La Ninja: Amor And Other Dreams Of Manzanita

La Niñja: Amor and Other Dreams of Manzanita is an album of remixes of tracks from Mia’s previous album Manzanita. The standout track is the remix of “My Room is White” by Flying Lotus, his first release which defined his fresh style and hinted at so much good music to come. For the artwork of La Niñja: Amor and Other Dreams of Manzanita, Mia drew herself in the desert landscape like the environment around Tule Lake, the Japanese American internment camp where her mother’s family was interned during World War II. Befitting a remix album, the artist duo Kozyndan remixed Mia’s original drawing, adding the protozoa and sea creatures that would have been present in that landscape millennia before.

Instead of releasing an album of brand-new material, Californian singer/songwriter Mia Doi Todd asked fellow Plug Research labelmates and other musicians to remix five songs from 2005's Manzanita (two are included more than once), added four new songs, and put it all out as La Ninja: Amor and Other Dreams of Manzanita.

Quietly, unassumingly, Mia Doi Todd has spent the past decade making a convincing case for herself as one of our premier singer-songwriters.