Chandra

Growing up the child of artists in downtown New York in the late '70s, Chandra Oppenheim got an early introduction to the era's course-setting music scene. At age ten, the burgeoning songwriter took up with some of her father's musician friends and wrote a set of alien punk-funk songs very much in line with no wave contemporaries ESG, Bush Tetras, and Lizzy Mercier Descloux, only written and sung by a pre-teen. This early phase of Oppenheim's musical life would be short-lived, but her self-titled band released a sole EP, 1980's Transportation. This obscure document of strange ...