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GEA
City Zen Records/Kindred Spirits, 2008
1. River of Life / The Yes Song*
2. Night of a 1000 kisses
3. Big Bad Wolf & Black Widow Spider*
4. Sleepless Nights
5. Esperar Es Caro
6. Kokoro*
7. Can I Borrow You?
8. Wolf Reprise
9. In the End
10. Old World New World |
GEA is the seventh album by singer-songwriter-guitarist-poet-painter-dancer
Mia Doi Todd. The album was recorded in Los Angeles, CA, self-produced
in collaboration with Carlos Nino and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson,
and is being released March 4, 2008 on City Zen Records in North
America and on Kindred Spirits abroad.
Mia is a true artist -- an expressionist in many forms. Her
garden of song is vast with flowers of infinite shape, color,
size, and individuality. GEA is her most intuitive and primal
collection of songs yet. Full of incredible passion and sensitivity,
these songs reveal the depths of Mia’s emotions, visions
and lyrical heart. The album opens with Mia playing guitar and
harmonium accompanied by Andres Renteria on hand drums and prolific
Chicago-based bassist Joshua Abrams (Sam Prekop, Prefuse 73).
Broken, surviving, searching, and hopeful, Mia begins to sing
and chant, flowing in the great “River Of Life”
that all beings travel. The songs each follow suit beautifully,
evanescently, featuring woodwind, brass and string arrangements
by the young and talented multi-instrumentalist/composer Miguel
Atwood-Ferguson. His arrangements seem to lift Mia on their
wings for a mystical journey of intense projection, romance,
mourning, and otherworldly imagery.}
Mia Doi Todd - Nylon and Acoustic Guitar, Harmonium and Vocals
Andres Renteria - Hand Drums and Percussion
Joshua Abrams - Electric and Upright Bass
Joshua Schwartz - Electric Bass and Guitar
Miguel Atwood Ferguson - Viola and Violin
Myka Murphy - Oboe, Flute and English Horn; Jennifer Stevenson
- Clarinet
 Sarah Schoenbeck -
bassoon; Jennifer Scott - Flute; Danielle Ondarza - French Horn
David Goya - Trombone; Jason Garner - trumpet; Ginger Murphy
- Cello
Produced by Carlos Nino, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and Mia Doi
Todd
Executive Produced by Mia Doi Todd
Record by Bryan Carlstrom at Tranzformer Studios, Burbank, CA
Mixed by Bryan Carlstrom with the Producers
Brass, String and Woodwind Arrangements by Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
All songs by Mia Doi Todd, City Zen Music (BMI)
except #5 lyrics by Armando Suarez-Cobian
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