Date Palms Upcoming Shows
March 9th - San Francisco at The LAB w/Barn Owl & Ensemble Economique
March 10th - Oakland at Liminal Space w/Barn Owl & Ensemble Economique
Honey, Honey Devashhhhh
Honey Devash LP out now on Mexican Summer
Marielle Jakobsons of Date Palms + Rhys Chatam @ galerie limitis 19.11.2011
Quickly, it reminds me of a bunch of my favourite music - Alice Coltrane, Terry Riley, Pandit Pran Nath, Cluster, Sun Araw, Brightblack Morning Light, PG Six – while combining the influences into something relatively original. Essentially, on “Of Psalms”, Oakland’s Gregg Kowalsky & Marielle Jakobsons strip a lot of their music back to the drones and devotional ambience of Eastern-facing cosmic jazz records….read more @Uncut
Of Psalms Aquarius Review
Date Palms is the new project of heavy electronic / cassette tape manipulator Gregg Kowalsky and Marielle Jakobsons (Myrmyr, Darwinsbitch) and is a strange, yet fantastic fusing of Eastern style raga drones, and hypnotic Spacemen 3 style bass buzz, which seems like a weird combo, but it definitely works, situating the Oakland duo right between those two not so disparate (as you might think) sounds, the music almost like some sort of slowcore spacerock dronedrift, writ abstract and minimal and Eastern, if that makes any sense.
