Dosh

Born outside Los Angeles to a father who had left the Catholic priesthood and a mother who had nearly become a nun, Martin Dosh relocated with his family to their native Minneapolis while still a toddler. Piano lessons began for him at age three and lasted until he turned eleven, after which he took up drums four years later. At sixteen he headed to Massachusetts for music school and spent the following years drifting along the East Coast before settling back into his parents’ Minneapolis household in 1997 at twenty-five, having resumed playing keyboards. The city’s active music community soon drew him into drumming roles with Andrew Broder’s group Fog and its instrumental side project Lateduster. Anticon issued his self-titled debut in 2003; the following year brought Pure Trash, an album built around vocal fragments supplied by his wife, their two children, and his drum pupils. The Lost Take appeared in 2006 and included contributions from Andrew Bird, Fog’s Jeremy Ylvisaker, and musicians from Happy Apple and Tapes ’n Tapes. After touring with Bird for a year, Dosh found fresh impetus for recording; Wolves and Wishes emerged in May 2008, with Tommy following in April 2010. He issued Silver Faces himself in 2011 ahead of dates supporting Black Moth Super Rainbow, during which he encountered Ryan Graveface; the association led to Milk Money appearing on the Graveface label in 2013.