Doomtree “No Kings” Winter Tour + SXSW 2012
Tonight the Doomtree collective begins its ambitious tour (no, not a friggin’ reference to Madonna), the start of many, many days on the road - from January 19 to March 20, including SXSW dates from March 13 to 18 - introducing fans to the live versions of the songs from No Kings, written, recorded, mixed, mastered and released in 2011 in yet another ambitious, albeit tenacious, fashion.
Each player in the collective of 10 years – P.O.S., Dessa, Sims, Cecil Otter, Mike Mictlan, Lazerbeak and Paper Tiger – are all music making entities in their own right. When you bring these seven souls together the term “power house” seems like a whimper of an adjective.
After a decade of teaming up on album releases that were essentially collections, with works contributed by individual members, Doomtree set out in 2011 to make an album from beginning to end, as one unit.
“This one was our most collaborative effort in working together,” said Dessa, making time in her busy schedule for a quick Skype chat while preparing for take off. “For this disc the producers ended up creating the beats together. So they’d actually meet in a room with their noise machines and guitars and synthesizers, and compose together. And then after they were making creating the beats, almost the entirety of the collective drove north and sequestered ourselves in a cabin for about a week to write the bulk of the lyrics together…working together in real time and in the same room.”
