The Witzard World Premiere: LULU LEWIS (Dylan Hundley & Pablo Martin)'s $24 Harlem Punk "ALL JUST PRETENDING" Video [-feat. Jay "J-Zone" Mumford, William X. Harvey & Clay Russell]

"$24 spent on what exactly?" I somewhat feverishly quipped, to which

Lulu Lewis

guitarist and co-founder

Pablo Martin

readily replied, "two skull masks and a party gun with a flag that says BANG!!!... the rest,

Dylan [Hundley]

did on an

iPhone

... and

iMovie

, some public domain footage, and the rest, we did [with] the band at

Bill Harvey

's place. We put a sheet and lights on the back and did shadows... pretty simple" via text. Let me back up and provide a little added context here: I've recently been in touch with

J-Zone

's resident studio engineer and

The Du-Rites

bandmate

Pablo Martin

, who graciously agreed to let me premier his band,

Lulu Lewis'

latest video-single,

"All Just Pretending"

here at

The Witzard

. He attests, and I wholeheartedly believe him, but it's still a little hard to believe, that their self-shot black-and-white

"All Just Pretending"

video only cost a measly $24 to fund and produce! "I think that's the major achievement of the [videos] we do...

"Dig Beat"

was 0 dollars and we spent 25 on this one," Martin excitedly continued.

"All Just Pretending"

has an inherently lush, B-movie quality to it, as well as well as a rather unique 1960's

Lounge Music

-esque vibe reminiscent of

Amy Winehouse

meets

Garbage

frontwoman

Shirley Manson

.

Lulu Lewis

is just

Pablo Martin

's latest band (in addition to

The Du-Rites

, PABLO, and

Tom Tom Club

) formed in 2015 along with actress, producer, visual artist, and song-writer

Dylan Hundley

; part-time guest musicians additionally include drummers

Jay "J-Zone" Mumford

and

Julius Solo

, guitarist and bass player

Bill Harvey

, bassist

Hannah Morehead

, and background vocalist

Clay Russell

. "We do what we like to call

"Harlem Punk"

—our soulful

Punk

version from

Pablo

's beloved hood. We took the name

Lulu Lewis

from a grave at

Trinity Cemetery

in

Harlem

, so we have a respectful relationship with death,"

Pablo Martin

wrote within a recent email describing

Lulu Lewis'

seemingly organic formation. Martin records and self-produces all of

Lulu

's compositions, which ultimately aim to combine multiple mediums with music and video elements as the foundation. It appears as though

Dylan Hundley, Martin & company

have an as-yet-unannounced full-length in-the-works, as they currently have four completed songs uploaded to their

Soundcloud

, in addition to "another

Du-Rites

snippet video" ahead of their temporarily shelved pre-album 7-inch and a forthcoming single from

PABLO

, of which Side B "will be [mixed] within a week or so."

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