I have this for a chorus…’ And we just kept building ideas,” DeLeo says. “We basically wrote the songs by sending videos back and forth to one another, like, ‘Hey, I’ve got this part, check it out.’ And then the other person would go, ‘Well, that sounds like a verse. Being that it was at the height of the pandemic in 2020, and with DeLeo in Los Angeles and Bukovac in Nashville, they did it the only way possible.
“We said, ‘Let’s make a record,’ ” Bukovac recalls. “It felt like we’d known each other a million years.”įrom there, they decided to consecrate the relationship with music. “There were so many parallels running through our lives personally and professionally and musically,” Bukovac says. The two began chatting on the phone and immediately hit it off. I used to wear out those Stone Temple Pilots records.’ ” “And he wrote, ‘You'll never believe who's been watching your show – you know Dean DeLeo?’ I was like, “Know him? I’m a huge fan. “One day I got an email from this guy, it turned out to be Dean’s engineer, Ryan Williams,” Bukovac says. “I was completely in awe – in my humble opinion he’s probably the finest guitar player on the planet,” DeLeo says of Bukovac, an in-demand Nashville session guitarist who has performed on more than 800 albums, as well as toured with the likes of John Fogerty, Vince Gill and Joe Walsh. Although, in this case, throughout the writing and recording of Trip The Witch DeLeo and Bukovac were never once in the same room, or even the same part of the country, at the same time.īut from the minute DeLeo first came across Bukovac’s work last year, via his popular YouTube guitar lesson series, Homeskoolin’, he was blown away. Which is, naturally, what two musicians would hope to have happen when they come together. “We were really in harmony making this record,” DeLeo says. The pair’s self-titled debut, a collection of ten dynamic, mostly instrumental compositions, traverses a myriad of sounds and styles – ethereal soundscapes are consumed by crunching power chords expressive, vocal-like guitar melodies give way to screaming, fuzzed-out solos jazzy comps cascade into kaleidoscopic atmospherics, and then explode into hard-rocking sonic freakouts – with flowing ease and an almost cosmic connectivity. Which is certainly true of Trip The Witch, the new collaborative project from Stone Temple Pilots guitarist and songwriter Dean DeLeo and Nashville session ace Tom Bukovac. Sometimes, musical magic happens when you least expect it. This remastered record is only available here on Bandcamp or on CD via Trip The Witch's official merch store: /tripthewitch Trip The Witch's 2021 self-titled debut album is now available in its remastered form along with 2 all-new bonus tracks - a Surfside Lounge edit featuring Mick Nickens on bass, and The Bird Returns with outro strings by Dave Eggar and Sean Claire.
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