Little Women - Teeth

Little Women - Teeth

RECORDED

December 10, 2006

Excello Recording, Brooklyn, NY

RELEASED

March 4, 2008

Gilgongo Records [Vinyl Release] & Socket Records [CD Release]

P.S.: Apparently the album was first released in 2007.

PERSONNEL

Ben Greenberg - Guitar

Darius Jones - Alto Saxophone

Jason Nazary - Drums

Travis Laplante - Tenor Saxophone

Alex Sniderman - Assistant Engineer

Hugh Pool - Engineer

Mick Barr - Artwork

Raul Zahir De Leon - Layout, Typographer

Scott Hull - Mastering

TRACK LISTING

01 [Untitled]

02 [Untitled]

03 [Untitled]

04 [Untitled]

P.S.: Here's an excerpt of an interview of the band to Alibi.com, in which they explain their writing process and the reason for the name of the songs:

Tell me about your writing process.

When we started playing together, our first few shows were 100 percent improvised. We formed with no concept of a band sound, we just got together in a room and played together. The first few times we played it was really incredible because the improvisations were abnormally focused and incredible. We knew we had something special going from the beginning.

We started trying to write pieces that were structures of our improvisations. What we're doing now, our first recording that's coming out on March 4, is the first record in a series of records that we're going to be releasing annually.

You're just using numbers as titles for your songs. Why's that?

On MySpace they won't let you put one giant track. That was just a way for us to split up the piece into sub-pieces. On vinyl it's just one side and one continuous track. We have those reference track marks on the CD, but there are no pauses. We kept it like that because we recorded it all in one take from beginning to end with no edits or overdubs

http://alibi.com/music/22055/Little-Women.html

REVIEW

The four-song debut EP by Brooklyn-based noise jazz ensemble Little Women stakes out territory somewhere between Last Exit and Orthrelm, with strong echoes of the Flying Luttenbachers. Two saxophonists -- Darius Jones on alto and Travis LaPlante on tenor -- are joined by guitarist Ben Greenberg and drummer Jason Nazary, all working together to create music of great intensity, but with a surprising beauty at its core. The disc begins with a jagged and assaultive track with guitar and drums flailing in post-metal abandon, but for the first half of "Teeth II," Jones and LaPlante conduct an unaccompanied duo that's very much in the mode of late-'60s free jazz. Then the other two come rampaging back in, and the whole thing explodes again. This track leads seamlessly into the next, which is based on a repeated ensemble riff -- the members of Little Women are clearly aware of how well-focused, full-bore repetition has worked for both Albert Ayler and Slayer. The EP's concluding track, "Teeth IV," breaks down at its midpoint, and ends with three minutes of weird glossolalia-like chanting and shouting. This is highly disciplined, clearly thought-out music that carries an aura of frenzied abandon -- an unexpected and uncommon combination.

Phil Freeman

http://www.allmusic.com/album/teeth-mw0001218901

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