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Below The Radar 22

Track 1

"Sex Markings"

From Mirrors Fold

Gum Takes Tooth are Thomas Fuglesang (acoustic drums, drum triggers) and Jussi Brightmore (electronics, sound shaping, vocals, percussion). The London based duo create their own electronic instruments to provide a unified, percussion based playing framework that allows them to cut free of any technocentric preoccupations. Conversely, Gum Takes Tooth say, they eschew potential tech focussed, emotive cul-de-sacs for spirit guided explorations with the visceral thrust of a wigged out psyche rock band. Taken from the album Mirrors Fold, “Sex Markings” sees Gum Takes Tooth swap their fuzzed frequency modulations and hard hitting pulse for a vessel propelled by West African poly-rhythms through the track’s mist wreathed, pandrogenous vocal shapes.

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