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Influenced by the likes of Electric Light Orchestra, New Order, and Flaming Lips, Geographer is one of America’s best kept pop secrets. Their sound bustles with high level energy and continually tests audiences predictions, taking emotionally bare themes and pitting them against upbeat summery tracks.

Front man and leading creative force, Michael Deni formed Geographer in 2007. Initially the project acted as a medium through which Deni channeled his emotions relating to the inter-turmoil eroding his family; however, once he moved from New Jersey to San Francisco it started to take on a new and more intricate form. While in San Francisco Deni befriended two former students of the Berklee College of Music, Nathan Blaz and Brian Ostreicher. The two aspiring musicians met Deni at one of his open mic shows, and not long after joined Geographer.

The band independently released their debut album “Innocent Ghosts” on 17 August 2008 and started a regional tour in support of it. Though the album did not tap into the mainstream it received high praise from various renowned publications such as Spin who cited Geographer as “one of the three bands you need to hear now”. The group’s profile was also boosted as a result of one of their songs “The Morning” being featured in the film “New York, I Love You”.

In 2009 the group entered in a recording contract with the label Tricycle Records and by the year’s end released the 7” single, which featured an original “Kite” and a cover of New Order’s “Age of Consent”. The following year Geographer issued their six song EP “Animal Shapes” to critical acclaim, particularly earning recognition from SF Weekly. At this point their music was being heavily circulated through various add campaigns and media outlets, obtaining featured spots in the MTV series “Awkward” and “The Buried Life”.

By the time Geographer released their next studio album “Myth”, they had switched from Tricycle Records to the New York label Modern Art Records. The album’s lead single “Life of Crime” was mixed by Chris Zane (who has in the past handled works by tUnE-yArDs, Passion Pit, and Deerhoof).

After the release of “Myth” the group went on a five week tour with Miniature Tigers. In addition to their extensive touring they have played various festivals such as SXSW, Treasure Island Music Festival, and Fun Fun Fun Fest, alongside artists like Atlas Sound, Stars, Toro y Moi, and Tokyo Police Club. The band has also provided several well received covers such as Kate Bush’s “Cloudbusting” and Arthur Russell’s “This Is How We Walk On The Moon”.

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Geographer at the Mohawk in Austin, TX was absolutely fascinating show. Michael Deni's voice fills up the space around and all of the wonderful instrumentation that goes on behind it was beyond anything I was expecting. There is a saxophone and the electric cello as well as Deni's various synthesizers are exceptionally well performed live. The band is energetic and played an amazing set, every single song that I wanted to hear was played: Kites, Paris, Kaleidoscopes, Lover's Game and some new songs from their new record Ghost Modern were done very well. The best part of the night was when Deni came back out for encore and began playing an acoustic version of Verona, which is my favorite song of theirs and then brought the rest of the band back out to complete the rest of the song with the synthesizers, the electric cello, drums, and got the crowd involved with singing along. I never thought that I would get the chance to see them, I noticed that they were coming to Austin and decided to go and I'm so glad that I did. If you ever get the chance to see these guys live, they are AWESOME!

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Geographer deserves to play the big venues, but I hope they stay in the ones as intimate as 7th Street Entry at First avenue in Minneapolis. My heart would break if I had to be 50 yards further away from them. They include the audience; they get right up next to you and their music absorbs you. Michael (vocals) soothes you with his satin voice and wows you with the layers upon layers each song brings. Nathan (on his electric cello) brings such depth with every movement, adding even more life to the room. The drum beat is engulfing and you have no choice but to move with it and get lost in their self-described "soulful music from outer space" which rocks you out 'til you don't think you will ever want to stop.

Geographer performed very well! Their songs sounded very true to the recordings and the lead singer has such an amazing voice. There was definitely a lot of energy in the performance and the sold out venue full of Geographer fans. Their show at Larimer Lounge in Denver on March 23, 2015, was very intimate and lively.

Absolutely amazing performance. The electric cello was unlike anything I've seen on stage. The crowd was feeling good and it was an awesome night!!

His voice is so lovely. The music just flows through the body and makes you feel alive!

Great concert! Awesome showmanship and amazing line up along with set play! You guys created an inviting feel good atomosphere I didn't want to leave, I definitely can't wait to come see you guys again!

Awesome show by Geographer as always!!! Manatee Commune blew me away with his viby music!! Overall this was a great venue. Definitely coming back for other shows. Thank you to everyone who works there.

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Interview with Mike Deni aka Geographer

• Posted on July 6, 2020
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As you can tell by the interview below, I love the band Geographer . Which, as of now, Geographer is actually the moniker of Mike Deni, which made it easier to get on the phone with “the band” recently, now that it’s just one guy. One very talented guy. His new album is due in December of this year, but until then, enjoy the misleadingly upbeat new single, “ Love Is Madness ,” which was co-written by Kevin Ray of Walk The Moon . I had a great time chatting with Mike and look forward to went he can tour again (crossing fingers, 2021).

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Mike: Thank you!

Aimee: Yeah. Ghost Modern album is one of my faves… It was on repeat that year. I just remember listening to it so much.

Mike: Ah, that’s awesome.

Aimee: Yeah. But for those who don’t know you, tell me a little bit about your band, Geographer.

Mike: Well, I started in San Francisco, I think in 2008 officially. I had been playing open mics for a long time there, just basically trying to get my footing into becoming a musician somehow. And then I met a bunch of awesome musicians. We started a band that kind of morphed into, over the course of many years, what Geographer is now, which is just basically a solo project at this point. It kind of started out as more of a band concept, but then me being the only one who could continue on, I just sort of kept the mantle going.

Aimee: That’s awesome. I mean, I know you have a bunch of albums. How many albums? There’s a lot, right?

Mike: Yeah. So my first album is Innocent Ghosts and then that was kind of a self-released, under the radar thing. But then the big moment for me was Animal Shapes , my first EP. And that has “Kites on it, which was sort of a big success in the college market. So that kind of started my career. And then I put out Myth , my first full album. Then that started my touring life and I’ve been touring ever since. I got another couple of EPs after that. And then, this album that’s coming out in December will be my first full album since Ghost Modern , which was, I think, five years ago.

Aimee: Wow. Yeah. I was kind of looking back and Spotify makes things a little weird in terms of trying to figure out which is an album, what’s a song. But I know you have a new single called “Love Is Madness.” Can you talk about that?

Mike: Sure. So… I recently moved to L.A. from San Francisco. I use to sort of be like, “San Francisco for life.” But I just really needed a change. I was stifled and just spinning my wheels basically. And I had been coming to L.A. a lot to write with other people, just for various projects and I really enjoyed doing that. So then I just decided to move down here so I could actually be a part of a music scene because the San Francisco music scene was, well, it’s there, but it’s just very small. I felt like I knew everybody.

Aimee: Sure. Compared to L.A., yeah.

Mike: Oh God, yeah. So I did move down here and then I met Kevin Ray, who’s the bassist for Walk The Moon. And we became friends, we wrote a couple songs together. And then one day he came over and showed me the beginning of what became “Love Is Madness.” It was just this little riff he was working on, on his computer. And I just loved it so much, so we started working on that. And yeah, I had just been dumped at the time and I was in a really bad way. I almost canceled the session, which is so funny to me now because the song would never exist.

Aimee: Wow.

Mike: But yeah, the power of music prevailed again and helped me through that day. It’s sad to say that some of the best songs, they really do come from a place of just pain. And as an artist, you always hope that’s not the case, so you can have a nice life. But the proof is kind of in the pudding there.

Aimee: That was one of my later questions, but I’m going to ask it now. I feel like your music feels very dreamy and poppy, but then you listen to the lyrics and there’s a lot more there. Do you do that on purpose or is that just the way it feels right to you? Or, how does that happen?

Mike: Yeah, that has always interested me as well. Because I think a lot about my personality versus the music that I create. Because my personality is like, I joke around all the time, I mean, I’m definitely morose and my humor is very dark, but I think a lot of people who know me would think of me as a sort of fun, happy person. But the people who truly know me know that I’m also really depressed. So I think that’s like what-

Aimee: Sounds like me.

Mike: Yeah, ha. And probably a lot of people.

Aimee : Absolutely.

Mike: But it sounds like what my music ends up being, where the outward appearance, the initial impact that it has is fun, happy, dancey. But then when you get to know the song better, you see that the lyrics are actually very thoughtful and sad and sometimes brooding. So I didn’t do that on purpose, but whenever I write, I guess, yeah. I guess I look to music as a release and an escape. So that’s why I create the music. So I always want to make something moving. And a lot of times that’s a happy sound, but then when it comes to writing the lyrics, at least for my own projects, but I have no interest in writing about joy. It’s the most uninteresting emotion that we have. And also there’s no reason to write about joy, you just feel joy. But when you’re feeling sadness or heartache or disappointment, you need to do something with that or it’s going to eat you up. So I think that’s why those are the themes that I gravitate towards. It’s just confusion about existence itself, basically. Like what the hell am I doing here? What is this, what are these feelings? Why are people the way they are? Why am I the way I am?

Aimee: Right. And then I know, and I’m not sure if it was in June or if it’s continued, but that you were donating proceeds from the song to 8 Can’t Wait . Can you talk about why that’s important to you?

Mike: Well, I think I may change what I’m donating it to. Just because there’s a lot of discussion about whether 8 Can’t Wait is better or 8 to Abolition is better. Basically, it’s about defunding the police versus reforming the police. And I personally feel that, even if the police are defunded, which would be amazing, it’ll take a long time. And in that interim period, there need to be reforms. So that’s why I think 8 Can’t Wait is still really important, even though when you look at it from a broad point of view-

Aimee: It’s not enough.

Mike: Yeah. It’s still giving money to the police, which is the opposite of the end goal. So, I feel like my fans, if they’re using their streams as their means to donate, I want to make sure that I’m doing that justice. So I think I’m just going to donate to Black Lives Matter because that’s certainly an organization that everybody can get behind.

Aimee: And that’s wild that you say that because I initially had gotten behind 8 Can’t Wait. I’m fairly pragmatic about these things. And I still agree it’s a right first step, but I kind of had the same reaction from people and then a change in direction… Because I did a sale of prints but ended up doing exactly what you said, where I’m donating to Black Lives Matter directly.

Mike: Yeah, exactly. I mean, with my own money, I’ll do whatever I want, whatever I think is best. But I don’t know, it’s really not that much money obviously, because we don’t make that much money from streams, but it’s something.

Aimee: The point is that you’re making an effort.

Mike: I think that’s important. I’m not Ariana Grande but I do what I can. And I think it’s important to show people that even if they just give a dollar somewhere, it’s important.

Aimee: Right. Right. And so you’ve mentioned touring and I’m sad that I’ve never seen you live, but I do know you play a lot. First of all, how have you been handling kind of the stay-at-home, not touring, not playing situation?

Mike: It’s been really interesting to watch the change in me. Where first, I had to cancel this tour. And that was a huge disappointment because I had a whole album release planned around it. I had to postpone the album. So now I have 15 songs that I’m just sitting on, which is always very hard for me to do. But then I tried to see the silver lining. Now I can put out a single every month. So I can put out seven or eight singles versus just three, which I think is awesome. Because I love all the songs as individuals so much, but really it’s funny because the ones you’ve put out as singles are really the ones that people tend to gravitate towards. It’s like you really are guiding it. So it’s kind of sad to me because a lot of times my favorite songs are not the ones that the distributor or the label or even me, would want as singles because they’re just not singles. But they’re my favorite songs on the albums and now there’s an opportunity for me to showcase those. But yeah, I mean, I really miss that connection with people in general. But also, I’m a very socially anxious person, so I think the quarantine has been less hard on me than most people. But I still do thrive off of human interaction, but safe human interaction. In a mental way, not in a …

Aimee: About to say, apparently we ARE same person.

Mike: Ha. Yeah. Because to me, the concerts are the safest way for me to interact with humanity in a positive way. Because I’ve rehearsed it, I know it’s going to be great and they came there because they love it. It’s a great recipe for a wonderful situation.

Aimee: Totally.

Mike: And yeah, I miss that. But I’ve coped with that by doing the weekly live stream, just free on YouTube , Facebook and Instagram. So every Monday I’ll play for an hour and a half and I just take requests. So I’ll just play whatever people want. I basically see it as, it’s a service to people who feel like they want to hear some Geographer and then it’s also a service to me because I just love singing. I’m kind of singing now more than I usually do. And I feel like I’m not rusty on my instrument because I’m constantly learning new songs, going into the back catalog and relearning songs I’ve never played live. It’s been really fun. It’s a good way to tick off the weeks as well.

Aimee: I was kind of looking back and I’d seen that you’d done a live stream, but I didn’t realize it was every week. So now I’m going to need to put it on the calendar.

Mike: Yeah. Every Monday at 6:00 PM PST.

Aimee: Okay, great. And then also, I noticed that you do play a lot of instruments. What do you play and which do you enjoy the most?

Mike: Oh, well my favorite instrument to play is the saxophone and I think that’s probably the instrument that I’m technically best at. I mean, I don’t it play very often, so my chops are not what they used to be. But I basically studied jazz for the first half of my life, jazz saxophone. And yeah, I think it’s my favorite to play for a couple reasons. One is that it just sort of puts me back in the place where I was when I was a child. And the saxophone was the thing that made me special because I was so crappy at so many things in school, but I was the best saxophonist in every grade basically. And I think that did just enormous things for what would have been a withered self-confidence otherwise. So, that makes me feel good. It’s just sort of a sense memory of just all those happy hours, jamming with my dad or getting lessons or taking a solo in middle school. And then, also I think it has a really nice sort of hypnotic effect on the body too, where you’re breathing really deeply and then it kind of resonates in your chest. It just feels great. So I love playing the saxophone, but basically synthesizers are my true love and passion and just anytime I sit down in front of my computer and just started tweaking with synthesizers, I just get very peaceful feeling.

Aimee: That’s nice. That’s cool. And obviously that kind of comes out in the music.

Mike: Yeah.

Aimee: And who are some of your biggest influences, musically?

Mike: Hm, well, I like to say that my three dads are Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Thom Yorke.

Aimee: Interesting.

Mike: Then my uncles are James Taylor, Kat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, Crosby, Stills and Nash. And then my aunts are Kate Bush, Joni Mitchell, yeah.

Aimee: Love that.

Mike: But then I guess contemporary, I don’t know, I’m not super influenced by contemporary people. I’m very inspired by them, which I think is important because I think the more distance temporally between you and your influences, the more unique your music will sound. I think when I was starting out, I wanted to be Interpol, I wanted to be Arcade Fire. And I think I just wrote sort of crappy songs because I was just basically imitating them, which in the end was a really worthwhile practice because it taught me how to make songs. That’s the perfect way to learn how to write songs is just, well, first to cover people’s songs and then to copy it, try to write it. But then you’ve got to be yourself. So I don’t know. Also, I studied writing in college and something that stuck with me was one of my teachers said that everyone is influenced by things. And all art is essentially a copy of something else, but the trick is to copy so many things that are so disparate from each other that no one can draw one link to one thing and then you make something that feels new. So that’s what I’ve always tried to do. And I try to stay inspired by different kinds of music. I’m really into a lot of Japanese 80s music now.

Aimee: Really?

Mike: Yeah. Like Yellow Magic Orchestra and it’s many offshoots. But they use the same synthesizers that I’ve always used, which I really like Yamaha Synthesizers. But I don’t know, I’ve never really heard them used like that in music. And I don’t know, it’s very inspiring, just new sounds, new sensibilities.

Aimee: Cool. And it’s funny the thing you said about your art teacher, my jaw dropped because I studied graphic design in school and had a lot of art classes. And that was one of the things that I learned in school too.

Mike: Oh cool.

Aimee: Yeah. I mean, it was literally almost, not word for word, but basically that sensibility has been a big influence in my life as well in terms of, there’s imitation, but then there’s learning about it and then creating something new from learning from the past, that kind of feeling.

Mike: Absolutely. Yeah. I really value that instruction.

Aimee: Right. So kind of a fun question, do you have any guilty pleasures during COVID? Something that you just kind of fell in love with or have been doing as a new ritual habit, meaning good or bad?

Mike : Absolutely. I started out so strong. I wasn’t watching anything, I was just making stuff, I was taking photographs, making videos, writing. And then as time dragged on, I was just like, “Okay.” And then I started watching The Criterion Channel, it was only good movies. I was like, “Yeah, I’m filling my brain with just good stuff.” … But now I’m just on to just watching just crap all day.

Aimee: (laughter)

Mike: But I mean, well, my favorite crap is, I got into Dark on Netflix, which is really cool, the first two seasons. It’s a German super intense Stranger Things.

Aimee: Yes, so many people have recommended that!

Mike: It’s so good. And then Search Party, which is on HBO now, is really one of the most uniquely funny shows I’ve ever seen.

Aimee: We’re going to have to watch it. We don’t have HBO, but there’s a couple things, like we haven’t watched Watchman yet and-

Mike: Oh God. That’s good and very topical.

Aimee: Right, exactly. Yeah, we missed it when it was free on Hulu or whatever. I was like, “All right. We’re just going to have to get a subscription for a while.”

Mike: Yeah. Just subscribe to everything now. But oh, one thing I really do love that I feel a little embarrassed about is I love World War II documentaries.

Aimee: Oh my God. We are the same person.

Mike: Oh, really?

Aimee: You’re freaking me out. I’ve seen all of them.

Mike: God, I just love them.

Mike: Yeah. I don’t know what it is. It’s just thinking about that time and how horrifying it was and I don’t know, something about it. Yeah, I learned all about the Falklands War on YouTube the other night as well. Have you seen that?

Aimee: No. And I’m also a Forensic Files person, so my husband always asks me to not kill him in his sleep.

Mike: Hey, it’s good time to die in your sleep. Is that what you tell him?

Aimee: Ha ha! No. But anyway, OK, I know you have the album coming out in December.

Aimee: And then, obviously a lot of things depend on how COVID goes, but are you hoping on a tour or do you have any…

Mike: Yeah. I mean the plan now is to be touring around the same time that I was going to tour this year, next year. Because people wanted to reschedule for the fall, everybody was doing that. And I don’t know, I wanted to play it safe. So I set our perspective dates for March of 2021. Now that even seems slightly unlikely. So I’m kind of on tenterhooks about that, but what can you do?

Aimee: Right.

Mike: But it’s really hard to reschedule a tour because if you imagine the entire music industry, rescheduling tours. And then there’s 20 bands vying for the same date and they’re all bigger than you, it’s pretty tough. So you want to stay on top of it and you want to make sure that you… It’s kind of like gambling, I guess. Because it also sucks to tell your fans to look forward to something and then you have to cancel.

Aimee: Absolutely. And I remember you coming through and I know I had wanted to go but missed it; I’m based in Denver. Do you remember where you played last time?

Mike: Oh, Denver is one of the best cities in America for me, it’s awesome. We played at Lost Lake .

Aimee: Oh man, such a great venue.

Mike: Yeah. Last time was awesome, sold out show. It was crazy, great.

Aimee: I cannot imagine that you wouldn’t sell out Lost Lake, for sure.

Aimee: But yeah, I’ll be sure to watch for it when you come back.

Mike: Okay, awesome. But yeah, other things for people to look out for is just a single every month from the new album. I’ll be making merch soon. But right now my mom is hand sewing Geographer masks. If anybody wants to buy one of those, they’re up on my website, geographermusic.com/masks. And they’re all unique, she’s basically just making them and when they sell out, she makes more. And I got to tell you, they’re very well made. And I’m donating portion of those proceeds to NAACP .

Aimee: That’s awesome. Mom masks are gonna be all the rage.

Many thanks to Mike for taking the time to chat! Be sure to check out all my other interviews and music posts .

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Geographer Announces New Album & Tour Dates

The new album will be released tomorrow, November 12.

Tomorrow, Synth-pop luminary Geographer will share his newest album, Down and Out In The Garden Of Earthly Delights, an 18 track voyage of synth pop bliss.

Pre-save the new album here .

Formed in San Francisco, Geographer is the moniker for now Los Angeles-based artist Mike Deni. Earlier this week, he announced a headlining U.S. tour that will launch in San Francisco on March 8th and includes stops in Chicago, Boston, New York, and more before wrapping on April 16th in Phoenix, AZ. He is also confirmed for Treefort Festival and for Just Like Heaven Festival in 2022. Tickets go on-sale tomorrow and a full list of dates below.

"I hit a ceiling in San Francisco. I was writing a lot more songs with people in LA, so I moved down. I didn't really have any friends and just spent way too much time alone, making music. I wasn't thriving, I was surviving. Everything feels possible here. That's the vibe of LA: You've made it to paradise! You should be really happy...and then nobody is. There's a lot of darkness - you have to sift through everything to find your own path," remarks Deni.

While recording his album, engineer Jules de Gasperis showed him an image of the famed, 15th-century triptych painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights," depicting alternate realities of paradise, hell, and reality. "It's like, why are we all so bummed out? We are all miserable. And we're in paradise." And thus, Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights - recorded between Spring and Winter of 2019 - was born.

Part social scientist, part troubadour, if Geographer is an expert at anything, it's precisely chronicling life's imperfections. He has headlined many national tours, played Outside Lands, Firefly, and other festivals, released two critically acclaimed albums, and performed with such musical luminaries as K.Flay, The Flaming Lips, Young The Giant, Tycho, Ratatat, Betty Who, and Tokyo Police Club.

Tue 03/08 - San Francisco, CA - The Independent - -

Thu 03/10 - Seattle, WA - - - Barboza -

Fri 03/11 - Portland, OR - - Doug Fir Lounge -

Sat 03/12 - Vancouver, BC - - Wise Hall -

Sun 03/13 - Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo

Tue 03/15 - Sacramento, CA - Goldfield Downtown

Wed 03/16 - Santa Cruz, CA - - Catalyst Atrium

Thu 03/17 - San Diego, CA - - Casbah

Fri 03/18 - Santa Barbara, CA - Soho Music Club

Tue 03/22 - Salt Lake City, UT - Urban Lounge

Wed 03/23 - 3/26 - Boise, ID - Treefort Festival

Fri 03/25 - Denver, CO - Lost Lake

Sun 03/27 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th St Entry

Mon 03/28 - Madison, WI - High Noon Saloon

Tue 03/29 - Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle

Thu 03/31 - Toronto, ON - The Drake

Fri 04/01 - Montreal, QC - L'Esco

Sat 04/02 - Boston, MA - Middle East Upstairs

Sun 04/03 - New York, NY - Bowery Ballroom

Tue 04/05 - Philadelphia, PA - Johnny Brenda's

Thu 04/07 - Washington, DC - DC9 Nightclub

Fri 04/08 - Chapel Hill, NC - Local 506

Sat 04/09 - Atlanta , GA - The Earl -

Mon 04/11 - Houston, TX - White Oak Music Hall (Upstairs)

Tue 04/12 - Austin, TX - Empire Control Room

Wed 04/13 - Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum Art Co

Fri 04/15 - El Paso, TX - Lowbrow Palace

Sat 04/16 - Phoenix, AZ - Valley Bar

Sat 05/21 - Pasadena, CA - Just Like Heaven Festival

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Album Review: ‘Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights’ by Geographer

by Kira Grunenberg December 14, 2020, 7:33 am

Geographer  | Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights | (Geographer Music) 3.5 / 5 Stars

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The closest thing to a title track on Down and Out in the Garden of Earthly Delights, the new LP from Geographer — Mike Deni (vocals, multi-instrumentalist), Nathan Blaz (cello, electronics) and Brian Ostreicher (drums, vocals) — isn’t a “leading single.” Furthermore, it only references the word “Garden.” Yet the track — the second of 15 on the album — bears the associative responsibility well, as it projects the overall intention Deni held when making this album: writing songs that feel and sound good irrespective of their potential as individual charting hits.

“Garden’s” lyrics alone seem to speak to Deni’s push to separate from conventional industry goals (“ I tried to turn you into a feeling / but now that feeling’s gone” ). Musically, Geographer’s sonic eclecticism and compositional instincts here still provide a framework that guides listeners to an aurally satisfying place — in this case via melodic closure at the ends of individual lines. Meanwhile, “Love is Madness” achieves gratification through a catchy, melodically see-sawing, synth tone hook, with bold drum machine downbeats and a repetitious chorus that reinforces key lyrical phrases over chord progressions that are still in the process of resolving (“ All you have to give / I’m coming for it now / I’m coming for it now” ). Continue exploring and songs like “The Other Side” and “Lost in a Love Song” — made to stand out more using acoustic sounds over electronics — serve as reminders of Geographer’s appreciation of not just intricate arrangement but instrumental flexibility.

Down and Out’s creative strength is partially evident through its sheer volume. More significantly, however, it’s how Geographer writes music that evokes emotional delight without clinging to just one compositional approach or chasing expectations to do so. It’s encouragement for the band that there’s much less to fear from letting go of ingrained self-restriction.

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Key Details

• Mobile Voucher Accepted
• Free Cancellation
• Duration: 3 Hrs
• Language: English
• Departure Time : 10:00 AM
• Departure Details : Karl Marks Monument on Revolution Square, metro stop: Square of Revolution
• Return Details : Metro Smolenskaya
• If you cancel at least 4 day(s) in advance of the scheduled departure, there is no cancellation fee.
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Go beneath the streets on this tour of the spectacular, mind-bending Moscow Metro! Be awed by architecture and spot the Propaganda , then hear soviet stories from a local in the know. Finish it all up above ground, looking up to Stalins skyscrapers, and get the inside scoop on whats gone on behind those walls.

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We begin our Moscow tour beneath the city, exploring the underground palace of the Moscow Metro. From the Square of Revolution station, famous for its huge statues of soviet people (an armed soldier, a farmer with a rooster, a warrior, and more), we’ll move onto some of the most significant stations, where impressive mosaics, columns, and chandeliers will boggle your eyes! Moreover, these stations reveal a big part of soviet reality — the walls depict plenty of Propaganda , with party leaders looking down from images on the walls. Your local guide will share personal stories of his/her family from USSR times, giving you insight into Russia’s complicated past and present. Then we’re coming back up to street level, where we’ll take a break and refuel with some Russian fast food: traditional pancakes, called bliny. And then, stomachs satiated, we are ready to move forward! We’ll take the eco-friendly electric trolleybus, with a route along the Moscow Garden Ring. Used mainly by Russian babushkas(grannies) during the day, the trolleybus hits peak hours in the mornings and evenings, when many locals use it going to and from their days. Our first stop will be the Aviator’s House, one of Stalin’s Seven Sisters, followed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs — and you’ll hear the legends of what has gone on inside the walls. Throughout your Moscow tour, you’ll learn curious facts from soviet history while seeing how Russia exists now, 25 years after the USSR.

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Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Dress standard: Please wear comfortable shoes for walking. For your Urban Adventure you will be in a small group of a maximum of 12 people

Traveler Reviews

This tour exceeded our expectations. Nikolai (Nick), our tour guide, was very knowledgeable, thorough, and has a great personality. He didn't take shortcuts and really covered everything that was on the agenda in great detail. We saw beautiful metro stations and learned the history behind them, including many of the murals and designs.

We did the tour with Anna her knowledge and understanding of the History surrounding the metro brought the tour alive. Well done Anna!

This tour was amazing!

Anna was a great tour guide. She gave us heaps of interesting information, was very friendly, and very kindly showed us how to get to our next tour.

Amazing beauty and history.

An excellent tour helped by an absolutely amazing guide. Anna gave a great insight into the history of the metro helped by additional material she had prepared.

great tour and guide - thanks again

great will do it again, Miriam ke was very good as a guide she has lived here all here life so knew every interesting detail.a good day

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

American Quaternary Association Biennial Meeting 2024

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“Deep history of drylands - how the arid past informs the future”

The 2024 AMQUA is going to be especially great because part of the hosting team (Larry Coats, Mitch Power, and Andrea Brunelle) attended their first AMQUA when it was in Flagstaff in 1996 when they were all masters students in the Quaternary Studies Program at Northern Arizona University.   We now have graduates and students of our own who will be participating and we are excited to have all our mentors and colleagues and their students join us for this celebration of “generations” of AMQUA scholars.  We feel like we are getting the band back together and really hope to reunite old friends, make new ones, and provide networking opportunities for the new crop of Quaternary scientists all while hanging out in Lake Bonneville.

Salt Lake City is the largest city in Utah, with a population of over 1 million people. We are surrounded by geological features and landscapes that are of great interest to Quaternary scientists. We are situated in the Bonneville Basin, previously the locale of Pleistocene Lake Bonneville, and many prominent features of that episode remain today, including the Bonneville Salt Flats, Bonneville and Provo benches, Stockton Bar, and numerous others. In additions, glacial landscapes in the Wasatch and Uinta Mountains provide ample evidence of the largest glaciers in Utah during the Last Glacial Maximum. The city houses the University of Utah and the State Capital, providing world-class dining, cultural, and recreational opportunities. The University and the Utah Museum of Natural History house a very active Quaternary science community, with state-of-the-art laboratory facilities in the University of Utah Records of Environment and Disturbance (RED Lab) and the Power Lab at UMNH. We look forward to welcoming the AMQUA community to Salt Lake City!

Meeting at a Glance

• AMQUA Biennial Meeting : A ugust 7-11, 2024
• Abstract and Registration Opens: April 15, 2024
• Student Travel Grant deadline: June 1, 2024
• Abstract deadline:   July 1, 2024
• Early Registration deadline: June 15, 2024
• Field Trip deadline: July 1, 2024
• Hotel reservation deadline: July 8, 2024
• Student Travel Grant notification:   July 8, 2024
• T-shirt order due: June 15 , 2024
• Final Registration deadline: July 1, 2024
• Pre-meeting  field trip: August 7, 2024 1-3 pm
• Natural History of Museum and Power Lab tour
• Post-meeting field trip : A ugust 11, 2024
• Field Trip: The history of Lake Bonneville and the waterfront properties of the ancient desert cultures

The American Quaternary Association

The American Quaternary Association (AMQUA) is a professional organization of North American scientists devoted to studying all aspects of the Quaternary Period, about the last 2.6 million years of Earth history. Studying the Quaternary is critically important because it has been a time of frequent and dramatic environmental changes, exemplified by growing and decaying continental ice sheets and mountain glaciers. Beyond understanding the forces that shaped our modern environment, studying the Quaternary Period is significant because the environmental changes accompanying past ice ages were the backdrop for global changes in floral and faunal communities, including extinction of a diverse megafauna, and for the evolution of modern humans and their dispersal throughout the world.

AMQUA was founded in 1970 primarily to foster cooperation and communication among the remarkably broad array of disciplines involved in studying the Quaternary Period. Major activities include a biennial meeting, professional awards, partnership with INQUA (the International Quaternary Association), and the Quaternary Times newsletter.

Local Organizing Committee

Andrea Brunelle Larry Coats Mitch Power Simon Brewer

Meeting and Program Advisory Committee

Jesse Morris Jenn Watt Lisbeth Louderback Zach Lundeen Rick Forster Summer Rupper Shannon Boomgarden Brian Codding Husile Bai Ken Petersen Gabe Bowen

Thank you to the following for their support and contributions to 2024 AMQUA

Department of Geography, University of Utah College of Social and Behavioral Science, University of Utah Andrew DeQuiroz & Gaven Neufeld, University of Utah Natural History Museum of Utah We thank the American Quaternary Association for the funding of student travel and sponsoring invited speakers.

Student AMQUA members who are presenting at the 2024 AMQUA Biennial Meeting may apply for travel grants. A limited number of grants will be available to cover the meeting registration ($350) for students. Deadline for travel grant application is June 1, 2024. Please send a letter requesting a travel award and a research presentation abstract to: Dr. Colin Long via email; [email protected] to be considered. Important : You must be an AMQUA member to be eligible,  Awards will be announced by June 10, 2024 with meeting registration notification to follow.