Tasha - Alone At Last

Bandcamp / Spotify / Apple Music / Amazon / TIDAL / Deezer / YouTube - Baby Blue 12" vinyl On her debut album Alone at Last, Tasha celebrates the radical political act of being exquisitely gentle with yourself. For years, the Chicago songwriter has dreamed hard of a better world—she's worked with the local racial justice organization Black Youth Project 100 and has been on the front lines at protests around the city. But as she returned to the guitar, an instrument her mother first taught her to play when she was 15 years old, she began exploring the ways music can be a powerful force for healing. It might not fix a deeply broken world all by itself, but it can offer comfort and respite for those who, like her, dare to imagine a thriving future. Citing Robin D. G. Kelley's book Freedom Dreams as a foundational text to her artistic practice, she says, "Black folks' imagination inherently is a radical thing. In a place of oppression and colonization, the ability to imagine a future,