No Jack Swing, by Brontez Purnell

No Jack Swing

by Brontez Purnell

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Hemroid The Leader 6 tunes, 3.5 to 5 minutes each. gravy train gospel disco vibes, probs the nicest audio recording he's done to date

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1.	Blues of Every Night ft. Bergo Husky 03:32 video	buy track
2.	Girl From Ghost Town 03:26	buy track
3.	The New Depression 03:37	buy track
4.	I Got Joy ft. Whitney Holman and The New Zion Missionary Baptist Church Choir of Belle Mina, Alabama 03:55	buy track
5.	Mama Don’t Fuck For Beats - The Beats They Fuck For Mother (Does Your Mother Know?) 05:01	buy track
6.	The Reason I Can’t Fucking Stand You (No Cigarettes) Ft. Summer Troupe and Briana Fletcher 05:01	buy track
7.	Rudolph Valentino 04:15	buy track

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Dark Entries and Papi Juice Records team up for No Jack Swing, the solo electronic debut of multi-hype man Brontez Purnell. The Southern-raised, Oakland-based musician and writer has centered his queerness and Blackness in projects Gravy Train and Younger Lovers as well as in his award-winning books 100 Boyfriends and Since I Laid My Burden Down. On No Jack Swing, Purnell gives us a love letter to the most beloved (and secularized) of drum patterns - that is, the electronic 808 “Amen Break”. Beginning recording in 2020, Purnell conceived of No Jack Swing as an audio zine of found sound materials: chain letters of instrumentals recorded in bedrooms, poems from boys in France, found gospel tapes from his childhood family Baptist Choir, and the sound of records skipping on his bedroom turntable. No Jack Swing is as much a homage to No Wave and New Jack Swing as it is an answering to the gods of Indie, Electroclash, Disco, and Gospel. Amidst all this background noise, the unexpected occurs: all the niche pretensions collapse to a singularity - the sound of High Pop! No Jack Swing was produced by Nightfeelings. Each copy of includes a lyric sheet with a photo of Brontez.

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released July 19, 2023

© 2023 Dark Entries Records / Papi Juice Records
Executive Producers: Brontez Purnell, Night Feelings + Telfar Studios
Mastered by Frédéric Alstadt
Design by Eloise Leigh
Cover photo by Brontez Purnell
All songs written by Brontez Purnell except The New Depression written by Justin Vivian Bond and Rap Freestyle on Blues of Every Nigh written by Bergo Husky
Guitar, Bass, Drums, Additional synth: Brontez Purnell
Demo Programming: Moya Gotham (Tracks 1,3,5)
Lead Guitar: Andrea Genevieve (Track 2)
Additional Vox: Cody Crictcheloe + Adee Roberson (Track 2)
Additional Programming and Saxophone: Stephanie Lawrence (Track 3)
Hook written by Heather Jewett, Johnny Makeup (Track 5)
Strings: Helene Grotans (Track 5)
Piano: Alison Niedbalski (Track 5)
Saxophone: Charlie Karr (Track 5)
Additional Vocals: Alexandre Gaulmin (Track 5)
Cello: Benjamin Caldwell Brown (Track 7)
Synth: Night Feelings (Track 7)

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Brontez Purnell Oakland, California

Brontez Purnell is an American writer, musician, dancer, and director based out of Oakland, California. He is the author of several award-winning books, including Since I Laid My Burden Down, 100 Boyfriends, and the punk zine Fag School. Purnell is the frontman for the punk band The Younger Lovers and is the founder of the Brontez Purnell Dance Company ... more

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