Tanya Aquino Music

Introducing - My Own Shoes

Dear friends, I present to you the closing chapter for the Tangled era; My Own Shoes, a collection of the singles I've released since 2021, when I first began making music for myself and by myself as Tangled. An end…

Why Tanya (or Why, Tanya?)

Musically, I'm like a child in a sweet shop. Or a guitarist at Billy Hydes. I want to try EVERYTHING. Concurrently, preferably. Cover bands, tributes, solo, duo or trio. Lead or BV's. Write and produce originals, play guitar, make orchestral…

Famous Blue Raincoat

My Dad loved Leonard Cohen.

He played his music often and so I, in turn, grew to love Leonard Cohen. But it was my Uncle Peter who introduced me to Jennifer Warnes' album Famous Blue Raincoat, which is her…

When you have an existential crisis at the tax accountant's office ...

I've just been to do my tax. The person helping me (Sam) asked, “is this (music) a business or a hobby?”

And that's quite the question, isn't it.

Sam observed that if marketing is involved, it's a business. She was…

Without you, I would not be here (an appreciation post).

A little while ago I started a gratitude jar.

I had become ill and I thought I wouldn't be able to sing again. Which made me realise I had taken so much - music and life in general - for…

Goodbye, Tangled. "Hello World".

In this post, I bid a fond farewell to Tangled.

I'm not a fan of literality. I far prefer it when people have to work a little to derive meaning. I enjoy the variety of interpretation that creates. I stand…

And the songs won't stop ...

Songwriters? Does this happen to you?

It's a heap of fun writing and recording .. particular when you're doing it in the company of good people - like this dude in the picture with me >>. It's like this little…

I thought fonts were hard ..

This post from a week or so ago contains an amount of whining about how hard it is to find a good font these days.

Well I take it back. Getting this profile picture was way harder.

I am not…

Testing 123

Felt curious, may delete later.

Actually maybe I'll just add to this random test blog. And I'm pretty happy with my new logo so I think I will leave it here and show it off.

But goddam finding a good…

It's time to hang up the sunflower.

For <reasons> when I first started making music for and by myself, I decided I needed an artist name to operate under. So I picked the name “Tangled” as a play on my nickname*.

But now - it's time for…

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