Sean Real (tin drum menagerie, keys, bass, glockenspiel, baritone gartina, vox). Sofia Bell (cello, gonzo drum set, chord organ, banjo, auto-harp, mandolin, dulcimer, violin, vox). Dannie Murrie (vox, banjo, gramolin, mandolin, accordian, guitar, synth)
Say Hello!
here...
or...
littleteethmusic@gmail.com
for European Booking, email
bjoern@underthestars.de
Influences
from our CMJ review on Obsession Collection Music...
"Their very original music is Folk as an art form played with a conviction of sensibility and spirit. Their all out abandon of song structure focused on experimentation, strange but beguiling harmonies and escalating emphasis of vocals, drumming, cello or banjo."
read the full article here:
www.obsessioncollectionmusic.com/2009/11/little-teeth-make-folk-art-form.html
".... Up next we got Little Teeth from San Francisco. Theirs is folk pop that crashes and yelps out passionately and feels a little like Neutral Milk Hotel without ripping ’em off— or, really, jumping anybody’s game. Dannie’s vocals soar, crack, scream out, but always sound like she’s deeply feelin’ it, deeply into what’s she’s singing about and dead-ON synched to the immediacy of her band’s hiccupy, junkyarded American avant-something. You can find them on myspace. Try “Japanese Candy” first, which has a kind of broken-down desperation that gives me chills."
DEBUT ALBUM: "Child Bearing Man": (released on 9.9.08)
.....A record of growls, squeaks, Sufjan-like choruses, complex wordplay and
schizo-jibberish, tied together with cascading melodies, mandolin, banjo, accordion,
rock & roll drums, guitar, and the wildcat snarls of these 3 Muppet-esque freaks. "Child Bearing Man" is commanding, emotionally and musically conflicted, and utterly moving.
RIYL: Danielson, Deerhoof, The Shaggs, Smog.
by Sean R. Custer
We phoned it in!!! check it out!
http://phoningitin.net/shows/474-Little-Teeth
..."Sean Real, Sofia Bell, and Dannie Murrie phone it in from Emeryville, CA, between Oakland and Berkeley. Little Teeth traffic in a kind of impossible to classify but easy to enjoy Americana/spasm music similar to other Phoning It In faves Lurch & Holler, Hubcap City (From Belgium), and Uke of Phillips/Uke of Spaces Corners County. Theirs (Little Teeth's) is a rusty and broken country, salvaged from the junkyard or dug up in the backyard, played on an army of different instruments and augmented with bird-like whistling and animal-like howls. Only two songs, but each is a 10+ minute epic journey down the drain of the kitchen sink, with the vegetables and the chicken bones."
little teeth (U.S. Tour Now!)'s Friend Space (Top 40)
i should have contacted you sooner after your show here, but i just wanted to let you all know it was awesome! i would love to book you again anytime. i have to leave to go home before you got back to tommy j's so sorry i never said good bye!
looks like the cmj showcase went swimmingly :] awesomeness! In a few short months when you're finally home, you should be receiving a package from me containing some interesting baubles, my handmade jewelry [if any of you aren't jewelry fans, I can easily make trinkets and shit like that], and possibly other knick knacks. Why, you ask? Because Grazhny loves you all :D
<3 Hope the shirt kept someone warm during the listen of the music nothings. Oh congrats on your marriage.. I was not in the room while it was announced. I will be looking forward to playing with you again sometime soon. You sounded great and I should have bartered for one of your longer albums as I only took a pin and the 'free' compilation 8( I just know how much money you can make off that stuff. Either/or, Here's a ridiculous photoimage to gaze at.
I am the center dot person. Deferentially, [ Emit J. Es | oF TBA ]
If I want to send you guys something, whose name shall I put on the envelope? I wanna send some baubles and cool stuff when I quit being lame and get my shit together.
we had an amazing time playing music with you! your show gave me brain-splosions. been loving your recordings, too! we listen to the full length all the time. please come back and let's play more shows together!
In effort to save some time, I went ahead and put all the pictures in an album on my myspace page. They all came out really nice, and the manatee made several appearances! Thanks for everything, really. xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo -meg