Hudson Powder Company w/ Kyle Curtis and the Promised Lands

Hudson Powder Company’s music is about synesthesia – where a person perceives certain sounds as having distinct colors or tastes. I have a mild case of it – whenever I hear a univibe pedal I get the feeling that the sound it is making is somehow purple. In my view, every band that’s worth anything does a kind of painting with synesthetic associations. A single sound might have a color, but the great bands and artists are the ones who knew how to make the right colors play together in some way. I don’t know of anyone ever trying to “paint” Idaho and the Inland Northwest in this way – trying to uproot this kind of mood that’s implicit in our landscapes. That mood was already in nature, wanting out. Our group is trying to let it out, in one way. But I do believe that the Lexicon LXP-1 Digital Reverb “sounds” like a blue sagebrush, the bass guitar “sounds” like volcanic basalt somehow. The lyrics to the songs are what they are, they just say what they mean like any other lyric. But they’re supposed to be set against a kind of backdrop – the high desert that most people fly over or drive through and never pay much mind to. There’s something there though, some kind of a landscape of sounds that has been mostly ignored… like a fossil. Thanks for reading. Spotify Kyle Curtis & the Promised Lands, considered by many to be Missoula’s hottest 7-piece soul revival act (and not just because all the other acts in town are merely sextet and under) , have but one goal in mind: let the people dance. After honing their skills at the UM School of Music and through the streets of Missoula, Kyle Curtis & the Promised Lands are ready to serve Missoula’s ears (trained or untrained) , fuel their passions, and move their feet.