Jaye Jayle, the solo project of Louisville Kentucky musician Evan Patterson, has shared a new video for the song ‘When We Are Dogs’

Jaye Jayle, the solo project of Louisville Kentucky musician Evan Patterson, has shared a new video for the song ‘When We Are Dogs’ from recently released fourth album ‘Don’t Let Your Love Life Get You Down’ as well as announcing extensive tour dates opening for City and Colour in the US and Årabrot in the UK & EU.

Taken from the new album ‘Dont Let Your Love Life Get You Down’ (Pelagic Records), ‘When We Are Dogs’ features underground folk legend Bonnie Prince Billy alongside prolific experimental saxophonist Patrick Shoroishi. An organic collaboration amongst esteemed musicians, done for the love of sonic experiments, the song now has an equally striking video, created by Welsh illustrator and artist Richey Beckett, shot in the wilderness of his home country.

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Jaye Jayle on ‘When We Are Dogs:

“A song about the afterlife. Being reincarnated as dogs. To co-exist with a loved one. It could not have come out more gorgeous. It would be so fitting that prolific visual artist Richey Beckett contributed a piece for the song as videographer. Richey has put together what he calls “if Lars Von Trier directed Homeward Bound” a collection of clips of his dog Merlin prowling the fields of Wales. Making a more than imaginable visual companion for this truly mesmerising song.”

Alongside this new video, Jayle has also shared extensive tour dates for the remainder of the year, opening for Dallas Green’s City & Colour in beautiful theatres throughout the West Coast of the US before joining critically acclaimed Norwegian duo Årabrot to open their UK & EU shows solo throughout November, including stops in London, Glasgow, Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham.

Under the moniker of Jaye Jayle, Louisville guitarist/vocalist Evan Patterson has spent over a decade exploring the more abstract realms of the American singer-songwriter process.

The name—a reference to a bluebird locked in a cage as a metaphor for being tethered to the blues’ pentatonic guitar style and forlorn subject matter—underscores Patterson’s esoteric relationship to browbeaten themes and old musical traditions. The three previous Jaye Jayle albums—House Cricks and Other Excuses to Get Out (2016), No Trail and Other Unholy Paths (2018) and Prisyn (2020)—found Jaye Jayle continuously experimenting with form and traversing a myriad of sonic trails. On his latest album, Don’t Let Your Love Life Let You Down, Patterson continues to push at the boundaries of American blues and folk traditions while breaking the shackles of defeat and passing into a realm residing between Western stoicism and mystic wonder.

Tour dates:

August:

Supporting: City and Colour

• 29th - Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall
• 30th - Salt Lake City, UT - Depot