In June, Date Palms, the San Francisco duo of Gregg Kowalsky and Marielle Jakobsons released their third album, The Dusted Sessions, a musical meditation on the American dustbowl, imprinted with their trademark mix of minimalist, ambient and Indian classical sounds.
Ahead of their tour, which takes in Europe next month, including a particularly excellent London stop where they’ll be sharing a bill with J Spaceman, Oneida’s Kid Millions under his Man Forever guise (who also joins the band for the German dates), Plankton Wat and Pat Thomas at Cafe OTO, we’ve got a stream of the album’s bonus track, ‘Sky Trails’ a slow-burning (‘burning’ being the operative word) heat-meld of drone notes overlaid with glares of Rhodes piano, bass and guitar, sprawling out with brilliant stasis over its four minutes – have a listen below, with the tour dates following:
SEPTEMBER
Fri 13 – Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff
Sat 14 – The Barrel House, Totnes
Sun 15 – Beerwolf, Falmouth
Mon 16 – The Prince Albert, Brighton
Tue 17 – AK44, Giessen, Germany
Wed 18 – Monarch, Berlin, Germany w/ Man Forever
Thu 19 – UT Connewitz, Leipzig, Germany w/ Man Forever
Fri 20 – Incubate Festival, Tilburg, The Netherlands
Sat 21 – Scheld’apen, Antwerp, Belgium
Sun 22 – L’Espace B, Paris, France
Mon 23 – Cafe OTO, London w/ J Spaceman, Kid Millions, Pat Thomas, Plankton Wat
