Tooth, a musical & magical partnership brought together by the hands of fate.
In late ’96 Sir Robbo, known for his involvement in the Frigid/Cryogenesis crew, the cult Head Shots magazine and member of dub allstars Atomic Hi-Fi met Kevin Purdy, sonic adventurer, who had been developing a catalogue of down-tempo experimental sounds for some years. Together, they found their musical, cinematic and cultural aspirations acutely interwoven. This was the birth of Tooth.
Within a very short time Tooth’s own brand of psychedelic, cinematic, folk, soul & dub laden tunes were finding their way onto many compilations and their live performances making their way into Sydney folklore.
In 1999 Tooth released their first CD album No Strings, an album adored by many, praised to the high heavens in the Australian media becoming for months a staple on independent radio around the country. After many more additions to compilations and a higher development of performances (due to bass player John Maddox becoming a third member) and many months in their studio, Tooth released an even more adventurous album entitled, Sirens from here to Titan.
The repercussions of this bold new work led to Tooth supporting such acts as Tortoise, Labradford, Pan Am, Burnt Freidman along with a number of headline performances and inclusions at major festivals. The next couple of years saw Tooth go into a semi-hibernation, though they still released their 12” Shift / Sons of Shade as well as several remixes and comp tracks.
Then in 2005 Tooth buried themselves deep into developing Mudlarking, a double CD epic, with all of musicality, passion, hope, anger and release accumilated over the years into an earthy, humanistic and highly charged work.
