The three musicians in Dirtwire have spent their careers exploring music from other cultures.

Since forming in 2012, the Berkeley, California-based supergroup has combined electronic beats and samples with acoustic instruments from around the world — including the African stringed instrument n’goni and Brazilian drum zabumba, among many others. The members’ other groups also navigate the electronic-world music intersection to differing degrees: David Satori’s Beats Antique, Evan Fraser’s Dogon Lights and BOLO, and newest member Mark Reveley’s Jed and Lucia.

“Showdown,” Dirtwire’s upcoming third full-length album, due March 9, finds the band looking closer to home for inspiration. Two prerelease singles, “Vibez” and especially “The Whip,” take the band’s multi-instrumental approach and marry it to Ennio Morricone-inspired melodies.

“‘The Whip’ probably goes the furthest in that direction, but it’s in there for sure,” Reveley said from Berkeley, a few days before the start of Dirtwire’s West Coast tour. The band makes its Bend debut Tuesday at Volcanic Theatre Pub.

“I think it came out of identifying ourselves as West Coast Americans, and tapping into some sort of idea of heritage and what that means in the context of our love for world music and other cultures,” Reveley continued. “(We’re) trying to find a way to present something which has, in this day and age, become almost like a symbol of oppression, and recontextualizing that into something embodying tolerance more.”

The two instrumental singles are also darker than the band’s last album, 2015’s “Riptide,” with distorted guitars and heavy beats. Reveley said the tone of the music is reflective of the times — the entire album was written in the last six months.

“It felt like this is, as we know, a time period of a lot of consequence and a lot riding on it,” he said. “It definitely drove us maybe to a place of feeling like there’s a lot of importance riding on all of our decisions, what we say and make and what we put our voice behind at this point.”

To that end, Dirtwire released the single “Viento” with Chilean vocalist Maria Del Pilar in December and dedicated it to the Dakota Access Pipeline protesters at Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Before the single’s release, construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline through the reservation was halted, but in the last few months the project was restarted under President Donald Trump and the protesters’ camp was closed.

Satori and Fraser also visited the camp before it closed and recorded some collaborations with protesters that could be released in the near future, Reveley said.

“We wanted to capture a bit of the spirit that was coming out of Standing Rock,” Reveley said. “Even though it’s gone now, I think it’s changed things on a pretty deep level for a lot of people. It’s pretty tragic what’s happened of course. At the same time, this is an opportunity for that movement and all of us who support it to maybe try to embody some of the principles that are being represented there.”

The addition of Reveley about a year ago also helped shift Dirtwire’s sound on “Showdown.” Though a newcomer in this group, Reveley has been making music with Satori and Fraser since all three were students at the California Institute of the Arts. Most recently, Reveley played with Satori in the side project Golden Lips of Silence.

When Dirtwire was invited to perform at the Envision Festival in Costa Rica last February, Reveley caught wind of it and asked to come along with Golden Lips. He ended up collaborating on a Dirtwire track, “Mueve,” with his side project, Byrth.

“And I just sort of never went away,” Reveley said, laughing. “Eventually it was like, all right, let’s do this. We went down to Costa Rica, we had an awesome time, it was super fun, and then we were just like, ‘Yeah, let’s keep it rolling.’”

In the live show, Reveley plays resonator guitar, a tom drum, jaw harp and the whamola, or one-string bass. He joins Satori on slide banjo, violin and snare drum, and Fraser on n’goni, megaphone, jaw harps, synths and theremin, among many, many others. (“We each have a couple (instruments), and then Evan has like 500,” Reveley said.)

Satori and Fraser originally started the band by jamming songs into existence, Reveley said. Now all three members are bringing ideas to the table, and Reveley is looking forward to creating new material live. This tour will focus on the tight arrangements on “Showdown,” but the band has more chances to experiment onstage on the horizon — including a return trip to Central Oregon for the Oregon Eclipse festival at Big Summit Prairie from Aug. 17 through 23 (Beats Antique is part of the lineup, too).

“That would be awesome if we got to the point where we’re actually creating new stuff live,” Reveley said. “That would be ideal. I think we’ll get there at a certain point, but it’ll take a little time.”

What: Dirtwire, with Lapa

When: 9 p.m. Tuesday

Where: Volcanic Theatre Pub, 70 SW Century Drive, Bend

Cost: $12 plus fees in advance, $15 at the door

Contact: volcanictheatrepub.com or 541-323-1881