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.
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.
In Jay’s 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.”