Beloved East Vancouver alt folk trio The Be Good Tanyas have achieved cult status since their inception in the late 90's. With classic albums Blue Horse, Chinatown and Hello Love, the three young women were met with ever growing critical and fan acclaim, appearing on countless Top 10 lists, selling out concert halls across North American and Europe and performing on such revered shows as Austin City Limits and Live with Jools Holland. Their music also became a film & TV favourite, appearing in numerous shows including Weeds, The L Word, Brothers & Sisters and the popular children's movie Because of Winn Dixie.
Now lead singer Frazey Ford has put the finishing touches on her long awaited solo debut. The new album combines the gorgeous sultry vocals that helped define the Tanya's sound, with Frazey's ever growing love for classic soul music, adding a rich fullness and bottom end to the 13 new songs that will appear.

The solo debut is set for release this summer on Nettwerk, and Ford has already been confirmed as part of the 2010 Lilith Tour line-up set to make its return this summer.

"On “Obadiah” you hear direct echoes from those earlier records: strong and easy four-four grooves, small string arrangements, and little drop-ins of organ, harmonica and banjo. (As a whole it’s closer to “Harvest” — sometimes too close.) But Ms. Ford’s voice has little to do with Al Green or Neil Young. It’s light, throaty, flickering. She deals out soul and mountain-music style and Scots-Irish lilts in bold ways. It’s hard to think of another singer who suggests Dolly Parton, Ann Peebles and Feist. She phrases intuitively, waiting on a word and then drawing it out, and turns good lyrics to oatmeal, adding strange new colors to vowels, making whole syllables vanish. There’s an eerily calm conscience at the center of the record — stoic or forgiving or just blank — and you find yourself listening hard for the wisdom in her mumbles. She’s good at this.

What works best about the record is how much control Ms. Ford has over its atmosphere, even as she lets her words dip down and hide under the music. In “Goin’ Over” the record’s stillest song, she’s addressing someone withdrawing from life. “I know the world has got to be too much for you,” she trills quietly. Twice in the song, getting back to the verse, she shushes the band."
-New York Times

“Pronounced “Bee Bee-men,” this first-generation Sri Lankan American musician is pretty sure there’s no one else in the world with his name. Even if there is, chances are no other Bhi Bhiman could write a song as cool and catchy as the Bay Area’s Bhi Bhiman can…Sarcasm and humor are among his favorite instruments, but Bhiman’s debut solo album on HinJu Records, “The Cookbook,” has recipes with a serious taste to them, too.”
-San Francisco Chronicle