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A simple colony is a collaboration between longtime friends Lara Michell (The Stolen Sweets, Dirty Martini) and Michael Dodson (formerly of the Portland Gay Men's Chorus and the David York Ensemble), who met while attending Willamette University in the early 1990's. Generally speaking, Lara composes the music, records it on her laptop, e-mails it across town to Michael who then writes all of the lyrics and vocal parts, recording demo versions of the finished songs on his laptop. They get together occasionally during the process to refine the arrangements and swap ideas. Their sparse, acoustic debut album WORLD BRAND NEW was recorded by Ezra Holbrook and Jason Roark and released in August of 2010. They are currently in the process of recording their second full-length album with local engineer Nancy Hess, expected release date summer of 2012.

Michael Dodson is an art teacher at French Prairie Middle School in Woodburn, OR, and although he has performed with countless vocal ensembles and made many jazz and classical vocal recordings over the years, this is his first foray into the recording of his own original songs. He lives in Lake Oswego with his partner and their six-year-old daughter.

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