The CMJ Demo

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1		West Mountain	4:07	Play
2		McMansion On The Hill	4:16	Play
3		The Dancing Bones	4:22	Play
4		Bad Choices	4:44	Play

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Description

Toothfairy started as the simple home recordings of Jim Gibson, who writes, performs and records all of the material himself. Toothfairy's debut CD "Does Not Work Well With Reality" will be released October 13th 2005 on the Noiseville label. The music of Toothfairy is about the freedom to make the music that its creator wants to hear. It has been described many ways, but the simple description is that Toothfairy is outsider alternative rock with psychedelic, blues and folk tendencies. The material has been compared to everything from My Bloody Valentine, to Pink Floyd, to Tom Waits. Such vast descriptions are signs that Toothfairy are accomplishing what they set out to do. To make music not constrained to a single style, but a combination of many. Toothfairy is about the spectrum of music that has influenced Gibson to want to make his own music and that spectrum is diversified. Most people listen to different kinds of music, so why it is that bands and artists feel the need to only make music in one style? In the creating of Toothfairy it was critical that even though some of the songs are of a different style from one another, that there is a shared composition style, the Toothfairy sound.

Toothfairy started in 1991 as a studio project by Jim Gibson, who also owns and operates the Noiseville independent record label and was involved with a number of other bands and projects on the label. Originally with Jim Gibson in this project was Rich Cuiffo and they worked on a number of songs at the Loft Recording studio in nearby Bronxville New York. The idea was to create music that was "outside the box" that did not pander to a scene or popular music genre. Gibson and Ciuffo shared the same interest in making music that reflected their range of musical tastes. Toothfairy was about making the music that the participants wanted to hear, outside of the standard constraints of the normal band formula. Not to mention the fact that it would be very difficult to find enough people to make a band that had the same vision and direction. But before any of the music could be finished, and released on Noiseville as a planned 7" single, Rich moved out west, and the project went into hibernation.

In 2004, Jim Gibson decided to jump back into the idea making music in this fashion and direction, and resurrected Toothfairy on his own. In late 2004 he started work on this project and by the spring of 2005, the material was flowing at a rapid pace. Even before the final touches for Toothfairy's debut CD "Does Not Work Well With Reality" were done, material had already been recorded for the second release.

An inspiration that got Jim Gibson's interest in making music again was the shift in the music world of sharing music via the net and burning CDs, away from the industry standard of people having to buy a CD just to check it out. To the industry, this was a nightmare. But like others, Gibson saw it as a tremendous way of getting new sounds out to the public. It was a complete liberation of music which was held back by the commercial standards of the old industry. An artist could now get their music heard by millions of people, around the world, without having to hope that a major label signed them in order to do so. When Jim Gibson started the Noiseville label in 1988, it was an exciting time where a small indie label could get attention in the worldwide underground scene without having to rely on a big budget. The excitement of 1988 is quite pale in comparison to the change in music now.

From both an artistic and business point of view, Gibson recognized that music world has changed forever and made a plan that worked within that new world. The two dominant avenues to get the music of Toothfairy out to the public is through the standard way of manufacturing and distributing CDs and vinyl records, and equally as import is the technology of internet downloading and the ease of burning the music onto CDs through home computers.

The music of Toothfairy is available on all of the major on-line downloading sources, but in addition to that, Toothfairy encourages people to make copies of the music to give to their friends. Toothfairy and Noiseville still own all rights to the music, and feel strongly that allowing people to make copies of the music that is already out there will only help in exposing the music of Toothfairy to more people. There is no question that this is a very common way of people discovering new music, and to fight music sharing, is both counter productive as well as a futile. Some people may call this approach idealistic and foolish, but Gibson thinks it more realistic and maybe someday, the standard.

In exchange for this open allowance of the sharing of the music, Toothfairy asks that people go to their web site at www.Noiseville.com. There, they will find a section called "Feedback." This is a forum where the public can voice their opinion of Toothfairy. People sharing their opinions of the music is the crucial second step in the concept of music being free. The artist gives you the music, now you must let them know what you think of it, be it good, bad or indifferent. They will be posting many of these comments on our web site to share with others.

Because the label is operating on very limited budget, the CD will not be promoted wide enough to merit wide distribution. So for the time being, the only sure way of finding a copy of the Toothfairy CD will be directly from www.Noiseville.com. Many people who share music often find that when they find music they like, they want to own it in its standard form, with the cover art, lyrics and liner notes. So this "outlaw" method of sharing music will act as a promotional device for the band, and when the person commits to buying the band's products, it allows the band to continue.

Plans for a tour are already in motion for early 2006 as well as Toothfairy's second full length CD which will be a mail order only release only available through Noiseville.com.