The New Deal Unleash New Single ‘Quattro’

Jamtronica trio The New Deal have shared another taste of their first studio release in over a decade by sharing “Quattro,” a funky/untz-y workout. “Quattro” comes from the band’s forthcoming Mercury Switch EP, which is due in 2016. Take a listen to “Quattro”:

theNEWDEAL had previously shared the title track and “Sabotage The System” off Mercury Switch as they prepared for a Fall Tour that continues tonight and tomorrow with co-bills featuring BoomBox in New Haven (Friday) and New York City (Saturday).

Bassist Dan Kurtz calls Mercury Switch the trio’s “most creative” endeavor to date. “In the last few months we’ve been pushing ourselves to work with new sounds, new styles, new ways of arranging jams, and the stuff we’ve come up with has felt great and exciting to us as a result. We’re listening back to the board tapes of all the shows and finding the parts, even if they’re just a couple of seconds long, that sound the most inspiring and then building studio recordings around them. In some cases we’ll glue a bit from one show in one city to another completely unrelated piece from another town, and create something we’d never have come up with in either just a live or just a studio setting,” Kurtz said.

“I think we’ve come up with a way to take the best from both the live and studio worlds and make something that’s going to have the energy of a live show, but shaped in a way we could only do in the studio. theNEWDEAL has always been about development. When we’re performing on stage our goal is always to create a fresh musical idea and see in real-time how we can develop it – melodically, harmonically and structurally. Because we approach every show with an improvisational mindset, we know that every night brings a different concert, a different vibe and a different audience experience. Even with all those variables, it always ends up sounding like a New Deal show; exciting, driving and incredibly danceable!” added keyboardist Jamie Shields.