Mia Doi Todd releases 7th album, opens extensive N. Am. tour for Jose Gonzalez

Singer-songwriter-guitarist-poet-painter-dancer Mia Doi Todd will be celebrating the release of her seventh album GEA touring as the opening act with Jose Gonzalez. The tour starts February 29 in Miami and ends March 30 in Vancouver.  This will be a “green” tour with the entire touring party’s carbon emissions being calculated and offset by the company “Reverb.”  GEA 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 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.  Her voice and lyrics may bring tears to the listener’s eyes with their eloquent expression of the desperate yearnings of a lover of life, faced with the destructive forces which abound in the world. 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 was born and raised in Los Angeles, California, the only child of a Japanese-American judge and an Irish-American sculptor.  Trained as a classical vocalist in her adolescence and teenage years, Mia began writing songs while a student at Yale University, inspired by the mid-90’s Indie Rock movement.  Her first three records all featured minimal, acoustic instrumentation, emphasizing her soaring vocals and finely wrought lyrics, the latter redolent of romantic poetry, but employing puns, alliteration, homonyms and many other verbal experiments.  Starting with her fourth album, released on the Columbia Jazz imprint pursued more orchestrated arrangements.

 You can see and hear Mia at
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