Seattle-based folk musician plucks his guitar with mountain man bravado and sings with the lyrical wit of some of Americana's best kept secrets. ---------------- 1 Wasps of Rain
2 Satisfying Burn
3 Sand and Swallow
4 Equestrian
5 Warm Territories
6 New Creatures
7 Cookie Cutter
8 Five Dollars
9 Mesojunarian
10 Crow Politics
----------------------------- Mesojunarian was recorded, engineered and produced by Tucker Martine, best known for his work with Laura Viers, Erin McKeown, The Long Winters, The Decemberists, Jesse Sykes and features performances by a variety of northwest artists including Laura Viers, Eyvind Kang, Steve Moore, Tucker Martine and more.
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"Mesojunarian, the long-awaited album from Mike Dumovich, which opens on a strange natural re-arrangement of "Amazing Grace" in the luscious "Wasps of Rain," settling on the psyche like a prickly hallucination. This is plucked mosaic shibboleth blues, where you're willing to follow the weathered vocalist's story anywhere, delighted by each shuffle of twilight imagery and montage of dreams and wilderness. Dumovich has almost unbearable confidence, really seducing the listener into the labyrinth of his storytelling. His visions however more abstract, are no less sensual. When his voice rises to a pine two minutes into the excellent "Satisfying Burn" he seems capable of delivering any emotion, before the song coyly orgasms into a bed of sound from guest violists Eyvind and Anne Marie (Jesse Sykes, The Walkabouts)."
