Shadow and Dust

On the out skirts of Los Angeles with a sound that most would not expect from the city of angels. Shadow and Dust is not just another spacey folk rock group. They appear out of the sky like an dusty Neil Young record playing over a distance hill top. Taking their cues from the likes of Red House Painters, M Ward, LOW, Sufjan Stevens and Neil Halstead and other modern folk artist. S&D are traveling across old land awaking new spirits at the same time.

Joshua Alan the main songwriter behind S&D reaches out with a haunting sincere voice that offers hints of Dean Wareham of Luna, Hope Sandoval, and Jim James of My Morning Jacket.

In their first year of performing in 2004 they have played all over Los Angeles from the Furthermore artist gallery in chinatown, Open Bookstore in Long Beach to the hip Silverlake Lounge in Silverlake, CA for repeat visits. Recently just wrapping up their first northern tour of 2005 making stops in San Francisco "The Makeout Room", Oakland "The Stork Club", guest studio performance on the "Cool as Folk" at UC Davis KDVS radio show and then onto Reno Nevada's Zephyr Lounge.

In recent news Shadow and Dust is to be included in the OCWEEKLY annual CD compilation of best Orange County bands. This group has covered a lot of new ground on their new journey with a lot of room to grow their wings.