Tara Busch - First Girl on Mars
Pilfershire Lane
© 2007 Maf Lewis & Tara Busch (634479578052)
Psychedelic indie pop with decadent female vocals & harmonies, dripping w/ sun-drenched analogue synths and dark, juicy rustic fuzz bass & vintage combo organs; sparks of electronic bleeps & blips abounding.
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Maf Lewis - Films, Tara Busch - Music.
Move over mountain! Here come the stars!
From the sweetly dark, blizzard-driven imagination of Tara Busch comes her long-awaited album, Pilfershire Lane with films by Maf Lewis. It is an album based on a young girl's lonely, melancholic childhood in the 1970's. We journey with her in the seat of her rocket ship in "Over the Radio".... through the tantrum-stamp of her high school marching band in "Superfriends"...We then tunnel to the depths & fill our lungs with day old wine and cigarette ash to find the deep sadness of "Get Drunk & Fuck" until we are thrown a lifeline of profound love, resurfacing with "This is Love"...finally we return where we start, in her bedroom window wishing on stars & distant planets in "We Can See Mars". We never leave her head.
Raised in a looming "mansion full of sadness" on Pilfershire Lane built by her father in Hartford Connecticut, Tara was the youngest in a large family, surrounded with the music of Bowie, Zeppelin, ABBA and Janis Joplin. Discovering her musical talent at the tender age of 3, she went on to form bands throughout her teenage years, including Dahli Llama and Sheva. Many session gigs led her to Miami at the 2001 Winter Music Conference where she met her love and collaborator, Maf Lewis. The pair returned to Cardiff, UK where they formed the deeply revered "lounge-core" outfit, Dynamo Dresden on Plastic Raygun Records with producer, Rohan Tarry.
As tides turned and Maf & Tara moved to North Carolina to be with her family, Tara exiled herself under lock & key for several months writing, producing and engineering what would become Pilfershire Lane. As Tara clamoured away in the studio on one end of the house, Maf set up shop in the dusty, sweltering attic above, creating beautiful, perfectly reflective videos such as "Motorcrash" and "Tag”.
Enter the musical talents of Mike Walters, Nick Speaks & Alex Maiolo - from Minimoogs to Melloman; from Fender bass to whammy pedals & sleigh-bells, these gentlemen were Tara's faithful and adventurous sonic militia.... Finally, in summer 2006, Maf & Tara packed their life into a small U- Haul & traveled west to the glistening Pacific, landing beneath the swaying palm trees of Southern California. "The lights are on, maybe we're home".....
Commencing countdown, Maf rolls his film, Tara pulls the goggles over her eyes; 4...3...2...1...Let's climb the face of space & time!
All songs written and produced by Tara Busch. Recorded by Tara Busch and Maf Lewis at House on Mars Studios, Raleigh, NC & Los Angeles, CA. Live drums and bass recorded by Nick Peterson at Track and Field Studios, Chapel Hill, NC.
Videos and design by Maf Lewis.
Tara Busch- Vocals, programming, flute, Theremin, Vox Jaguar, Farfisa, Melloman, piano, Optigan, Fender Rhodes, Hammond B-3, Sequential Circuits Pro 1 synth, mellodica, slide whistle, percussion, harmonica, moogerfoogers.
Nick Speaks - Drums, percussion
Alex Maiolo- Fender Mustang Bass, Banjo, Bass VI, Telecaster; Rickenbacker 330 6 & 12; Shergold 6 & 12; Travis Bean 1000S. Ebows, synths, and other noisemakers.
Mike Walters- Hammond L-112, Polymoog, Modified Elka Wilgamat, Homemade SoundLab Minisynth, Minimoog, Nord Electro, Sequential Circuits 6-Trak, Moog Prodigy, Arp Axxe, Melloman, Yamaha CS-01, Korg Poly800,
Globotron the Electronic Earthball, Optigan.
Trumpet on Superfriends by Joel Rhodes
Tara thanks Maf, my dearest families Busch & Lewis, all my friends, Mike Walters, Nick Speaks, Alex Maiolo, Darian Sahanaja, Nicky Wonder, Billy Hinsche, Bob Liptak, Tim "Love" Lee. Warren & Phil at Swinghouse; Nick Peterson at Track & Field. The bells in our heads, Mars.
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Retro Rock!
author: Bob K.Pilfershire Lane is a solid collection of songs that evokes pre-1982 era Kate Bush. However, this isn't slavish 'tribute band' territory or mere mimicry. Tara Busch brings her own vibrant palette of sonic colors and textures to the tunes on Pilfershire. So much so, that they transcend the 'girl-at-her-piano' school of song-writing. The dense, multi-layered production threatens to sink a few of the more ambitious tracks, but the sheer energy of the performances keeps them afloat. Perhaps her next CD will be a somewhat more restrained affair. Highly recommended for the musically adventurous.
Pilfershire Lane
author: KryssI listened to Tara sing with a semi-psychedelic rock band in Charlotte, NC, many years ago (probably 15 or so) and I could not believe what I saw then. She was amazing! She is now showing off her entirely original solo work, which is outstanding in every way. The writing is inspiring, the production top notch, and the performances excellent. She is a powerhouse of creativity and talent. Very few can match her for originality. If you are wondering what it sounds like, I would say it sounds like Tara Busch, but some artists that come to mind when hearing her are the Eels, Kate Busch, Jimi Hendrix (for psychedelic feel), and Tori Amos. That is not to say she sounds like those artists, which is great, because she really is an original -those may or may not be influences, but we all read what we like into new things to try and categorize it...fortunately, Tara is uncategorizable (new word). Buy this!
wow! i love this music
author: amyi love this cd it has great songs. tara is a very talented person and very smart. i love a person that gets their music from the heart and someone that put's a lot of time in to it.we love you guys. love amy&duane&joey ps joey is getting so big.
Stunning time travelling lounge pop brilliance
author: Neil ArnottMy favourite "find" of the year so far. The brash, poppy analogue opening of the album belies much of the mature, intelligent songwriting that follows. Busch's gorgeous ethereal voice is part naughty schoolgirl, part maneater but at all times breathtaking. And it floats on top of all these tracks, giving them their very heart and soul. When she gives back the time machine that allowed her to record this album with such splendid seventies kit, and in such an effervescent, shimmering fashion, she'll be able to look back on an album that veers confidently between Kate Bush-style reminiscing and reckless Go Team-style sampling. But it works. Although it might take the listener a few listens before they climb inside Busch's head and hear the common threads running through the album, there's no doubt that Pilfershire Lane is a rich and rewarding experience.
is this for real?
author: twin peaks studiois this album for real? It's like listening to a soundtrack from another planet. I wanna go there right now no matter what the cost to my molecular structure...seriously, this is, like, totally awesome. Utterly vitanamaic.
best album ever heard
author: adelenozedarthis is, quite simply, the best album i have ever heard in my life. hear it now - ever second without Pilfershire Lane on your sound system is a second wasted.