GRAVE102 ::: Dosh 'Milk Money'

With the flash and efficiency of digital song-making technologies, it can be easy to lose sight of the merits of that which is analog. Martin Dosh, then, has become something of an accidental preservationist, keeping instruments like Rhodes keyboards and an ancient Korg EX 800 sequencer alive by using them in his innovative solo works and collaborations with the likes of Andrew Bird and Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

Over the years, he’s graciously given over rich compositions like “First Impossible” (which became Andrew Bird’s “Not a Robot but a Ghost”) to collaboration, but with ‘Mike Money’, his latest solo release, Dosh decided to let his arrangements stand on their own. Blending elements of hip hop, jazz drumming, vocal samples and electronic production, he builds a variety of warm soundscapes. His mixes of piano, percussion, vocals and more are broad, room-filling compositions, created by running the elements of each track through guitar amplifiers simultaneously, creating a “re-amp” effect that allows each song to breathe. The result is a collection of open pieces, like the wonder-tinged ‘Kisses’, that invite the listener to step inside.

Looping pedals are integral to Dosh’s music, and he uses them here to great effect. With a stage set-up that looks like a fort erected by a kid with only musical instruments for building materials — boxed in on all sides by keyboards, drums and complicated boards of knobs begging to be jiggled — Dosh uses loops to construct his soundscapes solo. The resulting complexity and breadth of his songs is most evident on the record’s closing track, a nearly 25-minute number Dosh composed for a duo performance with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche at the request of the Walker Arts Center in Dosh’s hometown of Minneapolis. Beginning with a single pinging note on the Rhodes, it winds through many cycles, eventually blossoming into an ebullient flurry of sound.

‘Milk Money’ is the recording of a vital mind alive with the possibility of what it can create. It brims with a warmth that can’t be digitized. It’s the satisfying, immediate thwack of drumstick again drumhead, the visceral pleasure of a grown-up boy at play inside a musical fort.

Dosh - We Are The Worst

GRAVE102 ::: Dosh 'Milk Money'  (PRE-ORDER NOW : http://www.graveface.com/graveface-catalog.html)

With the flash and efficiency of digital song-making technologies, it can be easy to lose sight of the merits of that which is analog. Martin Dosh, then, has become something of an accidental preservationist, keeping instruments like Rhodes keyboards and an ancient Korg EX 800 sequencer alive by using them in his innovative solo works and collaborations with the likes of Andrew Bird and Bonnie “Prince” Billy.

Over the years, he’s graciously given over rich compositions like “First Impossible” (which became Andrew Bird’s “Not a Robot but a Ghost”) to collaboration, but with ‘Mike Money’, his latest solo release, Dosh decided to let his arrangements stand on their own. Blending elements of hip hop, jazz drumming, vocal samples and electronic production, he builds a variety of warm soundscapes. His mixes of piano, percussion, vocals and more are broad, room-filling compositions, created by running the elements of each track through guitar amplifiers simultaneously, creating a “re-amp” effect that allows each song to breathe. The result is a collection of open pieces, like the wonder-tinged ‘Kisses’, that invite the listener to step inside.

Looping pedals are integral to Dosh’s music, and he uses them here to great effect. With a stage set-up that looks like a fort erected by a kid with only musical instruments for building materials — boxed in on all sides by keyboards, drums and complicated boards of knobs begging to be jiggled — Dosh uses loops to construct his soundscapes solo. The resulting complexity and breadth of his songs is most evident on the record’s closing track, a nearly 25-minute number Dosh composed for a duo performance with Wilco’s Glenn Kotche at the request of the Walker Arts Center in Dosh’s hometown of Minneapolis. Beginning with a single pinging note on the Rhodes, it winds through many cycles, eventually blossoming into an ebullient flurry of sound.

‘Milk Money’ is the recording of a vital mind alive with the possibility of what it can create. It brims with a warmth that can’t be digitized. It’s the satisfying, immediate thwack of drumstick again drumhead, the visceral pleasure of a grown-up boy at play inside a musical fort.

Dosh - Golden Silver

Andrew Bird - Tin Foiled 
Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of...
Out June 3rd, 2014
Pre-order: http://bit.ly/1jXLnt3

Summer Tour Dates:
6/6 Brooklyn, NY - Studio 360 WNYC Radio Love Fest @ BAM Harvey Theater
6/7 Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade (early show) 
6/7 Brooklyn, NY- Rough Trade (late show)
6/8 Washington, DC -Lincoln Theater 
6/9 Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre
6/10 Carrboro, NC - Cat's Cradle 
6/12 Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
6/13 Manchester, TN - Bonnaroo
6/15 Tulsa, OK	- Cain's Ballroom
6/16 Austin, TX - The Paramount
6/19 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua Community House
6/20 Boulder, CO - Chautauqua
6/21 Telluride, CO - Telluride Bluegrass Fest
7/2 Ann Arbor, MI - Power Center
7/4 Toronto, ON - Urban Roots Fest
7/6 Montreal, QC - Montreal Jazz Fest
7/8 New York, NY - Summerstage
7/10	Hanover, NH - Dartmouth
7/11	Bridgeport, CT - The Klein
7/12	Lowell, MA - Summer Music Series
7/18	Vancouver, BC	- Vancouver Folk Fest
7/24-27	Calgary, AB - Calgary Folk Fest 
7/26 Edmonton, AB	- Interstellar Rodeo
8/1	Big Sur, CA - Henry Miller Library 
8/2	Saratoga, CA - Mountain Winery
8/3 San Francisco, CA - Stern Grove Fest

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