Using footage of Oma and her house from a visit to Chile in January of 2019, Les Cooper has created an inspired visual accompaniment to the single Wood Meets Water. Watch it now!
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Wood Meets Water
The first piece off of the new Album Oma is out now! Its called Wood Meets Water
“Stark and stately, this melody opens the album and serves as an introduction to this cycle of compositions,” says Grunwald. “Wood – the starting material for many objects in our lives. Water – a substance that gives life and serves as a conduit. The place where Wood meets Water is the meeting between raw materials and the medium which transports and transforms that material into its final form.”
Accompanying the single is a stunning animated video by Les Cooper made from stock footage that Grunwald collected while visiting his Oma at her home in Concepcion, Chile back in January of 2019. Watch the video here
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SLOW Volumes: One (01)
https://slowvolumes.bandcamp.com/releases
Today, more than ever before, our world is moving at an incredible pace. We are constantly being bombarded with sounds, images, quips and opinions – little bits of information that are vying for our attention at an astounding frequency, and which never seem to cease. It’s hard to find stillness and escape in this sandstorm of data – with the SLOW Volumes collection, we are doing our best to help remedy that.
All proceeds from this collection will be donated to The Daily Bread Food Bank of Toronto. (www.dailybread.ca)
credits
released June 3, 2016
Cover Image by Eamon MacMahon (www.eamonmacmahon.com)
Mastered by Reuben Ghose at Mojito Mastering (mojitomastering.com)
01 Joshua Van Tassel (www.joshuavt.com) / James Bunton (www.james-bunton.com)
02 Adrian Gordon Cook (www.adriangordoncook.com)
03 Merganzer (merganzermusic.wordpress.com)
04 Andrew Kinoshita
05 Felicity Williams
06 Dean Drouillard (www.deandrouillard.com)
07 Oswego (oswegodrone.tumblr.com)
08 Sarah Slean (sarahslean.com)
09 Christine Bougie (www.christinebougie.com)
10 Robbie Grunwald (robbiegrunwald.com)
DoubleTooth: Volume 1
https://doubletooth.bandcamp.com/
Double Tooth’s Volume 1 is a sonic psychedelic journey inspired by the music of Nigeria in the 1960’s. After falling in love with the music made in this period and investigating the technical limitations they dealt with while still making amazing sounding recordings, the charm of working with what the tools you have became clear to us. Recordings were done with limited numbers of microphones, and limited recording equipment in general. So, with this in mind, we set out guidelines to make music that was honest, raw and in the spirit of the recordings made at that time.
Volume 1 was made by 2 people in 1 room. All of the recordings were made in a small basement studio using one microphone, one preamp, one guitar amp, and whatever instruments we had in the room and could play at a reasonably competent level. Our goal was to shut out the inner critic and limitless technical possibilities modern recording offers us. Strip it down, take it back to playing and reacting and making some music that makes us feel good.
Although the rhythm and feel of this record is heavily influenced by the Nigerian sound, we DID NOT set out to make an afro-beat record. This record is meant to be a collection of instrumental songs that were written, and recorded with a specific aesthetic and approach in mind. Thats all. We love the rhythms that we heard in those early recordings from Nigeria, and decided to use those feels as a launch pad for our writing. Team Double Tooth respects the fine line between taking influence and appropriation.
Volume 1 is the first of what promises to be a long line of albums that Double Tooth produces. We plan to continue to make instrumental albums that follow a similar set of restrictive rules from volume to volume. Its hard to say what the next source of inspiration will be, but the main idea is that all of the records will be made following specific rules set by us (Robbie Grunwald and Joshua Van Tassel) that help us to be as musically creative as possible . We’re very excited about this project and hope that you’ll enjoy listening to it as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. Stay tuned for Volume 2…
credits
released August 5, 2014
Robbie Grunwald: Fender Rhodes, Micromoog, Roland Juno 6, Bass, Guitar, Glockenspiel, congas, hand claps
Joshua Van Tassel: Drums, congas, shakers, misc percussion, glockenspiel, hand claps, psychedelics
Dean Drouillard: Thrashy Guitar solo on Poisonous Cloud
Devon Henderson: Whistling on Four Magnificent Miles
All songs Composed, Produced, and Recorded by Robbie Grunwald and Joshua Van Tassel at the Verge Music Lab Underground
Mixed by Joshua Van Tassel
Mastered by Reuben Ghose at Mojito Mastering (www.mojitomastering.com)
Logo and font design by Ryan Lake (www.ryanlake.com)