Sound Off! An Underage Battle: Pan Pan

Like their namesake, Pan Pan conjures whimsy, the wilderness, and the quiet swell of subtle emotions with a simple flourish of horn set above piano rumble. The solo project of Bellinghahm’s Sarah Jerns, Pan Pan is Morricone by way of Beirut, a suggestive mix of cinema and exuberant release. Spare percussion underpins Jerns’ wandering trumpet. Her piano skips through a field-recorded dream. Horns catch your hair and buoy traveling spirits. It’s an abduction of your senses, a permission slip for wild abandon. Listen.

Jerns is already a veteran player in the local music scene, working with The Love Lights, Yogoman Burning Band, and The Presidents of the United States, and performing at The Paramount and Sasquatch. She and her backing band of Andrew Bybee, Austin Richey, Coltan Foster, and Natalia Oncina face off against Hooves and Beak, A Cozy Kitchen, and The Cat From Hue this Saturday at EMP|SFM’s second round of semifinals.