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***Zeroone is the third album by Mia Doi Todd, recorded by herself at home in Los Angeles during the summer and fall of 2000, using a Macintosh G4 and ProTools Digi001. Like her first two albums, The Ewe and The Eye, and Come Out of Your Mine, Zeroone is set in the simplest of arrangements-guitar and voice. Its ten songs were written in 1998 while Mia was living in Tokyo studying the modern Japanese dance form Butoh, and in 1999 upon her return to the United States. Her most abstract work so far, Zeroone departs from the traditional verse-chorus song structure and standard guitar tuning, venturing into dissonance and free verse. Mia continues to develop an impressively individual vocal style, distinguished by her unique phrasing and minimalistic method of working in and around melody. The result travels far beyond mere folk and into territory best described as otherworldly. The album includes a complete lyric book, designed by Mia. Since the release of Come Out of Your Mine in the spring of 1999, Mia has toured nationally, opening for Kristin Hersh on an east and west coast tour in 1999 and then the following winter for Lou Barlow on the California portion of his Folk Implosion tour. Mia also choreographed and performed solo NohButohBalletShadowPlays in 2000, one entitled Dragon for Chinese New Year, the other Falling for the autumnal equinox. Mia performs regularly in the Silverlake area of Los Angeles at venues such as the Silverlake Lounge, Spaceland, the Hollywood Knitting Factory, and The Smell. |
