Kevin Bronson on March 3rd, 2014

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Jeff Ramuno’s duties as Josh Tillman’s sideman in Father John Misty have slowed his own explorations as Jeffertitti’s Nile, but come April he will be back in orbit. And by orbit, we mean outer space. And by outer space, we mean out there. Jeffertitti’s Nile’s psych-rock inhabits distant galaxies, where constraints are few, the vistas are frequently exhilarating and the surprises are abundant. For the latter, look no further than the first single from “The Electric Hour,” the full-length the band has coming  via Beyond Beyond Is Beyond Records. It’s a jazz-in-a-hash-pipe cover of “Blue Spirit Blues,” recorded by the legendary Bessie Smith in 1929. “The Electric Hour,” made between studios in Ojai (Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros’ hang) and Long Beach (the studio run by Crystal Antler’s Jonny Bell), features Tillman on drums as well as Ramuno’s other “extended family” of musicians. It’s out April 29, and the mastermind doesn’t call it “transcendental space-punk doo wop” for nothing.

||| Stream: “Blue Spirit Blues”

||| Live: Jeffertitti’s Nile plays April 6 at the Troubadour.

||| Previously: “Upside”