Milosh
Coney Island Suite at The Radisson SAS Hotel and Spa Sligo
Sunday 6th April : Performance 7pm and 9pm
Tickets : €5

Using our lack of a venue to our advantage, the Model will be experimenting with new spaces for live music throughout the year. Unusual rooms, outdoor spaces, places where music is not normally encountered, will all become new spaces for music with performers drawn from a range of music genres.

The series begins on Sunday 6th April with Canadian electronic act Milosh performing in the Coney Island Suite of the Radisson SAS Hotel and Spa, and will continue throughout the year with concerts in unusual spaces around Sligo.

Canadian act Milosh is using the Sligo performance to make a welcome return to Ireland after a debut performance in Cork in November as part of The Model and Donal Dineen’s acclaimed experimental music series Month of Sundays.

The brainchild of Mike Milosh (Toronto, Canada) and now a live two-piece, Milosh occupies that near impossible-to-describe musical space that drifts between the minimalism of electronica and the warmth of acoustic singer/songwriters, with some R&B vocals thrown in for good measure.
Milosh arrives on these shores on the cusp of releasing a new album, due in May 2008. Previous albums You Make Me Feel (2004) and Meme (2006) came out on LA label Plug Research (where label-mates include Dntel and John Tejado) and much has been made of their confessional nature. The optimism of You Make Me Feel (Top 10 Electronic Albums- iTunes) written at the heady rush of a new relationship contrasts with the more soul-searching Meme, written at that relationships collapse.

A poetic lyricist it is Mike’s outstanding voice that gives each track the soul and warmth that lifts them out of the electronica stable; these are not your standard electronic tracks with vocals stapled on top, rather the vocal element of stand-out tracks like Something Good, Frozen Pieces, The City or It’s Over (From Foggy Notions / Dineen mix of summer ‘07) is muted and stretched to the point where his voice becomes just another instrument layered into the tapestry of the song.

“I try to capture the moments that are my life in the songs that I create….I try to ride that thin line of mixing technology with some heart and I try not to cloud the original intention of the song.”- Mike Milosh

Perhaps it’s no surprise that Mike comes classically trained. A cellist from pre-school he went on to study drums and voice in college and there is certainly something in the subtlety and the structured beauty of his work that must owe a great debt to this training. Each element feels considered and not a sound seems out of synch.

But for all their layers of electronic construction what immediately strikes is that these tracks work as songs, and would be as effective stripped back to basics, as Mike and Paul illustrated brilliantly at an in-studio session on Donal Dineen’s Small Hours show (Today FM) back in November. An impromptu session grabbed between Cork and the plane home, Milosh found themselves with nothing but an acoustic guitar and a magnificent voice, and still every song sounded as soulful and contemporary as it does on the albums. Indeed in many ways Milosh exemplifies the Dineen brand of quality, soulful electronica that so perfectly occupies the Small Hours. It is the spirit of this acoustic style gig that Milosh are hoping to recapture for their performance at the Radisson.

The Performance
The Model are delighted to be presenting Milosh in the Radisson’s prized Coney Island Suite, a stunning room which boasts panoramic views of the Rosses Point coastline and Knocknarea. The performances will take place at 7pm and 9pm on Sunday 6th April and will each last approximately an hour in length. Supported by the Model and the Radisson the tickets are a nominal fee of €5 per person. Large as the suite may be, capacity is limited to 25 people per concert, so advance booking is essential.

To book tickets call The Model on 071-914 1405 or email tickets@modelart.ie.