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+DOG+
The Light Of Our Lives [2 CDs]

+DOG+: The Light Of Our Lives [2 CDs] (Love Earth Music)

A two-CD immersion in live experimental noise by +DOG+'s Steve Davis and core collaborators, documented across multiple U.S. cities in 2024-25, weaving together feral improvisation, layered electronics, ambient detours, and cathartic sonic eruptions into a raw and immersive journey through texture, intensity, and collective sound exploration.
 

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Steve Davis-performer

Bobby Almon-performer

Chuck Foster-performer

Edward Giles-performer

Joao Lobo-performer

Mackenzie Kourie-performer


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Label: Love Earth Music
Catalog ID: LEM-380
Squidco Product Code: 36009

Format: 2 CDRs
Condition: New
Released: 2025
Country: USA
Packaging: Digipack
Recorded in Sudbury MA, Providence RI, Los Angeles CA, Sacramento CA, in 2024-2025.

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A formidable collective hailing from Sudbury, Massachusetts, +DOG+ — helmed by Steve Davis — unleashes their most ambitious statement yet with this sprawling double CD on Love Earth Music. Recorded across four U.S. locales in 2024-25, the album captures the raw energy and unpredictability of their live improv sessions.

Joined by longtime collaborators Bobby Almon, Chuck Foster, Edward Giles, LOB, and Mackenzie Kourie, the group alternates between seething noise, ambient interludes, eruptive walls of sound, and moments of subdued reflection. Across twenty tracks, they construct a dense, immersive exploration of texture and emotion — an uncompromising dive into the heart of experimental sound that rewards listeners willing to confront its visceral power.


Artist Biographies

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.

7/7/2025

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Bobby Almon is an experimental sound artist known for his work in the noise and ambient music scenes. He has performed at events like the Santa Ana Noise Fest, showcasing his project "Transient," which delves into experimental and ambient noise music.

-Squidco 7/7/2025

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"Chuck Foster is mainly a music reviewer and writer from Brooklyn, NY working with Big Takeover Magazine. But also an experimental noise sound artist and sometimes member of +DOG+"

-Discogs (https://www.discogs.com/artist/8792488-Chuck-Foster-7?anv=Chuck&filter_anv=1&srsltid=AfmBOoo4ztzubRZqlW3XK9pv4H_ECVxAejqZQaLEGm08FtqIMzMWlQpK)
7/7/2025

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-Squidco 7/7/2025

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LOB is the creative force behind the long-running improvisational project Instagon. He was a member of Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth's North American branch, a chaos magic fellowship founded by British experimental band Psychic TV. LOB is also a poet and visual artist, with his artwork exhibited in various galleries.

-Squidco 7/7/2025

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Mackenzie Kourie is a percussionist and sound artist who skillfully harnesses the nostalgic allure of vintage media by intricately weaving sonic tapestries through the use of tape loops, field recordings, and improvisation. His work often explores the intersections of noise, ambient, and experimental music.

-Squidco 7/7/2025

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Track Listing:



CD1



1. Painter Of Paintings 5:01

2. Preemptive Love 4:15

3. Oh, My Broken Heart 2:20

4. I'm Just Going To Be Here 3:14

5. Can You See Me Now? 1:46

6. Numbers 3:06

7. There Is No Goodbye, Only Love 4:01

8. The First Day In This World 15:53

CD2



1. The Flowers 3:47

2. The Light 2:53

3. And So We Set Upon The Sea 1:58

4. Keep Going 2:18

5. This One Life 3:05

6. Sunflowers 2 3:01

7. The Old Stable Location 2:01

8. The End Of Hopelessness 7:02

9. Once There Were Woods There 1:30

10. Crows Around 1:27

11. The Silence Of Sound 2:26

12. The Antidote 3:39

13. **DeRevolution 1** (Bonus Track) 10:19

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