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Mia Doi Todd (born June 30, 1975) is a musician from Los Angeles, California, USA. She moved to New Haven, Connecticut in 1993 to attend Yale University. Her first album, the ewe and the eye, was recorded at the Spaceshed, the recording studio/garage belonging to the LA band Further. It came out on their label, Xmas Records, in the spring of 1997, as she was graduating from college. She moved to New York City and started playing in clubs. Elliott Smith and the Palace Brothers were big influences of hers at the time. That fall, she recorded her second album, come out of your mine, which was released on The Communion Label in 1999.

She lived in Japan for most of 1998, studying first with Kazuo and Yoshito Ohno and at Asbestos-kan, and then with Min Tanaka at Body Weather Farm. She speaks rudimentary Japanese. Returning home to Los Angeles, she recorded most of her next album, zeroone, on a Power Mac G4 and started City Zen Records to release it in 2001.

Her first three albums were solo acoustic recordings. After these, she started to play with a band. They had been called Los Cincos and were renamed Syncopation. They never recorded much together, though. She signed a contract with Sony/Columbia Records, and recorded The Golden State, culling songs from her previous albums. Mitchell Froom and Yves Beauvais helped her produce it. She recorded at the Sunset Sound Factory, and the album came out in the fall of 2002 and was generally well received by critics, though one writer referred to Mia as “jaw-droppingly pretentious”. For a year, she toured the US and Europe, on her own and then with Alaska! and Lou Barlow’s Folk Implosion. Sony chose at this time not to renew her contract.
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  • needmymusictoda

    ❤

    March 2012

  • grapefruitfresh

    it's sooo beautiful and peaceful

    March 2012

  • dhkpsl

    Casa Nova and Tongue-Tied are amazing

    October 2011

  • jambolini

    \o/

    December 2010

  • cocoscandle

    The Remix with Flying Lotus is bad, but the rest is totally lovely.

    December 2010

  • rasporot_sumeyu

    she looks like an actress whom I must have seen in some moovie. The ones I can't remember.. the girl has the southern beauty but her music is quite northern spirited.)

    December 2010

  • red-dakini

    manzanita of my dreams...

    November 2010

  • JoshCIVM

    I need to stop lusting after beautiful women who are 20 years older than me...

    October 2010
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