Tasha
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.
Take, for example “Eric Song.” This was the first song to be written on the album, penned while
Tasha grappled with the sudden, tragic death of Eric Littman, the co-producer of her last album.
Though the instrumentation is a familiar 3/4 guitar strum, lulling us into a comforting waltz,
Tasha’s voice is breathy with grief, adding depth and dimension to the hushed sound. “No, I’m
not alone after all / You must be near / Facing this soaring sprawl,” she sings, transforming the
experience of loss into a talisman of love and courage meant to help usher in a new self.
Said a different way, All This and So Much More is a full-throated ode to all of the ups and
downs of becoming. In the opening track, “Pretend,” when Tasha sings about “feelings
outgrowing this little life,” we get the sense, both lyrically and sonically, of someone in the throes
of growth. 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. Written over the course of
2022 and 2023, right on the cusp of Tasha being cast in Illinoise, the songs in this album invoke
friendship, heart ache, flirtation, doubt. From the social anxiety of “Party” (“Do they think I’m
funny? / Did they like my jokes last night?”) to the questing for meaning in “So Much More,”
Tasha brings us along on a journey of finding out that the person you wanted to be was inside of
yourself, just waiting to bloom all along.
She sums it up neatly in her final track, “Love's Changing,” charging us with a brilliant,
sweeping vision of the future, singing: “Suddenly the world is bigger than it ever felt before /
Feel the weight of my future sinking in / See the joy I’m running toward." In All This and So
Much More, Tasha asks us to consider abundance in its 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.
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Grog Shop
Sat, Feb 8
Doors: 7:30 pm /
Show: 8:30 pm