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| Strange Pilgrim | Staring At The Sky Strange Pilgrim (USA), is premiering today new single "Staring At The Sky". The song is about spending time with close friends on a warm summer evening in a shared psychedelic experience... /// STREAM NOW STARING AT THE SKY VIA: — INDIEREPUBLIK (In English) — MUZIKALIA (ES) — INDIEOTEQUE (IT) — ART NOIR (CH) — GLAM MAGAZINE (PT) After releasing the single and Music Video for "Salt and Seagulls" on March 6, 2020, Strange Pilgrim are back with "Staring At The Sky", a song about spending time with close friends on a warm summer evening in a shared psychedelic experience. The single is being premiered today, but will be officially released on all digital platforms on July 24, 2020. ABOUT STRANGE PILGRIM Strange Pilgrim is Joshua Barnhart's new Oakland band. Joshua first became known as the drummer of the acclaimed Bay Area band Port O'Brien on the album All We Could Do Was Sing. For three years, he toured Europe, North America, and Australia with them. Since then, he has played drums, guitar, and sang with bands including Release the Sunbird, Two Sheds, Kelly McFarling, Vetiver, Sparrows Gate, and Zeb Zaitz. Strange Pilgrim began as a side-project duo under Joshua's name, featuring guitarist Paul Dutton. In 2016, they recorded and released their first album, Turn Out The Light, featuring fellow Port O'Brien member, Caleb Nichols, on bass. Over the next two years, the band added drums, bass, and an additional lead guitar. They released two singles, "Dance with Me" and "Blue Eyes, " and eventually, a solid lineup formed with Adam Nash (of Goodnight Texas), Pat Spurgeon (of Rogue Wave), Sterling Schlegel, Paul Dutton, and Taylor Belmore. On March 6, 2020, the band released the single "Salt and Seagulls" featuring Bay Area musician Kelly McKarfing on vocals. The band name Strange Pilgrim references Gabriel Garcia Marquez's work Strange Pilgrims or Doce Cuentos Peregrinos, a book that shares the themes of wandering out of place. ABOUT STARING AT THE SKY The new single Staring at the Sky is about spending time with close friends on a warm summer evening in a shared psychedelic experience. Thinking about this song now, it seems like a love letter to an era which none of us were able to say goodbye to. "For a number of years, Hickey Fest in Mendocino, CA would mark the beginning of summer for a lot of our friends. That weekend was filled with music, river swimming, redwoods, and a bit of collective insanity. It's in those special moments that I have felt most at peace with myself and with the world, and where even my own mortality seems a part of one big cosmic joke. In the context of COVID, the resulting shelter-in-place, and the current uprising all over the country against police brutality and systemic racism, this song might seem a bit silly. But for me at least, silliness is partly what makes life worth living and gives me hope for a more just and joyful future." — Joshua Barnhart write your comments about the article :: © 2020 Jazz News :: home page |