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High Pulp Share New Track “Dirtmouth” Featuring James Brandon Lewis
Wednesday, May 31st, 2023

High Pulp Share New Track “Dirtmouth” Featuring James Brandon Lewis

High Pulp’s upcoming album ‘Days in the Desert’ reveals the band realizing their strengths, deepening their own bonds, and pushing all these skills into a thrilling new sonic vista all but unimaginable just a few years before. Today they are sharing the album track ”Dirtmouth” featuring tenor saxophonist and label mate James Brandon Lewis. “The way that we think of jazz, James is that,” drummer Bobby Granfelt says. “He told us he liked our non-traditional approach to jazz, which is cool coming from someone having all this credibility within the traditional jazz scene.”

“This song was mostly written between Antoine and our former guitarist Gehrig,” Granfelt continues. “The two instruments bob and weave in such a way that they feel like they’re dancing with and around each other. We were listening to a lot of ‘Con Todo El Mundo’ by Khruangbin at the time and were inspired to make a groove-oriented, guitar-based song. Once we laid the foundation, we invited James Brandon Lewis to bless the track with his Sonny Rollins meets Fugazi approach and it was game over!” 

“I am thankful High Pulp invited me to explore my version of crazy on such a great grooving track,” James Brandon Lewis added. “It gives me jazz, world music, and otherworldly sonics all at the same time. The best music is the kind that never sits still, at least for me!” 
 
This album has an array of all-star guests that push the sounds even further out into the ether. They range from Lewis and Chicago guitar legend Jeff Parker to Impulse! harpist Brandee Younger and Madlib collaborator/ Brainfeeder OG Daedelus. Working with the likes of Younger, Parker, and Lewis also draw High Pulp closer to the genre-pushing jazz of Chicago’s International Anthem, a label the band openly admires. And it encapsulates their own approach, knowing their musical chops while also favoring the immediacy of a great indie-rock song. But despite the disparate genres represented, it all sounds precisely like High Pulp in the end. 
 
Next month High Pulp will embark on a run of West Coast tour dates, beginning in Sacramento on June 8. All upcoming dates listed below.  
TOUR DATES 
6/8 - Sacramento, CA @ Torch Club 
6/9 - Tahoe, CA @ Tahoe Tap House 
6/10 - San Francisco, CA @ SFJAZZ 
6/11 - Venice Beach, CA @ Del Monte Speakeasy 
6/13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Gold Diggers 
6/14 - Chico, CA @ Argus 
6/16 - Seattle, WA @ Goodbye Look at Bad Bar 
6/17 - Vancouver, BC @ Guilt & Co.  
6/18 - Portland, OR @ Jack London Revue 
8/27 - Port Townsend, WA @ THING Festival

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