The Oakland trance-rock duo Date Palms will release a new LP, The Dusted Sessions, on June 11th via Thrill Jockey. For the album Gregg Kowalsky (keyboards, electronics) and Marielle Jakobsons (violin, flute, electronics) have added players Ben Bracken on electric bass, Michael Elrod on tanpura, and Noah Philips on electric guitar. Heavily influenced by Eastern raga, the Coltrane’s spiritual jazz, as well as minimal post-rock, this marks the first time that the band has included a guitarist in it’s set-up. The Dusted Sessions was recorded by Phil Manley (Life Coach, Trans Am) at LCR in San Francisco last year, including a session during the solar eclipse on May 21st of 2012. The record was influenced by Kowalsky and Jokobsons’ travels up the Yuba river, and this track, “Dusted Down“, by a trip to the Eureka Dunes. The addition of guitar adds a real Spacemen 3, slow motion blues feel to the track, as Jackobsons’ violin and Philips’ guitar wind spiraling, tranced-out melodic lines into the near constant, pulsating drone. For the video, equally fine psychedelic pyrotechnics have been applied to video of the quartet performing the track, creating flashback inducing duplications and eye melting color tears to the image! If you’re in Seattle you can catch Date Palms at this year’s Debacle Fest, Saturday May 4th at the FRED Wildlife Refuge.
