TJO has been one of Portland's (well, the world's) darling creatives for years, beginning as part of the legendary post-hardcore Rodan, as well as Retsin, the Sonora Pine, and King Cobra. She's worked with Come, Mirah and Ida and is a modern day renaissance woman. She plays guitar and bass, sings, paints, travels, works in the darkness of folk and the open-endedness of ambient sound play and her latest offering, A Ways Away is a brilliant amalgamation of all her previous experience and ongoing talent. more ›