Do you like fairy tales? Have you heard the one in which a Tiny Mix peasant sits on a news story until the subject's album and tour is already released and started respectively? Nah, that one is boring. Let's stick not to peasant tales but pleasant tales. Have you heard of the one in which the heroine -- a princess/angel/goddess of music magic, possessed with a voice that is like tuberose to the nose and that could delight the gnarliest ogre's heart upon note one -- releases her seventh musical druid egg to a hail of public adoration and ceremony? Not familiar with that one? Well, did you hear that Mia Doi Todd released her seventh album, GEA this week in North America through City Zen Records (March 14 overseas on Kindred Spirits) to a hail of public adoration and ceremony? Both stories are the same, but I added some respectful flowery legend dust to the first one. Luckily, Todd's delightful angel visits are more frequent than those flittery femmes from fable. Whether popping up as guest to save lesser albums by mere mortals or gracing us with a full-length of her own every year or two, she is beloved by humans and hill people alike. Here be GEA's tracks:
1. River of Life/The Yes Song
2. Night of a Thousand 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
Keen TMT eyeballers will remember that we ran a groundbreaking, pioneering news story about José "Goin' Green!" Gonzalez' latest tour earlier in February. This one. Read it. It’s funny. It has this whole thing going on where The Friz and a couple of TMT dolts do something. And talk and stuff. The three hold a pointy paper pizza party or something like that. Um, alright I only skimmed it quickly while searching for the words "frolicking Golden Girls" (I didn’t ask you to explain your eccentricities, so don’t ask me!). I do know that the story footnoted the fact that M.D.T. (as she is known to no one) will be opening many of those Gonzalez dates. These remaining ones, actually:
02.29.08 - Miami, FL - Airtime Theater
03.01.08 - Orlando, FL - The Social
03.02.08 - Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
03.03.08 - Chapel Hill, NC - Great Hall, UNC
03.04.08 - Asheville, NC - Orange Peel
03.05.08 - Washington, DC - Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
03.07.08 - Tarrytown, NY - The Tarrytown Music Hall
03.08.08 - Philadelphia, PA - World Café
03.09.08 - Morgantown, WV - WVU Creative Arts Center
03.11.08 - New York, NY - Highline Ballroom
03.12.08 - Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Masonic Temple
03.13.08 - Boston, MA - Paradise
03.14.08 - Montréal, Quebec - Musée Juste Pour Rire
03.15.08 - Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix
03.17.08 - Chicago, IL - Lakeshore Theater
03.18.08 - Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theatre
03.19.08 - St. Louis, MO - Graham Chapel, Washington University
03.20.08 - Omaha, ME - Sokol Underground
03.21.08 - Boulder, CO - Fox Theatre
03.22.08 - Salt Lake City, UT - Union Ballroom, University of Utah
03.24.08 - San Diego, CA - San Diego Women’s Club
03.25.08 - Los Angleles, CA - Wiltern
03.27.08 - San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore Auditorium
03.28.08 - Portland, OR - Aladdin Theater
03.29.08 - Seattle, WA - The Triple Door
03.30.08 - Seattle, WA - The Triple Door
03.31.08 - Vancouver, British Columbia - St. Andrew’s Wesley United Church