Streets / Nozomi

VINYL FORMAT. Originally a side project from Danny Grody (Tarentel) and Trevor Montgomery (Lazarus), San Francisco's The Drift! very quickly matured into a full-time dub-jazz-rock ensemble. After Montgomery left Tarentel and The Drift! to focus on his Lazarus project, the band enlisted upright bass phenom Safa Shokrai to replace him, in addition to Jeff Jacobs on trumpet and Rich Douthit (Halifax Pier) on drums, ultimately steering the band away from its ambient rock leanings and into the hazy world of dub-infused guitar stabs and inspired jazz shuffles. After spending the better part of two years improvising together several times a week, the band got down to the business of writing and recording some new material. This 12" showcases the first two tracks from ongoing recording sessions. Packaged in hand silk-screened chipboard jackets, and limited to 1,000 copies (a handful of which are colored vinyl).