Tasha - Tell Me What You Miss The Most - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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Tasha's second album, Tell Me What You Miss The Most mingles pockets of introspection with wide, expansive, marveling at what's yet to come. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Tasha is a musician who writes songs that take loving and longing seriously. Whether dwelling in the sad thrum of an impending break up or the dizzying, heart thumping waltz of new infatuation, here is an album that traces one artist's relationship to herself in love. Full of deep, invigorating inhales and relieved, joyful exhales, Tell Me What You Miss The Most is an exquisitely crafted breath of much needed air. InchWon't you lay near me please / goodbyes aren't easy to swallow / Here take my heart for me / I don't need all this old sorrowInch Tasha sings, her voice smooth and honeyed in the first track of the album InchBed Song 1.Inch She stands on the brink of saying farewell to something once-sweet, the sentiment swirling into the slow-walking pace of the second track, InchHistory,Inch which wonders aloud InchWas it me / Did I not prove to you how far I'd goInch. Still, the album refuses to stagnate, instead taking the listener on a whirl across a much-missed dance floor in InchPerfect Wife,Inch calling to mind the sheer pleasure and giddiness of dancing hand-in-hand with a pretty girl. InchPerfect WifeInch is also a track that demonstrates Tasha's musical versatility and showmanship, featuring a seamless, slightly retro chorus embroidered with the lilting chirrup of flutes as played by Vivian McConnell. Yes, Tell Me What You Miss the Most isn't just a catalogue of tenderness-it's also a showcase of Tasha's growing and formidable musicianship. InchWhen I made Alone at Last, I had only been writing songs for two years. I hardly even knew what kind of song writer I was. But this record feels much stronger as far as a representation of my songwriter and musicianship,Inch says Tasha, adding

In All This and So Much More Tasha is an artist flung open. For Tasha, the last few years have been propulsive, dynamic, bursting at the seams. They've included painful encounters with grief; a sudden break up; new flirtation; new hair; the glitter of world travel and not least, a role in Tony-nominated Broadway musical Illinoise which adapts Sufjan Steven's Illinois for the stage. If Tell Me What You Miss The Most was an introspective meditation on love with a few moments of glancing toward what's next, All this and So Much More is Tasha turned outward, flourishing, telling us what it's like to take life by the chin and look it in the eye.All This and So Much More is a full-throated ode to all of the ups and downs of becoming. This is an album crafted with a big, ambitious sound (in part, thanks to the production of Gregory Uhlmann)-cinematic droning, orchestral woodwinds, dazzling arrays of jangling guitar, all lining up to capture a sweeping moment in Tasha's life. In All This and So Much More, Tasha asks us to consider abundance in it's truest form. Our lives, a deluge of possible experience if only we will surrender to it, all the way from the citric ache of heartbreak to the chest bloom of new adventure.