LITTLE WOMEN / Throat

LITTLE WOMEN ..Throat ..AAUM061

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Throat I .4.49 (MP3 Excerpt)
Throat II .5.03 (MP3 Excerpt)
Throat III .7.18 (MP3 Excerpt)
Throat IV .11.37 (MP3 Excerpt)
Throat V .5.57 (MP3 Excerpt)
Throat VI .4.21
Throat VII .2.10

All compositions/suite by LITTLE WOMEN
P+C 2010 AUM Fidellity

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Travis Laplante: tenor sax
Darius Jones: alto sax
Andrew Smiley: guitar
Jason Nazary: drums

Recorded & Mixed by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording
Mastered by Michael Marciano at Systems Two
LP lacquers cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk
Produced by Little Women & Steven Joerg

Cover Artwork by Mick Barr

The Needle Drop video blog review : Indeed!

TINY MIX TAPES Review : Yes!
“4 1/2 DOTS"

CHICAGO TRIBUNE Feature : Little Women might change your life, indefinably
“Staggering. There are those times when you hear a band and think, "Everyone has to hear this." .. First you react to the emotion that is so raw, so audible. These guys are ripping their guts out, you think. And so they are. .. It has structure and elegance in a tornado of noise, and beauty that cuts through the maelstrom like a ray of light.” -Chicago Tribune, Kevin Williams

CHICAGO READER - Critic's Choice Recommended - The List
“..there's a constant push-pull between rigidly metered pummeling and unhinged violence. Over the high-speed, almost martial rhythms of drummer Jason Nazary and guitarist Andrew Smiley, Jones and fellow reedist Travis Laplante blow terse lockstep riffs that frequently explode into tangled strands of overblown overtones. But Throat isn't always assaultive: sometimes the two reedists uncork eerie unaccompanied long tones, or the band reshapes a melody that sounds like an old spiritual into a beautiful meditation that wouldn't feel out of place in a Radiohead song. Little Women toggle between extremes with impressive fluidity, and the transitions consistently make sense.” -Chicago Reader, Peter Margasak

DESTINATION: OUT Post+
"This disc grabbed us immediately by the neck and has yet to let go. You need this kind of beauty and brawn in your life."

IMPOSE MAGAZINE Post+
"Little Women make blistering horns vs. guitar music that blazes past the cross roads of jazz and rock to raise dust on the scenic routes of metal and noise."

EYE WEEKLY (TORONTO)
4/5 STARS
"Offering a thrashy take on Albert Ayler–styled unity-though-free-jazz, Brooklyn sax-guitar-drums quartet Little Women delivers some seriously intense sheets of skronk. .. these staggering highs are perfectly balanced by the breathy warble of long whole tones and sing-able (!) melodies. .. this is some of the most listenable and enjoyable noise-jazz going." -Eye Weekly, Chris Bilton

Brooklyn quartet Little Women create music whose aim is transcendence via brutally precise sonic assault and ascendant melodies, attacking written and improvised material with equal ferocity. The group’s sound distilled from a broad range of influences that stretch from free jazz through math metal, punk rock, pop music, and harsh noise. Saxophonists Travis Laplante and Darius Jones breathe together as one multi-tongued exquisite beast reveling in higher harmonics, splitting overtones to create ghost notes. Together with guitarist Andrew Smiley and drummer Jason Nazary, they create intricate yet whiplash-bestowing riffs which morph on a dime into ever-exploratory sub-groupings. There are also moments of quiet ringing-tone reflection on what has been wrought.

Throat is a suite in seven sections fully designed to be taken in as a whole; it is their full-length debut following their 2008 EP, Teeth on the Sockets/Gilgongo labels. Throat was recorded and mixed by Andy Taub at Brooklyn Recording and features cover art by renowned underground guitar maestro Mick Barr (of Orthrelm & Ocrilim).

Darius Jones, who plays alto sax in the group, released his year-end Jazz best-of-list topping debut, Man'ish Boy on AUM Fidelity in October 2009. –SJ

Tremendous Word/Sound/Vision : LITTLE WOMEN – (((unartig))) A/V FEATURE

/// Little Women Tour :: Europe in May ///

Thursday, April 29th – NYC Record Release Show
Williamsburg, Brooklyn @ Bruar Falls

/// EUROPEAN TOUR – MAY ///
05.05.10    Germany, Dresden, Jazzclub Neue Tonne
06.05.10    Poland, Katowice, Jazzclub Hipnoza
07.05.10    Austria, Linz, Stadtwerkstatt
08.05.10    Czech Republic, Prague, JazzDock
09.05.10    Germany, Münster, Black Box @ cuba-cultur
10.05.10    Netherlands, Rotterdam, WORM
11.05.10    Belgium, Gent, Vooruit
12.05.10    Germany, Bielefeld, Bunker Ulmenwall
13.05.10    Denmark, Copenhagen, Lades
14.05.10    Denmark, Århus, Cafe Lobby

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