JJUUJJUU Announce LA Residency + UK, NYC, San Diego Shows | Desert Daze's Phil Pirrone-Founded Experimental Collective

JJUUJJUU Performances from Experimental Collective Fronted By Desert Daze Co-Founder Phil Pirrone In Brooklyn, San Diego + London Including Wide Awake Festival  Announce 2023 Monthly Residency: JJUUJJUU & FRIENDS @ LA'S GOLD DIGGERS  Featuring Special Guests John Dwyer and Tomas Dolas of OSEES, L.A. Witch, Morgan Delt, Members of Failure And Death Valley Girls, Art Feynman, Comedy From UCB’s Cardinal Redbird, KCRW DJs, Marquee Marauders Club Pop Up Gallery, Surprise Guests & Much More

Photo by Conner Schumacher for Desert Daze JJUUJJUU released their first several singles in several years recently – “Nowhere,” “Daisy Chain” and “Crappy New Year” – and, this month, the Los Angeles-based collective of rotating collaborators is set to perform the new tracks and more in Brooklyn on May 21st and in London at EartH on May 26th and Wide Awake Festival on May 27th, before returning to Southern California for a show at the San Diego Freakout Fest in June.  Today, the collective led by Desert Daze co-founder Phil Pirrone has also announced their JJUUJJUU & Friends monthly residency at Los Angeles’ Gold Diggers, running from May through September. Recreating the annual closing ceremonies tradition of Desert Daze featuring explorations in improvisational music with special guests and surprises, each show will feature friends of the band and Desert Daze mainstays including John Dwyer & Tomas Dolas (OSEES), L.A. Witch, Morgan Delt, Kelli Scott (Failure), Bonnie & Larry of Death Valley Girls, Art Feynman, comedy From UCB’s Cardinal Redbird, KCRW DJs including Travis Holcolmbe and Tyler Boudreaux, a first ever pop-up gallery from Marquee Marauders Club, and much much more including surprise guests at each show. JJUUJJUU & Friends is free with RSVP (see rsvp links below) and will also feature Desert Daze and Marquee Marauders Club giveaways.  See all JJUUJJUU tour dates below and look for more from the collective soon, including new music!  JJUUJJUU TOUR DATES 5.18 Los Angeles, CA - Gold Diggers* (RSVP) 5.21 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Bowl+  5.26 London, UK - EartH (Evolutionary Arts Hackney)# 5.27 London, UK - Wide Awake Festival @ Brockwell Park 6.10 San Diego, CA - San Diego Freakout Fest @ Casbah 6.30 Los Angeles, CA - Gold Diggers* (RSVP) 7.27 Los Angeles, CA - Gold Diggers* (RSVP) 8.31 Los Angeles, CA - Gold Diggers* (RSVP) 9.28 Los Angeles, CA - Gold Diggers* (RSVP) *JJUUJJUU & Friends Show +supporting Yonatan Gat # supporting Beak>, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets

"NOWHERE" - Listen & Watch

"CRAPPY NEW YEAR" - Listen & Watch

"DAISY CHAIN" - Listen & Watch

ABOUT JJUUJJUU In 2011, after ten years of touring as a bass player, Pirrone borrowed an SG and a DL4, and began his exploration of recording looped based music. JJUUJJUU’s debut release, 2013’s FRST EP, and subsequent stand alone single, “Bleck,” began to build excitement about the project. Throughout this period the lineup and instrumentation of JJUUJJUU moved in step with the project’s ethos of ephemera and flux, as JJUUJJUU continued to tour in several different configurations with Pirrone at their center, sharing stages with Claypool Lennon Delirium, Tortoise, Allah-Las, Temples, Tinariwen and others.  Over the next several years, Pirrone recorded in various spaces around California to document the songs that would eventually make up JJUUJJUU’s debut LP, Zionic Mud. Sessions included collaborations with Vinyl Williams, members of Lumerians, Dahga Bloom, and more. The album’s release was accompanied by alternate versions of the tracks remixed or reimagined by many of the band’s notable supporters including J Mascis, jennylee of Warpaint, Liars, Metz and Autolux. In support of Zionic Mud, JJUUJJUU toured opening for Primus, Mastodon, Kikagaku Moyo, Earthless and festivals including Pickathon, Nelsonville, M3F, and more.  Pirrone and company recorded two follow ups to 2018's Zionic Mud in spring of 2020. With extra time on his hands, Pirrone taught himself how to record and then sent tracks to long time band members Ian Gibbs and Joseph Assef. The tracks were sent around to Boogarins, Alex Edkins (Metz), and additional friends to be revealed soon. The band eventually wound up at Rancho De La Luna and put finishing touches on the record with Dave Catching and Jon Russo.  FOLLOW JJUUJJUU Instagram * Twitter * Facebook * Bandcamp * Spotify