HOW TO DRESS WELL with Special Guest MAIAH MANSER at NEUMOS

How To Dress Well with special guest Maiah Manser $15ADV /// 8pm /// 21+ http://neumos.com/event/how-to-dress-well/ HOW TO DRESS WELL: Research fellow Tom Krell makes ghostly, lo-fi R&B under the moniker How to Dress Well, a name he stumbled upon and adopted as his own in a Minneapolis bookstore in 2004. As a little boy, Krell loved late-'80s and early-'90s R&B artists including Keith Sweat and Ready for the World, and since he was a late bloomer, he could sing along to songs by female vocalists well into his teens. However, in high school he played in various metal and hardcore bands, then switched to making drone-based music in his twenties. Krell made live experimental music as How to Dress Well by looping layers of his voice while he was living in Brooklyn, but it was when he moved to Cologne, Germany and collaborated with the like-minded artist cokc dokc that he began recording under that name. Krell blended his childhood love of R&B with the abstract noise of Black Dice, filtering it all through lo-fi recording techniques. He released the first How to Dress Well EP, The Eternal Love, in October 2009 as a free download via his blog, and more EPs followed at the rate of about one per month through April 2010. Krell signed to Lefse Records, which released his first official single, Ready for the World, in July 2010 and How to Dress Well's debut album, Love Remains, that October. Two years later, Krell returned with Total Loss, a more straightforward and cleanly recorded set of songs inspired by trying to be positive in the face of adversity. Krell's third full-length, What Is This Heart? arrived in June 2014, and the album's sessions were fully overseen by XL Records' executive Rodaidh McDonald, who had also assisted Krell with the production of Total Loss. http://whatisthisheart.com MAIAH MANSER: Maiah Manser has knowingly loved music since she was four years old--a time when she would incessantly sing made-up operas to the pine trees and to the recluse living next door. Quickly, she realized she could cut preschool nap time to sing to other classes and was soon winning talent shows by the time she turned six. It became her very own little magic trick, her moments of retreat and wonder. Later, she began violin, viola and piano lessons, but could not be kept from singing and was never short of some sort of performance. She came to Seattle, Washington from Bend, Oregon in 2009 to pursue a degree in vocal performance and composition at Cornish College of the Arts, but left in order to discover first hand what was in store. In August of 2012, she began to pursue her own solo work with fantasies of a sound that would take much orchestration and patience. By going out and actively pursuing her dreams, Maiah climbed her way onto the stage at EMP's Sound Off! 2013 putting out her first EP, First Words and backed her dear friend Mary Lambert onstage for one of the final broadcasts of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Suddenly, she wasn't that little girl singing to foliage in her backyard, but a voice projected out to millions. After experiencing Maiah perform in a dimly lit night club in October of 2013, Damon Christopher Moore of Electrokitty put out a helping hand to bring her music to fruition. After she produced the entire song herself, Maiah finally took the plunge with Damon to produce her latest single "Hold Your Head Up" in the studio. Terence Ankeny of Zoolab and Garrett Reynolds also assisted in the creation of the song with Branden Clarke polishing it in mastering. Maiah plans to work with Damon to finish the rest of her EP coming in spring of 2015. Her music has been compared to Bjork, Fiona Apple, Jeff Buckley and Florence and the Machine. For Maiah, It is essential for her to focus on the world we live in today when formulating songs. Living in a dichotomy of a digital vs. organic world, she strives to craft music that reflects this 21st century conundrum and reconcile the present in order to connect. With this, you might hear lush orchestral sounds paired with electronic beats and samples. Likewise, she has always been drawn to visual art and finds ways to incorporate her visual aesthetics by collaborating with talented local artists such as Joshua Taylor, Josie Simonet, Domenic Barbero, Casey Sjogren, Chelsea Rodino and many others. Maiah has also recently recorded on tracks and co-written for Manatee Commune, The Theoretics, and Zoolab while also working with artists such as Mary Lambert, Whitney Lyman, and Pollens www.maiahmanser.com