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October 9, 2018 For Immediate Release

BUKE AND GASE ANNOUNCE NEW , SHARE NEW SONG AND VIDEO "DERBY"

SCHOLARS OUT 1/18 ON BRASSLAND

Today, Buke and Gase are proud to announce their new record - and first in five years - Scholars, which will be released January 18th via Brassland. Along with the album announcement, they're sharing a new song and video from the record entitled "Derby." This follows the previously shared videos for "No Land" and "Pink Boots."

WATCH "DERBY" https://youtu.be/Jro9yH78hwY

WATCH "NO LAND" https://youtu.be/bW0K31nZEEQ

WATCH "PINK BOOTS" https://youtu.be/pv4U713Yk6cgo

Buke and Gase make pop music in the most insane way possible‚ through long periods of ecstatic collaboration executed with a kind of monastic discipline. They are a band that wears genre tags lightly: Soon after releasing their EP length demo +/-, they became an “” obsession shared by beloved cult podcast Radiolab & The National. Their debut album Riposte found them categorized as “steampunk art-folk”; they excelled at this, and became a favorite of NPR Music and were invited to perform for their Tiny Desk Concert series. Their second album General Dome appealed equally to metal, math rock & avant garde music fans & spawning their closest thing to a hit, "Houdini Crush," which opens with a massive guitar riff and blooms into frenetic round. It was behind this record that the band toured the world, often serving as hand-picked support to who's who of music icons: Laurie Anderson & Lou Reed, Shellac, Battles, Reggie Watts, Swans, Deerhoof, among others.

And then came a public silence — five years of it.

Aron & Arone were hardly dormant. Relocating full-time to the upstate New York artist haven of Hudson, New York, the duo recommitted to their sometimes punishing work ethic, clocking in & out for months on end with a fervor that indicated this job they'd created for themselves was also their greatest pleasure.

They embraced the freedom of playing & recording largely for their own consumption and creative fulfillment. They stepped out on their own creative journeys. Arone Dyer was the first thing anyone heard of The National's Grammy winning album, singing the introduction to #1 AAA radio charting "The System Only Dreams In Total Darkness." She also moonlighted in side projects Mistresses & #dronechoir; participated in and Aaron & 's PEOPLE festivals, and sang with & The National on nationally broadcast late night TV. Aron Sanchez invented a bespoke percussion/guitar mash-up for Bryce Dessner's acclaimed "Music for Wood & Strings" project — and remained central to producing instruments for the Blue Man Group.

Three years ago, they embarked on a major refinement & modernization of their instrumental creations — and embraced electronic music. They have largely retired the buke (bass ukulele) and gass (guitar-bass). The band no longer sit through their performances exclusively — a reinvention unveiled when they opened for The National at massive venues across Europe last autumn. Buke and Gase stopped being defined by the instruments which gave them that name. Their new album Scholars began not as the title of their new record, but a new moniker for their artistic project.

Although the band's distinct musical character is still recognizable, the songs on Scholars embrace a form of expression that is more concise, more emotional & less perverse in its uniqueness. The album was honed from 60+ songs and hundreds of hours of recordings into a concise document clocking in under 40 minutes. Time signatures on many songs are in standard 4/4 time. In a way, their long & roundabout journey has resulted in a sound that’s coincidentally in sync with our most forward thinking contemporary artists — , Bjork/Arca, Frank Ocean. They have embraced the same computer- and synthesizer-driven creative tools that make EDM and trap music function, while existing entirely in their own, fully imagined universe of sound.

SCHOLARS TRACKLISTING 1. Stumbler 2. Scholars 3. Derby 4. Pink Boots 5. Temporary 6. Wrong Side 7. Grips 8. Qi Ball 9. Flock 10. Eternity 11. No Land 12. Ranger

BUKE AND GASE TOUR DATES Wed. Oct. 10 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall w/ Shellac Thu. Oct. 11 - San Francisco, CA @ Great American Music Hall w/ Shellac Fri. Oct. 12 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom w/ Shellac Sat. Oct. 13 - Los Angeles, CA @ Teragram Ballroom w/ Shellac Sat. Nov. 3 - Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle Tue. Nov. 6 - New York City, NY @ Mercury Lounge Wed. Nov. 28 - Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA

Hi-res images and album art - http://pitchperfectpr.com/buke-gase/

Buke and Gase Online: https://www.bukeandgase.com/ https://bukeandgase.bandcamp.com/ https://www.instagram.com/bukeandgase/ https://www.facebook.com/bukeandgase/ https://twitter.com/bukeandgase

For more information, contact: Jacob Daneman | Pitch Perfect PR - [email protected], 773-271-6844

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