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Venue

Carioca Cafe

2060 Champa St.

Denver, CO

Snake Mountain

Date/Time:Sat., November 7, 10:00pm

Snake Mountain

Jef Otte

On the third floor of a giant, dilapidated Victorian mansion on Franklin Street just south of Five Points, Andy Wild and Joe Ramirez are mixing. The soft gold of the evening lights up the massive yellow structure, restoring it to a bit of its former majesty: It towers over the other houses on the block, patriarchal and imposing, shrouded by tall old trees and, perhaps, legend. Nobody has yet found the motivation to turn on a light inside, and a few people hang around and smoke cigarettes downstairs on the couch in the half dark. From the topmost floor, a roughly ten-second fragment of screeching guitars and feral saxophone â€” a song's climax â€” plays, stops, then plays again. Plays, stops, then plays again.

Wild stoops over a laptop that sits on top of a receiver connected to four huge monitors stacked on top of one another on the table in front of him. He plays the loop again and bickers with Ramirez, who's sitting in an easy chair behind him, over whether or not something is loud enough. They're finishing Don't Surf Zombie Beach, Snake Mountain's second EP and probably the last album to be recorded in this house, affectionately dubbed "The Yellow Bordello."

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