| 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
& Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, and is being released
on City Zen Records in North America and Kindred Spirits
and & Records 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.
1. RIVER OF LIFE / THE YES SONG
2. NIGHT OF A THOUSAND KISSES
3. 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
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