Michael P. Dawson: Paleozoic CD

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San Francisco Bay Area composer and instrumentalist Michael P. Dawson presents Paleozoic, an album of musical contemplations of the period when complex life forms first emerged on our planet. The album is arranged in two distinct halves. The first part features five intricately composed pieces combining elements of progressive rock, contemporary classical, and electronica. The second part is more abstract, ambient, and atmospheric—five sound paintings of an ancient earth. The spectacular cover art by Mike Menasco reflects the album’s theme with its depiction of a teeming undersea fauna of half a billion years ago.

Paleozoic is available on CD and as a digital download now, with a vinyl version to follow. Buy it here: https://store.cdbaby.com/Artist/MichaelPDawson

 Tracks:

• Extinction Event
• Herrings and Ingrids
• Dimetrodon
• The Heaventree of Stars
• Bone Wars
• The Burgess Shale
• Carbon-14
• Silurian Swamp
• Crinoid Drift
• Precambrian

 Michael P. Dawson played concert and bass flutes, soprano and tenor saxophones, bass clarinet, Moog synthesizers, guitars, lap steel, glockenspiel, electronics and virtual instruments.