Description:	Banging LP on Not Not Fun
	Format:	LP (vinyl)
	Genre(s):	Experimental / Abstract
	Label:	Not Not Fun
	Price:	£15.69
	Availability:	Sold out / currently unavailable. Sorry!

5
...according to our Business Lady on 14 May 2009.

Another excellent release from Not not fun records in the form of a Teeth Mountain live LP titled 'Live On'. Baltimore collective Teeth Mountain weave a mighty tapestry of hypnotic tribal rhythms and experimental John Cale-esque violin scratches. 'Live On' is an onslaught of syncopated drum rhythms that dominate the mix that also includes plenty of guitar drone ambience, strange feedback episodes and some sounds I couldn't possibly identify. You can tell that this isn't a straight up live recording as such but a live session that has been cut, manipulated and arranged to make a coherent record. It starts out an intense drum workout which makes way for some strange industrial hums and hisses that eventually are usurped by more crazed drum-offs. The second side starts out with some squeeze sounding discordant violin drone that making me feel a bit sick (a physical reaction to music is always a good thing) which is punctuated by some super cool delayed tom rhythms and some wild sounding sax outbursts. This eventually corrodes into a strange lo-fi vocal interlude that is followed by a final party jam that introduces a guitar riff of sorts. It all works really well for me!! Obvious comparisons would be Vibracathedral Orchestra, Astral Social Club, Sunburned Hand of the Man etc.... But this quite different though and very good in my humble opinion.

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What their label says...

Bodymore, Murderland has a long and still-living history of wacko art/music loons operating out of cheap warehouses (Tarantula Hill, RIP) and cheaper apartments (The Comfort Dome, etc), and something about the place’s civic/social vibe seems to foster an almost schizophrenic degree of diversity amongst its bands. Needless to say, this is a good good thing. But despite the city’s recent-ish rep as a home to neon strobe light teen party heroes like Daniel Deacon and Ponytail and whatnot, there’s obviously a ton more to the story, and the band that seems to us crucial to this neo-wave B-MORE renaissance is Teeth Mountain. A seven-piece jam crew comprised of 2-3 odd drum kits, sax, clarinet, mixer drones, electric guitar, a pile of pedals, various voices, and probably other unknown mystery junk, they straddle a fine, fucked up line between carefully orchestrated rhythmic psychedelia and total drum-circle-damaged freeform freak-sprawl. To us, it’s a holy zone, and one we hope they continue to linger in. TM’s 2008 LP on SHWDPLY (recently reissued, grab one ASAP) was easily one of our top recs of the year, and so we are obviously awesomely jazzed to offer up Live On, their follow-up. Two all-new sides of artfully interwoven live recordings encompassing all the band’s best moods: outsider world scorch, jittery horn ragas, basement attack trance, etc. Raw and real and alive as life. Future Teeth Mountains will be scaled at NNF, learn the terrain now. Black vinyl LPs in jackets with painted-craft-cathedral artwork by the band, plus an 11x11 full-color double sided insert. Edition of 500.