Pulsing Place

Cover design by Gabe Anderson with photo by Chris Frisina

 SCR-014-2

By Trippers & Askers

Release date - 2021/06/01

1 Track - Digital Download, Streaming

Second single from the forthcoming LP, Acorn, out May 16th, 2021

Pulsing Place, the second single from Jay Hammond’s upcoming record, Acorn, took a tumultuous couple of years to make, but the results feel effortless. The song centers around a feeling of reawakening - given life by Jay’s meditative fingerstyle guitar and buoyant horn and percussion layers. 

The song is accompanied by a deeply peaceful, naturalistic video made by Phil Moore of Bowerbirds. The video beautifully captures the feeling of a life becoming aware of the infinite world around it. 

Video by Phil Moore of Bowerbirds

In Their Own Words

“I wrote this song within a day or two of arriving in Rome in the summer of 2017. I was just beginning to come out of what was a nearly decade long creative drought, and I was reading Octavia Butler’s “Parable of the Sower” for the first time. As I read about protagonist Lauren Olamina’s ability to maintain awe and wonder amidst immense social upheaval, I felt myself discovering the world around me anew. It was an extremely painful process at first, full of mourning the real and imagined losses that had stoked a fear of failure. In the moments that I pushed through the fear though, the images came flooding in. The world began to pulse to me in a way that it never had, and out came the first verse. Every little thing was noteworthy, and I felt an exorbitant compulsion to shape the images I was seeing, hearing and feeling in the world into some kind of beauty.” - Jay Hammond

Credits

Performance

  • Jay Hammond - Voice, Guitars 

  • Joe Westerlund - Drums, Percussion

  • Andrew Carlson - Electric Bass

  • Chessa Rich - Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Piano

  • Mike Grigoni - Pedal Steel

  • Andy Stack - Saxophones, Organelle

Production

  • Written and produced by Jay Hammond

  • Engineering @ Silkworm Sound in Durham, NC by Saman Khoujinian 

  • Engineering @ The Rubber Room in Chapel Hill, NC by Saman Khoujinian 

  • Engineering @ Arbor Ridge Studios in Chapel Hill, NC by Jeff Crawford

  • Engineering and Initial Mixing @ Everywhere by Jay Hammond

  • Final Mixes by Scott Hirsch @ Echo Magic Studios in Ojai, CA 

  • Cover design by Gabe Anderson with Photo by Chris Frisina

Lyrics

Featured

All my life I’ve fallen in the stormy sea

Giving weight to waves that should not bother me

But there’s a way to ride along the tide today

In the light I’m taking in this pulsing place

Here we are all familiar in each other’s arms

Catching all the flies and bees that might have harmed

But all I want I flight and buzzing harmony

Grab the car and pull around the side

We’ll peel and steal away

All the time we’ve been afraid to take

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