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Just what has Tara Jane O'Neil gotten herself into now? The former Rodan, Sonora Pine, and Retsin member turned solo artist extraordinaire has a new book/CD project and a brief tour besides.

Wings. Strings. Meridians.: A Blighted Bestiary is a 96-page book of artworks and such from the page of Ms. O'Neil (a visual preview of the stuff is available here), coupled with a 15-track CD-- titled Connoisseur Collage-- of O'Neil rarities, demos, and a cover of Leonard Cohen's "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye". The songs on Collage, as O'Neil pointed out in an e-mail, are "all pretty unreleased." What's more, 100 extra special copies of Wings will come with three silkscreened prints, which we in the biz often refer to as "limited edition bonus material."

The book/CD will be out in November courtesy of Yeti Publishing's Square Roots Books imprint, with a release party/acoustic performance on the first of the month in Portland. That comes right square at the end of O'Neil's brief fall tour, kicking off this weekend. True, there's a couple New York shows in mid-November, too, but it's not a tour if you take two weeks off in the middle, is it?

Connoisseur Collage:

01 Long Beach Ecstatic Tamborine Orchestra (live)
02 Pearl Into Sand (live)
03 Paris Ecstatic Tamborine Orchestra (live)
04 A Partridge Song (kitchen concert version)
05 Sunday Song (2006 Rare Book Room version)
06 Grain
07 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye
08 Found Banjo
09 Blue Light Room (Discovery Mix)
10 Istanbul Ecstatic Tamborine Orchestra With Saz (live)
11 The Poisoned Mine (Discovery Mix)
12 Istanbul Ecstatic Tamborine Orchestra (live)
13 Dig In (live)
14 Bitter Ness Lake
15 Yeah Money

TJO:

10-21 Chicago, IL - AV-aerie
10-25 Portland, OR - Sloan's *
10-26 Olympia, WA - Phoenix House
10-27 Vancouver, British Columbia - Secret Space *
10-28 Seattle, WA - Vera Project *
11-01 Portland, OR - Reading Frenzy
11-15 New York, NY - Knitting Factory ^
11-18 Rosendale, NY - Rosendale Café ^

* with Jenny Hoyston
^ with Ida