Geologist & D.S.

Geologist & D.S. - credit: Photo by Josh Wildman

Photo by Josh Wildman

Geologist & D.S.

A Shaw Deal

Geologist and D.S. meet in an expanding sonic field built up from a handful of pieces posted online. Lovingly reordering a few short minutes of music featuring the fine folk…

Discography

Title Format Cat # Date
A Shaw Deal LP/MP3/FLAC DC931 2025
Live In The Land Of The Sky Cass MAH60004
Tucson Tracks/Super Cassingle Cassingle dose003

Bio

Brian Weitz, also known by his stage name Geologist, is a musician best known as a member of the experimental pop group Animal Collective. He provides electronic sound manipulations and samples for the band. Solo he does that and plays a lot of hurdy gurdy too.

"Sleepy" Doug Shaw (aka Highlife) is a London born songwriter, living in New York since 2003. Stringing tangled guitar patterns into hypnotics - fingering circles into webs of repetition in song. He is influenced by Desert Blues, Grime flows, old Calypso, Ragas, rambler's laments and much more. Shaw moonlights in sways as Gang Gang Dance's bass controller, was formerly a longtime member of White Magic and Janka Nabay, has contributed to records of Cass McCombs, Hal Wilner, Eric Copeland, etc, and shared stages around the globe with the likes of Lou Reed, Lee "Scratch" Perry, Animal Collective, Mdou Moctar, Dizzee Rascal, Terry Riley, Yoko Ono, Bert Jansch, Black Dice, Les Filles de Illighadad, Sonic Youth, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Michael Hurley, etc, etc.