Dal unveil debut single ‘Those Days’, a cinematic journey into jazz and hip hop.

Jamming from a garden cabin, Devon trio Dal offer a fresh, contemporary take on jazz with debut single ‘Those Days’.

There must be something in the caustic atmosphere of Totnes, Devon, that inspires artists despite the town’s remoteness. After all, if we got something out of lockdown is that isolation aids inspiration. It is not surprising, then, if in the same lands unfolding between the indigo seafront landscape and the hills that once housed the pioneering Dartington College of Arts, multiple generation of local creatives found authentic forms of expression.

Sharing their geographical and cultural origins with Metronomy, Dal blend jazz with broken hip hop patterns. Reminiscent of Moon Safari-era Air, Ennio Morricone soundtracks, but also J Dilla and Madlib sophisticated hip hop beats, the band project their refreshing musical vision into debut single ‘Those Days’. The song is the result of days of jamming into a garden cabin, where the band has been practicing since 2018.

Dal, by Jay Bing.

Evocative in both its title and bass lines, Leah Yeger’s voice further gifts the track with a nostalgic and cinematic feeling halfway between Third-era Portishead and a late 1960s French film score by François de Roubaix or Jean Pierre Miroux.

Comprising of multi-instrumentalists Josh Allmark, Kal Lawrence and Aubrey Simpson, Dal loosely belong to the nu-jazz scene spanning from BadBadNotGood to Yussef Kamaal. However, their fresh musical perspective and artistic independence makes them much harder to label and pin down.

‘Those Days’ is out now, self-released by the band.

Find more about Dal on their Instagram @roll.dal