Juliette Pearl Davis (Juju) and Joachim Polack (Jojo) – met on their first day of high school in Paris, and have been together ever since. The duo’s new album Planet Pearl, out this Friday, September 20th, is their second record for Stones Throw and the culmination of nearly two decades of connection and collaboration.
While Pearl andamp; The Oysters’ earlier albums documented Juju and Jojo’s lives in Florida and L.A., Planet Pearl is extra-terrestrial, written from the perspective of castaway space explorers marooned on Earth. The theme of alienation is captured on “Triangular Girl," the final single from Planet Pearl, written about a triangular character who’s “geometrically unfit to evolve in the curvilinear world surrounding her”. The music video by Nikki Milan Houston features the triangular character (also performed by Nikki), dancing alone on a “planet once sprawling with life, that now feels empty and desolate”.
“Triangular Girl” was written 12 years ago, when the duo were at jazz school in Paris. They decided to re-work the song for Planet Pearl, this time with a stellar cast of L.A. musicians: Riley Geare of Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Caleb Buchanan, Logan Hone and Andrew Forman, and taking inspiration from 60s and 70s Brazilian waltzes. The influence of Brazilian music is strong throughout Planet Pearl – Jojo’s PhD was on the composer Antônio Carlos Jobim – along with the Brazilian concept of saudade, the melancholic longing for a beloved yet absent something or someone.
Watch the music video for “Triangular Girl” HERE
Written, composed, and produced by Pearl andamp; The Oysters, Planet Pearl also includes the addition of Producer Teo Halm (Rosalía, J Balvin, Omar Apollo) on select songs and musicians Alex Brettin of Mild High Club, Brijean Murphy and other friends and collaborators throughout.
Already Pearl andamp; The Oysters has received praise from NPR, Pitchfork (..."synth sounds you can sink your teeth into, gooey guitar licks that stick to the roof of your mouth, and vocal harmonies so syrupy they linger on your tastebuds...", The Fader, MOJO (“...dreamy space-age exotica…”), BBC 6, KCRW, CLASH and more. Recently they wrapped up a West Coast tour with stops in Pioneertown, San Francisco, Seattle, and today announce their own set of headline tour dates for the fall with stops in Los Angeles, Nashville and more.
Now based in Los Angeles, the duo first met on their first day of high school in Paris, and have been making music together ever since. The two moved across the Atlantic in 2015 after pursuing musicology degrees at Sorbonne University, with a brief stint in Gainesville, Florida, where Polack pursued his PhD in musicology eventually crash landing in Los Angeles.
PandTO Live Dates
9/24 - San Diego, CA - House of Blues*
9/26 - Santa Ana, CA - Observatory*
9/27 - San Luis Obispo, CA - Fremont Theater*
9/28 - Oakland, CA - Fox Theater*
9/30 - Seattle, WA - Moore Theatre*
10/1 - Vancouver, BC - The Pearl*
10/2 - Portland, OR - Revolution Hall*
10/4 - Salt Lake City, UT - The Depot*
10/5 Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall*
10/8 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue*
10/10 Chicago, IL - Salt Shed*
10/11 Cleveland, OH - The Roxy*
10/12 Toronto, ON - The Concert Hall*
10/13 Montreal, QC - La Tulipe*
10/16 - Brooklyn, NY - Elsewhere (Zone One)
10/17 - Philadelphia, PA - PhilaMOCA
10/18 - Washington D.C. - Comet Ping Pong
10/19 - Raleigh, NC - Neptunes
10/21 - Gainesville, FL - The Wooly
10/23 - Atlanta, GA - 529 Bar
10/24 - Nashville, TN - The Blue Room
10/26 - Denton, TX - Rubber Gloves
10/27 - Austin, TX - Mohawk
10/29 - Phoenix, AZ - Last Exit
11/03 - Los Angeles, CA - Echoplex
*Support for Ginger Root
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