Photo by Chris Frisina

Photo by Chris Frisina

Trippers & Askers

In their own words: “Trippers & Askers is a mobile collective of music makers. I write the songs, and then find folks to play them with. New York, New Orleans, North Carolina, California, Tennessee, Rome, Arizona, wherever I find myself, I look for new recruits. I was born and raised in West Tennessee - near Memphis - and have been moving around since 2002. In addition to playing lots of music, I’m also a university minted “musical anthropologist”, which basically means I really like playing and hanging out with musicians with cultural backgrounds that differ from my own. “Trippers & Askers” is a Whitman reference. I remember memorizing the stanza in “Song of Myself” where the phrase comes up in the shower in Brooklyn sometime in 2008 or so. That’s been the band name since. ” - Jay Hammond

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Trippers & Askers Release Calm and Captivating Video for "Pulsing Place"
Trippers & Askers Release Calm and Captivating Video for "Pulsing Place"

Pulsing Place, the second single from Trippers & Askers’ 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 Hammond’s meditative fingerstyle guitar and buoyant horn and percussion layers.

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Chance's Wake from Trippers & Askers - Out Today
Chance's Wake from Trippers & Askers - Out Today

We’re very pleased to release Chance’s Wake, the first single from the upcoming Trippers & Askers record, Acorn, today.

It’s the perfect slow, psychedelic simmer for this cloudy morning.

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The Incisive, Universal Meditation of Trippers and Askers
The Incisive, Universal Meditation of Trippers and Askers

We’re giving a warm Sleepy Cat welcome to Trippers and Askers, the project of contemplative songwriter, guitarist, and ethno-musicologist Jay Hammond. His music evokes the sensation of gazing into the high-desert horizon, only to wake up and realize you’re actually on an unfamiliar moon, watching the orbit of ocean planets.

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