Last February I decided to record another Cash Cow CD. This desire was spurred on by Rob, from Candyrat Records who took the earlier Cash Cow CD “When We Were Little Girls” as well as “Fragments vol. one” into the Candayrat catalogue -  his new online label. As a player I was out of shape and felt largely lost as a musician. I didn’t feel I was “a part” of any music scene, and outside of occasional gigs with guitarist Don Ross (which was how I made the Candyrat connection) and some subbing work here and there I felt like an alien in Toronto. So with Rob’s I decided to record again; yet, as I said, I was out of shape.

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Falling Forward
Jordan O'Connor, Nick Fraser, & Justin Haynes
Recorded in 2003 with the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Back in January 2002 Justin (Haynes) Nick (Fraser) and myself (Jordan O’Connor) spent 4 nights recording at a studio space in Toronto Canada – Ratspace. We recorded around 12 hours of music and as I listen to it now, what strikes me as interesting is just how much music this trio has made, and how deep it runs within me. Furthermore, how some of the music was too close to me to understand or even hear at the time, yet now it seems obvious - but I am sure that too will shift with time.

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Fragments
released in 2001

Everyone had a notion of love that sustains them: a fantasy of realizing potential, an image of someone, or something that embodies that which they’re always known to be true, pure, just. When we are alone in our thoughts we feel what is right. We feel a pull towards that which is us, all pretense stripped away “a swell within us that is undeniable. It may be nameless, we may call it love, we may call it truth, we may call it the dream.

Angela Rose

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Cash Cow
When We Were Little Girls
released in 2000

The tunes on the CD 'When We Were Little Girls' were written over the past ten years and came about through a broad series of influences and circumstances over those years. How a person composes-arriving at a tune or song-is almost as hard a nut to crack as: why they don't compose a tune or song? In whatever a person composes (or not-composes) there is meaning within a context; and life is marked by endless contexts. As a result each person, in thought and composition, has an infinite amount of influence; both conscious and unconscious; within and without. All taking part via motives, beliefs and intentions; all merging in the thought/creative process. Because of this there are many ways a person can look at composition. In this writing I'll tell the story of these tunes-the people who inspired them and the events that prompted them. It is my hope that this writing may act as a vehicle to ones own muse, and in so doing, ones own composition..

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