Media Jeweler Announce "Sublime Reworks, Tour Japan and Share "Middle Ages - Pregnant Remix"
A year after releasing their third LP 'The Sublime Sculpture of Being Alive,' Media Jeweler have returned to announce a collection of 'Sublime Reworks' - an eclectic edition of remixes from friends & fellow musicians that reinterpret highlights from their 2021 LP, 'The Sublime Sculpture of Being Alive,' mastered by Graham Ulicny. Today they're sharing a taste of the album in the form of avant-garde experimentalist Pregnant's jazzy, downtempo "Middle Ages." They also announce a slew of shows in Japan in April 2023, where they will be joined at all shows by Sarah Parks (Deep Throat Choir) on saxophone and vocals.
Founded in Orange County before rising to greater prominence in Los Angeles, Media Jeweler are a band who have long pushed to the outer edges of the art rock scene they've been a fixture of for the better part of a decade. From their early days sharing stages with artists like Palberta, Palm, Yonatan Gat and Anna Meredith, their dramatic, technically-adept and largely instrumental sound has been turning heads. Their mesmeric live performances initially attracted the attention of Brooklyn's Fire Talk Records (Dehd, Mamalarky, Pure X), who released their 2015 debut $99 R/T Hawaii and their 2018 full length 1-800-SUCCEED to wide acclaim from outlets like Pitchfork, NPR, VICE, Paste and Stereogum, who drew comparisons to artists like Slint, Dimemberment Plan and Built To Spill while praising the bands "carefully-honed art rock" (VICE). The band's 2021 LP marked some significant changes for the band, including the addition of a new member in Graham Ulicny of The Faint and Reptar, and a shift away from their instrumental roots, with member Sam Farzin taking on vocal duties on the majority of the album's 11 tracks.
Farzin elaborates on the single:
"Pregnant parsed Sublime’s most raucous cut into bebop hold music with slinking mid-century arpeggios and jazz hand pianos. The original’s manic declarations sound like advertising slogans. Perfect! "
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Tour Dates!
4/12 - Los Angeles, CA - Zebulon
4/16 - Kyoto, Japan - Growly
4/17 - Osaka, Japan - Para-Dice
4/18 - Fukuoka, Japan - Utero
4/19 - Yamaguchi, Japan - Organ's Melody
4/20 - Takamatsu, Japan - Toonice
4/21 - Nagoya, Japan - Stiffslack
4/22 - Tokyo, Japan - JAM
4/23 - Tokyo, Japan - ERA