Hot track of the Summer by DoubleTooth from their debut album Volume 1

Four Magnificent Miles by DoubleTooth

A little ditty with the promise of a sweet sunny summer... 

written and recorded by Robbie Grunwald - Wurlitzer, Joshua Van Tassel - Drums, Devon Henderson - Bass, and Dave French - Tenor Saxophone.  Recorded live in one take to a tape machine at dream date studios in Toronto.

#7 - April20th

Determination Of The Crossing

Assignment 1 for Gary Burton's Coursera improv course

What is this thing solo

Exercise 2 for Gary Burton's Coursera Improv Course

Short Improvisations on 6 different scales

A Lydian flat 7
C Locrian
F Altered
D Dorian
B Lydian
Eb Aeolian

Scales

500 miles high By Chick Corea

Head and a few choruses of a solo for Gary Burton's Coursera imrpov course

500 miles high

You Should Buy Myself a Drink

A track off of the recently released album DoubleTooth - Volume 1

The whole album is now available for sale on bandcamp, CDBaby, and other online retailers.  Search for us there or follow the link: 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 15 May 2013
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

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) 

robbiegrunwald.com
joshuavt.com
doubletooth.bandcamp.com
music.cbc.ca/artists/DoubleTooth

You Should Buy Myself a Drink - DoubleTooth

How to Build an Ant Colony

A track off of the recently released album DoubleTooth - Volume 1

The whole album is now available for sale on bandcamp, CDBaby, and other online retailers.  Search for us there or follow the link: 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 15 May 2013
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

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) 

robbiegrunwald.com
joshuavt.com
doubletooth.bandcamp.com
music.cbc.ca/artists/DoubleTooth

How To Build An Ant Colony by DoubleTooth

Week 4 Assignment for Gary Burton's Coursera Improv course.

Keith Jarrett's Memories of Tomorrow