“Listening to Tash Zappala’s new album All at Once is like taking a deep dive into a dreamy world of birdsong and warm sunshine. A place where contemporary retro ambient folk meets field recordings of the natural environment around Southern Tasmania where Tash spends her time. Languid songs combine with the sounds of birds and running water to conjure up images of lazy afternoons filled with dappled light in leafy places. The sonic quality of the recordings adds to this atmosphere with its many layers and ambient and sometimes dissonant approach. The songs are about places and connections, but the message seems to be more about the sound of the work as a whole and where this transports the listener. Tash’s songs and her vocal and guitar gently anchor everything down allowing the other instruments to meander and explore, adding colour and depth to each song. Her whispery voice has echoes of Bessie Smith and her wandering piano is musing and gently pensive as is much of the playing on the album. Tash tells me that she hopes these recordings will provide ‘an inhabitable space for understanding and rest.’ All at Once is the perfect album for a quite winter afternoon or a lazy summer one…. I think she has definitely succeeded.” – Tiffany Eckhardt, 2021.