Pink Martini founder Thomas M. Lauderdale, in collaboration with Oregon surf music legends Satan’s Pilgrims, has shared a new single, “Night and Day,” off their forthcoming album Thomas Lauderdale Meets The Pilgrims. The LP is being released on May 19 and today’s song, buoyed by Lauderdale’s sparkling piano fireworks atop the Pilgrims’ iconic surf sound, exemplifies the interpretations of beloved standards found on the LP.  

Pre-order Thomas Lauderdale Meets The Pilgrims here

On May 18 Lauderdale will perform a record release party at Portland’s Crystal Ballroom. Tickets are on-sale here. Pink Martini is currency in the midst of a U.S. tour – tickets and all dates can be found here.

Lauderdale previously revealed the album’s “Malagueña.” Thomas Lauderdale Meets the Pilgrims is the culmination of a long-awaited collaboration between Lauderdale and Statan’s Pilgrams dating back to 1993 when Lauderdale stumbled on a Pilgrims’ performance in Portland, and, in a flash, envisioned a surf version of his favorite piece of music, Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” Nearly 25 years later, a hiatus from Pink Martini touring during the pandemic led Lauderdale to unearth the project and commit to finishing it. He re-recorded some piano parts with engineer Steve Sundholm, brought in the Portland State University chamber choir to record some choral parts, recruited self-proclaimed “All-American Jewish Lesbian Folk Singer” Phranc to sing on a cover of the Beach Boys “Girls on the Beach,” and created new mixes of eleven songs with engineers Sundholm and Dave Friedlander, to create an album of blazing new interpretations of beloved standards, alongside classic surf music excursions, tied together and infused throughout with Lauderdale’s grand piano. 

Photo Courtesy: Mike Hughes