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+DOG+: Peace (Love Earth Music)

A long-running experimental noise unit led by Steve Davis and featuring Lob Instagon, +DOG+ craft a subtle and textural set of eighteen lo-fi electroacoustic improvisations recorded in Massachusetts, California, and Rhode Island, blending electronics, field recordings, and minimalist structures with a calm, intimate, and exploratory aesthetic.
 

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Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-354
Squidco Product Code: 35888

Format: CDR
Condition: New
Released: 2024
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded in Sudbury MA, Los Angeles CA, and Providence RI 2023-2024.
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Steve Davis, aka S. Standfish Davis. +DOG+ has been a central project of Steve Davis' Love Earth Music label, the noise project formed 1990 in Osaka, later in Massachusetts (and, for a time, Southern California) since 1997.

Davis is a member of the groups +DOG+, Blue, Dogshit, Expando Brain, Intensive Studies, Le Chien Nu, Shit Brothers, and Reality Challenged.

7/8/2026

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