Beam us up, Pearl & The Oysters.
Beam us up, Pearl & The Oysters.
Video directed by Kylie Hazzard & Angie Scarpa. All photos by Rommel Alcantara.

Pearl & The Oysters: KCRW Live from HQ

Intimate performances, fresh sounds, and candid conversations with a view.

Written by Marion Hodges

LA-via-Paris band Pearl & The Oysters have just touched down to invite you into their impeccably designed sonic world. Gentle bossa nova rhythms, jazzy chords, synths, and flute solos galore — expertly combined to send your senses into orbit. It’s swinging ‘60s elegance as refracted through outer space.

Led by real-life romantic partners Juliette Pearl Davis (lead vocals, electronics, flute) and Joachim Polack (keyboards, backing vocals), and rounded out by Adam Paulson (guitar, string machine, shaker), Jonathan Rivera (bass, synth bass), and Pat Howard (drums, percussion) — PATO brings highlights from their 2024 LP Planet Pearl to KCRW’s Annenberg Performance Studio. Skip out on the real world — just for a moment — as you surrender to the high style and intergalactic grooves of cuts like “Side Quest,” “Cruise Control,” and “Triangular Girl.” Plus, in conversation with Morning Becomes Eclectic host Novena Carmel, Davis and Polack open up about their abiding affection for their adopted SoCal home, love at first sight, and their must-have records for survival if they were ever stranded on another planet.








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Credits:

KCRW Music Director: Alejandro Cohen
Interviewer: Novena Carmel
Directors: Kylie Hazzard & Angie Scarpa
Editor & Colorist: Angie Scarpa
Director of Photography: Kylie Hazzard
Camera Operators: Rachel Bickert, Kylie Hazzard, Ali Ivosevich
KCRW Recording / Mix Engineer: Katie Gilchrest
Assistant Engineers: Hope Brush and Nick Lampone (Front of House)
Executive Producer: Ariana Morgenstern
Senior Producer: Anna Chang
Event Producer: Liv Surnow
Digital Producer: Marion Hodges
Digital Editorial Manager: Andrea Domanick
Lighting Design: Jason Groman
Art Director: Evan Solano

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