (aka Tara Jane O'Neil). McDaid stars as Chemtrails, a former advertising creative director turned toxic waste dump squatter. Camera by Jeremy Levine.
"Everybody Knows" is a cover of a Leonard Cohen song. This recording is taken from TJO's 2020 album Songs for Peacock, available HERE.
Please don't forget to vote, either in person or by dropping your absentee ballot in an official drop box. Find polling locations & official drop boxes HERE.
Thanks to Quinn Moreland & Pitchfork for reviewing Dear Nora's Three States: Rarities 1997-2007. Read the full review HERE.
"The indie pop band's reissue of loosies and cover songs captures their story in thoughtful strokes and further cements Katy Davidson’s role as an influential songwriter."
Three States 3LP vinyl box sets are available HERE.
This morning, Post-Trash premiered "Red Leaves," the final advance single from Lisa/Liza's forthcoming album of slow-burning psych folk ballads, Shelter of a Song.
Post-Trash's Dan Goldin writes:
“Red Leaves” is the record’s second single, a slow progression that
begins with gentle acoustic guitars, played softly and with nuance. With
each note that rings above the rest, the grip tightens, pulling us
closer into the sentiment, every intentional accent is felt. With an
easy melody to drift right into, Liza Victoria’s warm voice sings
between hushed lullaby and whispered croon, with an unwavering strength
behind each extended vocal line. It’s designed so you can sink right in,
escape the world around us, and give complete focus to her words and
composition, building ever so slightly toward a beautiful crescendo.
There’s nowhere else we’d rather be.
Post-Trash's track premiere contains a beautiful encapsulation of Shelter of a Song as a whole. Read Goldin's entire piece HERE.
Shelter of a Song
will be released on black vinyl, teal marble vinyl, compact disc &
digital formats on November 20, 2020. Pre-order your copy
HERE.
Lisa/Liza & Orindal Records will donate all revenue from Shelter of a Song's digital pre-order sales to two charity organizations: 50% will support Our Family Farms' Farmworker Housing Fund (a non-profit helping to provide immediate and long-term housing for farmworkers & their families devastated by the recent fires in Southern Oregon) & the other 50% will support Therapy for Black Girls (an online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls).
In an effort to stay the hell out of the way of mail-in balloting, Monday, October 19 will be Orindal's last mail order shipment date until after the November 3 general election.
Any physical order placed at orindal.limitedrun.com or orindalrecords.bandcamp.com after Sunday, October 18 will ship on November 4.
Blue Light of the Screen, a horror memoir written & illustrated by Claire Cronin & published by Repeater Books, is out today! Order your copy HERE.
And they tell you all your life
'Search for that infinite sound'
When no one else is around
You hear it too
In the shelter of a song
–Lisa/Liza, "From This Shelter"
Lisa/Liza is the songwriting project of Portland, ME singer and guitarist Liza Victoria. Throughout her new album, Shelter of a Song (her third LP for Orindal), Liza affirms the value of music and songwriting in her life, providing her comfort through illness and isolation, and helping her to hold onto cherished memories through the poetry she sings. The album's eight original songs are gentle meditations on joy, pain, human relationships and the natural world that stretch out slowly like long shadows.
This morning, Brooklyn Vegan announced Shelter of a Song & premiered "From This Shelter," the album's first single & thesis statement. Brooklyn Vegan's Andrew Sacher describes the song as "a gorgeous offering of delicate, bare-bones, somber folk music. It's a quiet, minimal song, but hypnotic enough to stop you in your tracks and tune out all the many distractions of everyday life."
Read the full article & listen to "From This Shelter" HERE.
Shelter of a Song will be released on black vinyl, teal marble vinyl, compact disc & digital formats on November 20, 2020. The album art & design is by Dan Black at Landland. Pre-order your copy HERE.
Lisa/Liza & Orindal Records will donate all revenue from Shelter of a Song's digital pre-order sales to two charity organizations: 50% will support Our Family Farms' Farmworker Housing Fund (a non-profit helping to provide immediate and long-term housing for farmworkers & their families devastated by the recent fires in Southern Oregon) & the other 50% will support Therapy for Black Girls (an online space dedicated to encouraging the mental wellness of Black women and girls).
Originally released on Magic Marker Records as a double CD in 2008, Dear Nora's Three States: Rarities 1997-2007
is now available on vinyl for the first time. This limited edition box
set features 60 tracks (including three bonus tracks) spread across
three (3) 160 gram virgin black vinyl LPs in black, poly-lined
innersleeves, plus a download card & an 8-page, full-color booklet full of archival photos
& detailed track notes, all packaged in a heavyweight, full-color,
lidded box.
Three States is Orindal Records' most ambitious release to date!
Songs for Peacock by TJO (aka Tara Jane ONeil) is Bandcamp's Album of the Day! Read Grayson Haver Currin's kind & insightful review HERE.
To celebrate, we've released Songs for Peacock a day early! You can now stream/purchase/download HERE.
If you pre-ordered Songs for Peacock, a link to download is in your email.
Vinyl begins shipping on Monday.
Please note that we've extended the period of charitable donations of all revenue from Songs for Peacock digital sales. Until the end of the day, your purchase of a Songs for Peacock digital download will benefit The Audre Lorde Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.
The free digital summer issue of Mike McGonigal's wonderful Maggot Brain Magazine features an in-depth conversation between TJO (aka Tara Jane O'Neil) & Orindal Records' Owen Ashworth. The issue also features Octavia Butler, The Staple Singers, Luc Sante & more. Download your copy for free HERE.
Thanks to everyone who has purchased Mia Gargaret by Gia Margaret!
(Gia's label outside of North America, Dalliance Recordings, has also pledged to donate their June digital sales to The Loveland Foundation.)
TJO & Orindal Records have decided to extend the donation period for Songs for Peacock digital sales until the album's July 10 release date. For the next 9 days, all revenue earned from download sales will continue to be donated to The Audre Lord Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.
Twenty-eight years into her kaleidoscopic discography, Songs for Peacock is the first album singer/guitarist/composer Tara Jane O’Neil has credited to just her initials: TJO. ecorded at home using a borrowed drum machine & synthesizer in addition to her reliably nuanced arrangements of guitar, bass & voice, Songs for Peacock is a collection of pop covers recalled from TJO’s youth, intended as a “mixtape” for her late brother Brian. Over twelve tracks & thirty-nine minutes, Songs for Peacock abstracts radio hits by the likes of Boy George, Bananarama, Leonard Cohen, Siouxsie and the Banshees & INXS, distilling earworms into thin wisps of dreamlike atmosphere, or stretching them into languorous psychedelic soundscapes. Songs for Peacock warps our collective musical memory to form a singular & cohesive body of work that defines TJO’s highly personal sonic landscape.
This morning, Brooklyn Vegan premiered "Cruel Summer," the first single from Songs for Peacock, along with its accompanying music video, directed by Peter Nichols.
Songs for Peacock will be released on deluxe "Stained Glass Blue" transparent vinyl (w/ 5 postcard set), standard black vinyl & digital formats on July 10. Pre-order your copy now & get an instant download of "Cruel Summer" HERE.
Until the end of June, 100% of revenue from digital sales of Songs for Peacock will be donated to The Audre Lorde Project, a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Two Spirit, Trans and Gender Non-Conforming People of Color community organizing center, focusing on the New York City area.
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