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ALTERNATIVE TENTACLES
Artist: HALF JAPANESE Title: Hello
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 VIRUS 245 CD
Price: $9.25 Label: Alternative Tentacles
Release
Date:		 3/5/01
***JAD FAIR returns under his cult moniker HALF JAPANESE for their first new release in four years. Together with JOHN SLUGGET, GILLES RIEDER, JASON WILLETT, F. ERICKSON and DALLAS GOOD, JAD continues to twist standard song writing and chord structure to produce soon-to-be classic indie-rock.

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CITY ZEN
Artist: MIA DOI TODD Title: Zeroone
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 CTZ001
Price: $12.00 Label: City Zen
Release
Date:		 3/5/01
***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.

YOUNG GOD
Artist: ANGELS OF LIGHT Title: How I Loved You
Format: CD Catalog
Number:		 YG16CD
Price: $13.00 Label: Young God
Release
Date:		 3/5/01
***"Here is the new Angels of Light album. I wrote the songs over the last couple of years. As it turns out, they're all love songs, in one form or another. The songs started out with just my voice and acoustic guitar, and then developed naturally over time by playing them with my friends (listed below) - whose collaboration and contributions are positively inspirational, to me anyway. Our combined sensibilities feel very natural at this point, which I guess comes from having played most of the songs live a lot. The songs were recorded live in the studio, then subjected to my usual lapses of over-orchestration. In this case though, I think I reigned myself in, and the final sound/picture seems to fit organically with the basic songs and lyrics. Anyway, I did my best. You decide. Making this album was a labor of love for all of us. I think this intention comes through, and I hope you find something of use to you personally in the music..."
    -Michael Gira

MICHAEL GIRA Voice, acoustic and electric guitar, production
CHRISTOPH HAHN Lap steel guitar, electric guitar
DANA SCHECHTER Bass guitar, piano, melodica, backing vocals
LAWRENCE MULLINS Drumset, vibraphone, timpani, Farfisa VIP 600 organ, sleighbells, tambourine, castanets, glockenspiel
BIRGIT-CASSIS STAUDT Accordion, melodica, cassio, piano, backing vocals
THOR HARRIS Hammer dulcimer, piano, backing vocals
BLISS BLOOD Backing vocals and double vocal on "Untitled Love Song," ukelele
SIOBHAN DUFFY Backing vocals and double vocal on "Song for Nico"
KID CONGO POWERS Additional electric guitar on "My True Body" and "New York Girls"

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