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Dogr
In Korean Wilds & Villages
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Things Are Not More Exciting Than They Are - Dogr, DiGregorio, David M
2. Man on Earth - Dogr, DiGregorio, David M
3. (Han River) Heaven & Work
4. My Must Needs Over There
5. Don't Worry
6. Fiks It Up
7. The Man Transform'd
8. Grows on Top of the Old One
9. O How This City Has Changed
10. Jook

CD Details

All Artists: Dogr
Title: In Korean Wilds & Villages
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sonig Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 6/9/2009
Genres: Dance & Electronic, Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock
Styles: Indie & Lo-Fi, Progressive, Progressive Rock
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 655035137728

Synopsis

Album Description

2009 debut album by Dogr, a young New-York-based conceptual artist/instrumentalist/vocalist who explores unheard musical ideas and conducts webbed experiments, not only for the sake of discovering and exploiting a great art, but to speak in a clear and beautiful language, accurate in its contraction and original in its musical quality. Moreover, Dogr maintains his curiosity, the exotic eclecticism of his idiosyncratic musical arrangements, and his beatnik bare experimentalism. The production of Mouse on Mars's Andi Toma adds an analog thrill to this spiraling, epic record.

CD Reviews

Extraordinary voice meets wild musical imagination

Big Mouth | Bay Area | 06/24/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Dogr sings beautifully enough that he doesn't even need the fascinating electronic sonic fabric that runs throughout In Korean Wilds and Villages! I recommend this to all who love the human voice, story-telling and unbound music..."

In Korean Wilds: Artful story travel

LeChatNoir | 05/20/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It isn't often justified that the creator of a music album be termed an 'Artist'. A creator, a performer; sure. But 'Artist', implying some peculiar intent toward creation (or retelling); few actually are. But this isn't about the grant of titles. It's about deeds..

A spring morning at Haus der Kunst (Munich) brought a chance witnessing of the exhibit Golden Times Part 2, featuring South Korean lore by visual artist Sung Hwan Kim. The three episodes presented story-telling and narratives recounted upon the enigmatic breast of David Michael DiGregorio's (alias dogr) nostalgic soundscapes; One part engaging folklore, part documented realism, and partly, the ancient p'ansori of hybrid haetae symbolism. The intense and tender ballads of In Korean Wilds and Villages are a portal invoking unlikely heroes into your everyday; the weary transcendentalism of time-worn travels through places that no longer exist, the long-throated beauty in green, to whom a family of snakes took a shy. This is a lyrical journey through lush cinematic berceuses. Inside your plastic covered poncho you will find unusual places where the surreal humming of subterranean tracks such as 'O How This City Has Changed' serve testament to this ingenuity.

May the snakes constrict all of my thoughts.

(Audio CD with illustrated booklet highly recommended)

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