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Kate Davidson and M. Ritchey have been making music together for twelve
years. Having begun their collaboration in a small, dimly-lit dorm room
in Portland, they continued by founding the band Dear Nora in 1999.
After several national and international tours, Kate decided to pursue
a new life in San Francisco, where she learned how to rip wicked guitar
solos, turned Dear Nora into a Fela Kuti-inspired 9 person jam band,
and released several albums (on Magic Marker Records) to wide acclaim.
M. Ritchey stayed in Portland and formed The Badger King with YACHT's
Jona Bechtolt, and also followed her tendency toward the mythical to a
weird, often cryptic, electro-fantasy-prog solo album under the name
"Manta" (which became "Mantar" after veiled litigious threats from a
local smooth jazz band became tedious), pouring her energies into an
inhuman laptop that neither gave nor received love.
Over the years, both Kate and M. Ritchey explored many new musical
avenues, but a small part of each of their hearts remained in that
tiny, poorly-ventilated dorm room in which both their friendship and
their musical lives were born. Luckily, and for unrelated reasons, they
both happened to move to Los Angeles at the same time that, due to the
whims of Fate, each was becoming disillusioned with her solo musical
venture. It was at this moment that Lloyd and Michael spread its wings
and took flight into the disgusting, smoggy air. Now older, wiser, and
infinitely more attractive, Kate and M. Ritchey were ready to bring
their well-honed individual expressive talents together again, after a
decade of solitary wandering. A new album was inevitable, and ended up
being recorded in only about four days due to the incredibly strong and
positive vibes both were experiencing.
"Just As God Made Us," Lloyd and Michael's debut album (States
Rights Records), sounds like Dear Nora mixed with Mantar, plus elements
of Yes, the Doobie Brothers, the Indigo Girls, Hector Berlioz, "The
Winds of Change" by the Scorpions, Beyoncé Knowles, Ween, the pre-disco
work of the Bee Gees, Joni Mitchell, Pharoah Sanders, and possibly
Peter, Paul and Mary.
Lloyd and Michael is the sound of friendship. It
is the sound of freedom.
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Check out our dancing friends called Body City, featuring music by Aphex Twin and Lloyd & Michael:
danceplants from bodycity and Vimeo .
