| Tribal Opera | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1987 | |||
| Studio | Fingerprint Recorders, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | What?/A&M | |||
| Producer | Mark Heard | |||
| IDEoLA chronology | ||||
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |   [1] |
Tribal Opera is an album by Mark Heard (using the pseudonym iDEoLA), released in 1987 on What? Records. It is a full-on solo project, put together by Heard in his home studio using samples and acoustic, electric and electronic instruments. The band name iDEoLA has no particular meaning; of it Heard said, "It's not supposed to be mysterious or anything; I just put a band together and right now I happen to be the only one in it." The album was a big departure step away from the country/folk-rock atmosphere of much of Heard's prior and subsequent music.[2]
Both Rich Mullins and Olivia Newton-John later covered "How to Grow Up Big and Strong" on their own albums. Americana artist John Austin covered "Go Ask the Dead Man".
- ^ "Tribal Opera - iDEoLA - Songs, Reviews, Credits - AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 29 October 2018.
- ^ Powell, Mark Allan (2002). Encyclopedia of Contemporary Christian Music. Peabody, Massachusetts: Hendrickson Publishers. p. 408. ISBN 1-56563-679-1.