ARTIST: Mike Dumovich
TITLE: Mesojunarian
LABEL: Tarnished Records
GENRE: Indie
BITRATE: 187kbps avg
PLAYTIME: 0h 37m total
RELEASE DATE: 2006-07-31
RIP DATE: 2006-07-11
Track List
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1. Wasps of Rain 4:39
2. Satisfying Burn 2:57
3. Sand and Swallow 3:00
4. Equestrian 4:19
5. Warm Territories 3:03
6. New Creatures 5:40
7. Cookie Cutter 3:16
8. Five Dollars 3:13
9. Mesojunarian 4:01
10. Crow Politics 3:04
Release Notes:
http://www.myspace.com/mikedumovich
http://www.beeprepaired.com/mikedumovich/
http://www.tarnishedrecords.com/
by Brian J. Barr, Freelance Writer (No Depression, Harp, Seattle Stranger):
"A few years back, Mike Dumovich played an entrancing set opening for Jesse
Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter. Slouched over his guitar, grinning sheepishly from
under his ball cap, his notes rang as clear and as true as anything I'd heard
since laying ears on John Fahey many moons ago. Since then, I've been anxious
for this impending full-length. Mesojunarian reflects the plaintive picking and
singing he's known for, but also brings to light his remarkably original
songwriting approach. Structured around razor-sharp fingerplucks rather than
chords, Dumovich's lyrics often draw a chilly parallel between geography,
weather, and human emotions, a condition we Northwesterners are well familiar
with. Joined by Seattle's genius violinists Eyvind Kang and Anne Marie
Ruljancich, Dumovich is given the damp atmospherics his words require: words
that are barely sung. Instead, he melodically speaks quite matter-of-factly
about 10,000 storms over 10 counties (Warm Territories), discarded engines and
one dead bee (Wasps of Rain), and how Saturdays the third in a long series of
planets that have been burned (5 Dollars). While Dumovich can be a morose
motherfucker, it's never in the tiresome woe-is-me plague of most
singer-songwriters. Rather, he is deeply thoughtful in the Nick Drake/Townes Van
Zandt tradition. However, with producer Tucker Martine at the knobs, Dumovich
shows he can also craft a catchy rock tune, such as Sand and Swallow, which
borders on the Long Winters more somber moments. With Mesojunarian, we finally
have a recorded document of one of Seattles most treasured songwriters."