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"A beautiful, baroque work." - LA WEEKLY
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"Moving...heartbreaking." - GO MAG (Spain)
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"Passionate and affecting, even frightening at times." - AMERICANA UK
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"BOLKA is a tour-de-force of eclectic, hypnotic folk-rock. Jaw-dropping beauty." (20 Top Albums of 2008) - OUT IN THE CITY (UK)
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"Dorian's music exists in a time-space continuum all its own." - SIGNAL TRIBUNE
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"Wry, wistful and deliciously eerie, BOLKA's a valentine to the brokenhearted." - INSTINCT MAG
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"Dorian Wood's songs takes listeners on an emotional, baroque rollercoaster ride. Indeed...BOLKA demonstrates his gift for (dramatic) melody and harkens back to Tin Pan Alley, even Vaudevillian days. The lyrics on his songs are emotionally charged, literate and riveting, like a great novel." - GROUPEE.COM
DORIAN EDWARD WOOD lives in Los Angeles. Every morning, as the sweet porridge of air swims into his lungs via his neighbor, the Mount Washington, he smiles a billion smiles as he anticipates another day of endless creative live-wires.
As a musician, Dorian has traveled comfortably between the worlds of folk/soul and experimental/spiritual. His debut album, BOLKA (Bulgarian for “pain”) showcased his songwriting and vocal strengths in a whirlwind of horns, harps, accordions and a Bulgarian women’s choir. His live performances are equally epic: from street corners to concert halls in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico and the UK, Dorian is often accompanied by several members of the Los Angeles-based avant-garde orchestra, Killsonic (of which he is also a composer and an accordionist). He has curated several multi-media events: ORGANIKA I and II at Highways Performance Space in Santa Monica, California, and Killsonic Presents, an ongoing monthly series presenting debuted works by those within (and without) the Killsonic collective.
This year, Dorian will be exhibiting his reality-bending illustrations at the official release of his latest EP, Black Pig Suite. The EP is set to be released as a download attachment to a limited-edition print, in addition to several original works incorporating ink, watercolor and blood. Dorian will also release a live recording entitled Geralding, an improvisational piece involving 11 musicians and the hallucinogen salvia divinorum.
As one of the busiest, most prolific underground artists working today, Dorian Wood will continue to press his face against the boundaries of creativity. He is currently working on his magnum opus, Rattle Rattle, and is set to perform this fall in New York, San Francisco and Paris.
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"The androgynous emotionality of Wood’s singing voice lends itself to the demanding theatricality of [his] lyrics, arrangements and production. The nakedness of a lover’s need and the wide-eyed madness that ensues when that need is not met twine around one another." - LA Weekly
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"Dorian’s voice is evocative of those persons, places and things in your mind that ring like cultural archetypes (the carnival ring leader who knows everyone’s secrets, the fool lamenting at the moon, the gregarious saloon piano player), but these apparently familiar characters he seems to be depicting yank at the proverbial rug under you and demonstrate his dynamic cultural literacy. Though they draw from different sources, his songs’ emotional roots are firmly planted in his own experience." - Signal Tribune
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"Wood unleashes gospel-infused wails and testimony that bring the audience…to a frenzy.” – The Advocate
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"Dorian Wood is an instigator extraordinaire. A shape-shifter. A subtle court jester posing as a harmless house pet. An inspiring addition to the freakish world we now live in...a true artist in the purest sense of the word. Fearless, confident, filled with passion. His songs are beautiful without being pretty, well orchestrated, and creepy almost to the point of being masochistic, all the while continuing to work under the guise of 'folk music'." - Citizen LA
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